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To eat nothing but crisps for a week? Would I die?

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DontBiteTheBoobThatFeedsYou · 20/06/2019 14:36

I bloody love crisps. I hate chocolate. Crisps are my Achilles heel.

Anyway, when I've over indulged in a particular food, I can't face them for a long time afterwards.
I didn't eat mince pies for 3 years once.
I still haven't looked a jelly baby in the eye since I was breast feeding ds2 and ate packets and packets of them.

I'm constantly sitting on my hands trying not to eat crisps.
For years I've been wondering whether I should just eat crisps and nothing else for a week and get over my blood obsession.

I can't eat 'as many as I want' as part of my normal diet because I would be eating way too many calories and I've got down to a good weight after having DS3.

Would I die from all the salt?

It's only a week so I think I wouldn't die from anything else.

I know it sounds ridiculous but it might just work...?

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MightyWings · 20/06/2019 15:23

so interested in the outcome of this.

I can eat perfectly all day, then get in at 4pm and during the two hours between 4pm and 6pm I can eat 3 or 4 packets of crisps or sometimes more, while waiting for dinner to cook.

I put all the empty packets inside each other to hide the evidence!

I think I need to move my dinner time to 4pm to solve this problem, or wait to hear how Crisp Diet goes!

annabelle1992 · 20/06/2019 15:24

Agree you would start to drool over lettuce and apples by the end of the week 😂😂

sheshootssheimplores · 20/06/2019 15:24

I didn’t even realise crisps were that bad!!!! I often have a packet of Pom bears as part of lunch. They’re quite low on calories although I’ll admit I didn’t give much thought to the salt 😬

annabelle1992 · 20/06/2019 15:26

Word of warning though- I once did this with chocolate (and all chocolate containing products) when I was about 19, within 2 weeks was back on the chocolate again 😂😂

Mrsgandy · 20/06/2019 15:27

I reckon you will get fed up of them after a few days . Eat a few large packets before bed and if anything like me you will be up with severe heart burn and never eat again .
I can't eat twix bars again for this reason .

OkMaybeNot · 20/06/2019 15:27

It won't work.

Not like I speak from experience or anything. Ahem.

mylittlenugget · 20/06/2019 15:27

It's not even really the salt you need to watch out for - crisps have a lot of sugar that you wouldn't expect to be in there.
Also watching eagerly to find out what happens 🤭

LadyBumclock · 20/06/2019 15:29
TheInvestigator · 20/06/2019 15:29

Will you not end up with blisters all over your tongue and mouth? If I eat a tube if Pringles my lips and tongue feel all rough.

DontBiteTheBoobThatFeedsYou · 20/06/2019 15:30

I agree!!

ds3 was in hospital recently in London so DH wasn't near by and I lived on sausage rolls and crap from the bakery.
After day two I felt like shit and craves vegetables. I made a massive pot of vegetable soup when we got back and a shed load of fruit.

I also agree that I might not last the week. But I will push through because I want to get really and truly sick of them.

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Passthecherrycoke · 20/06/2019 15:33

Yes but a week of loads of sugar and salt isn’t going to do anything to OPs health. It’s only a week!

LittleAndOften · 20/06/2019 15:35

It won't kill you. Not if someone can have salty McDonald's for breakfast, lunch and dinner and still be alive.

I don't like posh crisps, I think they all taste of oil. I'm hooked on salt and vinegar McCoy's and paprika pringles. I'm pregnant and if I don't watch myself can cane a whole pringles tube in a short space of time. Sadly I don't think overindulging will put me off - it'd probably make things worse!

I shall watch with interest.

PS how do you feel about prawn cocktail and smokey bacon?

Tsaminaminazangalewa · 20/06/2019 15:35

If you think it might help then I'd do it. I tried it with chocolate and I couldn't face it afterwards but it didn't last. After about a month I had fallen off the wagon but I'm glad I tried it on the basis that I enjoyed the experiment and because it helped me realise I'd need another method. Sadly I've not come across anything that's worked yet. Good luck on your mission

DontBiteTheBoobThatFeedsYou · 20/06/2019 15:41

But did you eat nothing but chocolate?

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DefinatelyAWeeGobshite · 20/06/2019 15:42

Crisps are my weakness, I ADORE them! Pickled onion and salt & vinegar are my absolute favourite although they make me visibly sweat, it’s so odd. My daughter loves those too.

I won’t turn down any though, I’ll even eat the ready salted that no one else wants in my house Grin

goodwinter · 20/06/2019 15:42

Let me know if it works 😬 I have the same problem!

annabelle1992 · 20/06/2019 15:43

Chocolate and chocolate containing products e.g. chocolate cake, chocolate mousse, chocolate milkshake.

MyDcAreMarvel · 20/06/2019 15:44

The kids are ridiculously healthy.
Not if they have crisps in their pack lunch they are not.
Am surprised the school allow it.

annabelle1992 · 20/06/2019 15:45

Had to be mainly chocolate to count!! I got seriously sick of it, craved cucumber, was then super healthy and virtuous for about 2 weeks and then guess what crept back into my life... CHOCOLATE 🍫

annabelle1992 · 20/06/2019 15:45

Though weirdly I actually lost weight on this week-long chocolate diet, a very unexpected side effect. Maybe I should advocate it more.

mindproject · 20/06/2019 15:47

Crisps aren't that bad. They're basically the same ingredients as a jacket potato with butter.

I think you should try it. I would guess your weight will stay about the same, you'll feel a bit thirsty and your blood pressure might go up a bit. At the end of the week you will probably like crisps a bit less, but it won't last.

Lexilooo · 20/06/2019 15:47

What about getting hypnotized so you think crisps are really gross? Paul McKenna used to do a CD I think........

LittleAndOften · 20/06/2019 15:52

Crisps are the MOST expensive way to buy potatoes. I often think about this.

Then I buy some more! 😂

OhMsBeliever · 20/06/2019 15:53

Mmmm, crisps. I love them too. This diet sounds like a dream, I'm not sure anything could put me off crisps.

pancaketits · 20/06/2019 15:55

All I can now think of is Chilli Heatwave Doritos. Thanks for that Grin

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