This was my diet as an alcoholic, just add 4 more glasses around noon so I pass out and miss dinner lmao
Alexis_M85 on
This is also when smoking was allowed on airplanes. 😄
NaughtyLittleDogs on
This is pretty close to what my “naturally thin” Boomer mother eats every day, although she prefers Gewurztraminer to Chablis and doesn’t start drinking until lunchtime. So that’s one way to keep your figure, I guess.
rainborambo on
My gut feels gross just reading this!
Arstanishe on
my liver would not approve
GhostsInTheAttic on
I love that it says “poached if necessary” as if that actually effects the nutritional value, and if you happen to be too weak willed to eat a boiled egg.
JBOTlx on
Omg imagine the farts these poor ladies must have had. No one around to judge your weight when you’ve gassed them all to death, I guess.
Transcend_Suffering on
mmmm socially acceptable alcoholism
strong_heart27 on
Pairs well with Marlboro lights
Few_Feeling_6760 on
I do not wanna smell the breath, farts or shits of anyone following this diet. 🤢
madsjchic on
So this would put someone in ketosis probably(?) depending how the wine hits. But weirdly it’s actually about 1200 calories which is low but enough for a lot of women (on a diet). Prob stop die of liver failure or what it but interesting that the calories themselves are not the problem. You’d probably end up being sick as a dog but technically it’s enough calories. Would never do this diet.
parade1070 on
I suddenly understand how my aunt came to be lol
Solnse on
The drinking man’s diet was the precursor to the Atkins diet which preceded the keto diet.
909me1 on
I think this would make me sick 🤢all that wine…..with only eggs I think I’d barf
mayg0dhaveMercy on
That many eggs? In this economy?
PheonixRising_2071 on
It was first published in *Sex and the Single Girl* by Helen Gurley Brown in 1962. Vogue reprinted in 1977.
The original diet was 3-5 boiled or poached eggs, 5oz of steak without sauce, and 1 710ml bottle of wine of choice. Consumed in whatever order you like.
The breakdown, wine specification, and addition of coffee was all Vogue
hailz__xx on
A bottle of wine a day?? Pretty expensive diet
AlmostBlind_Bandit on
with so little food and so much alcohol, this person was sloshed all day long.
zorandzam on
I swear someone much more recently tried this, made it like a day and a half, and felt so sick, but she did lose weight. :/
Also, as unhealthy as this is, you’re only supposed to do it for 3 days. Even drinking this much, doing it for just 3 days isn’t bad enough to cause you permanent damage.
Annie_Mous on
Instructions unclear. Am wasted and starving.
anormalgeek on
Bottle of wine is like 600cal
3 boiled eggs is like 240 cal
5oz steak is like 350 cal (assuming a lean cut without fat cap)
So basically a 1200 cal diet. But that would be INCREDIBLY unfilling with half of your calories coming from pure liquids and the rest being nearly all protein will have unpleasant…gastric byproducts.
dietcokette on
I think it’s a variation of The Drinking Man’s diet, which was just low carb plus booze. There’s a whole book for it that came out in the 60s I think.
throwRA-nonSeq on
2 poached eggs, two glasses of Chardonnay, a cup of hot black coffee and baby you got a stew goin’
PurplishPlatypus on
I lived for awhile with my sister’s mother in law. She was very thin and her daily diet was diet coke and one piece of peanut butter toast for breakfast; Vicodin, diet coke and tollhouse cookies for lunch, and dinner was alcohol (probably more vicodin) and nibbles of whatever her husband made for dinner while she literally nodded off with food in her mouth. She’s doing better with the vicodin now, at least, but she still barely eats.
neanderthalman on
I ran the numbers on this once.
Technically, it’s keto.
eltara3 on
The weird thing about this…aside from lack of nutritional value, this diet takes no account of the way the human brain works when under the influence of alcohol.
Drinking on a mostly empty stomach means you get drunk faster. Being drunk, means you’re more likely to say ‘fuck it, I’m hungry, I’m just going to eat whatever’ and start bingeing after a day of barely eating.
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This is the fast track to colon cancer diet
This was my diet as an alcoholic, just add 4 more glasses around noon so I pass out and miss dinner lmao
This is also when smoking was allowed on airplanes. 😄
This is pretty close to what my “naturally thin” Boomer mother eats every day, although she prefers Gewurztraminer to Chablis and doesn’t start drinking until lunchtime. So that’s one way to keep your figure, I guess.
My gut feels gross just reading this!
my liver would not approve
I love that it says “poached if necessary” as if that actually effects the nutritional value, and if you happen to be too weak willed to eat a boiled egg.
Omg imagine the farts these poor ladies must have had. No one around to judge your weight when you’ve gassed them all to death, I guess.
mmmm socially acceptable alcoholism
Pairs well with Marlboro lights
I do not wanna smell the breath, farts or shits of anyone following this diet. 🤢
So this would put someone in ketosis probably(?) depending how the wine hits. But weirdly it’s actually about 1200 calories which is low but enough for a lot of women (on a diet). Prob stop die of liver failure or what it but interesting that the calories themselves are not the problem. You’d probably end up being sick as a dog but technically it’s enough calories. Would never do this diet.
I suddenly understand how my aunt came to be lol
The drinking man’s diet was the precursor to the Atkins diet which preceded the keto diet.
I think this would make me sick 🤢all that wine…..with only eggs I think I’d barf
That many eggs? In this economy?
It was first published in *Sex and the Single Girl* by Helen Gurley Brown in 1962. Vogue reprinted in 1977.
The original diet was 3-5 boiled or poached eggs, 5oz of steak without sauce, and 1 710ml bottle of wine of choice. Consumed in whatever order you like.
The breakdown, wine specification, and addition of coffee was all Vogue
A bottle of wine a day?? Pretty expensive diet
with so little food and so much alcohol, this person was sloshed all day long.
I swear someone much more recently tried this, made it like a day and a half, and felt so sick, but she did lose weight. :/
Also, as unhealthy as this is, you’re only supposed to do it for 3 days. Even drinking this much, doing it for just 3 days isn’t bad enough to cause you permanent damage.
Instructions unclear. Am wasted and starving.
Bottle of wine is like 600cal
3 boiled eggs is like 240 cal
5oz steak is like 350 cal (assuming a lean cut without fat cap)
So basically a 1200 cal diet. But that would be INCREDIBLY unfilling with half of your calories coming from pure liquids and the rest being nearly all protein will have unpleasant…gastric byproducts.
I think it’s a variation of The Drinking Man’s diet, which was just low carb plus booze. There’s a whole book for it that came out in the 60s I think.
2 poached eggs, two glasses of Chardonnay, a cup of hot black coffee and baby you got a stew goin’
I lived for awhile with my sister’s mother in law. She was very thin and her daily diet was diet coke and one piece of peanut butter toast for breakfast; Vicodin, diet coke and tollhouse cookies for lunch, and dinner was alcohol (probably more vicodin) and nibbles of whatever her husband made for dinner while she literally nodded off with food in her mouth. She’s doing better with the vicodin now, at least, but she still barely eats.
I ran the numbers on this once.
Technically, it’s keto.
The weird thing about this…aside from lack of nutritional value, this diet takes no account of the way the human brain works when under the influence of alcohol.
Drinking on a mostly empty stomach means you get drunk faster. Being drunk, means you’re more likely to say ‘fuck it, I’m hungry, I’m just going to eat whatever’ and start bingeing after a day of barely eating.
“if necessary” 😂
*takes swig of wine*
today…poaching…it is not an option….
*takes another swig of wine*
….it is required.