Shangri-La Diet Pages

I’m sure this has happened to a lot of people exactly as it happened to me.

Every time I travel out of the country, I made a deal with myself that goes like this:

Eat as much of whatever you want as much as you want.

The way I see it, diets in foreign lands are stupid. You’re robbing yourself of precious once in a life time opportunities. Things like eating fish and chips from a genuine British Pub or fresh Italian food from a restaurant that’s been serving it on the bank of the Grand Canal in Venice for maybe hundreds of years. I don’t know I’m not a travel agent.

Most importantly, however, are the crepes.

Every time I travel, I eat until I’m going to explode. Now here comes the amazing part. I don’t ever gain any weight. In fact I lose weight every time! How can that be?

The way the Shangri-la Diet explains this, is that your body is unfamiliar with the taste and caloric content of these new foods. You know they’re delicious and full of fat and calories because little children are walking away with them by the handful and whip cream looks the same in every language. Your brain, however, has not has the experience with this new food that’s necessary to categorize it as a food found in lean times or a food found in plentiful times.

I’ve already discussed how food found in lean times makes you lose weight by lowering your Set Point, and how the opposite is also true. In the case of eating foreign foods, your brain takes the safe route and classifies it as a food found during scarce times.

Scarce Time foods equals a lower Set Point. A lower Set Point equals less fat storage and less desire to eat. Less fat storage equals weight loss.

Keep that in mind next time you’re in Italy wondering if you should have a second dessert.