Bizarre: the wine-and-egg diet exists and really works (but whether it’s healthy…)
Is this seriously a diet after my own heart? And why am I only finding out now that this exists? Maybe because it’s making a real comeback on TikTok, but whether we should be happy about that… Still, if Vogue says so…
They published the ‘Egg and wine diet’ in their magazine in 1977. Yes, you read that right; a diet consisting of drinking wine and eating eggs. Bril-liant. Just not for my liver, I fear.
1977 diet makes a comeback on social media
This diet wasn’t actually 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, published in 1962. It actually sounds pretty fun and interesting to read, and to see whether much has changed in the world of dating. Or dieting.
This diet already made a comeback on social media in 2018, and now again with the arrival of TikTok. But the big question, of course, is: how does this diet work and does it actually work? Medical specialists strongly advise against it (no kidding), because you consume very few foods, it isn’t balanced, it’s impossible to sustain and ultimately it’s actually worse for you. Right, now that I’ve shared this disclaimer: let’s dive into the wine-and-egg diet.
…But does it really work?
The website The Kitchn decided to put it to the test and actually followed this diet. If you follow the diet below for three days, you’re supposed to lose around two and a half kilos. Here goes:
Breakfast
- 1 hard-boiled egg
- 1 glass of white wine (preferably a dry wine such as Chablis)
- Black coffee
Lunch
- 2 eggs, preferably hard-boiled, but poached otherwise
- 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 actually did this for three days and with success: she lost around 3.3 kilos. WHUT. So that’s even more than they promised. She did feel miserable, though, felt as if she had lost brain cells and that she could burst into tears at any moment.
Finally, she urges everyone not to try this diet at home. Secretly, I’m actually curious to see what it would do to my body. I’ve already let myself be tempted by one of those miserable juice cleanses, and I think this is more up my street. Should I or shouldn’t I?
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