Putting the die in diet

It's the 70s. The cigarettes are implied haha

So passé, it's ecig now.

Imagine that being your fuel for every day. Oh, and while you're at it, wrangle one or more small [animal-like] children all day, keep the entire house clean, and dinner better be ready when I get home--it's been a hard day at work. And stop being such a bitch, eh?

The booze was less of a diet aid and more of an anti-psychotic, I assume.

Replace the egg by a œuf.

Trump is going to bring the egg price down any day now

Wait how expensive are eggs in the USA? In Germany I pay 3.50 Euros (3.65$) for a dozen organic eggs. Make that 2.20 for non-organic not free-range

Egg in a hole is the new avocado toast

I got curious and asked chatgpt to calculate things for me. It suggests that if doozens of eggs cost you more than 5$ you can save money if you raise your own chicken.

In the first year, considering initial costs for setup and equipment, you may not save much—perhaps only $10 to $50. However, after the first year, the ongoing costs (mainly feed) could result in savings of $50 to $100 annually for each hen you keep.

The wine is probably 500 Calories in carbs though. Edit: in addition to the alcohol.

I could 100% live on this diet. It is probably almost as healthy as I eat now.

tbf when I was young and single and would go out 4 times a week I was the skiniest I've ever been

On a single bottle of wine?

Very similar to The Drinking Man's Diet.

Unlike now, when the target demographic for pharmaceutical stimulants is mainly children.

Mother's Little Helper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OusADDs_3ps

Geneva Suggestions

Found the account of US government

“We highly recommend gassing civilians indiscriminately is like probably not really the best idea.”

Found the Canadian. "It's never a war crime the first time".

My uncle has an enforced limit on deviled eggs at family gatherings for similar reasons.

username checks out.

I was a little curious why the egg has to be hard boiled.

The finn special.

France?

If this was Balkan, it would have been espresso.

Shit. Where you getting the money for so many cigarettes? Best I can do is drag a two pack of Swisher Sweets out over the week.

Such a foodie

I take the smaller glass is "little water"

Good point, the cigarettes were probably a given.

I'm also intrigued as to why they think hard boiling vs poaching the egg has any bearing on its calorie content.

Bless her. If someone that really 'loves and appreciates wine' but 'hates eggs' finds that a complete nightmare, then I (who am the opposite) should leave it alone.

She'd absolutely cooked the shit out of those eggs, though. I'd probably hate them too if I only got 'yellow cooked until it's a powdery dust' as my options.

I laughed way too hard at this.

I love wine, but it is a depressant, and without a more normal amount of food to help blunt the effects of alcohol, I think I was experiencing a little bit of that “sad drunk girl crying in the bathroom” syndrome many of us observed (or experienced, no judgment!) in college.

OK that's hilarious and also it puts a bit of a contextual spin on mid century misogyny. Every description of the mental and emotional effects of that diet reminded me of how all that was the stereotype of young professional women in the 70s

French wines were much cheaper in the 1970s.

I think we could do a chicken thighs, chicken breast, and plastic bottle rum version of the diet for cheap

Buy bottom round, Sutter Home, and eggs from a backyard chicken farmer; very cheap.

TIL I'm a billionaire

Also nothing but protein and a smidge of fat. The only carbs you get is the little bit of sugar in the wine, but considering it recommends dry wine that’s not much. I bet you’d have the worst headache of your life by day three.

As God intended

I think the poaching was only mentioned cause it's in vogue and it had to make the reader feel bougie.

Winner gets the others leftover eggs

I wonder when poached eggs are necessary

Just throwing in a little shame for free

I choose to see it as stealing eggs from the nests of eagles and condors.

And the coffee to really make you going.

It was the 70s. The average Vogue reader was assumed to be smoking a pack of Virginia Slims a day.

'You've come a long way, baby!'

The booziest of diets!

I believe back then that was routine with your daily multivitamin

It's from the 70s, not the 80s

That one really works

You're not gonna stop at 3 days though

Could always cut down on the eggs and add some tequila

Key point is that while ethanol can easily be turned into triglycerides, it's not so easy to do gluconeogenesis with it. Since you can't turn it all into glucose, you can't refill your glycogen stores with it. Every gram of glycogen comes with 3 grams of water. You'll end up losing a lot of water weight in a few days even if you're in a calorie excess because of the relatively low carbohydrate profile of this diet. If you drink enough wine, the sugar from the wine will allow you to rebuild your glycogen stores so that's why this diet limits it to a bottle.

I mean, at least the wine and coffee have some antioxidants.

3 eggs is a lot of empty protein

After a whole bottle of wine, you wouldn't care, and you would care if anyone else cares :)

Does wine cause farts? News to me.

Yeah it is keto + OBOWAD. Alcohol inhibits fat metabolism so I would expect this to be less effective than keto for fat loss.

When I was keto I could have 1 serving of alcohol a day and that seemed to actually help prevent plateaus, probably due to diuretic effects. However, 2 or more drinks in a meal and I wouldn’t lose or would even gain due to inflammation. I don’t think I tried drinking 1-2 per meal for more than one meal a day.

Feels like the Lucille Bluth diet.

"It's what's for breakfast, lunch and dinner..."

Fun fact: Nikola Tesla suggested to drink a bit of... burbon or the like before bed.

Hunter Thompson's routine according to E. Jean Carroll:

3:00 p.m. rise

3:05 Chivas Regal with the morning papers, Dunhills

3:45 cocaine

3:50 another glass of Chivas, Dunhill

4:05 first cup of coffee, Dunhill

4:15 cocaine

4:16 orange juice, Dunhill

4:30 cocaine

4:54 cocaine

5:05 cocaine

5:11 coffee, Dunhills

5:30 more ice in the Chivas

5:45 cocaine, etc., etc.

6:00 grass to take the edge off the day

7:05 Woody Creek Tavern for lunch-Heineken, two margaritas, coleslaw, a taco salad, a double order of fried onion rings, carrot cake, ice cream, a bean fritter, Dunhills, another Heineken, cocaine, and for the ride home, a snow cone (a glass of shredded ice over which is poured three or four jig­gers of Chivas)

9:00 starts snorting cocaine seriously

10:00 drops acid

11:00 Chartreuse, cocaine, grass

11:30 cocaine, etc, etc.

12:00 midnight, Hunter S. Thompson is ready to write

12:05-6:00 a.m. Chartreuse, cocaine, grass, Chivas, coffee, Heineken, clove cigarettes, grapefruit, Dunhills, orange juice, gin, continuous pornographic movies.

6:00 the hot tub-champagne, Dove Bars, fettuccine Alfredo

8:00 Halcyon

8:20 sleep

I mean, there’s nothing preventing people from drinking water as part of this diet..

Hilariously enough, it’s really a very basic, boozy ketogenic diet.

You’ll lose a lot of water-weight in the first few days regardless, as you deplete your glycogen stores; the caffeine, alcohol and lack of carbohydrates should help keep satiety (lack of hunger pangs).

I read one in a magazine that was for more than 3 days, and it suggested only drinking milk instead of water.
The reasoning was:

• fat cells are mostly water
• so not drinking water will "dry out" the fat cells
• drinking milk is fine because your stomach acid turns it into a solid, so it isn't liquid anymore

Nutritional advice used to be wild.