VIRGIN DIET by JJ Virgin
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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.0 -
I read "by vajayjay virgin" in my head0
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Is that the diet where you abstain from sausage and pie?0
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soooo....it takes 4 days to be a virgin again? I'm in!0
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virgin sacrifice?0
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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.
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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!0 -
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.0 -
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