Kevin Smith did a crash diet with probably some Hollywood shit he got off Affleck
Smith actually got it from Penn (who similarly went on a crash diet following a heart attack). He walked his dog every day while eating only potatoes for two weeks, then stocked his fridge and freezer with a bunch of vegan bullshit from Whole Foods.
Smith and Penn both became extremely,
religiously insufferable about being “cruelty-free” vegans who now looked down on meat-eaters for “poisoning themselves” with the sugars, fats, salts, and processed foods of the Standard American Diet (which they smugly invoke as “the SAD diet”). In reality, they gavaged themselves to such absurd extents during their waking hours that exercising
any amount of self control in lieu of gorging was obviously going to result in dramatic water weight loss (any body builder will tell you that sustaining that much additional mass becomes a full-time job).
But they both needed a magic diet to attribute their newfound moral superiority to, because the alternative was admitting that they had just spent the previous forty years waking up every single day and choosing “eat myself to death” over any other activity, for purely hedonistic and self-destructive reasons; and that they could have simply ceased and desisted at any time. Both of them are fucked up in the head; and would rather promote their newfound, trendy lifestyles as a status symbol for others to covet than publicly admit that
not eating oneself into heart attacks as they did, purely because they could afford to, is probably sufficient for most.
