If you're already dreading your post-holiday diet (new year, new you), then you might want to take a cue from this guy, who lost 11 pounds by eating only junk food for 30 days. I mean, seriously—this dude is our new hero.
Junk food gets a pretty bad rap in the food world, and every day people are swearing off the Oreos and chips in favor of kale and green juices. But let's be real, that sounds pretty damn dull, so writer Jeff Wilser took a slightly opposite approach to cleansing: he swore off the greens and ate only junk food for one month. But it wasn't a free-for-all; he did limit his caloric intake to a moderate amount (around 2,000, though he did allot himself a weekly "cheat day"), and kept his meals to the official serving size on the package.
He ate M&Ms, corn nuts, Chex Mix, donuts, Little Debbie chocolate cupcakes, and all the things your low brow food dreams are made of, but as you can imagine, a serving of junk food doesn't really get you that far. I mean, there's no universe in which three Oreos and 25 Cheez-Its would actually fill me up and constitute a meal, and though Wilser admits he was never hungry, he was never really satisfied, either.
So naturally by day 30, you might think he'd crave something a little more substantial. A burger. A juicy steak. Maybe some kale, even? But nope. Wilser just craved more junk food. Turns out, the processed food conglomerates seriously know a thing or two about how to keep customers hooked.
But let's get down to what you really care about: his weight. Wilser lost eleven pounds on his junk food diet, which his doctor claimed was actually too much weight lost. "No one should lose that much weight so quickly," his doctor said. WHOA. Did he just stumble upon the holy grail of diets, here?
The scale wasn't the only change. His bad cholesterol went down, his good cholesterol went up, and he lost two percent body fat, which basically proves that it all boils down to calories, just like we saw with the pizza diet and McDonalds experiment. It's about moderation, and even if you're eating legit crap, if you eat less than you burn, you're still going to lose weight.
Personally, when January rolls around, I'll be the girl telling my friends, "Sorry, I can't go to Juice Press with you, I'm on an all Pop-Tart diet."
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