The “Wine and Egg” diet was part of the “Crash Diets” section and promises to help you lose 5 pounds in three days. Sure, because all you’re spending most of your day …. not eating. “If an intermittent fasting regimen went on a drinking binge in a henhouse, you’d pretty much have this diet,” she told them. “This random menu (I don’t even want to call it a diet) provides 1,103 calories (by her estimation) with 43 percent of those calories coming from the alcohol calories in the wine!” And although wine is delicious, Stefanski explained that there aren’t many nutrients in a bottle of vino (nope, grapes sadly don’t count). She said that 1,103 calories is actually not enough calories for an adult to live on. Instead, it “is roughly the amount needed by a 1-year-old baby.” And babies can’t have wine, so what good is this diet anyway? And Diane McMartin from The Kitchn also tried to plan, but she noticed that the diet had a seriously negative impact on her mental health. “Maybe it was the wine, or maybe the lack of food, but I legit felt sad by the end of the day. Weepy, even. Like, as I was sitting in bed reading, waiting until it was acceptable to go to sleep because I was so exhausted, and I could have burst into tears at any moment,” she wrote. The bottom line is that no fad diet is going to bring you miracle weight loss. So let’s let this crash diet fade into the past like a misguided fashion trend and or a terrible haircut.
