How I got to know about Seth Roberts and SLD
The day before yesterday (Friday, 20th May) was a mind-blowing day for me. During my weekly weighting at the local Weight-Watchers' meeting, I was reading Freakonomics, a great book which is the collaboration of a New-York Times reporter and a brilliant economist.
Since this was a revision of the book, they've added some additional material they published in the NYTimes after the first printing of the book came out, and one of these was an article (see the first link: http://lksz.me/sld01nyt) titled "Does the Truth Lie Within?".
Now I'm reading this in a WW meeting, and even when the meeting starts, I can't take my eyes off. I'm hooked.
They describe Seth Roberts, a Ph.D in Psychology, and how by self-experimentation and observation he discovered a new way to lose weight and control weight in a sustainable long-term way.
When I got home, all I did was look online for more info, quickly finding Seth Roberts' official site (The seconds link: http://lksz.me/sldSite), and got to know the site's structure, quickly finding some media links, the media link I clicked was this excellent radio interview which explained a lot (see third link: http://lksz.me/sld02radio)
At this point I already knew I'm going to test it, just wanted some more info.
The SethRoberts.net site has a very active forum dedicated to SLD (Shangri-La Diet) and has allot of info, I was looking for some specifics about the diet, some rules I can follow that others have already tried and succeeded, I quickly found this concise FAQ page with an abundance of information (the next link: http://lksz.me/sld04faq).
Still searching for info about Seth Roberts and some video links I followed a media link from Dr. Robert's site which was a nice but somewhat shallow introductory to Seth Roberts and the SLD (next link: http://lksz.me/sld05vid).
But I was not satisfied, I wanted to really understand, or at least "get a feeling" who this Seth Roberts is - and finally I found this excellent talk he gave at "eg" (the next link: http://lksz.me/sld06talk) which finally put my mind at rest that this man is not a hoax, or sharletan, but a man how truly wants to share this with the world.
Now I was ready to start, which I immediately did.
Seeing that a single take of a tablespoon of Olive Oil gave me a true "full" feeling, I did my first Amazon Kindle purchase and bought the book (Kindle: http://lksz.me/sldKindle or paperback: http://lksz.me/sldBook1) which I am now reading, and which proved to be the best 11$ I've every spent on dieting :)
I highly recommend you visit the links in the order they are presented, this helped me understand the idea behind it, and exposed me to data little by little, learning and making me familiar with the diet.
Even if you're not looking to lose weight at the moment, please read the info before deciding to pass along the link (at least the first NYTimes article), I don't believe in spamming other with ideas I don't want to take the time to understand, so please take your time.
Trust me, you will find at least one person you'll want to share this with.
(all the links are available also as a single bit.ly bundle at: http://lksz.me/mbKd3X)
