The Shangri-La Diet is a book by Seth Roberts, then an associate professor of psychology at UC Berkeley and presently emeritus professor. The book outlines a method of natural appetite suppression that can lead to substantial weight loss.
Roberts developed the Shangri-la diet (perhaps more accurately referred to as a weight-loss method because it doesn’t involve a specific eating plan) in his own attempts to lose weight. He believes that traditional weight loss methods ignore a vital physiological element: the body’s set-point. This is a theory that says the human body attempts to attain a certain weight at any given time, and will increase or decrease hunger to attain that weight. In the book Roberts says: “The bigger the gap between your set point and your weight, the more hungry you will be”. Traditional diets fail because the participant lowers their weight without lowering their set point which, combined with the fact food intake is dramatically reduced during dieting, means the participant becomes extremely hungry as the body attempts to climb back to the weight it thinks it should be.
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