Too Busy For Words - the PaulWay Blog

I've been trying this Shangri-La diet for almost a day now, but I have already come to a couple of conclusions:

• The taste of vegetable oil, no matter how 'light' or refined it is, is something that lingers in the mouth. Trying to throw it down the back of your throat doesn't work, either - the tongue is used for swallowing so it gets a good coating of oil.
• The overall feeling of not being interested in eating may come, quite simply, from the feeling of two spoonfuls of oil on an empty stomach. It's quite enough to make you think twice about eating at all. Still, more expensive versions of this feeling can be obtained from ferry rides over rough ocean and on fairground rides, so overall I feel like I've saved money.
• It may not help this experiment by forgetting to have lunch as well.

I'm going to try the 'spoonfull of sugar' method this afternoon.

The other little 'data point' in this was that it suddenly made sense of an old friend of mine: he was thin, ran every morning, ate no breakfast and minimal lunch, and was still in perfect health. He also drank like beer was free - he's the only person that I've seen who approached drinking like a man bent on self-destruction. This diet may have the clue to how all those parts fit together. Beer contains quite a few calories, and if he's drinking enough of it he'll be getting most of his energy intake in that. And if that's his primary source of calories, and it induces a feeling of mild nausea and dizziness - also used in the body to indicate poisoning - then he will have effectively trained his body to want less calories and to use them very efficiently indeed.