Two friends say beer diet gave them new perspective on life

[TexasTowelie]

After two weeks of sustaining on beer only, Paul Fierro and Albert Salinas will never take food for granted again.

The two friends set out on a personal beer diet challenge, and while only one of them maintained the fast the entire time, both come away with a new perspective on life.

Fierro celebrated the end of his diet with a slice of pizza at about 1 a.m. on Sunday.

"When the clock struck midnight, I was happy that I'd made it this far and couldn't wait till 1 o'clock so I could get to the delicious pizza pie waiting for me," Fierro wrote on his blog that documented the fast. "The tendency is to think that the main focus of a fast is a lack of food, but I saw it as more of a learning experience and an opportunity to take my eyes off the things of the world and focus a keener eye inward and outward."

http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_19928518

[font color=purple]I don't think that I can survive for two weeks on only Purple Haze.[/font]

[rurallib]

1. how did they work? Or function otherwise?

[Duer 157099]

2. That's weird cuz if I spent two weeks on a pizza diet

the first thing I'd want after that would be a beer!

Actually, I'd want a beer with the first pizza.

[TheCruces]

3. Even I'm not sure if I could handle that

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. In 1981, I had a horrendous motorcycle accident, but was lucky in that I only got...

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... a broken lower right tibia and fibula. But I spent 10 days in the hospital
recovering from the overall "trauma". The doctor kept me fired up on shots
of Demerol for my left hip (I had landed on it and it was literally swollen so
much that my hip measurement was about 50% more than normal -- and
any time I moved or put the LEAST little pressure on it, I would scream.
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Demerol was my marshmallow existence FRIEND.
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MiddleFingerMomMom would call from Arizona every day (I was living outside
of Philly in those days) and on the 7th day she said, "This is MiddleFingerMomMom"...
and I actually said, "MiddleFingerMomMom WHO?"
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And I MEANT it!!!!!
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The next day, I asked the doctor to take me off the shots and switch me to
Demerol pills. I discovered that I couldn't stay high for more than a week
straight.
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That's just between me and you, OK?
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Please?
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[quakerboy]

5. Meh.

Internet says 145 calories in a purple haze. So 10 a day or so would probably sustain you reasonably well for a short term solo, unless you are doing heavy exercise or have a freaky high metabolism.

I knew a guy who lived on Twinkies. That was basically all he ate for several years. And his Dr ok'd it. He wasn't over eating, and at his age all he really needed to sustain life was calories.

Once you are past development, the immediate nutritional content becomes a lot less important than the aggregate. As an adult, I would expect fairly minimal if any fall out from any 2 week diet that included enough calories for your body to survive.

[TexasTowelie]

6. Cost benefit analysis:

10 beers/day * 14 days * 1 pack/6 beers = 23.3333 packs

round to 24 packs * $8.49/pack = $227.76 (the price was the lowest of 3 stores in my neighborhood) or roughly what I would spend on food in a two week period.

Caloric intake is in the range of what I would need each day. Consumption is modest enough that the alcohol should only have minimal impact on the senses. However, some fiber and bulk roughage in the diet would be useful.

[quakerboy]

7. Clearly you need to rethink this

a can of Big Flats 1901 Beer(walgreen's new cheep house beer) is 148 calories.

Assuming that you can get by on under 2000 calories(Which I would call generous for most US adults), That leaves you at 13 a day. at .50/can(2.99/6pack) that would be 6.50/day, $45 a week. Plus, if that's all you were ingesting, I bet you would come to look forward to it, thus negating the initial "you want me to drink what?" effect.

Fiber and roughage are needed to help push things through your intestines. If you are not eating, what is there to push through? Think of the time savings of not having to leave solid waste anymore?

Clearly, you can save money on so many levels switching to an all beer diet. Money on food cost. Money on TP. Money on silverware. Money on needing toilets(if all you are doing is expelling liquid, a toilet becomes an unnecessary extravagance.

Not to mention time being money, Cooking time, ingesting time, the need for a table to eat at, clean up time, bathroom time, shopping time, etc.

[TexasTowelie]

8. You certainly have some valid points.

I wonder why this hasn't become a Republican policy position?