The Oxo Diet

That stuff is practically pure salt, yuck! Maybe all that salt sort of dehydrated the weight off him.

Has Mr Kay had his blood pressure taken lately? Oxo is full of sodium. I used to drink a similar vegetable bouillon when I was dieting but soon learned that this was not wise.

So.......... what is his maintenance plan?

Sounds like no maintenance plan to me!

just another fad diet.........

Ew, and it is the block kind of bouillon? That is full of hydrogenated fats too...

Also, where is the protein? Fruit, vegetable, and bouillon that contains 1g of protein?

So...this is just another liquid diet. Sure it works wonders while on it, but once he reaches his "goal weight" and wants to start eating foods regularly again, he will gain just as much weight back, if not more. Since he is in essance, starving his body of the nutrients that it really needs, when he starts eating food his body will hoard these fats and nutrients and store as many as it can (in the form of fat).
So I'll just stick to vegetable, fruit, and exercise.
At least that way I'm not starving my body of essential nutrients.

When I first started trying to lose weight, I'd drink bouillon cubes for snacks, but then realized how much sodium I was consuming!

NOT A GOOD IDEA!!!

I think bouillon cubes should only be used as soup base or to flavor vegetables (I pour the broth over frozen vegetables instead of using water).

If I remember right, pasties are pretty high in fat and calories. Pretty much ANYTHING you'd eat instead of one of those would probably have fewer calories and less fat. I'm not sure why he didn't just eat say, oatmeal for breakfast instead of a pasty. Boullion cubes are gross anyways. They're loaded with salt and I doubt they'd make a decent "soup".

I just wonder how one goes from eating sugary, fatty, yummy pastries to drinking salt broth. I agree with Spectra - at least oatmeal will give you a similar mouth-feel as pastries.
Hey - maybe that John guy on the Dr. Phil House should try this diet!! (grin)

You have all highlighted the problems with all soup based diets (such as the 3 day diet, cabbage soup etc).

Protein poor and very high in sodium.

Pasties seem pretty much like a really large pie.

But I read his dad ate that, so it is an emotional thing. I like to eat sardines with crackers because I remember eating the same thing with my grandfather. I can just picture us eating sardines and how special I felt to be having a snack with my grandfather. It's good that he has found a low calorie thing that satisfies his hunger and his emotional connection to his father. Who knows, he might be buying the low sodium variety of OXO broth! He's eating it with vegetables anyway, so it has to be better than meat pie!

I have used bouillons to make soup they are like five calories per cube and that is a lot less calories than a pastry. Though I doubt I could live on a diet like this. It seems a bit unbalanced.

I use salt in my food and I am fine.
Salt is not bad for all people but too much salt can help the body hold on to water

It's not salt itself that is bad for people, but the processing of it, just like any food product. Most salt is extracted by heat and then treated with chemicals to make it free-flow, absolutely no nutrients are left in it. I personally use solar-dried sea-salt, but I doubt OXO uses that to make their stock-cubes.

I'm planning on getting some Celtic sea salt one of these days. It's not so much the amount of sodium itself but rather the ratios of different minerals. The problem is we're eating a lot of sodium with eating a lot of other minerals.

correction at the end: without eating a lot of other minerals