MY 600 LB LIFE – I Tried Dr. Now’s Diet for a WEEK

I tried the diet plan prescribed by Dr. Now from “My 600 lb Life”, and I probably never will again 🙂

Follow along, or don’t. Actually, probably don’t. But watch anyway plz and thx

*As a note: I am not trying to (and I do not need to) lose weight. This is not weight loss advise*

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Hello or welcome in this video we’re going to be doing something a little bit different I’m going to be attempting the diet prescribed in my 600 lb life now really quick if you don’t know what my 600b life is it’s a reality TV Show on TLC that takes super morbidly obese

People and Chronicles their Journey as they’re trying to go through weight loss surgery the famous doctor now typically prescribes a 1 1200 calorie diet that is high in protein low in carbs and zero sugar okay it’s just a tool to the question by eating less right yes okay

So if you eat less you lose weight right yes you’re not losing weight so you’re not eating less right I am okay the same question look at me again you have weight loss surgery you lose weight right yes okay because you eat less yes if you eat less you lose weight I’m not

Eaten I’m telling you so what I decided to do was test out whether or not I as an average normal person can maintain this 12200 calorie a day diet I want to preface this by saying that I definitely don’t recommend this to anybody out there unless it’s literally prescribed

By your doctor I’m just testing this out for a short while to see how things go and see how I feel throughout the week also I just want to mention that me being an average normal person probably eating around 2,000 to maybe 2 300 calories a day this is not going to be

As hard for me as it would be for these people on the show they’re coming from a place where food is very tied in with their emotions and they’re starting at a much higher calorie range so their deficit is going to be much greater than mine would be that being said let’s get

Into day one okay so this is day one breakfast and I’ve got just about 400 calories planned out for my first meal and it’s looking actually pretty normal for me aside from i’ probably have an extra piece of bread with this so what I’ve got here for day one’s breakfast is I’ve

Got 50 g of cheese some olive paste to go with that along with tomatoes two hardboiled eggs and then a little side of kiwi there and then just like as much tea as I want cuz that is zero calorie and that all adds up to just about 400

Calories okay so for lunch I have this mixed veggie salad going on and I’m just going to measure that out and then to that I’m going to add some of these beans which I have rinsed off and just try to get that up to 400 calories I

Don’t know how much of this I want to add um super low calories it’s just seasoned with like a vinegar salt and pepper and what did I put in there I think Rosemary now right off the bat with day one I was starting to notice something counting calories is kind of hard

Especially if you’re making something with a lot of different ingredients for example this simple salad that I made was a nightmare to try to track calories for and it only went up to 50 calories so I’m stressing out here over very small details that really don’t add up

To much in the end where is my calculator 210 tomato bell pepper and cucumber is what I’m going to do so this says it’s 240 calories per 100 G but on the can it says 242 and I still don’t understand why I was stressing so much about this can of

Beans I could not figure it out I’m sorry and then it says 58 I’m not sure which one is correct I don’t know this says that it’s 240 calories per 100 G of beans I don’t know that seems like a lot oh no I lost a bean okay 150 152 gram

Perfect okay so that means that this is 411 calories I was going to have an apple with it but that would reduce my dinner calories so maybe I’ll just either have this as a snack or have this with dinner but this this looks pretty full for 400 calories so I’m going to go

Enjoy thisum okay so dinner day one I decided to have some air fryer mushrooms but they turned out like oddly crispy cuz I didn’t use oil but we’ll see how that goes okay so this is my dinner plus a small apple got three eggs cooked in

Half a tablespoon of butter and 100 G of mushrooms I don’t know it looks kind of sad to me maybe I should have cooked the mushrooms like in with the eggs but whatever okay day two’s breakfast super exciting literally exactly the same as yesterday just two hardboiled eggs H as

Well as tomatoes with cheese and Olive paste and then a little side of kii lunch for day two is exactly the same I’ve gone and made this bean salad with tons of veggies super tasty and weighed out so this is about 400 calories oh God so by day two counting

Cal calories had gotten a little bit easier because I had already programmed some of the things into my fitness pal which is what I was using to track calories so it showed up in my recent history it was really easy to just copy and paste from the previous day into

Today’s lunch okay so it’s dinner time for day two and I’ve got here A Wack load of turkey and I measured this out and I’m just so surprised that this is only 400 calories 250 gram of turkey breast as well as I don’t know what kind of squash this is

Just like your generic sort of squash and then I cooked it without oil which kind of ripped things apart but I think it’ll taste all right okay so I forgot to film my breakfast but it was basically the same two eggs some cheese cherry tomatoes and kiwi on the

Side my dog hit me in the face so I’ve got this bump oh my God okay I’m just going to ignore that Jesus so I think yes yesterday went really well the meals were super filling but I didn’t work out so I’m going to do a little experiment

And workout today and have pretty much the same meals and see how that goes spoiler I did not work out that day day three lunch very similar again I’m doing the same bean salad I know this is going to get tiring this time I put in

Some mung beans I don’t think they’re as tasty as the kidney beans but I ran out of the kidney beans so day three m m still really good I’m actually shook how much food I have made here for 400 calories look at my dinner I’ve got 230 G of cooked turkey

Breast 160 G of carrots some yogurt dip that was 100 G and I even got a cheeky little tablespoon of ketchup there that’s just gorgeous I’m so happy so happy about this mountain of food cuz I am hungry so today is T day four day four breakfast and it’s very

Similar to what it has been in the past day so I’ve got oh you can’t see it so I’ve got my usual tomatoes and K but unfortunately I ran out of cheese so instead I was going to do three eggs but I also ran out of egg so I I’ve got two eggs

Today with no cheese tomatoes kiwi and there’s just like some some dill on the eggs I’ll show you there we go a my tomatoes lunch day four I’m not feeling so motivated to cook or prepare anything I mean I never really am but today especially I just don’t want to do

Anything so I’ve got a can of tuna and a can corn that I’m going to I’m going to mix this up with that same yogurt dip it’s like a yogurt and Dill and garlic dip so my breath is going to be nice and then this I’m probably just going to

Have plain or put some butter on it depending on how many calories I have left if you hear munching that’s my my cat having her lunch but now that it’s all put together it looks slightly less sad so I did end up putting butter on it I’ve got 15 G

Of butter on top of 150 g of corn and that’s actually quite a bit of corn there more than I thought was in the can um and then I’ve got one can of tuna and water uh drained and then I put on that yogurt uh I guess a dip it’s a yogurt

Dip made with there’s cucumber in there as well um it’s a yogurt dip with cucumber dill and a whole lot of garlic so going to have some yummy tuna garlic breath so that’s nice so at this point is where I started to notice some negative effects of my diet okay I feel

Like my meals are just getting more and more sad um this is my dinner it’s just turkey and rice I’m not hungry I’m I’m just tired I’m doing the bare minimum here in Dr n’s diet he prescribes his patients to have low or even no carbs so

I was trying to do this as well cutting down as much as I could on any added carbs so no breads no rice no pasta things like that but I was noticing that my energy was super low and I wasn’t really able to work out so I decided to

Go a little bit outside of the prescribed do now diet and I added some rice to this meal okay so it’s about 3:00 it’s day five bit rough um I had I didn’t have breakfast because I kind of just gave up I couldn’t find eggs at the grocery

Yesterday and then I went today to a different one they still didn’t have them so I just gave up because I didn’t want anything other than eggs and then now this is about 530 calories it’s the leftover of I had started to prepare menamin which is just

Like a tomato sauce and then when I went to put the eggs in I had forgotten that I couldn’t find them so something new something different this is 230 grams of turkey it’s not men and men and that makes me sad um whatever I have been drinking a lot of

Water as well but that’s sort of normal for me and then every day because I don’t want to make any confounding variables in this very scientific experiment that I’m doing um because of that I am still taking my creatine so this is creatine water I just I haven’t had it yet today

Um yeah I mean I guess I’ll eat this it’s not it’s not very good honestly I wanted minimen so I’m very I’m very disappointed that this is just not what I wanted so I finished my turkey meal thing um it really wasn’t as bad as I

Was making it out to be I was just a little bit disappointed because of the shenanigans going on at the grocery store I guess our village is just out of eggs but that’s okay um so that was 500 something calories and I’m also having these lovely strawberries 160 G worth which brings

The total calories to just under 600 so yeah that’s that’s that other than that um I felt pretty good I usually just I’m hungry right before dinner but my dinners have been pretty nice um pretty filling what the heck happened to my strawberry I just took a bite of it

Anyway these are good so other things that I’ve noticed I think I’ve been a little bit more low energy I haven’t actually been able to get a workout in for the past 3 days now I just haven’t felt like it um it’s a weekend day right

Now it’s Sunday right now so I think I can still find the time to do it today but yesterday was just out I don’t know I was super tired yesterday what else did I want to say I don’t really remember looking back to the footage for

The week I think this was really my Peak low point it might not be visible to you but to me I can really see my cognitive decline here I’m talking slower I’m moving slower I’m just taking longer to produce a thought looking back at the footage I took freaking 5 minutes to eat

A single strawberry so something was definitely a little bit off just going to quickly show my 600 calorie dinner here I’ve got a little chunk of cheese along with some uh lamb tenderloin and then over there it’s like some cauliflower steamy some cauliflower in uh what is it like a tomato sauce with

Onion it’s tasty that’s it so that is the end of day five and honestly that meal was so filling so satisfying and quite tasty I definitely could have cooked the meat better but I haven’t cooked red meat in ages so fairly good for you know my experience

Level I have noticed that when I have meals that are really high protein I feel more full I feel more satisfied but also when I have meals that have a lot of salt I feel like that really helps as well like the sodium just like does something I think but anyway that’s my

Observation so far so what I just said there about salt is actually completely wrong I decided to research it a little bit afterwards and according to everything that I found Salt actually is shown to increase appetite so anecdotally I did feel like it was more satiating and I was feeling better

Afterwards so it could just be that I was defici I in sodium so maybe that made me feel a little bit better to have more salt in my diet but overall don’t listen to what I said salt apparently increases appetite so last night we went to another shop and we finally found eggs

So this morning I finally got my men men and I’m so happy about it so this is two eggs worth in there with like it’s Tomatoes it’s a mix of tomato saucey stuff I’m no Chef so I didn’t actually make this from scratch I actually just

Used this pre-made can so this is what it looks like and it is just tomatoes onion water uh green pepper and what is that sunflower oil and salt I mean it’s easy it’s tasty I really like it that’s that all together with an extra side of tomatoes and

Cherry uh 50 g of cheese with some cherry tomato Tomatoes um just to bring this meal up to 400 calories so I’m very excited about that I’ve been wanting Min man for a while now so I’m quite happy so for lunch I’m just having some of this leftover

Cauliflower um cooked in the uh tomato sauce stuff it’s super super low calorie and also quite tasty um this whole Bowl which is like a nice size of Bowl that’s only about 70 calories for a good amount but it’s not going to fill me up but I’m going to save my calories for

Dinner instead I think so I lost the audio for this clip but basically my dinner was rice with turkey as well as some pre-made soup on the side I really wanted to try to increase my carb intake a little bit because I haven’t been working out and I’m really struggling to

Find the energy to do that today is day six and breakfast is looking similar with two of those boiled eggs and then the rest of my breakfast is here some strawberries some strawberries and kiwi 70 G of each and then 50 g of cheese which looks really sad in the plate cuz

I don’t have any Tomatoes left that’s that Anyway okay so this is day six lunch I decided to go ahead and make myself menen again this is two eggs with the same pre-made Jarred menen it’s just easy UNF so that’s what I did and I thought I’d give a little bit of an update so I haven’t been working out I

Just haven’t felt the energy and it’s been really cold out but today I finally got a workout in it’s really nice outside 18° so just perfect and I think yesterday I had rice and I think that really helped with um upping my energy levels today so just something to keep

In mind if you are going super low uh calorie and if you are also going low carb that can definitely have an effect on your workouts yeah so I finished that in all of 2 minutes so I’m also going to be having this apple 160 G um I think

This should bring my total up to Just Around 400 also going to sit on some tea and then get started on work got a random little corn snack after lunch just cuz I’m hungry and didn’t plan anything again somehow I lost the audio for this clip but basically I had a

Readymade soup again which is like this lentil sort of soup as well as a little brick of cheese to bring my total calories up to 12200 for that day I’m sorry for the lighting but I’m just sitting here and I realized that today is actually day seven so I’m actually

Done so I’m going to summarize my thoughts and get back to you in the morning okay so overall what did I learn first of all counting calories can be difficult at the start but once you get a few meals sort of prepared and you know what those calories are it’s much

Easier to enter them in on following days once you get a better idea of how many calories are in a meal you’ll be able to stop tracking because the end goal is not to count calories for the rest of your life it’s to get an understanding of how many calories you

Need and what that looks like on a plate I also learned that if you do want to track your calories then it might be smart to not worry so much about counting the vegetables it can take a lot of time to weigh these things out put them all individually in your

Tracker and then end up with a fairly small amount of calories anyway so you might be better off just tracking your high calorie items like your oils and your meats and your carbs I also learned that if you are attracting calories then having consistent meals makes things a lot easier

Unfortunately for some people counting calories is easier when you turn to the packaged Foods cooking food is much harder to track your calories so when I had something like the prepackaged soup that was much easier to enter my calories than say my homecooked cauliflower stew additionally if you’re going to go

On a calorie deficit and you also want to train it’s really important to get the right nutrition in for me I found that having a little bit of carbs and especially having some salt some electrolytes really helped with being able to get energy and getting a workout in I definitely wouldn’t recommend going

On as high of a calorie deficit as I did I just felt like I lost way too much cognitive ability and I really wasn’t able to get the workouts that I wanted in and for that reason I think this week actually really set me back I wasn’t

Able to train the way I wanted to and any weight loss that I might have attained through the week I’m sure I Reg gained it within a couple of days so overall if you are wanting to cut your calories go into a calorie deficit definitely start with a lower deficit

And start tracking your calories in a way that you can actually manage don’t stress the little things don’t stress the fruit and veg just work on your portion sizes and count calories for a short amount of time just to get a better understanding and that’s going to

Be all for today thank you so much if you made it this far and I’ll see you in the next one he