The Shangri-La Diet > Noseclipping
Nose clipping lots of food really works – it's easier!
Heidi 555:
I forgot to emphasize that nose clipping lots of food is also much faster. Before I started nose clipping a lot of food, SLD was working for me but oh so slowly. I had to be very patient. I easily got discouraged. In fact, it was my discouragement that led me to start nose clipping as much as I could. I just decided to go for it.
When nose clipping a lot of food the results are much faster. There is more a feeling of instant gratification. I only have to wait a few days to see/feel results. There is this pattern though, of increased hunger and eating a lot of nose clipped food for maybe 2-3 days. And then strong appetite suppression and weight loss follows. Then back to a few more days of increased hunger and the body regrouping for a brief plateau before the set point lowers again. Also, I think I’ve gotten acclimated to the appetite suppression, so I don’t often notice it, and it feels like I’m eating too much to lose weight. So then it feels like magic or this incredibly good dream that the weight keeps falling off. I think folks who have a lot to lose, initially experience this SLD magical feeling.
I intuitively sensed and intellectually thought that SLD was brilliant right from the moment I discovered it. (Seth – you’re a genius!) I knew I wanted that “Shangri-la” experience with food, even more than I wanted to lose weight. However, even though I could tell SLD was working, I didn’t experience the “Shangri-la feeling” until I started nose clipping as much as I comfortably could. Now I feel like I’ve fallen over the Shangri-la-la edge. My apologies if I perpetually sound like a SLD infomercial. (I felt initially embarrassed by my first post on this thread. I had to have my husband read it and reassure me that it was good. I’m not typically one to gush on about things. I’m more pragmatic.)
It’s a relief to no longer worry about how much I eat. I just keep nose clipping. And my success motivates me to nose clip more.
Maychi:
--- Quote from: Heidi 555 on January 03, 2008, 03:39:51 pm ---
SLD has been so great for me. It’s perplexing to me why more people aren’t into it. I tell everyone I know about SLD, but so far no one has been interested.
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I think most of us who have given noseclipping more than a fair try find it very hard to keep doing it with even one meal a day, let alone most of the time. It's just too uncomfortable an experience, not to mention the fact that my family, for example, won't sit in the same room with me if I wear my noseclips (and I have to admit that I bear an uncanny resemblance to Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs so I can't really blame them :lol:). Every time I read your posts on this subject, I'm filled with admiration for your perseverance and the tolerance of those around you and with just a little bit of envy...
VeganKitten:
Wow, Heidi, your most recent post (and results!) have convinced me. I am going to Amazon right now to buy these.
Thanks :D
Heidi 555:
Maychi – I’m not sure why the nose clipping has been so easy for me and seems to be so hard for others. Perhaps, I was more desperate, because I’d been working so hard for so long on diet and exercise regimes that didn’t work. Calorie restriction diets, also known as starvation torture, were grueling and didn’t work. Nose clipping seems like a piece of cake compared to a lifetime of struggle with food, body, and diet.
My husband still laughs at me when he sees me on a nose clip binge. (I’ve gotten use to his teasing me.) He thought this was a crazy scheme to begin with. But now that he’s seen and appreciated the results ( ;) :) ), he is very supportive. The nose clipping has gotten easier, because success is such a positive reinforcement.
I haven't the nerve to nose clip out in public. I did it when I visited my family, but I’d told my mother and sister about SLD right from the beginning, so they knew it was coming. They think many things that I do are weird. So to them it was probably just one more unusual thing that Heidi is into. I didn’t know how to explain it to my 5-year-old niece, though. She doesn’t even know what a diet is. Anyone have suggestions?
VeganKitten – good luck. I hope it works amazingly well for you, too. I'm glad that the local sporting goods store stocks lots of nose clips.
Seth – I think the next edition of your book should come with a pair of nose clips. (And a nice Speedo endorsement. ;) ;) ) I’m going to give away nose clips and copy of your book to anyone I know who is going to try SLD. It would be nice to be able to purchase them together. Also, it would be great to compile nose clipped recipes. People could contribute their favorite nose clipped food combos. I’m going to try your suggestion to sprinkle chicken “with salt, sugar, vinegar, and hot sauce”.
Pinkmug:
I must retry the noseclipping-most-foods thing. It was difficult for me. If only I saw quick results.... that would be very encouraging. All I noseclip these days is a mug of milk with oil. But I must get rid of the 3 lbs spare tire I got from holiday foods... :x
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