What would happen to your body if you only ate 750g of 2% cottage cheese every day for a month?

It might not be to the point of permanent damage, but you certainly wouldn’t be feeling good. You probably wouldn’t be iron deficient, but a lot of vitamins are only stored in small amounts in the body.

No. You’re not getting any fiber, this is a really shit idea.

Whoops!

if you’re like me you’d probably want to break your keyboard in half and shove it down your throat until you can’t see it anymore

Are you okay?

Edit: It's fine if the answer is "no".

Why do so many people hate cottage cheese? I love the texture and it tastes pretty bland, so you can just add some herbal salt and pepper to make it pretty tasty

The only useful thing I’ve found for cottage cheese is pranking people.

Incidentally, if you rember the old plastic clad iMacs and powermacs from the late 90’s (with the clearish white plastic and “fun” color accents?)

Those power Mac’s incidentally had a space just above the PSU perfect for keeping a cottage cheese at the right temperature for getting foul.

Foul enough to clear out a computer lab for a week. (It was a boring class, anyway. I’m not sure they ever found the tub…)

You would not be getting enough bioavailable nutrients, but one month is not long enough for that to be a serious problem.

This is not a healthy balanced diet, you could not live on it forever because of bioavailable nutrients and the like. But as emergency food, it's fine.

If you did not have excess fat at the start of this diet, you would have trouble. There is not enough fat here to keep you going.

750 cals per day, assuming you need about 2500 cal a day, your deficit is about 2000kcals a day. 7700 cals per kg of fat. You would lose about 7.7kg of fat... If you maintain your original metabolic rate, but the body is adaptable, and it would reduce your metabolic rate while you went through this emergency diet

rabbit starvation

FYI: For those that have never heard of the term:

Protein poisoning (also referred to colloquially as rabbit starvation, mal de caribou, or fat starvation) is an acute form of malnutrition caused by a diet deficient in fat and carbohydrates, where almost all bioavailable calories come from the protein in lean meat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_poisoning

I lost 40lbs on keto and after the first week of keto flu, I felt great. No sugar crashes, no energy level drops and overall, more energy than usual. I stopped after six weeks as I couldn’t deal with the lack of flavour and texture in the food I was eating. I reached a good weight that I've maintained, 7 years later.

One thing it taught me, was to reduce the amount I eat and to balance things out if I eat more carbs than usual.

I agree on those stats. Don't forget: Atkins himself died from heart disease. But hey, at least you have the pics to prove it.

Were it me, the potential for humor would be impossible to ignore:

Me: "This diet is miserable, don't do this."

Also me: shows pics looking more shredded that a bowl of mini-wheats

I feel you. Hard cheese, bacon, and pickled eggs were my go-to. Anything with strong flavors. I did that for about a year and then stopped once I hit my weight goal.

In the middle of all that, I noticed that vegetables started to taste sweet as they do contain small amounts of sugar. Especially cabbage. I kind of miss that.

A workaround I employed was to eat lots of kimchi. Fermented foods like that contain sugar alcohols which taste sweet(ish), but are not digestible as such.

That's awesome. Glad that's working for you! If you have any tips on building willpower for the rest of us, please share, and thank you.

I forgot about the smells. My sense of smell shifted to be way more sensitive to sugars and starches too - it was tough.

I didn't bother trying to track fat intake and wound up losing 2+ lbs a month that way; not bragging, but my goal wasn't all that big. I probably could have done things faster by cutting more fat, but it was already hard enough.

I was educated by another user on how the process actually works.

Fascinating, isn't it? It's like each of us is just full of survival mechanisms.

You are not permitted hot coffee, warm milk, or a yogurt drink. You are permitted 750g of cottage cheese, each day, for a month.

Got mine along with my first baby. Another example of blaming women for legitimate health issues?

Agree about fiber, but more specifically, psyllium fiber like metamucil, and vegetable fiber have positive effects whereas nuts or seeds, especially flax, tear it open and cause bleeding even if it's been healed for months. Yogurt can also be constipating, despite the claims of probiotics.

More to the point, there's zero fiber in cottage cheese.

Some people just randomly get hemmroids for no apparent reason

Dried beans. Their cheap AF. Nutritious AF. I make up a pot of soup every couple of days. Soak you beans the night before. Boil next day.

Start a new pot off with butter. Sauteed up onion, carrot, and/or celery(all cheap AF, all optional). Add In meat if you like. Sear outsides but don't worry about cooking all the way through. Add chicken stock (or water) and boiled beans. Simmer covered 30 min-ish. Add in frozen spinach, cook another 5. Salt and season to taste.

Congrats! You just made a pot of bomb ass soup. For like 3$! You can eat for days off that pot. Delicious AND nutritious. Your gut likes variety, give it to it.

Try potatoes. They're ridiculously cheap (where I am) and loaded with nutrients.

• Milk and potatoes can give a good base of vitamins and minerals.
• Potatoes are pretty cheap and very easy to grow if you have the time and will to try it. Just toss a few potato halves into a bin of dirt, water periodically and you'll have more potatoes than you know what to do with
• Toast can be a fairly cheap breakfast, although not very filling. It's easy to quickly eat as you run out the door too
• I've found making sure your dinners have multiple dishes actually makes the food go further and helps in saving money on groceries overall compared to not
• A bag of freezer veggies can keep in the fridge for almost a week pretty easily, and it's very easy to pour a bit out, nuke it in the microwave for 30-60 seconds and help round out your meal.
• Hotdogs cook very well with ramen noodles (you can also sprinkle in some frozen corn too!), and that can make 2-3 meals for a single person
• if you're in the states, Aldi is genuinely a really good option to save money on groceries, plus their store brand stuff usually has less sugar than name brand
• white rice is usually dirt cheap and a good base source of nutrients

Thanks. Definitely not 1:1 but maybe sort of put you down the path?

Because, as I said, this was settled with the help of doctors.

And, again, please no medical advice.

Oh, I've had a few cottage cheese binges, only for a day or two at a time though. Unlike more solid cheeses, cottage cheese tends to go right through you.

Many flushes will be had...

What about crab juice

I can't tell if you're over-thinking, under-thinking, or just plain havent invested time into grocery planning.

1. an 8kg bag of basmati or jasmine rice can be found for $15 (freshco), if you have one cup (dry, 200g) of rice that will last you 40 meals. It's about 200 calories per serving and has vitamin B as well as a handful of minerals.

2. Chicken can be found for $3/lb (food basics) or less if you are patient and shop around and is ~120g protein per lb of meat

3. Add in some beans $2.97 at walmart for a 900g bag of dry kidney beans, each serving gets you fiber and protein, also 25 servings.

$110 per month and you have staples and 60+g of protein per day. That leaves $35 per week to shop sales/flash food/etc for fruit, veg, and other meat.