crash diet
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To rapidly lose some mid-life weight, when he was going out with a younger woman, the book records that Prince Andrew lived on a crash diet of "stewed prunes for breakfast, raw vegetables for lunch and soup for supper".
From BBC
“Do some aerobic exercise; if you’re over 40, lift weights. Keep a food diary and cut out the processed junk. Slowly changing your eating habits is far more effective than any crash diet. You don’t have to deprive yourself if you learn to make trade-offs. And on and on.”
From Salon
Presley went on a crash diet, aided by injections of urine from a pregnant woman, in which he was limited to 500 calories a day of dried food.
From Los Angeles Times
Falling into a crash diet was really easy.
From Salon
Falling into a crash diet was really easy.
From Salon
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