It helps to keep in touch about difficulties with this popular diet, even when not struggling, so thought collecting stories and food facts would make an interesting topic.
Like the story I read that you should lose half a pound in weight between the ages of 30 and 60 to ensure health, or that vegetarians should not wash their hands after toilet to ensure they got correct vitamin b amounts!
The best I have so far was in the news years ago re a society which claimed to eat nothing and live off liquids. They were 5000 worldwide and became known because one of their number, a woman, being caught eating a chicken pie on a flight. You’d think it would be at least a lettuce!
Sure I have more I can pull out to create interest and variety.

then there’s the ‘blokes’ diet of ten cans of beans a day! Successfully lost one bloke five stone, with gas problems only encountered once he came off the diet since he was then mixing other food with the beans.
One can gives you 90 cals so he was on 900 cals/day, though I would be over-faced with that amount. Blokes like such diets as they are simple and don’t involve saute this and fricassee that, and the calorie counting is automatic.