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Step 1
Buy the book. It's called "The Shangri-La Diet" by Seth Roberts. You can get information about the diet from different sources, but reading the book is the best way to get the whole picture. Like any diet, the Shangri-La Diet restricts calories. This one also tries to get you to disassociate calories from taste by eating foods that have little or no taste, eating foods with an unfamiliar taste and eating foods with calories that are only detected by the body after a period of time. According to Roberts, this is a way to reduce food cravings that can lead to overeating.
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Step 2
Take into consideration that eating or drinking the tasteless calories might be the hardest part of this diet. Roberts recommends that you drink a small amount of tasteless oil, like olive or canola oil, putting a little sugar in water and drinking that, or swallowing a raw egg very quickly. If you think that you can tolerate this part of the diet, then you might not have trouble with the other parts, which involve trying foods with new tastes and eating foods with a low glycemic index, like sweet potatoes.
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Step 3
Consider that the rest of the diet features one meal of about 900 calories, about 150 calories of sugar water, and 2 pieces of fruit per day. Of course, you will be consuming your tasteless calories throughout the day, so you won't be as hungry as you would be if you hadn't eaten anything.
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Step 4
Decide if you can tolerate this type of regimen or if it will be hard for you. If you don't like it, other less radical diets that focus on portion control might be better. You can also try the diet for a week and see how you feel; this will allow you to decide how you feel on the diet and whether you can stay on it for the long haul. Everyone is different, which is why there are so many diet plans that work for some people and not for others.
