OK, so I’ve put on a few pounds.\u00c2\u00a0 Time to lose some weight. I tried Weight Watchers a couple of years ago and had some great success. Trouble is I just can’t get into it again. I’m always hungry.<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a0So exercise, right? Well when I’ve tried burning more calories, my body compensated for the lost calories by making me more hungry so I would replace what I lost. So that doesn’t work.<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a0So what now? Well I need to find something where I can eat less and not feel hungry.<\/p>\n
Enter the Shangri-la Diet;\u00c2\u00a0the\u00c2\u00a0first diet fad of the blogosphere. It works like this, eat somewhere between 100 to 300 (depending on how much weight you want to lose) of flavorless calories in the form of sugar water or extra-light olive oil at least one hour before or after you eat a meal. The idea behind it is that the sugar water or olive oil (it must be extra-light) is flavorless. Flavorless calories will help you lower you body’s set point (the weight your body wants to be). As a result, you won’t feel hungry and will therefore eat fewer calories.<\/p>\n
Calorie lab isn’t conviced<\/a>. As they point out, this is a calorie-restriction diet. They call that “unnatural”. I would agree it is unnatural as long as you are fighting your natural hunger. If you just aren’t hungry, it is natural to reduce your intake of calories. So let’s see how it goes.<\/p>\n Jason’s starting weight: 235 lbs. OK, so I’ve put on a few pounds.\u00c2\u00a0 Time to lose some weight. I tried Weight Watchers a couple of years ago and had some great success. Trouble is I just can’t get into it again. I’m always hungry. \u00c2\u00a0So exercise, right? Well when I’ve tried burning more calories, my body compensated for the lost … Continue reading “Dude, you’re fat”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shangri-la"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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