Mostly of the weight loss would be water.

No carbs plus alcohol and coffee is just diuretics

Well you're clearly not sleeping

Depending where you start it would probably keep up a 2 to 3 pound a week loss until you get down to around 120lbs, then it would slow down.

5lb of fat is 17500 kcal. An additional 3450 kcal consumed brings that to 20950 kcal you'd have to expend in three days, or just under 7000 kcal/day. That's Olympic athlete level, isn't it?

In the 70s, it's probably just a given.

Don't worry. You and everyone you know is chain-smoking cigarettes all the time. Nobody will notice.

It was in fashion at the time. The all important question of "Do you fart with that ass?" was finally silenced for one glorious year.

Not a single vegetable or fruit either (because of course I'm not counting the wine or lemon juice.) At least throw in some celery for fiber.

Look at the friggin sommelier over here

A fatty chardonnay could do

You burn more calories peeling the boiled egg.

I like how it says "if necessary." Like what possible scenario exists where it's necessary to poach an egg instead of hard boiling it lol

The crunch mostly.

I’m trying to picture what sort of necessity is that.

Oh no! My Instagram account can’t handle another boiled egg!

Lots of calories in beer. Need to move yourself over to neat spirits. Make sure that you spend all your money on them, so that you've nothing left to buy food. Then follow the diet posted above, but skip the eggs and replace the large glass of wine with a large glass of vodka. You'll lose a tonne of weight.

Not that I'm encouraging drinking problems but this helped keep my weight in check in covid lock downs: Get Drunk, Not Fat

It makes me wonder if the alcohol is to distract you. Lol

That day drinking will probably leave you pretty tired by the end of the day. I bet you sleep well on this diet.

Don't worry you won't want to eat as you will be slightly nauseous from all the black coffee and eggs and cigarettes you consumed. The wine is a necessity to sleep.

The white wine was for the eggs, which works, and the steak is just collateral because finishing the bottle.

Oddly it still seems like people were not as overweight back then.

Gen Xers would've been at most 12 y/o when this was printed, Boomers would've been their most likely target demographic, being at most 32 y/o at the time.

This comes from a book published in 1962 so more like Silent gen or maybe Boomers

Then rediscover it later in life when you work from home.

It’s been around since Ancient Rome. They didn’t call it psychology, but where they put the Flavian Arena (aka. “The Colliseum”) is done to increase patronage. Additionally, stoking the crowd to foment an opinion agreeable to the State (e.g. the Emperor in Ancient Rome) was strong using theatrics.