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Weight Loss Salad
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Alice is trying to lose weight, and the first thing she thinks of is to go on a diet. She resolves that, to reach her goal weight, she will eat nothing but salad. It makes perfect sense, because: Vegetables are low in calories and some of the healthiest things you can eat. Eating less calories leads to weight loss. Therefore, eating only vegetables (or fruit) every day will help her lose weight the fastest! And for maximum comedy potential (because the diet is funnier the harder it is to eat), they'll be bitter greens like lettuce, spinach, and celery, rather than the easy-to-eat vegetables like potatoes, tomatoes and corn. Sometimes the portions she eats will be comically tiny and in amounts nobody could feasibly survive on, like a single piece of lettuce a day. Naturally, she will most likely be ravenously hungry after a day or two. She might quit immediately, struggle for a week or a month before giving up, or continue the diet but sneak sweets or other tasty food when no one's looking. The "comically tiny portions of vegetables" variation can be Played for Drama by showing the negative effects of extreme hunger and dramatic weight loss on her health, or if someone else is restricting Alice's diet to only small portions of vegetables, rather than it being her own choice. Please Do Not Try This at Home without consulting a doctor, nutritionist, dietician, or someone else with a professional background in this field. A crash diet could do more harm than good for your health in the long run. Related tropes: And a Diet Coke: Offsetting a huge high-calorie feast with a single low-calorie item. Diet Episode: Somebody goes on a diet for one episode. If It Tastes Bad, It Must Be Good for You: Yucky food (especially vegetables) = healthy food. Micro Dieting: Eating comically tiny portions of food. Missed Meal Aesop: Don't skip meals, kids! Vegetarian for a Day: One or more characters temporarily become vegetarian. Weight Woe: Someone who has issues with their weight. |
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In the teaser for The Incredibles, Bob attempts to put on his superhero belt, only to find that it no longer fits him due to his pot belly. When his wife calls him for dinner, he suggests making him a salad. | |
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The Worst Witch: At the beginning of A Bad Spell for the Worst Witch, Maud, who was previously described as tubby, mentions that her mother put her on this awful diet of lettuce and celery and stuff like that, and that she is now glad to be back at school, out of her mother's clutches. | |
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That '70s Show: After Red has a heart attack, Kitty puts him on a diet. Upon being given a salad, Red complains, "This isn't food; this is what food eats." | |
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Mischievous Twins: The Tales of St. Clare's: One episode centers around Allison getting hooked on a dieting fad and insisting the other girls try it too. The book she's reading advises girls to abstain from eating their school-provided meals in favour of small amounts of greens. It ends up affecting the girls so badly that during swimming class, many either faint or cannot perform, and the opposing team wins. | |
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Wintergirls: Lia mentally refers to a girl at her lunch table as "lettuce&ketchup" because she only eats a small bowl of lettuce and celery with ketchup, while the other girls eat taco salads and spaghetti. She's jealous of how thin Lia is and keeps giving her dirty looks. | |
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Classic Disney Shorts: In the Goofy short "Tomorrow We Diet", Goofy is told not to eat any fattening food so he can lose weight. The only thing left after pushing away all the "bad" food is a single carrot; his face turns into that of a rabbit upon looking at it. | |
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Harry Potter: In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Dudley is forced to go on a diet because he's gotten so fat that his school doesn't stock uniforms big enough to fit him. To make him feel better, Aunt Petunia makes everyone else in the house follow the diet too—even Harry, who is so thin that dieting would probably do him more harm than good. For breakfast, she serves everyone a quarter of grapefruit, with Harry's portion being much smaller than Dudley's. Dudley steals Uncle Vernon's grapefruit when he gets up to get the mail. | |
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The Curse of the Were-Rabbit: When Wallace has announced that he is "in the mood for food", he is disappointed to see that Gromit has served him with a tiny portion of vegetables, to help him lose weight. This also sets the theme of the film being about vegetables, and Wallace himself being the were-rabbit who gorges on vegetables. | |
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Scrubs: During a montage of patients lying to their doctors, Turk sees an overweight man who claims to only eat salads. Dr. Cox has a meltdown when one of his patients gains weight when he was supposed to be losing it. He laments how easy it would've been for him to go for a walk or eat a salad when compared to performing an angioplasty on him. |
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Red Dwarf: At the end of "Bodyswap", after Lister's body was first borrowed and then outright stolen by Rimmer (who was meant to be getting him into shape, but succumbed to temptation after being able to eat real food for the first time in years, and ended up putting a huge amount of weight on), his dinner turns out to be a lettuce leaf topped with grated carrot. Lister bemoans the fact that he's going to be eating like this for the next six months. | |
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Lila's Lament: Lila steals the Earrings and Ring and makes a Wish to switch lives with Adrien, becoming Gabriel's daughter and a rich and famous teen supermodel. When she sits down to breakfast in the Agreste house, she eagerly anticipates being served a luxurious meal. To her surprise, she gets celery sticks and whole wheat toast, with Nathalie explaining that she has to stay thin for her modeling career. | |
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In Teen Idol, Cara Schlosberg is so desperate to lose weight fast and look like the popular girls that at lunch, she only gets a few lettuce leafs and a carton of milk. She keeps giving up before the day is over and eating cupcakes at her locker between classes. Jenny is able to get her to stop after spending a day with her, teaching her (among other things) that eating a full but still healthy meal is going to do her much better than just a salad. By the end of the book, Cara isn't any slimmer but she is a lot happier and more confident in herself, even getting a boyfriend. | |
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Take Responsibility For My Stomach addresses this trope in its very first chapter. When Ritsu first decides to try and lose weight, she declares that she'll eat nothing but salad for the following three months. A week of eating nothing but salad does cause her to lose a couple of kilograms, but she very quickly becomes sick of the flavor (or lack thereof), her physical appearance starts to suffer, and she ends up passing out and collapsing after a shift at her part-time job due to malnutrition. Ruka steps in at that point to help Ritsu with a much more balanced dieting plan. | |
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The Fountainhead: Late in the book, Peter Keating meets Catherine Halsey at a tea shop. Seeing that he's gained weight, Catherine changes his order of a ham and Swiss sandwich to a salad. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series: In "The Corbomite Maneuver'', Kirk is given a salad on Doctor's Orders. He's not amused. | |
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In chapter 26 of Pet Shop of Horrors, one of the Customers of the Week is a teenage girl desperate to lose weight after her boyfriend dumped her over it. Count D gives her a personal trainer note in reality, a cat who has her eat a salad for her dinner the first few nights. Of course, though, her trainer doesn't stop there, exercising with her and offering healthier alternatives to the cakes the girl normally snacked on. By the time the school dance rolls around, she's lost a substantial amount of weight... and has also realized what a jerk her ex was, having gained a lot more confidence in herself. | |
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SuperMarioLogan: In "Shrek's Diet!", Shrek suffers a heart attack after eating too much cheesecake, so under the advice of Dr. Brooklyn T. Guy, Mario puts Shrek on a diet and makes him eat salad. Mario tells Shrek that if he eats all of his salad, he will let him have a bite of cheesecake for dessert, but Shrek would much rather eat cheesecake first. Because Shrek really refuses to eat his salad, Mario and Chef Pee Pee have to tie him down and force-feed him. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Pickles", upon seeing the Fat Bastard Bubble Bass about to make an order, Squidward reacts with "Let me guess, Tiny, a small salad?" | |
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Garfield and salads are pretty much mortal enemies. Whenever Garfield has to go on a diet, this is pretty much the most he gets - he’s been given a single leaf of lettuce and even carrots at one point. Garfield being Garfield, he will cheat on his diet by garnishing his salad with a loaf of Italian bread or even a ham. | |
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IT: Ben Hanscom was severely overweight as a child, but he stuns all his friends as an adult by showing up for their reunion without all that extra weight. He explains how he got so fed up with being bullied by other students and the school's track coach that he swore he'd go out for the next round of tryouts. He started running everywhere he went, and he got his mother to feed him all the salads he could eat. He was 70 pounds lighter by the time tryouts came around, and he easily outdid the coach's best runners. The coach was so angry, he slugged Ben on the spot and then excused him from having to take Phys Ed the following year just to be shut of him. | |
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In the r/nosleep Creepypasta, Fat Camp, Natalie is sent by her parents to a fat camp that tortures teenage girls to force them to lose weight. They play a game called Whale Watching where the girls tread water as long as they can, and the last one to tap out gets a bowl of fresh salad. Grace is able to tread water the longest, but Ashley only allows her to eat a single bite of salad before knocking the bowl out of her hands and kicking it into the lake. | |
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Frasier: When the radio station has a weight loss competition, at the first weigh-in, Frasier has actually gained weight, which causes him to exclaim "Impossible, I added a salad to every meal!" | |
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