"The Virgin Diet"
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Celebrity fitness and nutrition expert JJ Virgin says it’s simple: Just drop seven foods from your diet, and you can lose seven pounds in one week. The foods you should drop from your diet include: gluten, dairy, eggs, soy, peanuts, corn and (grouped together) sugar and artificial sweeteners.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/01/16/virgin-diet-drop-7-foods-lose-7-pounds-in-1-week/?intcmp=features#ixzz2HHv4lCtO
Trouble is that, if you leave out dairy, then there goes the calcium. Leave off eggs, and there goes protein.
What do you think of this diet?
If you took all those foods out of the standard American diet you'd have nothing nutritious left. I hope/ assume the real diet actually adds back in foods that most westerners eat little of - oily fish, beans, lentils, nuts and seeds, bright and dark coloured veggies. Unfortunately some people will just read news articles and cut food groups out of their diet.
According to the website you can have Virgin meals delivered to your door for $10 and buy shakes to make up for the protein and real food micronutrients you are cutting out. Ingredients list for one of the shakes include
"*Other Ingredients: Organic Cane Juice Sugar, Sunflower Oil, Flavors, Medium Chain Triglyceride Oil, Stevia extract (leaf) (Rebaudioside A 95%), Xanthan Gum"
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Calcium: Almond Milk has 50% more calcium than cow's milk
Protein: Nuts, Legumes, Seeds, Pseudograins like quinoa <--- All the protein your body actually needs
Almond milk which has been fortified with chalk, not 'natural' almond milk. Almond milk is not a real food, it is a laboratory/ factory made frankenfood: many brands contain added sugar and/ or salt within their lengthy ingredients lists. If we don't need to eat dairy for calcium where are all the real calcium rich wholefoods?
I guess paleolithic humans got much from bones and shells of fish and seafood, bones of stewed meat .... I doubt they were eating 400g of ground flaxseeds of 750g of spinach, pretty sure they hadn't invented tofu.
seaweed actually has a TON of calcium.
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I'm getting the unsweetened almond milk0
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I know since I've been eating "virgin" I'm having a lot more veggies both steamed and raw and rice; and some new oils and more spices. I find that I have no cravings for sweets, breads or cheese. Day 10 today.0
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It was on Dr Oz.0
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seaweed actually has a TON of calcium.
Which variety? Just took a peek on Self Nutrition: raw agar I'd have to eat 1.8kg to get my daily dose, raw kelp I'd have to eat 600g, raw spirulina I'd need to eat 8.3kg. It's not realistic to eat this volume of greens on a daily basis and I can't honestly believe my ancestors did. If I did eat that much kelp I'd have to start stressing about sodium because I'd be up to 2.3g on one food item.0 -
In my experience, these severe cutting diets will definitely have you losing "___lbs in ____ days," but you'll gain them all back (and then some) as soon as you attempt to eat the restricted foods again.
I'm sure everyone else has said the same thing, but eat clean, don't deprive yourself too much, and exercise.0 -
Just like the virgin birth, if it sounds too unrealistic it probably is.
*boom*0 -
Damn, and I thought it was going to be a diet for virgins!0
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I saw her on PBS. She suggests cutting out the 7 foods for 3 weeks and then reintroducing them one at a time to see if you have digestive or other bad reactions to those foods, which is how a lot of food intolerances are discovered. But it does seem very limiting!0
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Get rid of my eggs? Virgin's bum, meet my foot.0
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I saw her on PBS. She suggests cutting out the 7 foods for 3 weeks and then reintroducing them one at a time to see if you have digestive or other bad reactions to those foods, which is how a lot of food intolerances are discovered. But it does seem very limiting!
sure, but it's only three weeks, and you get to see how each of the foods effects you individually. nothing wrong with having a better understanding of your body.0 -
Sounds almost like Paleo. Just keep eggs. You get carbs through veggies and fruit. Protein through eggs and lean meats. Fat from meat and nuts.
very similar.^. yes nuts, but not peanuts (actually a legume). not having eggs is limiting, but can be introduced again or not cut at all if you know it causes not issues for you.0 -
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It was on Dr Oz.
Then it's good as gold.0 -
I'm doing this, but not as a "diet". I'm doing it to find out if I have any food intolerances, because I was getting sicker on a more regular basis and I felt like something needed to be done. Once it's over I plan on avoiding whatever is bothering me and maintaining healthy eating habits incorporating back in the foods I don't have a problem with. I believe it is one of the foods because I have none of the symptoms that I had before. Just a waiting game to find out which food it is. Crosses my fingers it's not dairy!0
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I'm studying to be a nutritionist and am a student in college. I tried out this diet so I could recommend it to my followers on my nutrition blog....I have to say, having two best friends and a cousin hospitalized for eating disorders, I really think this whole "Virgin Diet Hype" needs to be directed towards a specific audience--those suffering from autoimmune disorders, those with frequent joint pain/headaches, or those who are overweight or at risk for certain diseases. For those of you who are already eating healthy, feel energized, and don't snack on junk food all day--PLEASE save yourself the energy and don't try this diet. I'm 90 pounds and after speaking to my doctor, this diet will only lead to health risks for me being that I'm already underweight. So for anyone in a normal weight range, I really wouldn't suggest this. The journaling forces you to obsess over everything you put in your mouth, and all the while your questioning, "I felt great before having eggs, greek yogurt, etc.., why stop?" This is for people who have tried diets and they haven't worked. This is for people who want to manage their weight. I feel drained of energy, and worse, scared to death to put food in my mouth. For anyone young, I just don't think it's a good route.0
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This thread is TOTALLY not what I thought it was.
Wait, did someone say Dr. Oz??? Isn't he that renowned DOCTOR that pushes every snake oil out there???
Oh yes, we absolutely MUST buy this.0 -
Celebrity fitness and nutrition expert JJ Virgin says it’s simple: Just drop seven foods from your diet, and you can lose seven pounds in one week. The foods you should drop from your diet include: gluten, dairy, eggs, soy, peanuts, corn and (grouped together) sugar and artificial sweeteners.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/01/16/virgin-diet-drop-7-foods-lose-7-pounds-in-1-week/?intcmp=features#ixzz2HHv4lCtO
Trouble is that, if you leave out dairy, then there goes the calcium. Leave off eggs, and there goes protein.
What do you think of this diet?
Well, I am disappointed. I was expecting virgin sacrifice, and then chowing down on the remains for weight loss. Didn't the Incas do something like that?0 -
I thought u meant no sex0
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I started this diet 10 days ago. I bought pumpkin protein for the shakes. I did see that the protein powder she sells on her website has sugar in it. This is forbidden for the first 7 weeks. She also has a link in her resources to Miso soup that is soy based, another food you are supposed to give up. And the only sweetener she is OK with is Xylitol which can come from birch trees but also comes from corn, another forbidden food. If you have even a little of the foods you add back in (soy, gluten, dairy and eggs, you need to wait three weeks before adding it back in. Then after the third week you add in the four foods one per week once a day for four days in specific recipes to see if, after clearing out the natural antibodies, you have a reaction. If you don't, you are OK to add back in after testing the other three foods. Even though I am pointing out hypocrisies, I am going ahead with this as I did lose 7 lbs in the first 7 days and have been sleeping better than I have in years. I have read of other people having headaches in the first few days. I did not have them, but others said that they go away after a few days (withdrawal?).0
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Celebrity fitness and nutrition expert JJ Virgin says it’s simple: Just drop seven foods from your diet, and you can lose seven pounds in one week. The foods you should drop from your diet include: gluten, dairy, eggs, soy, peanuts, corn and (grouped together) sugar and artificial sweeteners.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/01/16/virgin-diet-drop-7-foods-lose-7-pounds-in-1-week/?intcmp=features#ixzz2HHv4lCtO
Trouble is that, if you leave out dairy, then there goes the calcium. Leave off eggs, and there goes protein.
What do you think of this diet?
Eggs are not required for protein.
Calcium can be found outside of dairy
But, it's still a ridiculous promise "lose seven pounds in one week". No diet can guarantee that, not even total starvation.
For the average person, all of those foods can be part of a healthy diet.0 -
Any diet that recommends avoiding certain foods or being a virgin is highly suspect.0
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The foods you should drop from your diet include: gluten, dairy, eggs, soy, peanuts, corn and (grouped together) sugar and artificial sweeteners.
You'll have to pry gluten, dairy, eggs, peanuts, and corn from my cold, dead hands.
But if giving these up means that you'll have a calorie deficit, then yes, you can lose weight with it. Although 7 pounds in a week is quite an outlandish claim. Seven pounds of... something.0 -
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I had to go off gluten for Celiacs Disease. believe me, it is in EVERYTHING. I don't recommend giving it up. I miss gluten every day of my life. enjoy life, you only get to do it once. don't spend it eating food you hate and ignore the foods you love - just love them in moderation.
I found out about gluten being in everything on a trip to Sprouts last year. They were having a gluten-free sale. When I heard 'gluten', of course I thought 'wheat products'. Bread, cereal, tortillas, that sort of thing.
Surprised to find some 'gluten-free sale' tags on YOGURT! Yes, YOGURT!
Just because yogurt is labelled "gluten free" does not mean that yogurt naturally has gluten in it. Gluten is only naturally found in some cereal grains. If yogurt has gluten it's because someone added it.
Gluten is not found in everything. But it is added to a lot of processed foods.0 -
Surprised to find some 'gluten-free sale' tags on YOGURT! Yes, YOGURT!
This is not necessarily because it had any in the first place though. Back when cholesterol was the devil I remember seeing stuff like apples and tomatoes at the grocery store with "Cholesterol Free!" stickers all over them0 -
CoachReddy wrote: »Celebrity fitness and nutrition expert JJ Virgin says it’s simple: Just drop seven foods from your diet, and you can lose seven pounds in one week. The foods you should drop from your diet include: gluten, dairy, eggs, soy, peanuts, corn and (grouped together) sugar and artificial sweeteners.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/01/16/virgin-diet-drop-7-foods-lose-7-pounds-in-1-week/?intcmp=features#ixzz2HHv4lCtO
Trouble is that, if you leave out dairy, then there goes the calcium. Leave off eggs, and there goes protein. What do you think of this diet?
Calcium: Almond Milk has 50% more calcium than cow's milk
Protein: Nuts, Legumes, Seeds, Pseudograins like quinoa <--- All the protein your body actually needs
Unless it's meat, you're looking at incomplete proteins (meaning you'd have to eat at least two of the sources to get complete proteins).
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CoachReddy wrote: »seaweed actually has a TON of calcium.
Seaweed has calcium?? I've had the roasted seaweed, which has some fat from the roasting process.
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