BTW, reading about the diet again ... he is also into one meal a day, and eating something before the meal. In general, I think that is a great idea. Pretty much any oil or sugar will help you eat less, because of the time lag there is between "starting to eat" and when your gut actually knows it's been fed.
Starting a meal with a salad works nicely too, esp. if there is vinegar in it. Or drinking vinegar in water before a meal (that was really effective in some studies, yogurt too). Probably using oil or sugar is easier for people to do. I haven't seen any really good explanations about WHY the pre-feeding works but it does seem to work with several foods.
I don't think it works though, which something like, say, the sourdough bread or tortilla chips that they serve before a meal in restaurants, which might say something about the mechanism. Bread or tortilla chips have more calories and plenty of fat, and really not all that much taste, but they don't seem to stop an appetite (certainly not mine when I go out for Mexican!).
Anyway, the geek in me would want to disassociate the theories about "taste" from "eating before a meal" from "eating appetite-suppressing foods". I think there are completely different mechanisms involved. Good experiments in any case!
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 4:49 AM, RickS <no3rdseat@gmail.com> wrote:
Last night, an hour after I downed the olive oil, I had 3 hard boiled eggs with a pat of butter on each one, a can of sardines in olive oil, and a sheet of nori. Not hungry at all for the rest of the night. Get this... not even a desire for beer or wine!! I'll try it again tonight but with a pound of goat chili to see if the eggs and fish may have had anything to do with it as Heather suggests... this is becoming interesting. :)
-Rick
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