1977 weight loss advice
(midwest.social)
The Picard Maneuver
People TwitterI'd prefer Sauvignon Blanc but sacrifices have to be made.
Some stinky ass farts coming from an all egg and beef diet.
Don't worry. You and everyone you know is chain-smoking cigarettes all the time. Nobody will notice.
It was in fashion at the time. The all important question of "Do you fart with that ass?" was finally silenced for one glorious year.
Seems perfectly reasonable to me
They left out the cigarettes.
In the 70s, it's probably just a given.
Not as good as The Butterfield Diet Plan
Shit your guts out, the diet.
1 bottle of white ~ 600 calories
3 hard boiled eggs - 225 calories
5 oz steak ~ 325 calories
For a total of 1150 calories. You'll need to be pretty active for a 5 lbs loss but you'd definitely lose some weight on this diet. Now I do not envy the heinous shits a diet of pure protein, coffee, and white wine will give you
Mostly of the weight loss would be water.
No carbs plus alcohol and coffee is just diuretics
Plus anything that was in your intestines / bowels. There's no fibre in there at all.
I used to have to "make weight" and water and empty intestines are the short version of how it's done.
Oh hey that's the main way men get eating disorders!
Is that true? It wouldn't surprise me. When I was competing in that weight category sport I had a very skewed view of what I considered overweight (for me).
99% of the population would have considered me lean as fuck when I thought otherwise.
I was going to say, sounds like the shit the wrestlers used to do back in high school. Always seemed wildly unhealthy.
Imo weight class should be determined by an average of a bunch of weigh-ins for weeks or months before an event. Then, on the day of the event, allow some tolerance over the max weight but only if the average stays under. If the average creeps up into the tolerance zone, then they go up a weight class. Make the weight classes based on healthy habits rather than basically cheating in an unhealthy way to make weight a day before, then bulking back up to whatever weight for the actual fight.
Not that I have any stake in any of that, so my say isn't really relevant.
Sounds conplicated, how about we just try more runnin' in a trash bag.
If you're only eating protein you don't need fiber.
Oh god your poor anal tract.
And your brain won't work because it requires at least 110 grams of carbs to function normally. Then you might start saying things like "if you're only eating protein you don't need fibre"
Gluconeogenesis is a thing. So while correct, it doesn't have to be dietary carbs.
Fair enough, that being said, eating exclusively protein is still likely to result in death from nutrient deficiency, kidney overload, protein poisoning, the list goes on.
But thats not as funny.
Though a fruit only diet, that's funny.
If you lose more than water weight in 3 days, it's probably due to traumatic illness or amputation.
Or a change in plans for space flight!
The avg person expending 2000 Calories a day means an ~850 Calorie deficit. 2550 deficit over the course of 3days. That allows about 3lbs of muscle (700C) loss or almost 1lb of fat (3000-3500C)loss.
Up the calories expended via being active and you could reach the 5lb goal. With such severe caloric deficit nost of the weight loss would be muscle unfortunately.
Isn't there enough protein in that diet to maintain the muscle?
If caloric intake was higher sure. Muscle breakdown is easier than fat so is a prime target in starvation diets to get energy. Results in long-lasting problems for people who have experienced famine or eating disorders. More moderate caloric deficits are healthier for a reason but obviously takes longer to lose weight.
There's a lot of variability in nutrition that can impact things but generally protein in the diet helps maintain and grow muscle but doesn't affect that when your body is starving for energy muscle tends to go more than fat.
Nutritional fads including the current lots of protein one are likely bunk or only for certain lifestyles.
I'm not familiar with this so am interested; presumably there's a calorie deficit where more fat is consumed than muscle? Where does it switch?
It is complex, precise dietary requirements vary person to person (even mouse to mouse but less for lab strains). As a generality women have lower caloric requirements, men higher. Age, height, weight, activity level, genetics, etc all have impacts.
The timeline of caloric restriction matters. Muscle breakdown occurs first because muscles store glycogen which is a much faster energy source than fat. Fat breakdown can go on for longer as it has a higher density of energy. Simple short-term reduction in calories thus results in muscle before fat. Higher protein intake mitigates or prevents muscle loss in longer-term diets compared to lower protein intake as the muscle cells are used to process/use the protein. Exercise is the best at keeping or growing muscle as it turns them from energy providers to energy users.
Resistance training. When on a calorie deficit while doing weight training, you will lose less muscle. You'll still lose some, but your body will try to rebuild the muscle using proteins and stored nutrients.
Well you're clearly not sleeping
Depending where you start it would probably keep up a 2 to 3 pound a week loss until you get down to around 120lbs, then it would slow down.
What's the difference between a boiled egg and a poached egg? Theyre both just the egg cooked in water one with shell and one without
I like how it says "if necessary." Like what possible scenario exists where it's necessary to poach an egg instead of hard boiling it lol
maybe if the shell got a bit cracked before cooking? Might as well poach it at that point since it'll just leak a bunch of albumen into the pot anyways
You burn more calories peeling the boiled egg.
The crunch mostly.
Who says Americans don’t use the metric system?
I'm all for morning drinking, but pairing a dry white with boiled eggs just doesn't seem like a good match
Look at the friggin sommelier over here
A fatty chardonnay could do
Fatty Chardonnay will be your nickname at the tennis club.
This is why I tend to avoid tennis clubs
That’s okay Fatty Chardonnay.
So get drunk and get skinny?
I don't think its working, I'm still fat.
P.S.
Its just a joke folks, you can chill
Not that I'm encouraging drinking problems but this helped keep my weight in check in covid lock downs: Get Drunk, Not Fat
Lots of calories in beer. Need to move yourself over to neat spirits. Make sure that you spend all your money on them, so that you've nothing left to buy food. Then follow the diet posted above, but skip the eggs and replace the large glass of wine with a large glass of vodka. You'll lose a tonne of weight.
My old boss lost a load of weight when he switched from drinking beer to white wine spritzers when he was working. Did have to then switch to fizzy water after his wife gave him an earful for coming home drunk all the time though.
Like 30 years ago we used to have something called “wine coolers”. I don’t really see those anymore. There’s like Smirnoff Ice and Mikes Hard lemonade. Is that pretty much the same thing? Seems like the additional sugar would negate any weight loss when switching from beer.
No, it's just a 50:50 mix of white wine and soda water, so it has about half the calories of white wine. Very easy to drink a lot of in a hot kitchen though, so it's still a lot of wine.
poached if necessary
I’m trying to picture what sort of necessity is that.
Oh no! My Instagram account can’t handle another boiled egg!
Out of necessity for not spending the rest of my life in prison because I’m about to murder someone if I eat another goddamn hard boiled egg.
You get in prison, you'll have to eat 50 eggs
You forgot to hardboil eggs and need some quickly?
QUICK it's an EGG EMERGENCY
I had to wait until college to discover day drinking, why didn't the men's magazines BITD discuss this topic
Then rediscover it later in life when you work from home.
There are articles online about people trying this diet. At least one girl said it worked, but obviously the amount you lose would depend on Your starting weight and You would lose mostly water.
1970s: vegetables smegetables
Oddly it still seems like people were not as overweight back then.
The black coffee and nicotine are effective appetite suppressants
Add on ADHD meds and you'll never want to eat!
Wide awake and tipsy all night long!
That day drinking will probably leave you pretty tired by the end of the day. I bet you sleep well on this diet.
This will technically do what it says on the tin but there are definitely better diets to achieve the same, haha.
And if you're anything like me, counting calories will be going out the window pretty shortly after polishing off that daily bottle.
Butthole widening diet.
And then people wonder why gen-x is fucked up.
Edit: to clarify why gen-x:
Mom, mom?! Shaddup kid I'm on a wine diet...
This comes from a book published in 1962 so more like Silent gen or maybe Boomers
Gen Xers would've been at most 12 y/o when this was printed, Boomers would've been their most likely target demographic, being at most 32 y/o at the time.
See my edit :-)
Fair, I was going to try to say something about how there could be indirect effects but couldn't get the wording right
Where’s the problem?
Basically a Four Loko diet.
