The Shangri-La Diet
by Seth Roberts · first published 2006
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Since that doesn't work, you should try something different - Seth Roberts' Shangri-La "diet" seems to work extremely well for about 80% of the people (and not at all for the remaining 20%). I quote "diet" because it involves ADDING 200-400 calories a day to your intake (albeit with some weird…
on “Gut Bacteria From Thin Humans Can Slim Mice Down” ↗Check out The Shangri-La Diet by Seth Roberts for a way to hack your set point with a daily tablespoon of flavorless cooking oil. I'm sure someone on the web has written up the details if you don't want to read the book.
on “You're Not Losing Fat Because You're Eating Too Damn Much (2016)” ↗…advantaged folks who haven't got the slightest clue how difficult it can be to lose weight when your body doesn't want to cooperate.) Alternatively, put some rats on Seth Roberts's set-point diet (aka Shangri-La diet) and figure out the path of action, then develop it in pill form for those of us where Seth Roberts's diet didn't work / didn't work well enough. To make a lot of money, ask yourself where people aren't…
on “Ask YC/HN: What's a problem, any problem, you'd like to see someone solve?” ↗…costs me $120/year for membership in the Cryonics Institute and $170/year for $250K of 10-year term life insurance of which $50K goes to CI. I lost 20 pounds on Seth Roberts's fixed-point diet (aka the "Shangri-La diet") and gained 10 of them back after the diet stopped working, but it's ridiculously easy and works better for some people than others. An awful lot of the rationalists I know have moved to open relationships.
on “Ask HN: What are your best life hacks?” ↗http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Roberts He was well known for self experimentation and writing the book, "The Shangri-La Diet".
on “Seth Roberts has died” ↗…bricolagelabs as a place to record your observations and perform "experiments". these could be anything - productivity when you wake up early/late/ pickup lines/ whatever. It's related to Seth Roberts' (Shangri La diet) self-experimentation with the goal of aiding discovery through trial and error. Would love to get news.yc feedback on this. Thanks!
on “Ask YC: Feedback on a way to measure and discover links between your daily activities.” ↗Seth Roberts wasn't a hacker, but he was friends with Aaron Swartz: http://blog.sethroberts.net/2011/07/22/google-yes-wikipedia-... Swartz also wrote about Roberts' Shangri-La Diet on his blog, claiming that through it "losing weight has to be one of the easiest things I’ve ever done": http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/losingweight
on “Seth Roberts has died” ↗So that's at least N=2, the number of people on the Shangri La diet who have died prematurely. I think Seth Roberts was the very definition of a hacker. Not computer hacker. Hacker. I started the diet about 5 weeks ago. The oil drinking helped to make my cravings tolerable.…
on “Seth Roberts has died” ↗Yup. It's the same idea as Seth Roberts' "Shangri-la Diet" where you drink a tbsp of olive oil or something first thing in the morning which supposedly reduces hunger the rest of the day.
on “The Cult of the Bulletproof Coffee Diet” ↗…participants - you'll notice that more often than not the only thing reported is the average weight loss, and that's usually because at least one participant didn't lose anything (or even gained). The Shangri-La diet actually followed from experimental results in rats and people, which Roberts published, for free, on his own website[0], with all rationale, all the references you can ask for, and a description of his…
on “Study: Blended food prevented hunger for longer” ↗> I lost 20 pounds on Seth Roberts's fixed-point diet (aka the "Shangri-La diet") and gained 10 of them back after the diet stopped working, but it's ridiculously easy and works better for some people than others. I've heard that said about every Capital D Diet Plan. I have a hypothesis…
on “Ask HN: What are your best life hacks?” ↗I think the ultimate weird tip for weight loss is the Shangri-La Diet[0]. Seth Roberts was a professor at Berkeley who pioneered quantified self, and he ran many experiments with N=1. While it didn't do much for me, about 50% of the people that try it have some success.…
on “Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?” ↗…Monitors (CGM). It's all about executive function. From a root cause perspective, I'd start there since that's really what determines health. My fasting started 15 years ago when I read Seth Roberts Shangri La Diet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Roberts I'm one of those people who can balance empirical and phenomenological despite n-of-1 emergent qualities. In 2007, I'd fast for 3 days liquid-only roughly…
on “Ask HN: Are you still doing Intermittent Fasting?” ↗