I just saw a Special K commercial. The cereal box now has a slogan printed at the bottom promoting Special K as a weight loss tool. “Lose 6 lbs in 2 weeks” or some shit. The commercial shows idiots saying things like “…meal replacement products taste good if you put chocolate syrup in them…”. Apparently healthy methods for weight loss don’t work, so the Special K gurus say to eat Special K for 2 meals per day. What the fuck. I admit this diet will work if your goal is to become a skinny-fat weakling. The funny thing is that we’ll probably hear from 300 lb lard asses saying they can’t lose weight on the Special K plan. These same fat fucks will eat a whole box of Special K at a time with a liter of chocolate milk poured over top.
The Subway diet is bad enough. I hate seeing more companies jump on this bandwagon. Where will it stop? Will we see the Twinkie diet? “Eat a twinkie for breakfast, a twinkie for lunch, a healthy dinner, and say hello to a new you!” Fuuuuuck.
It’s nothing new; been out for well over a year. I know because I eat Special K as part of my breakfast about 4 times a week. It’s just another diet that appeals to non-athletic, sedentary individuals…misleading and sad, but what can you do?
Hoser: I think that this is a train that will never stop. Why? There is a volitile mixture of factors:
1)60% of the American adult population is overweight.
2)A large percentage of that population is looking for the “quick and easy” fix.
3)As Americans, we have proven that we will fork over billions of dollars for diets, diet books and programs, weight loss surgery, gadgets, tapes and scams.
The marketers simply want their piece of that Billion Dollar Pie, just waiting to be picked from a desperate American public…
Hoser,
I think the Subway diet is better than Special K. At least you'll get real protein from a subway sub (unless you eat stupid veggie subs or something).
I heard about Special K diet a long time ago when I was reading some newspaper article on weight loss.
A few years ago, I lost 23 pounds just to rub it in on a guy at work on the Atkins diet. I’m not fan of very low carb diets guys. Although I know they work for most people, I just can’t exist on them. My body just doesn’t like it.
Anyhow, I told the guy that I could lose weight eating honey buns, Big Mac meals, and Fruit Loops and that's exactly what I did. Sure, it's all junk and full of carbs and fat but I lost weight just fine. Burned a bunch of muscle off too in the process but I proved my point. You can lose weight eating damn near anything.... you just might look like Jared when you get finished.
well the bottom line for (most) people is simply “losing weight”…all my friends that want to get their asses in shape don’t come to me asking for help on how to lose fat, but simply to lose weight. now takin a look at the special K diet, its pretty much a bowl of this stuff for 2 meals a day. that’s about 120kcal+120kcal (cereal +milk)…so 240kcal per “meal”…that comes to about 500kcal for 2 meals a day…most people wont consume over 1500kcal their last meal, so yeah, they’ll lose some weight (i’m obviously neglecting personal maintenance calorie calculations)… but you’re absolutely right, the commercial (and the diet itself) is reflective of how ridiculously lazy and un-driven people are these days. everyone wants a killer bod without experiencing any discomfort along the way! i mean come on now!!! sure you can starve yourself and lose some fat and whatever lean mass you have now, but without exercise you’ll look like subway-jared! anyway, i happen to like special K (and special k w. strawberries)…it tastes really good w. sliced bananas for breakfast, but there’s absolutely no way i could eat just one bowl for breakfast so i dunno how the fools who’ll actually try this ‘diet’ will manage 2/3 of their day w. 2 bowls of special k.