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> However, I think those diets only "work" because they make you starve while filling your belly Another way they could work is because eating the same thing a

• cheese_goddess 4y ago
  Yeah, maybe. That could be the reason, or an additional reason. I think if I had to eat only one kind of food that I really like (not cheese because there's such a huge variety that it wouldn't really count as "one") I could just about manage to eat only that for two weeks. After that I think I'd be craving something else. Of course, that could also cause me to over-eat to try and make up for the craving. Anyway I don't think this is such an easy diet as the article here makes it sound like. Anecdotally again, the only time I went on an "eat-only-x" diet was during a heatwave when I spent a week or two eating only teaspoonfulls of peanut butter and drinking milk kefir. The reason being that it was so hellishly hot that I couldn't stand the thought of cooking or eating anything more. I think I lost a few pounds during that time.