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The wine-and-eating diet makes a comeback 

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Is this seriously a diet for my heart? And why am I only now finding out that this exists? Maybe because it's making a real comeback on TikTok, but whether we should be happy about that... Although, if Vogue says it... They published the ‘Egg and wine diet’ in 1977 in their magazine. Yes, you read that right; a diet that consists of drinking wine and eating eggs. Brilliant. Just not for my liver, I fear.

This diet was actually not invented by Vogue, but by Helen Gurley Brown, who described it in her book Sex and the Single Girl: The Unmarried Woman’s Guide To Men, which came out in 1962. By the way, it seems quite fun and interesting to read, and to see if much has changed in the dating scene. Or dieting.

In 2018, this diet already made a comeback on social media, and with the arrival of TikTok, it does again. But the big question is, of course: how does this diet work and: does it work? Medical specialists strongly advise against it (duh), because you get very few nutrients, it’s unbalanced, unsustainable, and ultimately worse for you. Well, now that I’ve shared this disclaimer: let’s dive into the wine-and-egg diet.

The website The Kitchn has actually put this diet to the test and followed it. If you follow the following diet for three days, you would lose about two and a half kilos. Here it comes:

wine diet from Vogue

Breakfast

  • 1 hard-boiled egg
  • 1 glass of white wine (preferably a dry wine like Chablis)
  • Black coffee

Lunch

  • 2 eggs, preferably hard-boiled, but otherwise poached
  • 2 glasses of white wine
  • Black coffee

Dinner

  • 150 grams of steak with black pepper and lemon juice
  • The remaining white wine (you drink one bottle per day)
  • Black coffee

The journalist from The Kitchn seriously did this for three days and successfully: she lost about 3.3 kilos. WHUT. So that’s even more than they promised. However, she felt miserable, thought she had lost brain cells, and could burst into tears at any moment.

Lastly, she asks everyone not to try this diet at home. I’m secretly curious about what it will do to my body. I have once been tempted to do such a miserable juice cleanse, and I think this fits more in my alley. To do or not to do?

Image: Instagram Bella Hadid