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[pbloom]

Hello Fellow Seekers of Weight Loss -

I started SLD on May 7, 2012 but it took me time to build up to two tablespoons of Extra Light Olive Oil per day (in the beginning I was taking canola oil and it hurt my stomach).  I accomplished this on May 13th.  I am committed to this experiment for seven weeks. 

I consume the oil at 6am upon waking up and at 3pm (about two hours after lunch).  I hold my nose and take a couple swigs of water to rinse out my mouth. 

Weight: The last time I did weighed myself I weighed 186 pounds and I am 5’1”. 
Hunger:  My hunger has not changed dramatically.
Waist:  I have gained an additional inch around my waist.  As of this morning it was 38 ½”.
Mood: I do like taking the oil.  This could be due to anticipation of this working.

I will try to update my progress on a weekly basis.

Cheers

[Sanchiaza]

Welcome and good luck 

[numpty01]

Welcome and all the best!

[RachelZoe]

Welcome! I'm also new to SLD and wondered if anyone else was currently following this plan.  I committed to one bottle of extra light olive oil, and I wasn't sure it was working...well...on Friday night, I stopped by the mall to do some shopping after work, and as I was driving home, I realized I wasn't hungry.  I haven't weighed myself yet, but the appetite suppression has definitely kicked in. 

The oil is easy for me to swallow...I just do the whole dose at night before I go to bed.  That's the easiest for me.

[pbloom]

Weight: Unknown
Hunger:  My hunger/appetite has changed.
Waist:  38"
Emotional Experience: Whenever I have had a loss of appetite in the past it was due to overwhelming anxiety or depression.  Not having an appetite is fearful for me. I could guess that my brain is used to the correlation between no appetite and those extreme emotional states and that is why I feel afraid.  However, it is manageable, which is a change in perception for me.  In the past I would normally run to food to calm myself down.  Somehow my feelings are not as overwhelming (I find this part fascinating).

No sugar or chocolate binging during stressful times this week when in the past I would have normally eaten those food products.  Also, I don’t seem to be craving chocolate or desserts in general.  I am actually craving veggies, fruit, and protein.  Definitely a change in my taste preferences, also food seems tastier.  I have noticed I am forgetting about food in between meals as well as what I have in the house.  This is unusual because I normally keep a running list of foods in my head at all time. 

I know this is just the beginning and I am hoping this is a trend and not an anomaly.

I used 2T ELOO per day: one tablespoon in the morning and one in the afternoon or right before I went to bed.  One day I took a protein shake with a very odd spice mixture (dry mustard, herbs de provence, turmeric, chili powder, cumin).  Two other days I took 1 teaspoon of chia seeds in my water.

5/19 (No AS)
5/20 (AS – first day)
5/21 (AS)
5/22 (Not much AS)
5/23 (Not much AS)
5/24 (AS)
5/25 (AS)

Cheers.

[Sanchiaza]

Good for you! It sounds like you are so on the right track 

I think that the taste change is so interesting - I went through it too, going so far as to binge on veggies the one day. Go figure!

Hang in there and keep us posted 

[pbloom]

Thank you for you kind posts.

[pbloom]

Weight: Unknown
Hunger:  My hunger/appetite has increased.
Waist:  38 ½"

My appetite/cravings have returned to pre-SLD days. 

I started eating a lot on the 26th and could not find fullness.  This could be because I basically stopped eating the week before and was going for 8 plus hours without food on some days. Or it could be that SLD does not work with my physiology, or I need to up the oil calories.

Also at some point I added nose clipping to my oil consumption.  I had read in a post that some people lost their AS when they NC their oil.  On Tuesday I decided to stop NC.


5/26 (No AS)
5/27 (No AS)
5/28 (No AS)
5/29 (No AS)
5/30 (No AS)
5/31 (No AS)
6/01 (No AS)

Cheers.

[LittlePlum]

Hello there,

I think you should consider increasing your oil intake.

I also think you've probably gone into starvation mode from not eating enough, which will have overridden your AS. You should try always try to eat at least your basal metabolic requirements (for eg for me at medium activity, 185lb and 5' 4",  my BMR is about 1575 calories).

Also, could you weigh yourself, just to see if you can use the 2x lbs or 2.5 x lbs formula to see how much oil you should be taking?

I've been doing this about a month now and I'm not experiencing such strong AS as others have reported. I too tend to eat as a form of self medication for anxiety/depression, and have never really just over eaten because I had a raging appetite, but more eaten a normal diet but added a load of sweets/chips/cakes that I would eat secretly. For me AS is more subtle: it is a tool that enables me to make better choices and really that is all.

I weigh about 185lbs and I am taking 4 tablespoons of oil to get this low level kind of AS. At first I kind of resented this, but now I just find I can get on with it and feel grateful that as least I am not binge eating, baking traybakes and eating the whole lot over 2-3 days etc.

I take the oil in one dose, before bed. I take it a spoon at a time, as a shot in a cup with ice cold water.

It's disheartening when you don't see changes (I have lost no weight so far!), but I really would recommend sticking with it. Since I started increasing my oil dose I have lost a few inches from my waist, and the other day I was on my bike trying to do up my rain coat which has always been too tight for comfort, and I was surprised and gratified that it was no longer tight but just comfortably snug.

Good luck to you and please don't give up.

[pbloom]

LittlePlum -  Thanks for the support.  Have you been doing SLD for 3 years?

[LittlePlum]

I had my first encounter with SLD in 2009 and have attempted SLD about 3 or 4 times - but I could never stick with it longer than a few weeks. I found that it "worked" in that I achieved a level of AS, but it wasn't a quick fix, and I gave up because I wasn't ready to steadfastly stick with it come what may. In fact, in the past I have given up because I wanted to eat sweets etc and I wanted to feed my addictive desire for them. So I stopped taking the oil. A bit like a smoker stopping trying to stop smoking.

However, I have always believed in the method as a tool and I am finding that this time, for some reason, I'm able to stick with it. In fact, I'm determined to stick with it. 34 days and counting, my longest attempt on a straight run with ELOO so far!

I can definitely see a change in body composition even if this isn't showing up on the scale yet.  My belt is a notch tighter, clothes that used to cling now drape.

Best of all is the detachment I feel from the pull of food. That feels good!

[Nufftin]

That's almost exactly my story as well. I've been on the diet multiple times (as evidenced on this forum) and always stopped, not because the diet wasn't working, but because the pull of the addiction, and my laziness, was too strong.

For some reason, this time was the right time, and I plan on seeing this through to my goal.

Continuing good fortune to you!

[pbloom]

Littleplum and Nufftin, thanks for your input, advice, and stories.  I'll let you know what happens at the end of week 4.

[toadkid]

For me AS is more subtle: it is a tool that enables me to make better choices and really that is all.

This is well put; it also describes most of my experience.

[pbloom]

Weight: Unknown
Hunger: My hunger/appetite tapered off.
Waist:  38"

My appetite/cravings have returned to pre-SLD days, but the last couple days it has tapered off I think due to my menstrual cycle.  My normal eating patterns are two weeks really chow down and two weeks less food.  Thus far I have continued this pattern.  Even when I experienced AS a couple weeks ago I can attribute it to this pattern.  However, it seemed to be a little bit stronger AS than usual.

I backed off from taking 2 T of oil per day because the second one was making me feel sick.  I need to build back up to the 2nd one again. 

I tried platinum calories yesterday instead of the one tablespoon of oil.  I took 2 T of cream with
1 T of virgin coconut oil.  Talk about being sick.  I was utterly nauseous.  I think any appetite suppression I may have had can be directly attributed to feeling sick.

Does anyone know why the book says to not eat anything within a one hour time frame from the flavorless oils but yet advice on the website seems to be a two hour window?

Also per the book the total number of flavorless calories to ingest correlate to the number of pounds you want to lose, not the starting weight as suggested on the forum.  When did this change? And does it matter if you follow the book advice over the forum advice in terms of weight loss?


6/2 (No AS)
6/3 (No AS)
6/4 (No AS)
6/5 (No AS)
6/6 (No AS)
6/7 (Some AS but it would be less due to my MS)
6/8 (Some AS ditto reason from above)

Cheers.