I recently read about a diet called the “Shangri-La Diet” where the author advises having between 2-4 tablespoons of oil per day (one of the oils that he recommends being flax oil). The idea being that twice throughout the day you have half your “dosage” of oil within a 2 hour non eating window (don’t eat for 1 hour, have 1 tbs of oil, don’t eat for 1 hour-this is too ensure that there is no calorie association with the oil that you are consuming).
If you are using something like extra light olive oil that has no taste you can just consume it, but when you are eating something like flaxseed oil, with its strong flavor, you need to pinch your nose while you are eating it again to avoid a calorie association to it.
Anyone heard of this before?
My originial theory was that it worked because more of your calories are comming from good fats (assuming you are not downing canola oil) so you are not as hungry to eat the crap, but as I read into it more, the original study started with people drinking sugar water-it appears to be the idea of consuming calories without calorie association that produces the results.
Any thoughts?
