🍷 Have You Heard About Vogue's 'Crash Diet' From The '70s?

Let's just say it involves wine and eggs...

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
New Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Did you ever go on a wacky diet? Did you
ever do the Israeli Army diet?

Speaker 1 (00:07):
I went on a neutraumatics thing. I was a bit
of an FC all those years ago. It's neutraumatics.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
I was working in Karfa and I've gone from the
building site to this where you don't do any physical
work anymore.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
I just packed it on balloon to one hundred and
twenty kilos.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Wow, I can't imagine you being one hundred and twenty kilos.
What are you now? One hundred and five.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Eighty five?

Speaker 3 (00:27):
I need to be eighty five right now, I'm heading
into FC territory. I'm eighty six point seven. So I've
just I've got to keep it eighty five. That's the
right thing to be. So all those years ago.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
I got a neutraumatic It's like a like these pills
and shakes and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Okay, did it work?

Speaker 1 (00:44):
No, not really, But then I did go on years later.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
I went on the weight Watcher's Points diet because I
was talking about it and they sent me the thing,
and I like statistics, and so I started just like
looking at you.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
This is why all those it worked for me.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, This is why I think all those things where
you have to write down what you've eaten, they're always
going to work because you're much more conscious of your calories.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
But I think about it when I s down on
the scales in the morning in my undies and I
trash talk myself like a Monday. I look at myself
and I go, right, okay, I need to drop a
kilo on a half cent.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
No more bread, no more chips. Is that what you do? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Well, how about this crazy diet? This was printed in
Vogue magazine in the nineteen seventies. It's called wine and eggs.
You do it for three days and they reckon, you'll
lose two and a half kilos. Here it goes breakfast,
one egg, hard boiled. I'm having that right now. Actually,
one glass of white wine, preferably shabbilis. This is for
breakfast and black coffee. Lunch, two eggs hard boiled, two

(01:44):
glasses of wine, black coffee, dinner, steak grilled with black pepper,
lemon juice, the remainder of the white wine. One bottle
allowed per day.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Black coffee.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
So that's it. Eggs, steak and wine. Wine at breakfast
wine at lunch.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Wow, Wow, that's bizarre, isn't it. That's why that's where
they lived to forty two and we're happy for it.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Remember the Darren Hinch Diet. Remember this, He actually put
out this book or too what his diet was it?
Twenty five years ago. This was a number one or
the Cydney Daily Telegraph best seller. It outsold Naomi Wolf's
The Beauty Myth. This was his diet, the soup and
wine diet. It consisted of soup, a bread roll and
white wine. That was it, massive best seller. Sounds fabulous

(02:32):
until he realized he needed a liver transplant some years later.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Conditions and conditions.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Going to hospital is one way to lose weight.