Breakfast Cereal Diet
December 7th, 2005 by Kyle at 12:06 pmI can’t keep track of diet fads, but Nicole turned me onto the idea of eating two high fibre bowls of cereal a day then a standard dinner, which for me involves booze, various meats, sauces, and cheese.
I guess there was some study done that said it worked as a crash diet. I’m more interested in eating cereal all day long, because I really love cereal. Aside from it’s aesthetics and the pleasant sound of a cereal crunch, I like to eat it.
Special K ( you know,the one that makes you look slender in a bathing suit on a cruise ship with Kathy Lee) is apparently the prefered brand, and the study was *shock shock* funded by Kelloggs. Still, I don’t doubt it, if you need to fit into a wedding dress like me, it would probably work well. Me, I’m going for the “snowboarding lots” diet myself.
December 7th, 2005 at 2:15 pm
I gotta concur with you, Mr. Kyle. Cereal does rock on so many levels but the cereal only diet is probably not a sustainable way to manage your weight. Sure, eating a bowl of Special K in lieu of breakfast or lunch would make you lose weight simply by reducing the amount of calories you are taking in. If you follow the serving size (about a cup-and who only eats a cup of cereal, by the way) and use skim milk you are talking about a meal consisting of about 150-170 calories. Plus, it is high in fiber which will make you poop a lot. (See SNL commercial from the early 90s for “Colon Blow”-funny.) So yeah, you can look hot in your wedding dress for about an hour until you start eating normally again. Whereas, snowboarding lots burns calories by giving you a cardio workout which will boost your metabolism as well as building lean muscle mass, which also boosts your metabolism and shapes your body. Thus increasing the hotness factor when you finally get that wedding dress on. (Is there something the rest of us should know in reference to that??)
I myself, will not be participating in the “Snowboarding Lots” diet. More realistically it would turn out to be the “Falling on Your Ass Lots” diet or the “Oh my god, she face planted into a tree” diet. I’m not sure anyone has worked out the calorie burn on those activities yet.
December 13th, 2005 at 11:58 am
um, ya so if you’re like me and ride (which i’m having a hard time believing considering it’s like pulling teeth to get you on the mountain) it usually ends with a pitcher of beer and carbalicious foods like pizza or burgers. that doesn’t work so well with the losing weight thang. if only salad and spritzer sounded good after a hard days work…