Friend on diet... what do you think of it?

Breakfast

Small piece of cheese (low fat)

Steamed squash

 

Lunch

Turkey

mustard

more steamed squash

 

Dinner

grilled chicken

salad

one thin bread wrap

 

No additonal dairy allowed

No fruit allowed

No snacks

No more carbs allowed

No directive to workout- and she doesn't

 

She keeps saying how she's already lost 10 lbs THIS YEAR and the diet promises 20lbs in 10 weeks.  I think if that was all I ate I'd start chewing off my own arm. 

Em

Sounds like my diet lately although I do try to eat (or drink) more protein than that. It is not a sustainable lifetime plan so the 10 pound or 20 pound loss will be hard (if not impossible) to maintain.  Just like any fad diet - many people want to believe that it will be THE ONE - the *magic* program and as you've experienced, there's no magic involved.
BTW, how are the new girls?  How are you healing?

HI Em!

I need more food than that, fer shur! Your friend sure is gonna lose, but she is sure gonna be hungry!

Good grief, and I thought Atkins Induction was limited, this is just 'pitiful'!  And no wonder there is not directive to work out.  On that little bit of food, she'd be passed out on the floor!

Is there a name for this idiotic plan.  I only want to know so that it can be avoided!

Mary

I think if its not something you can stick to forever, its not worth doing. I'm sure she'll lose but will put it right back on once she tires of the steamed squash. No fruit?? No snacks? No more dairy than a small piece of lowfat cheese? Bizarre, to say the least, and not realistic.

I love squash but somehow it sounds so unappetizing here.  lol