What is the Egg diet? Has anyone heard of it?

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  • sheldonklein
    sheldonklein Posts: 854 Member
    Kruggeri wrote: »
    rabbitjb wrote: »
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    LOL LOL LOL! OMG I never thought of that. I'm never going to be able to make chicken parmesan or any other egg wash breaded chicken again!

    They even wrote a song about it: Mother and Child Reunion
  • tingtongabc123
    tingtongabc123 Posts: 17 Member
    Well here is my update, I lost 10 kg and my hubby lost 12.5! I am one week off the diet feel great and in the past week off the diet I lost one additional kg. So all up in 5 weeks I lost 11 kg and don't plan to stop and for sure not going to my old life style.

    So stop being ignorant or rude if that's not your way to loose weight, then its not. Bot it doesn't mean other people can't have success with it.
    I'll update you in a couple of month again so you know for sure that you were wrong.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,341 Member
    tingtongabc123 wrote: »
    Well here is my update, I lost 10 kg and my hubby lost 12.5! I am one week off the diet feel great and in the past week off the diet I lost one additional kg. So all up in 5 weeks I lost 11 kg and don't plan to stop and for sure not going to my old life style.

    So stop being ignorant or rude if that's not your way to loose weight, then its not. Bot it doesn't mean other people can't have success with it.
    I'll update you in a couple of month again so you know for sure that you were wrong.

    Congratulations. You could have done the same thing just maintaining a deficit and ignoring the silly rules, but I'm sure riding an imaginary high horse burns extra calories, so bully for you.
  • WinoGelato
    WinoGelato Posts: 13,454 Member
    tingtongabc123 wrote: »
    Well here is my update, I lost 10 kg and my hubby lost 12.5! I am one week off the diet feel great and in the past week off the diet I lost one additional kg. So all up in 5 weeks I lost 11 kg and don't plan to stop and for sure not going to my old life style.

    So stop being ignorant or rude if that's not your way to loose weight, then its not. Bot it doesn't mean other people can't have success with it.
    I'll update you in a couple of month again so you know for sure that you were wrong.

    Can't wait! Here's a gif for you to use next month when you tell us how wrong we are.


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  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    tingtongabc123 wrote: »
    Well here is my update, I lost 10 kg and my hubby lost 12.5! I am one week off the diet feel great and in the past week off the diet I lost one additional kg. So all up in 5 weeks I lost 11 kg and don't plan to stop and for sure not going to my old life style.

    So stop being ignorant or rude if that's not your way to loose weight, then its not. Bot it doesn't mean other people can't have success with it.
    I'll update you in a couple of month again so you know for sure that you were wrong.

    Good for you ...please come back every month so that we can remain wrong 6 months from now

    4.8lbs loss per week ....laughs
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    Actually I had to come back to this because whilst I know you're trying to prove your point the weight loss you have posted (let's assume this is true) from what is actually an extremely restrictive, unhealthy VLCD diet is extremely concerning

    If true, you are saying that your husband lost 5.5lbs a week over 5 weeks and you lost 4.8lbs a week over 5 weeks .. these are worrying stats

    You risk decimating your LBM at a much faster rate than you need to which is really really bad because muscle is very important for health, appearance, maintenance calories etc

    not to mention
    skin, hair, nail issues
    fatigue
    long-term risk of osteoperosis
    liver, kidney conditions, increased risk of gallstones (like over 70% chance for the morbidly obese losing more than 3.3lbs a week)

    It really boils down to VLCD = bad and please seek medical advice from your primary care physician

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  • buffalobill41
    buffalobill41 Posts: 72 Member
    it's not so much to me that it sounds like it won't work it just seems weird. i think it's more just cutting out unhealthy foods (especially the only drinking water part) that's leading to the weight loss and not some magic chemical reaction. you can eat a ton of food and still lose weight if it's healthy low calorie items. 2 lbs of broccoli has less calories than a 4 oz wackarnolds sandwich.
  • MonsoonStorm
    MonsoonStorm Posts: 371 Member
    tingtongabc123 wrote: »
    I am doing it with my husband atm. I love it! I do crave a lot of things that are absolutely prohibited but i never ever feel hungry! Although there is some limitations on the amounts some days, most of the days you can eat as much as you want it just tells you what you should eat. It's rich on protein and has a lot of vegetables and fruits in it.
    My friend lost 22kg on it (he started at 86kg and went down to 64) and did not get it back. You just have to eat healthy, drink a lot of water and keep exercising after the diet. You can do 2weeks, 4 weeks, 6 weeks or 8 weeks but then you need to give your body a rest for at least half of a year before you can repeat it. I think this diet suits more people that want to loose a lot rather than a couple of kilo's.

    PS: We just started and after the 4th day I lost 2kg, sure most of it is water in the first week but my body fat is down from 48% to 46.9% which is a great result to me already.

    So what you are saying, is if you eat healthily, drink a lot of water and exercise, then you will lose weight on this "diet"? ;)

  • MonsoonStorm
    MonsoonStorm Posts: 371 Member
    Alatariel75 wrote: »
    Only 2 eggs a day? That's no egg diet! What kind of shonky naming convention has been used here. It may as well be the grapefruit diet, or the "eat as much meat as you want for dinner" diet.

    Indeed... I eat 3 whole eggs + extra egg whites every morning. Would appear that my diet is significantly more "eggy"
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  • MonsoonStorm
    MonsoonStorm Posts: 371 Member
    edited June 2015
    tingtongabc123 wrote: »
    PS: We just started and after the 4th day I lost 2kg, sure most of it is water in the first week but my body fat is down from 48% to 46.9% which is a great result to me already.

    Just want to point something else out - those % body fat scales are affected by hydration levels (amongst many, many other things that make them notoriously inaccurate)
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  • MonsoonStorm
    MonsoonStorm Posts: 371 Member
    billieljaime wrote: »
    NobodyPutsAmyInTheCorner wrote: »
    I believe it's called the Commando diet.

    I have friends that often do it. Funnily enough... They all stay pretty fat afterwards. Unlike me. On my normal healthy way of losing weight.

    :lol:

    I think we should experiment

    4 weeks of commando diet followed by four weeks of standard CICO

    For science.....

    But I just got groceries so it has to wait until i eat them all.....we need a start date??

    sure... as long as someone else is paying for the amount of meat I will go through each evening.

    I prefer lamb tenderloin

    thanks in advance!
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    MonsoonStorm Posts: 371 Member
    edited June 2015
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  • Snow3y
    Snow3y Posts: 1,412 Member
    I'd rather follow the "eat what you like in moderation in a deficit, to lose weight" diet.. Been 2-3 months +/- and I've lost 3-4kg
  • MonsoonStorm
    MonsoonStorm Posts: 371 Member
    billieljaime wrote: »
    the standard American on a SAD eats meat with every meal so eating meat with ONE meal should REDUCE your budget?

    I only really eat meat with my evening meal (eggs for breakfast - lunch varies). But if I am ruling out anything but fruit at lunch time I am going to be absolutely starving... so my usual 100-200g of meat isn't going to cut it.

    My lamb tenderloin for yesterday's dinner cost me around $10. Conservative estimate - double it!
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  • eDonatti
    eDonatti Posts: 49 Member
    What happens when there's a party or some big event - where you have dinner served, cake, champagne? You just don't eat any of that?
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  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
    I'd be concerned about LBM loss on this type of thing, nutrient deficiencies and not sure one learns to eat well.
  • MamaBirdBoss
    MamaBirdBoss Posts: 1,516 Member
    tingtongabc123 wrote: »
    PS: We just started and after the 4th day I lost 2kg, sure most of it is water in the first week but my body fat is down from 48% to 46.9% which is a great result to me already.

    Yeah, all of that could be water from low carbs. Like, ALL of it. I lost over a kilo of water weight in a few days just shifting my carb balance slightly.
  • KikeFalope
    KikeFalope Posts: 1 Member
    angelexperiment wrote: »
    Just curious but do you eat mostly eggs on it or only eggs?

  • MamaBirdBoss
    MamaBirdBoss Posts: 1,516 Member
    tingtongabc123 wrote: »
    lynn_glenmont wrote: »
    But I lost the weight so I could exercise -- so I could move my body again in all kinds of ways that it just didn't want to move anymore when I was severely obese.

    That is exactly my point, this diet helps you to loose a lot for your sart, so you can be more active, my exact words!


    This diet is not a miracle, it doesn't claim to be and no diet is supposed to be sustainable. Only healthy eating and exercising will help you to keep your success and this diet is not supposed to teach you this lifestyle. It is only a kick stat help to loose a lot of weight to be able to be more active and get a taste for healthy foods, that's all!

    And I don't spend "half of my free time" exercising -- even when I actually hit my exercise goals, which isn't that all that often, it's only about five or six hours a week. Supposedly the average American spends five or six hours a day watching TV.


    thats my point again, You are most welcome to exercise, but if you can't or can only very limited due to injuries a little baby, severe obesity, a lot of work etc. then you have to be more concentrated on your diet. which means you can not eat what you want and then just exercise it away. You know what I mean?

    And even if you count calories you have to plan the meals very well, to count in how active you are wether you are ready or not to give up sugars etc.
    I count calories but I practically never plan meals. I don't even understand what you're trying to say with the rest of that sentence. Are you saying it's some kind of huge effort to log exercise? (It's not. And I don't have an HRM. I just use a watch and perceived intensity/pace. Lost about 30 pounds in four months doing that, and have kept it off for 18 months while losing another 10 pounds.) And are you suggesting that people have to give up sugars to lose weight or be healthy? I haven't, and I'm not going to -- neither naturally occurring sugars nor added sugars.


    Well why are you counting then? how does counting benefit you if you eat a bowl of spaghetti, 3 pieces of cake, a hamburger, fried potatoes etc and what you counted the calories of it and what then? Planing your meals means, that you have a daily calorie intake goal and you have to plan your meals through the day the way that you don't exceed your goal or if you can add exercising which burns calories so you can eat more but still stay within the goal.
    I never said logging is wrong or hard or anything I'm doing it myself without HRM. The sentence simply means every lifestyle is different and different lifestyle means different calorie intake, so you have to suite your meals your lifestyle. And no one HAS to give up on ANYTHING if he don't want. It's a simple choice. You can maintain your weight eating sugar but exercising more or reducing other foods - great. Someone decides to cut out sugars and exercise less or get more other foods in - why not.


    WOW. lol.

    You count calories to stay within your calorie deficit...by eating anything you want within that deficit. Not a fad diet that you stay on a short period.

    Your deficit becomes higher if you 1) eat less or 2) move more. It's higher for heavier people with the same calorie/exercise, too, which is why I'm thinking of getting a weight vest for treadmill waking--40lbs is 18 extra calories per mile that I walk while working. :)

    The fact that you can write that people have to choose a fad diet or else they're going to exercise half their free time away predicts your failure.
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