Shangri-La

Food News 25

December 26, 2006

Start: 95.4 Last week: 88.5 This week: 188 Tuesday 26 December: I realize that I simply have no will power. Or rather, I have no ability to absent myself from the table when others want to eat. Over the past few days the eating has not been excessive, not by any normal standards. But there [...]

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Food News 24

December 19, 2006

Start: 95.4 Last week: ??.? This week: 88.5 Tuesday 19 December: Back on a slightly even keel, and about to jet off again for the festive season. So the weighings will go to pot. I hope the weight doesn’t do the same.

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Food News 23

December 15, 2006

Start: 95.4 Last week: ??.? This week: ??.? Friday 15 December: Is this how it ends, two weeks in a row without a weigh-in and a complete lack of regularity? No, indeed not. But all the signs are there, of much work, much travel, and the impending holiday season. I haven’t had early-morning access to [...]

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Food News 21

November 28, 2006

Start: 95.4 Last week: 87.9 This week: 87.4 Tuesday 28 November: Damn this accursed plateau.

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Food News 20

November 21, 2006

Start: 95.4 Last week: 87.7 This week: 87.9 Tuesday 21 November: Oh, the exquisite irony of it, part II; to be on a plateau and to have discovered Jim Lahey’s recipe for no-knead bread. Ah well, the novelty will wear off soon, I hope. Except that I have a second sourdough loaf bubbling away now, [...]

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Food News 19

November 15, 2006

Start: 95.4 Last week: 87.3 This week: 87.7 Tuesday 14 November: Oh, the exquisite irony of it. I spend the weekend picking olives but I have no rice oil with me. And of course I overcompensated like mad for all that exercise. But a bruschetta with fresh, green oil is the exact opposite of 15ml [...]

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Food News 18

November 7, 2006

Start: 95.4 Last week: 87.5 This week: 87.3 Tuesday 7 November: Back on track again, with a minuscule drop over the week that is well within the margin of error of the scales but that is also entirely acceptable in the overall scheme of things. I seem to be regaining a bit of appetite, particularly [...]

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Food News 17

November 2, 2006

Start: 95.4 Last week: ??.? This week: 87.5 Thursday 2 November: Things have been very topsy turvy of late. There is no week 16, because I was away eating delicious foreign muck with no scales and a dead laptop. I’m skipping the number 16 to maintain the count of the number of weeks it has [...]

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Scales as incentive?

October 18, 2006

Quite by coincidence, given yesterday’s post about weighing, the Washington Post has an article about a programme to help people keep weight off by reaping the benefits of daily weighings. Brown University scientists recruited people who had lost 10 per cent of their body weight over the past two years, and gave them a set [...]

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Food News 15

October 17, 2006

Start: 95.4 Last week: 87.1 This week: 86.7 Wednesday 11 October: A very kind friend reminded me of the need to drink more water, and it is true that with the onset of cooler weather I might not have been drinking as much as before. That and the lack of water hidden in food surely [...]

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Food News 14

October 10, 2006

Start: 95.4 Last week: 87.0 This week: 87.1 Tuesday 9 October: A bit of a dreadful end to the week. We’re talking about diets here, and that means talking about intestinal goings on, so if you’re the teeniest bit squeamish, look away now. Time to discuss constipation. I know that previously I said that, on [...]

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Food News 13

October 3, 2006

Start: 95.4 Last week: ??.? This week: 87.0 Tuesday 2 October: Got back last Saturday morning after an overnight flight and hopped on the scales, just for fun. 89.4. Not so good, but maybe better than it could have been. Appetite suppression stayed good. The problem was twofold; boredom, and delicious food. I know I [...]

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Food News 12

September 26, 2006

Start: 95.4 Last week: 88.3 This week: ??.? Tuesday 26 September: Away for work, and surrounded by good food, with not a scale in sight. The oil travelled with me in an ordinary small water bottle and didn’t spill a drop, so that’s good to know. And I have tried to keep down my intake, [...]

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Food News 11

September 19, 2006

Start: 95.4 Last week: 88.1 This week: 88.3 Monday 18 September: A weekend away, and no scales for two days, but gratifyingly small gain. Well within previous flutterings. The thing about travel is that damned oil. A little goes a long way, when it seeps out of the container. How do you get it to [...]

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Food News 10

September 12, 2006

Start: 95.4 Last week: 88.9 This week: 88.1 Tuesday 12 September: Still dropping steadily. For a while there I thought I was on one of them dreaded plateaux, with three days straight at an unwavering 88.5. Then a bit of a blow-out at the weekend and an increase, and now a litle drop. Some people [...]

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Food News 9

September 5, 2006

Start: 95.4 Last week: 89.7 This week: 88.9 Tuesday 5 September: I just knew this was going to get boring, and it has. There was the six and a half hour walk on Sunday, fuelled only by a single small cheese sandwich and a few grapes. I’m sure I would have been ravenous pre-SLD. And [...]

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Food News 8

August 29, 2006

Start: 95.4 Last week: 89.2 This week: 89.7 Saturday 26 August: Woohoo, as the young people say. For a couple of days earlier in the week I hovered below the magic figure of 89.1 kg. Why’s that magical? Because it is 14 stone in old money. I have no idea when I last weighed 14 [...]

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Food News 7

August 22, 2006

Start: 95.4 Last week: 90.3 This week: 89.2 Saturday 19 August: Crashed — if you can call 100 grams below a Big Round Number crashing — through another barrier this morning, somewhat to my surprise as I had not done anything drastic. Still and all, I’m not complaining. There’s another barrier coming up soon, but [...]

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Food News 6

August 15, 2006

Start: 95.4 Last week: 92.6 This week: 90.3 Friday 11 August: Yesterday, my total solid intake before evening — and it was not that solid — was half a (small) slice of watermelon. From time to time a little pang of hunger would grip me. But within minutes it would go away and I felt [...]

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Food News 5a

August 9, 2006

Start: 95.4 Last week: ??.? This week: 92.6 Pleasantly surprised that I had not gained more during my holiday. There wasn’t that much eating out, which possibly helped, but I also found it easier to resist temptation, much of the time. Didn’t eat a single Peanut Butter Cup, which would have been unthinkable before SLD. [...]

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Food News 5: A Review

August 8, 2006

Start: 95.4 Last week: ??.? This week: 92.6 The Shangri-La Diet, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York. pp 193, $19.95 Full disclosure: I started dieting a la Shangri-La a while ago, based on what I had picked up from various web sites. There wasn’t an awful lot to it (more on that later). I certainly saw [...]

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Food News 4

July 25, 2006

Start: 95.4 Last week: 91.7 This week: ??.? Thursday 20 July: That crashing noise is the sound of a man falling off the wagon. Pan-fried chicken, mashed potatoes with butter, creamy coleslaw and watermelon to finish. All cooked up in 40 degree heat by a fine woman from Kansas City to give her pasta-munching friends [...]

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Food News 3

July 18, 2006

Start: 95.4 Last week: 92.0 This week: 91.7 Saturday 15 July: This is a teeny bit frustrating. I seem to be marching along what SLDers call a plateau. For three days in a row my weight has been identical. Given the error inherent in the scales that’s pretty remarkable, but at least it didn’t go [...]

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Food News 2

July 11, 2006

Start: 95.4 Last week: 93.6 This week: 92.0 Thursday 6 July: Seth Roberts, onlie begetter of the Shangri-La diet, has been marvelling about the “side effects” enjoyed by some people using different kinds of oil in their diet, particularly effects on the brain. This is my comment on Seth’s blog:

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