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[–] 201 points 3 months ago (36 children)

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

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  • [–] 121 points 3 months ago (32 children)

    Mostly of the weight loss would be water.

    No carbs plus alcohol and coffee is just diuretics

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  • [–] 58 points 3 months ago (21 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 33 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    Oh hey that's the main way men get eating disorders!

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  • [–] 26 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    I was going to say, sounds like the shit the wrestlers used to do back in high school. Always seemed wildly unhealthy.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    There's no good solution IMO. There's a way to game everything. Ultimately it boils down to: You don't want hefty people fighting little people. A 24 hour weigh in causes a small number of folks to go to extremes and a weigh in just before fighting could have someone fighting dehydrated.

    Nearly everyone runs a 6 or 8 week run up to a fight where they're constantly losing weight. For me it was pure numbers. e.g. I'm 7KG over fighting weight with 6 weeks to go. It's a 1000 calorie a day deficit with maintenance days here and there and shift 2 - 2.5 by making weight.

    You've 24 hours to rehydrate and it's enough IMO.

    The trouble comes when you've lads trying to shift 5KG in 48 hours. It causes death. Maybe a weigh in 3 days out then another with 24 hours to go would work. Tough nut to crack though.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Though trying to fight dehydrated is a much bigger mistake than dehydrating yourself for a weigh in and photo op, which might discourage some from doing it if they are going to lose anyways. But there will absolutely be some that will try anyways. I'd say they could watch for those and ban them from whatever league it is, though I have a feeling it's more likely to go in the hunger games/squid games direction than safer with the current political climate.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Yeah totally agree on everything there. We would step off the scales and immediately start rehydrating. I personally wouldn't eat until my piss was basically clear and at that stage you haven't had a good meal in two days at least.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    There's no good solution IMO

    How about not damaging children's bodies for meaningless high school sports?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago*

    Three things:

    1. I did this as an adult
    2. I'm not fucking American
    3. In no way do I think kids should be doing that and wouldn't let my kids

    I was just relating my experience with making weight so jog on pal.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    Unironically yeah. There's more ways for a girl to pick up a restrictive eating disorder (family pressure, wider social pressure, more sports that care about weight like gymnastics and dance) but men can absolutely still get one and this is the most common way. And I really should have specified restrictive because binge eating disorder is pretty common in both sexes. Although orthorexia is also kinda coming into vogue for both sexes.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    So if we add some weetabix to the morning meal it’s basically a perfect diet! I’ll start experimenting tomorrow, I’ve already ordered 30 bottles of wine

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  • [+] -11 points 3 months ago (7 children)
  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    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"

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Gluconeogenesis is a thing. So while correct, it doesn't have to be dietary carbs.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    I mean if you just eat steak and eggs you're not going to shit. As I said earlier it was a tactic we used for making weight.

    Not shitting is a great way to get colon cancer.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Isn't there enough protein in that diet to maintain the muscle?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    5lb of fat is 17500 kcal. An additional 3450 kcal consumed brings that to 20950 kcal you'd have to expend in three days, or just under 7000 kcal/day. That's Olympic athlete level, isn't it?

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  • [–] 93 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    They left out the cigarettes.

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  • [–] 53 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    Some stinky ass farts coming from an all egg and beef diet.

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  • [–] 60 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Don't worry. You and everyone you know is chain-smoking cigarettes all the time. Nobody will notice.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Cigarettes used to make me need to shit really bad. I can't even imagine combining that with the Vogue diet of a boiled egg, glass of wine and black coffee. Sounds like a recipe for a day on the toilet!

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  • [–] 31 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    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

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago

    Shit your guts out, the diet.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago

    I'd prefer Sauvignon Blanc but sacrifices have to be made.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago

    Seems perfectly reasonable to me

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I’m trying to picture what sort of necessity is that.

    Oh no! My Instagram account can’t handle another boiled egg!

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  • [–] 36 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I'm all for morning drinking, but pairing a dry white with boiled eggs just doesn't seem like a good match

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

    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

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I think you'd be better off just not eating for three days, only drinking water.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Wide awake and tipsy all night long!

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    White wine with steak? Blasphemy!

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    Not as good as The Butterfield Diet Plan

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I had to wait until college to discover day drinking, why didn't the men's magazines BITD discuss this topic

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    Where’s the problem?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    You can substitute beer for the wine. Remember Kiddies, there is a pork chop's worth of calories in every bottle! This is why diabetics prefer beer of a real chop! ./////JKing!

    This is NOT accurate dietary and medical advice!

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    1970s: vegetables smegetables

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Oddly it still seems like people were not as overweight back then.

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