Help me explain to my wife why this diet is crap

[Skammer]

Tell your wife if she wants to lose weight, have a varied diet, not starve herself, and keep the weight off, to try Weight Watchers. I lost 15 pounds in 12 weeks last year and haven’t gained any of it back and without feeling like I was depriving myself, or spending three days a week on the crapper.

[aruvqan]

@Litoris

FTR – I pee exactly 5 times per day most days (except when I am on my period). [ol]
[li]First thing when I wake up[/li][li]Around 10 am after my coffee and 3 or 4 bottles of water have made it into my body[/li][li]Around 2 pm, after lunch and another 2 bottles of water[/li][li]Around 5 pm, after work and another 2 bottles of water[/li][li]Sometime before bed – it will vary depending on how much water I drink after I get home[/li][/ol]

As you can see, not only do I* not piss like a firetruck, I am pretty regular with it. I honestly don’t see why you would think this is excessive.

*I know your comment wasn’t directed at me, but being one of those who do drink “excessive” water, I just wanted to clarify.

As to the OP – the soup is actually pretty yummy as long as you leave out the onion soup mix. While you won’t see 10lbs lost (unless as stated previously, you’re exceedingly overweight), you will see some weight loss, due to the amounts of fiber/liquid going into the body – you really do shit yourself silly on that diet. She might as well just take laxatives for a week, honestly.

I love a good cabbage soup, and in the winter on weekends I will occasionally use my daily allottment of foods [diabetic=)] to make a pot of soup that lasts me for the day. I cook it on the woodstove and it is sort of comfort foodish=)

And I drink about 1 gal a day, and it saved my kidneys from the hypercalcemia I have been suffering for the past year. Just had my parathyroids out, and I can’t wait to see what will happen in the next year [although between the furosemide and all the peeing, and the nausea vomiting and runs I have lost 47 lbs since april…not a good way to do it!