How would you like to lose weight, improve your health and help the planet? And fast?
If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then my Zombie Apocalypse Diet might be just for you.
In only four weeks on the Zombie Apocalypse Diet, I lost 9.8 kilograms, my blood cholesterol dropped from an unhealthy 6.1 to a respectable 4.4, my waist circumference dropped from 99 to 91 centimetres, my liver function improved and my BMI came back into the healthy range.
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I’m still working out the sales pitch, but it sounds pretty good right?
It worked for me when for four weeks, I acted as if the zombie apocalypse had struck without warning — no food in the shops, nothing in my fridge or cupboards. Everything I ate I had to grow, catch, or forage.
If you want to catch up on the backstory, and the rules of the challenge, the video for episode 1 (below) should answer all your questions.
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Here’s a quick recap of what was on the menu during the four weeks.
- Seafood: Fish including mullet, tuna, and flathead, as well as some prawns, mangrove mussels, pipis and mangrove snails
- Insects: These were hard to come by, but included grasshoppers, a scorpion, a spider, and termites
- Chickens: Two roosters and plenty of eggs
- Fruit and veggies: Spinach, kale, rocket, eggplant, pumpkin, tomatoes, cucumber
- Foraged food: Kangaroo berries, arrowroot, bungwall, bunya nuts, blue quandong, guava
- Sacrifices: Coffee, booze, artificial sugars, milk, fun…
There are plenty of people out there with the knowledge and skills to be completely self-sufficient in their sleep. They might even be able to put