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Woman Hospitalized After Her Weekly ‘Cheat Day’ Diet Gave Her Pancreatitis
After months of eating just 800 calories a day and bingeing once a week, she reportedly lost 16 pounds in a month and ended up hospitalized.
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Diet culture has spent years making extreme restriction sound like discipline. A young woman in China just ended up in the hospital because of it.
Qingqing, a pseudonym used by Chinese media, reportedly developed acute pancreatitis after following an extreme weekly diet cycle for several months. Standing 5’1″ and weighing 121 pounds, she decided she needed to lose weight and designed her own plan to do it. Her routine involved restricting herself to 800 calories on weekdays, eating small amounts of boiled vegetables, chicken breast, and fruit, then spending Sundays eating freely, hotpot, fried chicken, spicy noodles, milk tea, whatever she wanted.
The weight came off very quickly, a........