The Colour Diet

I believe that Asian magazines come up with the weirdest ideas ever.

Reading through a Chinese (gossip/fashion?) magazine at the hairdresser’s yesterday, I came across this article (pardon my crude translation):

Unconventional? But it works! The Colour Diet

I was pretty intrigued due to the length of the article, since I was half expecting a couple of pages rambling on how food of different colours provide you with a million antioxidants etc. The article was only a page long, plus pictures – the actual diet plan was only something like, 5 lines.

So here’s what you do on the Colour Diet:

• In the morning, drink 500ml warm water with a spritz of fresh lemon and a pinch of salt in a blue cup. Blue prevents you from overeating for the rest of the day.
• When eating lunch, imagine that all your food is green. This will encourage satiety.
• Dinner must include a red and orange based food. This is your boost of antioxidants (I knew there was bound to be antioxidant babble)

And that’s it! The rest of the page provided a moderately extensive list of foods grouped according to colour. I imagine that this diet banks on psychological dieting (seriously, imagining everything you’re eating is green?! witw) more than anything else.

On a side note I was at the hairdresser’s and I did get a haircut, but I can’t say I like it. I think I’ll never grow my hair past my 3rd rib, because the ends always become disturbingly ugly enough to warrant a trim every single time it reaches that level. And the length snipped off just so happens to be the length grown out since my last haircut. Very frustrating.

I realise I can’t be bothered to end this. bai.