The Dude Diet Begins

We've all been there - the wife / girlfriend goes on diet and insists you join her. Is this fair? No, no it isn't. Were men made to eat salad? If we were, then why are animals so delicious? The entire proposition of eating nothing but slendering cereal for breakfast, salad for lunch and tasteless fish with even more bland vegetables is quite frankly ridiculous. Men were not meant to live this way - men shouldn't live this way.

This is where I come in. That's right, I'm just another dude, granted a handsome and brilliant one, but nonetheless, just another dude going to work, playing Xbox and loving life. Why should we be subjected to making our lives miserable? I had a salad at work this afternoon, I nearly died. Why would we eat something so... horrible? I vowed there and then to put a stop to this madness - to find a way to lose weight and eat food I enjoy at the same time.

You are probably also just another dude, another dude whose wife / girlfriend is forcing you to diet with her. Well dudes, this is where you need to tell her "Bitch, go eat your salad an' pass me my waffle!"

That’s right, I said waffle! This diet, although mathematically sound lets you eat guy food. Hotdogs, hamburgers, mini pizzas, ice cream - it's all in here. The diet is based on a 1600 Calorie intake, as far as I understand the average male requires 2500 calories per day, this - quite frankly - delicious and filling diet will not only let you shed some pounds, it will also let you enjoy the things we all love, but no dietician will ever let you have.

Am I the world's most awesome dietician? Hell no. I'm just a dude, a dude like you. This diet is completely of my own design and mostly made up from my googling skills, combined with the will to find combos that fit the formula... and on that note ... let’s have a look at the formula.

As I said earlier, the diet is based on a 1600 Calorie intake diet - I read up on the Flat Belly Diet and noticed the reviewers referred to it as a 1600 Calorie diet. Said reviewers also mentioned that any 1600 Calorie diet would yield the same results - and thus the dude diet was born.

The dude diet consists of 4 meals per day, each adding up to around 400 calories. Considering you are this far into my post, I can safely assume you know that 400 x 4 = 1600. Is this set in stone? Well, not yet, maybe I'll break it up into 3 x 400 Cal meals with 2 x 200 cal snacks... we'll see.

I will post progress and recipes on this blog. The recipes will be the exact ones I eat daily, so if you want, have what I have, eat what I eat, see what I see.

Therefore dude, I welcome you! Enjoy the ride!