To wonder whether my friend's diet is stupid and unhealthy or pure genius?

[mrscog]

I have a friend (who isn't really overweight but wanted to lose a few pounds) who has recently been doing the craziest diet I've ever heard of.

Basically she loves chocolate so much and didn't want to give it up so she has 3 bars of chocolate a day ( none greater than 300 calories) and then two tins of low calorie vegetable soup. So her day looks like this:

Breakfast - cup of tea and a Twirl

Lunch - Tin of soup and a Crunchie

Dinner - Tin of soup and a Double Decker

I am torn between revulsion and admiration. On one hand it's low in nutrition, but on the other it is a low calorie diet and I think it might have worked. She's so bloody super cheery as she tucks in to her 'treats'.

I'm considering trying it for a few weeks but then I remember that I have DC and should maybe be more careful with my health.

MN jury, what do you think? It's over to you!

Obviously on here YABU to even question how terribly unhealthy this is. Even if your friend only does it for 10 days or something. It is quite unspeakable. I honestly think mumsnet must be full of svelte women with model-esque figures, so incredibly unbelievably correct is their eating.

A bit like my SIL, who actually studied Nutrition at university, who eats nothing unhealthy at all and is very overweight and simply cannot lose any, despite eating more and more healthy food. She has terrible teeth too. I like to eat Twirl bars in front of her - they are popular with dieters because as everyone knows, they contain 200 calories each, or 100 per finger.

I did something similar when I was young-between four and six chocolate bars a day. It works!But only because It's lower calories than what you would usually eat, and of course you can't eat like that forever, it encourages long term bad habits and is very unhealthy!

I have just invented a revolutionary diet: first you eat a meat feast type pizza from Sainsburys (the counter at the back where they make it up for you) and then you throw up for the next two days with food poisoning. Tried and tested myself a currently sitting up with a large bucket next to me still unable to keep a sip of water down

Reading this thread making me very hungry though!