All of my discouragement is long gone now. The scale just gave me a 405! I know that the 404.8 that I saw over a week ago is going to show up again soon, and 399 is not far behind! Woo!
Starting weight: 415 lbs
Current weight: 405 lbs ⇩
Long-term Goal: 145 lbs
Short-term Goal: 399 lbs
This is such a small victory, and I still weigh so much and have so much left to lose, but this is the first time in my life that I have felt that I control my weight, and it doesn't control me!
Take that, fat!!
More than 5 lbs gone over the past 6 days. I like that. It's not generally considered healthy to lose weight that quickly, but here in the super high numbers, I think it's generally okay.
Taking the oil has become routine and is no longer a chore. I have experienced hunger, but I have been able will-power through it for the most part. I still eat my regular meals at my regular times, but I find that I can't handle much more than half my usual portion when I do. I get full quickly and then I start to feel bloated and uncomfortable soon thereafter if I don't stop eating.
Many opponents of the Shangri-la Diet plan say that there's a placebo effect causing results. I have also read other opponents report that excitement for the too-good-to-be-true magic-pill-like diet attributes to more demonstrated will-power from those on the diet. I'll take whatever works, though. I started to balloon at puberty, and this is the first time in my almost-40 years of life that I have seen the scale result drop so consistently and quickly over such a long period of time. I have a huge 51 oz bottle of ELOO; that's 100 doses, 25 days. We'll see.
From reading Seth's book, I found that when I don't eat, and I'm on the oil regimen, my body's set point will drop much faster than when doing the method and eating normally. Rather than enter starvation mode to store fat, my body will adjust by lowering the set point gradually until I reach an equilibrium of sorts -- a point at which I plateau because I'm getting the food calories I need and taking the correct amount of oil to maintain my weight. At a plateau, if I am not at my goal weight, I should wait a week and see if my weight starts to drop again. If it doesn't, I need to adjust the oil or my food calories. That seems to be evidenced by my experience so far, but it's only Day 12 and far too soon to tell.
For the most part, Shangri-la Diet followers have experienced plateaus and have moved past them without the need to adjust their oil intake. According to Seth, I should not have to adjust down from four tablespoons a day until I drop at least 200 lbs from where I am right now. I'm trying to imagine myself at 205 lbs. I can't yet. That's less than my husband weighs now.
5 lbs down in 6 days graph:
Starting weight: 415 lbs
Current weight: 405 lbs ⇩
Long-term Goal: 145 lbs
Short-term Goal: 399 lbs
This is such a small victory, and I still weigh so much and have so much left to lose, but this is the first time in my life that I have felt that I control my weight, and it doesn't control me!
Take that, fat!!
More than 5 lbs gone over the past 6 days. I like that. It's not generally considered healthy to lose weight that quickly, but here in the super high numbers, I think it's generally okay.
Many opponents of the Shangri-la Diet plan say that there's a placebo effect causing results. I have also read other opponents report that excitement for the too-good-to-be-true magic-pill-like diet attributes to more demonstrated will-power from those on the diet. I'll take whatever works, though. I started to balloon at puberty, and this is the first time in my almost-40 years of life that I have seen the scale result drop so consistently and quickly over such a long period of time. I have a huge 51 oz bottle of ELOO; that's 100 doses, 25 days. We'll see.
From reading Seth's book, I found that when I don't eat, and I'm on the oil regimen, my body's set point will drop much faster than when doing the method and eating normally. Rather than enter starvation mode to store fat, my body will adjust by lowering the set point gradually until I reach an equilibrium of sorts -- a point at which I plateau because I'm getting the food calories I need and taking the correct amount of oil to maintain my weight. At a plateau, if I am not at my goal weight, I should wait a week and see if my weight starts to drop again. If it doesn't, I need to adjust the oil or my food calories. That seems to be evidenced by my experience so far, but it's only Day 12 and far too soon to tell.
For the most part, Shangri-la Diet followers have experienced plateaus and have moved past them without the need to adjust their oil intake. According to Seth, I should not have to adjust down from four tablespoons a day until I drop at least 200 lbs from where I am right now. I'm trying to imagine myself at 205 lbs. I can't yet. That's less than my husband weighs now.
5 lbs down in 6 days graph:
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