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"A weight-loss theory that just might benefit a few million people." — Stephen Dubner, co- author of Freakonomics
"In fact, it might benefit a few billion." — Dennis Prager, The Dennis Prager Show interview with Seth Roberts (35 minutes).
"You actively feel like not eating. . . It's a kind of not hungry that you've never felt before" — Joyce Cohen, NY Times columnist and blogger.
"It's been two weeks since I started and oh-my-god . . . Within three days I was actually forgetting to eat." — Kathy Sierra, co-author of Head First Java and blogger.
"It has been a very positive experience and weight loss is only one of the benefits" — Food Chronicler.
The Woman's World article ("Instant Willpower!")
Watch a CBC mini-documentary (9 minutes) about the diet.
• Persons posting their weight: 125
• Total weeks of data: 804
• Total weight change (ld): -903
• Average weight change/week (ld/week): -1.1
“I'm enormously grateful for this diet, and astonished at how easy it is. I like the side benefits and the fact that I'm enjoying different foods than I used to. It's going to take a long time to lose anywhere near the amount of weight I need to, and I'm okay with that. I'm more than okay, I'm thrilled. ” — frenata
“I've been on SLD since the 1st of June. For the first 3 weeks, nothing, no appetite suppression, just will power. Then through some posts and some help I upped my intake of oil from 2 tbl spoons a day to 4 and that is what did it for me. Since June 22 I now feel like all those posts that you read about and hope to achieve. AMAZING when you find your set point. . . . Since then I don't feel hungry in the morning, for lunch have a couple of pieces of fresh fruit, for dinner I steam some vegtables and a piece of good wheat bread and that's it for the day. It's just unbelievable. Not hardly eating anything and don't feel like it either. NO CRAVINGS either. And, I'm a psycholocal and emotional eater too. It just seems to take care of everything. WOW!! . . . This is life changing stuff! ” — Jim
“I started this on Thursday (It's now Sunday). I did 3 Tblsp. and noticed the effect of not being hungry almost right away. Another 3 the next morning and it was like a miracle. I'm usually VERY hungry in the morning but my appetite was just gone. Same thing Saturday and today ” — Cheryl B
“Missed the [Dennis Prager] interview with Seth but heard the tail-end of a discussion Dennis had with a listener who was raving about what the diet had done for her. Dennis was in agreement. So I ran to the internet and got the particulars, took a tablespoon of ELOO and immediately started preaching the Miracle of Shangri-La! It was slightly embarrassing when friends would ask how long I had been on it. I lied and said a day - it had only been eight hours but, hey, without SLD, I normally would have done a great deal of damage in those 8 hours. It's now been a week and I've lost three pounds. I love the luxury of choosing finer foods now that I'm no longer compelled to eat everything in sight when dinnertime comes around. The Monster has been rocked to sleep ” — Ranchopam
The forums contain helpful information about the diet. This is about the self-experimentation behind the diet.
Pages missing from the English export edition.
