Dying to Diet

I didn't know that this was an actual diet, but apparently this was something I should have engaged in to cut down on the food bill.

The idea of forgoing food in favor of alcohol isn't new. Dieters everywhere cower in fear of carbs; but alcohol, gram for gram, has even more calories than carbohydrates do. For many people, this creates a dilemma: If you want to restrict calories, you have to cut back on either food or booze. For a college student or 20-something who wants to party and have a good time yet still have a bikini body, the choice is obvious.

The result is a trend among young people, particularly young women, called drunkorexia—restricting food calories to make room for drink calories. The practice is widespread: 30 percent of women between 18 and 23 diet so they can drink, according to one study.

People haven't you heard of light beer? That's really the key to everything. That, and drinking so much that you throw up whatever you had for dinner. It's perfect! You don't even need to stop eating because it really doesn't stay down anyways.

Okay, so that was a bit mean, but I did like the mention in the article about the "coffee, water, alcohol and cigarettes diet" which makes me laugh because roughly 95 percent of journalists are already on that diet anyway. They just throw in the occasional BK Quad.