>>3638

I once knew a Canadian who ate 10 eggs a day. He was a teacher and he would eat two boiled eggs for breakfast and bring about 8 hard-boiled eggs into work in a lunchbox and eat them throughout the day. This guy was fucking massive, and not lanky, he was quite built. I think a side-affect may have been that he used to sweat like a wet flannel, but this may have just been the climate difference between Kent and his hometown in Canada.

Last I heard of him he moved back there to start a Orphanage for cats. I've always considered this whole episode to be real, but looking back on it, this may have been a dream.

Back to your question: No, I couldn't try that diet, after a day I would be fed up of them, and imagine the smell out the exhaust.

The diet seems like a basic version of the atkins diet. Whilst you can easily lose weight without having to substitute good food stuffs like bacon, steaks and scrambled eggs for tofu, quorn or lentils. At the end of it all it isn't healthy in the long run.

I can get through two dozen eggs in a good week as my normal breakfast is two to three scrambled eggs and a benedict for special occasions - though since I started trying to lose weight it is pretty much just the former.

I used to have the eggs on toast, but I substitute that for a wee bit of salmon now or a rice cake if I want to feel like I'm actually being healthy, and I'm steadily losing weight with this so I think I could recommend it, though I suspect the actual secret here is that I have cut out carbs completely - they're just sugar waiting to happen and they just make you hungrier. It stands to reason. What sort of food do you crave? Bread, crisps, chips, and pasta. It's very rare for somebody to wake up in the middle of the night and think 'my god I'd kill for a chicken breast'

I am doing a variation of this diet, except without the carbohydrates. I saw it in the paper and decided to have a go. It is like the Mayo diet, but more hardcore. Essentially you can eat as much meat as you like, and certain vegetables. Every meal begins with grapefruit, either half of the fruit or four ounces of juice.

No other fruit should be eaten, nor sugars of any kind. No carbohydrates whatsoever.

The egg thing is OK too. I'd recommend it, I've been doing it since Thursday and have lost nearly five pounds. I tried to suggest it to the people discussing it in Random but they didn't seem very open to it.

>>3641

I wake up in the night and could kill for a chicken breast. Sadly this diet specifies no eating between meals.

I just don't believe that any limited diet is good for your health, even if it can help you lose weight. There's no need for anybody to start cutting out entire swathes of foodstuffs as long as they eat sensibly most of the time, in moderation when they don't, and do a little exercise every day.

I think people mostly forget that diet means 'what you eat' rather than 'a temporary regime of substitutions and starvation'.

The simple fact is if total energy in is less than total energy out you will lose weight, and vice versa. If you are too fat, eat less. If you are too skinny, eat more. I personally did find that cutting out carbs leaves me much less prone to craving fatty or starchy foods, which helps me to eat less food - but in reality no amount of techniques and magic potions are going to make you lose weight unless you change the way you eat for good.

>>3643

Diets like this one are perfect if you want to drop a few pounds in a short space of time. Cutting out carbohydrates is an easy and effective way of losing a lot of weight in a few weeks - after which one may resume their normal intake.

I actually have to eat a bunch of eggs soon or they go past their sellby date.
Fuck.

>>3650

Eggs seem to last way past their dates. I have never cracked a rotten egg.

>>3652

Eurgh, I have, and ever since then I've been very careful. I think once you do it once, you start to get really worried about it.

I've cracked a few with unborn chicks inside too, there's nothing worse than a foetus dropping into hot butter on a Monday morning.

>>3655

>I've cracked a few with unborn chicks inside too, there's nothing worse than a foetus dropping into hot butter on a Monday morning.

I am now no longer having scrambled eggs for breakfast, and I will never hard-boil an egg again. Or eat a scotch egg without cutting it in half first.

You utter jizzkidney.

>>3656

I'm very sorry. The likelihood is very slim, and I understand there are proceedures in place to prevent this sort of thing from happening.

Also "jizzkidney" is an interesting yet impossible hapax legomenon. Congratulations.

>>3662

>Also "jizzkidney" is an interesting yet impossible hapax legomenon. Congratulations.

Thank you. I've always wanted one of those (no, really)

RE: eggs - the half dozen I bought were chickless, though I'm sure one had some shell INSIDE. I get them from the farm down the road so I get weird stuff with greater frequency than with shop-bought ones, and the bloke I get them from is about fifteen times more likely to shoot me with a pellet gun than Sainsburys is if I complain...

>>3663
If they haven't got the Red Lion on them chuck them the fuck away.

>>3664

They do. It's not some seedy fucker with a chicken in his wardrobe, it's a fairly large scale affair.

>If they haven't got the Red Lion on them chuck them the fuck away.
Eggs from local farms are much tastier than shop-bought ones. Duck eggs, mmm.

I don't see what the fuss is with a fertilised egg, anyway, it's never happened to me but I wouldn't have a problem dealing with it. I did grow up with poultry as pets/food source, though, so I guess I'm used to the idea that chicks and ducklings come from eggs.

>>3666
Just because you buy them from a farm doesn't mean they can't undergo quality control.

I do love our local farm shop, but it's difficult shifting our budget back before the supermarket price wars, paying normal prices for eggs and other farmed produce.

If we still had things like the fish, butcher/farm vans that used to come round the streets selling their produce - I'm sure a lot more people would buy them... most people ignore the small "Farm Shop"/"Fresh Eggs" signs on the roads.

>>3664

We have our own "pet" chickens.. Free eggs for us

I hate chickens though, they look like horrid little dinosaurs

>>3674

I agree. I hate birds in all forms. They don't look right, they are billion year old feathered lizards. They should not exist.