Monday, 04 January 2010
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The Taco Bell Diet?
If this "diet" isn't misleading, then I don't know what is!Apparently, Christine Doughtery has lost 54 pounds by substituting real meals for an item off of Taco Bell's Fresco menu. The Fresco menu includes seven items - like tacos and burritos - that use "fresh ingredients only" and that all have 9 grams of fat or less.
Now when I first saw the "Taco Bell Drive-Thru Diet," I had so many questions. What did she have for breakfast? How many of these items did she eat a day? Did she try every item at least once? Did she "hold the tomatoes" on any items? Did she change any other parts of her diet or lifestyle?
Well, this Taco Bell-Doughtery partnership is holding out on us, if you ask me.
In the commercials and advertisements, she claims that she made "sensible choices" in addition to choosing the Fresco items. What sensible choices? Did she walk to work instead of drive? Or was it something smaller, like skipping that second bowl of ice cream?
According to the LA Times Blog, the difference between regular menu items and Fresco items at Taco Bell aren't nearly enough to account for all of her weight loss. In a glimpse, the main difference between regular and Fresco items is that cheese (100 calories) is replaced with salsa (10 calories), accounting for 90 calories difference. Otherwise, the two menus don't differ too greatly. "The Crunchy Taco Supreme is 200 calories; the Fresco version cuts that to 150. The Fresco burrito supreme with steak keeps it at 330 calories, while the normal version hits 380."
In my eyes, there was certainly much more contributing to her significant weight loss.
Does this diet seem reasonable to you? Do you think that you would follow through with this diet?
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We just saw that ad on TV for the first time about 30 minutes ago and we all laughed our butts off!
lulz
Imagine how much faster she could've lost the weight if she just cut out fast food altogether.
Well, as you can see on the screenshot it says she averaged 1250 calories a day. That seems a bit low to me. As a short women with a sedentary lifestyle, my recommended calorie count is waaaay higher than that. [/my opinion]
I'm sure that she didn't lose weight eating Taco Bell. She probably ate it once in a while when she had a craving for fast food and the rest of the time followed her usual regimen of diet and exercise. Taco Bell is just exploiting this for all it has in order to bill itself a healthy fast food alternative. :\
Ha. Silly. But her story on the website makes a tad more sense:
"As you know, the Drive-Thru Diet® menu is not a weight-loss program.
It's about making different choices. For me, I didn't want to cut out
my fast food so I started choosing Fresco items from the Drive-Thru
Diet® menu and making other sensible choices. I reduced my daily
calorie and fat intake by 500 calories to 1250 calories a day, and,
after two years, I ended up losing 54 pounds! These results aren't
typical, but for me they were fantastic!"
It did take 2 years, and she made "other sensible choices", which I agree is quite vague! But cutting fat and calorie content in your diet would likely aid in weight loss, and 2 years is an acceptable amount of time to lose that weight. That's like a pound every two weeks.
My own personal calorie goal, set by a nutritionist, is between 1200 and 1500 calories per day. Taco Bell choices can be healthy, and it does depend upon what other food a person eats. Books like *The Calorie King* show what the stats are for all kinds of foods, and Taco Bell actually comes out better than other 'fast' food. One item, such as those on the Fresco menu, is suitable for someone on a diet. Most people, however, don't think in terms of ONE item. They want the meal deal, or to snack continually.
Some people really are satisfied with a small amount of high calorie food. I don't think she's lying, but I do know that it won't work for everyone.
sounds like that Jared guy who lost stones and stones from going on a subway diet.
if their diets worked i'd be all for it haha. i'm addicted to taco bell for sure <3
hahahahahahahahahah.
She probably lost it all by shitting all that out and having the runs all the time. Taco Bell is so nasty.
actually, she says from her normal fast food meals, not regular, home cooked meals. It probably worked for her cuz if she's scarfing down a big mac every day, then those taco bell items are def. a much better choice. It's probably for those millions of people that eat fast food everyday. I know a bunch of people like that, and I bet you do too. I mean, for people that rarely eat fast food, it wouldn't help. But the commercial isn't directed towards those people These are all the things you need to look at. So don't be so critical, this may actually help those very unhealthy people that eat big macs and whoppers every day.
in small captions it says to reduce your daily intake by 500 calories to see results. she also clearly says that she replaces those meals with times she'd usually have fast food. if you're smart enough to make the deduction from these statements, it's obvious that cutting fast food out of your diet, period, is a sure fire way to lose weight if that's what you normally eat.
also at the end of the ad she says "these results are not typical" ta-da, taco bell saved it's own ass.
i used to work for taco bell as a manager. i find this soo funny.
im so glad i dont work there anymore and have to hear about this crap all the time!
but good luck to anyone on a diet...
She may LOOK thin, but how is her cholesterol count?
- Kunoichi
I CANT GO TO TACO BELL, IM ON AN ALL CARB DIET KAREN. GOD, YOU'RE SO STUPID.
thats all im going to say.
theres a lot of fine print during the commercial. it seems to me more like a joke then a serious commercial about a real diet.
I took the ad as a bit ironic, trying to play off all the weight lost plans that are out there.
But if she only ate one thing off the menu for each meal, for all meals and only drank water, I believe she could have lost that kind of weight. She'd only be taking in like 900 calories a day, if that, and that's likely way less than what she should be eating.
Not exactly sensible, but not impossible.
@cheesecakeloverk@xanga - I tend to agree with that. And yeah, I guarantee you that most of the Fresco menu items are much better than anything you could get from McDonalds (you know, besides the salads).
Yah when I heard this out in the living room I thought it was like on Letterman or something. Like a parody to the subway thing.
The sad thing about this is that there are people out there who will take this "diet" seriously and will only end up bigger then before.
A bit ridiculous, but at least if you're seriously craving Taco Bell you can go for the lesser of two evils.
Yeah, she switched from the McDonald's diet to the Taco Bell Fresco! What a joke. Sensible choices were to exercise and do this to get a Taco Bell deal for lots of money.
Seriously, the fresco shit is BS!!! It costs way more - but lettuce and tomatoes are dirt cheap in the real world.
@oX_Juicy_Fruit_Xo@xanga - eeehh, not necessarily. It isn't too bad - just expensive. If you had taco bell instead of other food for lunch every day it would work out.
video says 1250 calories a day. typical day for a normal person should be 2000.