Vicki Gunvalson lost 22 lbs in 3 months by eating 500 calories a day: dumb?
The last time we talked about Real Housewives of OC’s Vicki Gunvalson, 54, she was dealing with the fact that her then-boyfriend, Brooks Ayers, was a conman who had faked Non-Hodkin’s Lymphoma by lying and falsifying documents. Vicki has since split with Brooks, she has a new boyfriend, and she’s lost an impressive 22 pounds. She did it in a way which sounds dumb to me though, she claims to have been eating just 500 calories a day and she gave up carbs.
When life gives you changes change everything. I lost 22 pounds. My face has settled in from my surgery from three years ago finally, it’s so embarrassing I looked like a freak. But, you got to go through that. I’m a work in progress.
It was over a three month period and I cut out all alcohol. 500 calories a day. No carbs, I just did lettuce and grapefruit in the morning, celery carrots, just very raw. Nothing really for lunch. I’d just do hot lemon water. At night I’d have salad and protein. It worked.
I was at such a depressed state. As you get older, I’m 54 now, your metabolism changes. I put on like 10 pounds from my 40s to my 50s. I never felt strong… I wanted to feel like Ok, I’m going to be single now, I’ve got to look my best.
People can definitely lose weight this way. Starvation mode, as many people believe it, is a myth. Vicki’s body isn’t going to struggle and hold on to that weight unless she’s underweight. What often happens when you try to eat so few calories over time is that you end up being so hungry you binge. Plus it’s hard to get enough nutrients. People on these punishing diets also often go back to the way they were eating before and end up gaining the weight back. At 5’7″ Vicki should be eating around 1,200 to 1,500 calories a day and she would be losing weight sustainably at 1-2 pounds a week. She wanted fast results though. As I always say, I hate it when celebrities tout these extreme diets. Eat less, move more. It’s simple and there’s no “one weird trick” or food group to eliminate. A “diet” is a lifestyle change, not a quick fix.
Getting back to Vicki, she looks great and I’m glad she’s happy again. She recently said she was extremely depressed after all the drama with Brooks at at the lowest point she’s been in her life. Vicki is dating a politician named Steve Lodge, whom she’s said has never seen her show, RHOC. She’s also in some sort of feud with Tamra Judge. This seems to stem from an interview Vicki gave to E! in which she said that Tamra was friends with her one moment and would turn on her the next. That’s part of being on a Real Housewives show though, right?
We don’t get a lot of photos of Vicki so it’s hard to find a “before” photo, but the photos of her in the purple and red dresses are from the last week, and the photo of her in the black dress is from May, 2015. She looks about the same to me so I would guess she gained weight in between and that’s what she lost.
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