VIRGIN DIET by JJ Virgin

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  • 0somuchbetter0
    0somuchbetter0 Posts: 1,335 Member
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    I just googled virgin diet and poked around their web site. I'm appalled. It's just a slick fancy way to take your money. Just learn about good nutrition, eat at a deficit, and you will lose weight.
  • CrusherKun
    CrusherKun Posts: 353 Member
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    I just googled virgin diet and poked around their web site. I'm appalled. It's just a slick fancy way to take your money. Just learn about good nutrition, eat at a deficit, and you will lose weight.

    Wait - I can make a living taking stupid peoples money?!? (Although I sort of do that already as a bill collector)
  • KseRz
    KseRz Posts: 980 Member
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    Does this diet involve eating Virgins?

    That's what I thought. In for virgins, either the eating of, or the feeding of.

    Or eating just jelly donuts?
  • Ninkyou
    Ninkyou Posts: 6,666 Member
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  • wheird
    wheird Posts: 7,963 Member
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    Eating a virgin seems like a bit of a waste. Either they wouldn't fully appreciate the skills or I'd ruin them for others by raising the bar too high
  • AsaThorsWoman
    AsaThorsWoman Posts: 2,303 Member
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    Nutritional Yeast is a potential neurotoxin?!?!

    Really?

    http://jjvirgin.com/virgin-diet-faq/

    :noway:
  • AsaThorsWoman
    AsaThorsWoman Posts: 2,303 Member
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    I'm generally wary of any diet that has a side-effect of hair loss.

    That's a red flag, right there.
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
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    At my age, this diet is improbable unless I go all creepy sugar Daddy.
  • Amitysk
    Amitysk Posts: 705 Member
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    Lol wut?
  • bpotts44
    bpotts44 Posts: 1,066 Member
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    JJ Virgin is hawt IMHO.
  • Athijade
    Athijade Posts: 3,266 Member
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    1) If you have food sensitivities or allergies, then you should be working with a specialist and doing a real elimination diet. You would not be doing something like this and you definitely wouldn't think that missing a few days would be okay. A true elimination diet is very strict and must be done with 100% compliance.

    2) If you are thinking this is some magical weight loss diet, then you would be wrong.
  • SugaryLynx
    SugaryLynx Posts: 2,640 Member
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    I read "by vajayjay virgin" in my head
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
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    Is that the diet where you abstain from sausage and pie?
  • Sirinya55
    Sirinya55 Posts: 79 Member
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    soooo....it takes 4 days to be a virgin again? I'm in!
  • redversustheblue
    redversustheblue Posts: 1,216 Member
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    virgin sacrifice?
  • mmm_drop
    mmm_drop Posts: 1,126 Member
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    From what I've read this sounds more like a simplified protocol for identifying foods to which individuals have a sensitivity. The claims about losing seven pounds in seven days are marketing puffery.

    Simply put, when you overeat, your body stores surplus calories as fat. When you undereat, your body burns stored fat for energy.

    It's an accepted fact that one pound of fat has approximately 3,500 calories of energy.

    In order to lose one pound of fat, you therefore must burn approximately 3,500 calories more than you consume.

    Considering average total daily energy expenditure is on the order of 2,000 calories (maybe 1,500, maybe 2,500, but that's a reasonable range), even if you ate nothing all day, you would only have a caloric deficit of 2,000 calories.

    What this means is that you couldn't feasibly burn a pound of fat in a day, and by extension, could not burn 7 pounds in a week. You would have to eat nothing at all and exercise vigorously to exhaustion every single day of a week to hope to come anywhere close to that - - and that's just starvation, not weight loss.

    The math just doesn't work - seven pounds in seven days is a vile little trick, and so I recommend you take anything else recommended by "Virgin" as highly suspicious.

    Pfft.

    This makes far too much sense to be real.

    (Please note sarcasm.)
  • srslybritt
    srslybritt Posts: 1,618 Member
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  • donyellemoniquex3
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  • brooke7ia
    brooke7ia Posts: 9 Member
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    Yikes, there are a lot more haters out there than I anticipated. Here's my situation: My doctor recommended awhile ago to try a modified JJ Virgin Diet (i.e. not the shakes) to determine some food intolerance issues. I have put off doing it, but decided to try it now. Although I would like to lose weight on it, that's not my goal.

    So I guess I'm wondering if there's anyone out there with ACTUAL experience with the intolerance issue that knows WHERE I can cut 4 days out of the program in the best way. It is a 49 day program but I either can start now (and cut out 4 days) or otherwise I need to wait until mid-Sept. to start. I'd rather not wait. I imagine there's nothing magic about the program's number of days but I just am hoping for some advice about that. Thank you!
  • tameko2
    tameko2 Posts: 31,634 Member
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    Yikes, there are a lot more haters out there than I anticipated. Here's my situation: My doctor recommended awhile ago to try a modified JJ Virgin Diet (i.e. not the shakes) to determine some food intolerance issues. I have put off doing it, but decided to try it now. Although I would like to lose weight on it, that's not my goal.

    So I guess I'm wondering if there's anyone out there with ACTUAL experience with the intolerance issue that knows WHERE I can cut 4 days out of the program in the best way. It is a 49 day program but I either can start now (and cut out 4 days) or otherwise I need to wait until mid-Sept. to start. I'd rather not wait. I imagine there's nothing magic about the program's number of days but I just am hoping for some advice about that. Thank you!

    Please talk to your doctor again - there actually IS a reason why it takes so long and its not something you should short cut.

    you need at least 3 weeks (4 is better) to clear your system of any remaining reactiveness to the food you've cut out.

    Then once that's clear, the testing process is very slow and careful.

    There is not a short cut to finding out what your intolerances are.

    *however*

    You can do the full period with nothing, then test as many items as you have time for now.

    Then you can come back to it in September and do the others if you don't identify the issue - but you'll have to redo the 'no food' period.


    So basically - yes, you can shorten the testing phase, by not gettinga round ot testing everything.

    But I'm pretty skeptical of a doctor that would recommend a celebrity diet to you, which is as someone else said not an ideal elimination diet. I'd maybe go talk to a specialist.

    eta: I'm also skeptical of a doctor that wouldn't bother explaining any of this to you. You shouldn't have had to ask the internet.

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