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[+] 107 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)
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    [–] 58 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Only 960 kcal/day is a starvation diet.

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    [–] 47 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    You would be fine, you would need extra electrolytes and water.

    120g of protein per day

    36g of carbohydrates per day.

    15g of fat per day.

    You would lose weight, you'd be running at a calorie deficit. Assuming you had fat to start with everything would be fine. The protein levels are sufficient to maintain your muscle mass

    You probably get bored of that food pretty quickly.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    You'd also need a vitamin. And 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; cottage cheese is gross even before it becomes monotous.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Really? I've heard about rabbit starvation. Wouldn't cottage cheese be lean enough to suffer the same? Or is there more to it than that (e.g. type of protein, lipids, etc.)?

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Ah, okay. What do you think might happen due to the comparative lack of carbohydrates? I don't imagine you could enter ketosis on this diet. Not enough fat. Would the body burn more muscle tissue in spite of the high protein intake?

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Ketosis is a metabolic state. It is the process by which your body converts fat into energy. Anytime you lose weight you have been in ketosis... Every night when you sleep your body goes into ketosis.

    What people commonly refer to as a ketogenic diet, is just a shorthand way of saying, eating food that maintains your fat burning preference.

    So this yogurt diet, will absolutely put you in ketosis, for no other reason than you're at a caloric deficit per day.

    I am not aware of any reason your body would cannibalize your muscles when you have sufficient protein. People often do month-long fasts, as long as they maintain their metabolic rate/activites, they don't lose significant muscle mass. But this is a function of your stored energy, so if you don't have enough fat to make up for your metabolic deficit, that energy will have to come from somewhere as a priority to keep your brain alive. Don't put your body in that position. The science around fasting, is highly contentious, so you're going to get wildly different viewpoints on this.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    But this is a function of your stored energy, so if you don’t have enough fat to make up for your metabolic deficit, that energy will have to come from somewhere as a priority to keep your brain alive. Don’t put your body in that position.

    So what you're saying is I should keep excess body fat, just in case I need to eat only cottage cheese for a month?

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    The vast majority of people are already prepared for the cottage cheese challenge!

    I think the absolute minimum body fat percentage people should have is about 5%men 10%women give or take. Probably much higher. For for 50 kg person, that works out to about 7 kg of body fat minimum.

    However, if you want to be drought and famine resistant, you need to get those numbers up!

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago

    Scurvy?

    Cottage cheese is not a significant source of vitamin C, and scurvy symptoms begin to appear between 1-3 months of vitamin C deficiency.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

    That's basically the Atkins diet (Keto) without enough nutrition. It'll function like a very short, very uncomfortable, malnourished crash diet.

    You'll spend the first two weeks craving carbs and sugars like your life depends on it. It's awful. After that "break in" period, the cravings mostly go away.

    But that's not all. So much as lick a piece of candy or chew on some bread, and you'll get a large dopamine rush followed by carb-craving mode again. If sheer willpower and deferred rewards are at all a problem for you, this might feel like one of the hardest things you've ever tried to do.

    Edit: now that I remember, my grandma tried a "cottage cheese and grapefruit" fad/crash diet back in the 80's. Turns out that one has been doing the rounds for almost a century. IIRC, it doesn't work since it's easy to underestimate how insanely difficult this is to do.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Did keto for a while preparing for some on-camera work. I've never looked more cut and never been so miserable. 9/10 doctors do not recommend. The 10th one has an eating disorder.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    For real, back when I did keto, cottage cheese with hot sauce was half of my diet.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    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.

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    [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    some brain damage: malnutrition tends to aggravate or cause brain damage.

    I'm a brain damage survivor: it sucks, it takes decades to undo ( neuroplasticity takes time to do rewiring ), and life is never going to be what it could have been.

    Don't damage people's brains.

    'tis a good rule, eh?

    _ /\ _

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You'd become anemic from the lack of iron plus the blood loss from hemorrhoids due to lack of fiber.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Hemorrhoids is a preventable condition, you’re not supposed to sit there and push. Just get up and do drink water or eat fiber. Try hot coffee or warm milk or a yogurt drink. No one needs to suffer from hemorrhoids at all, I am surprised there are still people who do. Should be a unit in middle school health classes to not force shitting

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I have done something like this. You will feel like hell and depending how vitamin deficient you are you could end up in the hospital. When I did it I just bounced back within a few months so it was not worth it.

    If you are trying to lose weight counting calories over a long period helped me lose about 50lbs. Just try to stay in weight loss range and exercise for 30 min a day to burn some calories

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    Nah, I'm more looking for a way to eat cheap for a month (maybe two) while still getting enough protein that I don't start wasting. Food is expensive, and dairy here is also expensive, but a months worth of cottage cheese is cheaper than a months worth of any meat. I'll see if I can move some things around in my budget to get a more wholesome diet, though.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    someone just won a month's supply of cottage cheese.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    Can't wait for chubbyemu to explain what happens to OP.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    So I can't answer your question exactly, but, as many here know at this point, I have been suffering through an illness where I have not eaten any solid food since last August (please no medical advice). Before I got, with the help of doctors, settled on a liquid diet of 6 Ensures and 4 V8s a day, I lost 80 pounds- 260 to 180, I was dizzy and lightheaded all the time from the lack of electrolytes, and while I still don't have much energy and have to rest for a while after walking the dogs for half an hour, I couldn't even walk a couple of blocks.

    That said, my blood panels show everything is normal, so I'm clearly not dying. It's not exactly a great quality of life, especially since our entire society is based around food in every conceivable way, but it is survivable. In fact, one good thing came out of it- I no longer have high blood pressure or high cholesterol, so I don't have to take pills to counteract those anymore.

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's a scientific fact that you are what you eat. So following that logic, you would become a cottage cheese slime.

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Aside from the malnourishment others have already mentioned, you'll be spending a lot of time on the toilet..

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    You'd become severely deficient in key nutrients

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    do you get any supplemental liquid?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Obvious lack of many vitamines and some minerals. And obvious lack of energy / calories (depending on your need).

    The impact after 1 month depends very much on your state before. For a healthy person I guess it is not dangerous at all, but you would feel weak.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Why is there no serving per container? How many servings in this tub?

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