SubscribeThe Diet Fork
Is your fork getting you down? Maybe you need the Diet Fork.
"The characteristics of the Diet Fork allow dieters to scoop less food during meals."
Is this for real?
The Diet Fork appears to be a plastic fork (10 for $8.95).
The following features will (apparently) lead to weight loss...
- Shorter and dulled teeth inhibiting user from grasping larger pieces of food at any one time.
- Smaller triangular shaped surface area allowing dieter to hold less food than many other forks.
- Uncomfortable grip compelling user to put fork down between bites, slowing the user's eating speed.
Someone tell me this is satire.
More like this in Weird · Aug 24, 2007
One better would be the new "Diet Sticks". 1 set of chopsticks for 4 easy payments of $19.95. I can't pick up anything with those things! Guaranteed weight loss!
ReplyI use chopsticks with any of my rice dishes because I do have a hard time using them. It allows me to eat slowly and I feel more full eating slowly with consuming less.
ReplyI've heard of using chopsticks to slow down eating. It's a good idea, except that I've always used them at asian restaurants because it's fun. Alas, I've mastered their use and can pile as much food on them as I can on a fork, so it doesn't help much. I imagine that the same would happen with this so called "diet fork". After so many uses, you'd just get used to it, unless, of course, it is SO uncomfortable that you're constantly aware of it, and then what kind of masochist would put themselves through that just to lose a few pounds?
ReplyI am Chinese, I use chopsticks, so the chopsticks way won't work for me. I remember Jillian's book suggests to eat with left hand if right handed, and vice versa, maybe I have to start doing this.
ReplyYeah I'm Asian too. Chopsticks make me eat faster.
ReplyI'd like to sell you my "ice cream diet spoon." It's a half teaspoon so you eat less ice cream! *rolls eyes*
ReplyEating rice with this fork will sure lead to weight loss.
Great one Claire. *lol* Diet Spoon will suit it better! ;)
ReplyIt's certainly a valid idea. I often use small plastic spoons to eat with - especially if I'm eating a little cup of sugar free puddding or something. It makes it last a lot longer. But, I just use generic plastic spoons and this just looks like a generic plastic fork. Not, something you have to spend lots of $$$ for. I have also heard other people talk about using little baby utensils too. You just get more bites - it's like using a smaller plate - it looks like more food. It's all a way to trick our brains, but if it works, go for it!
ReplyLOL, I think they had these in my elementary school lunch room...they were called "sporks". The tines were too dull to be a fork and you couldn't really use it as a spoon either. I agree that people will just learn to eat fast with this "diet fork" like any other utensil. Oh, btw, I love eating with chopsticks. Except, like so many of you, I'm good at using them so they don't slow me down TOO much.
ReplyI think I can make my own diet fork. I can use those small fork for the same effects as the diet fork. The important things is that we can't use it to scoop a large amount of food.
ReplyWe need forks and spoons with serrated edges. Every time you take a bite, you rip a little more flesh out of your mouth. Mmm.
Replyhahaha hey every bit of flesh lost counts, right? =P
now if only sum1 would tell my scales that...
but forks in general leave me stumped. chopsticks and spoons are far simpler, not that it helps any! >
ReplyYa, well, I can eat with both hands just as well, so what am I supposed to do? Oh. Self Control? Maybe I'll try that one...lol!
ReplyI can top that. Behold, the Anti-Eating Face Mask!
Replyhttp://www.google.com/patents?id=PuIwAAAAEBAJ&dq=4344424
If we are to limit the amount of food intake, I still think water would do great for that. We just need to prepare a glass of water every time we eat.
ReplyDrinking too much water during meals will dilute your stomach's digestive fluids therefore it may lead to indigestion.
ReplyThe diet fork only works if you try to eat your soup with it! LOL!!
Oskar: Drinking too much water just before eating might cause indigestion.
ReplyThis is hilarious, and reminds me of a novelty diet fork that I spotted at a flea market last year. It was $10 and I had to have it, but by the time I'd come back from my trip to the ATM, the vendor was gone! :(
The fork: It was a real fork made into a 'fridge magnet but the five tines on the fork had been bent like a hand flipping the bird!!
LOL!!
ReplyI dont know if this fork works or not but it does resemble the ones found at places like mc donalds and wendys, so i dont know if i would trust it or not.
ReplyA Fork? A dinner plate with the dieter's fat photo with a caption like "No seconds FATASS" is a much better motivater. If you are repulsed by how you look without a shirt on, you really won't want to overeat. I bought one at digitaldietincentives.com.
ReplySelf-loathing doesn't work for everybody. If I were repulsed by the way I looked, I'd give up.
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