Mark Wahlberg lived on liquids + nuts for 6 months. What was your most extreme diet?

Donegal Dan · 06-02-2015 01:16PM #1

Could you do this?

What’s been the biggest challenge making The Gambler?

“As an actor, living off of liquid for three months and then nuts for another couple of months [to lose and then maintain the reduced weight for the role].

Why did you decide to lose the weight?

“I’d just come off Transformers. I’d also made Pain & Gain [in 2013] with Michael Bay. I played a bodybuilder, so he liked me being big and muscular.
“And in this, I’m playing a literature professor who’s not spending too much time worrying about exercising or eating right.

“I just felt he had to be thin and, well, either that or really overweight and schleppish, and that wouldn’t work!
“That was the easier of the two, to put on weight and just be heavyset, but it wasn’t all that appealing.”

How much weight did you lose?

“I went from 196lb (14 stone) to 135lb (nine-and-a-half stone).”

How did you feel?

“I didn’t feel that good. I didn’t have much energy. I needed to use other sources to get energy, as my character is very ‘on’ in certain scenes — especially when he’s in the classroom or in front of an audience.

“So I had natural energy drinks and things like that to give me a boost during a 12 or 13-hour day of shooting. And exercise. Jumping rope every day helped.

“I’ve been up every day at 1.30 in the morning, in the gym by 1.45, out of the gym by 3.30, have a shake, a shower, do my routine, prayer time, then head for the set.”

http://www.thestar.ie/star/mark-wahlberg-i-lived-on-liquids-and-nuts-for-new-film-the-gambler-58192/

I dont know how he didnt end up in hospital tbh. What was your most extreme diet or weight loss/weight gain? About ten years ago I bought into the TV ads and went on the Special K Diet. It consisted of a bowl for breakfast, a light lunch or dinner and another bowl later. The weight did fall off but never again. These days some exercise and sensible eating is all I need.

06-02-2015 01:22PM

Donegal Dan wrote: »

Could you do this?

http://www.thestar.ie/star/mark-wahlberg-i-lived-on-liquids-and-nuts-for-new-film-the-gambler-58192/

I dont know how he didnt end up in hospital tbh. What was your most extreme diet or weight loss/weight gain? About ten years ago I bought into the TV ads and went on the Special K Diet. It consisted of a bowl for breakfast, a light lunch or dinner and another bowl later. The weight did fall off but never again. These days some exercise and sensible eating is all I need.

cigarettes and coffee is all.... its like when you hear stars say, Oh I beefed up eating 5000 calories a day and training 7 days a week, 4 hours a day plus martial arts plus weapons training etc etc. oh and I can fly too!!!!

crap!! don't believe half what you read. sure when he came off the juice he would have dropped weight naturally anyway and the rest is just protein only and discipline... you want to hear about potential damage, look up matt damon for courage under fire diet... or Christian bale.

Woshy · 06-02-2015 01:23PM

For me - pregnancy is the most extreme diet I've ever been on. I suffered from severe hyperemesis gravidarum, I couldn't even keep water down and spent a good bit of time in the maternity hospital on a drip. I lost almost 15% of my body weight in about 8 or 9 weeks and was bedridden. I drank milk which occasionally stayed down and isotonic drinks frozen into ice cubes. That's pretty much it.

I'm almost 6 months pregnant now and almost back at my pre-pregnancy weight which is great. I'm still taking drugs for it and am sick occasionally but I'm eating fairly normally now.

So, pregnancy is the most effective weight loss tool for me!

Ush1 · 06-02-2015 01:26PM

My da survives on tea, Guinness and cigarettes.

Fella in work only will eat crisps and mars bars. No other food.

Donegal Dan · 06-02-2015 01:29PM

Ush1 wrote: »

My da survives on tea, Guinness and cigarettes.

Fella in work only will eat crisps and mars bars. No other food.

Ew.

06-02-2015 01:31PM

If I had an ounce of his willpower I'd be a fcuking ride.

connundrum · 06-02-2015 01:32PM

Euro 2012 in Poland.

A week long diet of Carlsberg.

Donegal Dan · 06-02-2015 01:43PM

rusty cole wrote: »

look up matt damon for courage under fire diet.

In 1996, Matt Damon scored a role in “Courage Under Fire.” His job was to portray a veteran addicted to drugs. Without a doctor’s supervision, he dropped 40 lbs. in the blink of an eye. He ate egg whites for breakfast and one baked potato per day (plain, of course). He also ate one chicken breast daily – and nothing else. Despite his sparse diet, Matt Damon ran six and a half miles in the morning, and repeated the workout in the evening. Damon’s starvation diet is probably the reason he drank huge amounts of coffee to try to raise his flagging energy levels.

Damon’s drastic diet had its consequences, and the actor later admitted that he regretted the poor decision. During the filming, he barely had to act to portray a drug addict, since his diet left him with hot flashes and bouts of vertigo. Matt Damon became quite ill, and had to be under a doctor’s supervision for a few months, due to the damage to his adrenal glands. The doctor also informed him that he could have permanently shrunk his heart.

http://drgullo.com/diet-resources/celebrity-diet/starvation/matt-damons-dangerous-diets-for-the-informant-and-courage-under-fire/

At the other end of actors taking their roles a bit too serious there's the famous Robert De Niro weight gain for Raging Bull. He made Elvis in his Vegas years look healthy

Gran Hermano · 06-02-2015 01:50PM

Lost 33% of my body weight over last 12 months. Was dropping on average 1kg per week.
Has stabilised since start of this year but not easy trying to build the body weight back up.
Especially tough was January and everyone moaning about new years diets and such.

Ush1 · 06-02-2015 01:52PM

Donegal Dan wrote: »

Ew.

Yeah, my das old school.

Typified the time when we were driving in his van and he was on his phone, the guy was calling out a number but my da doesn't really know how to use a phone so picked up a piece of copper pipe and etched the number into his dashboard, while driving on the M50.

Duggy747 · 06-02-2015 01:52PM

I can't afford to lose weight, a gust of wind and I'd end up in the middle of the Atlantic.

Donegal Dan · 06-02-2015 01:55PM

Gran Hermano wrote: »

Lost 33% of my body weight over last 12 months. Was dropping on average 1kg per week.

How?

Flood · 06-02-2015 01:56PM

The seefood diet is a tough one.

Gran Hermano · 06-02-2015 01:57PM

Donegal Dan wrote: »

How?

In summary: chemo.

Richard Hillman · 06-02-2015 01:59PM

You can see now on why he was such a mess on Graham Norton after a couple of glasses of wine

janedoe75 · 06-02-2015 02:00PM

didnt Christian eat only a small tin of tuna and an apple per day to slim down for 'The Machinist'?

Donegal Dan · 06-02-2015 02:00PM

Ush1 wrote: »

Typified the time when we were driving in his van and he was on his phone, the guy was calling out a number but my da doesn't really know how to use a phone so picked up a piece of copper pipe and etched the number into his dashboard, while driving on the M50.

This is GOLD!

Boom_Bap · 06-02-2015 02:02PM

janedoe75 wrote: »

didnt Christian eat only a small tin of tuna and an apple per day to slim down for 'The Machinist'?

I think he had a bigger weight loss than Wahlberg as well :cool:

wilhelm roentgen · 06-02-2015 02:04PM

My missus lost 6 stone on the Atkins diet, I'm keeping her on it, hopefully, one day she’ll disappear altogether.

Donegal Dan · 06-02-2015 02:05PM

janedoe75 wrote: »

didnt Christian eat only a small tin of tuna and an apple per day to slim down for 'The Machinist'?

I dont think his "actor losing weight for a role" will ever be topped.

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PLL · 06-02-2015 02:06PM

When I was 18, two weeks in Greece with only €100 as my bank account was wiped the day I went on holiday.

Out every night drinking Ouzo. Ate rice and sugary carbs to stop the lightheadedness. The 40°C weather didn't help. Vividly remember paying 80c for a 1.5L bottle of fizzy drink and downing it because I was seeing stars.

I lost a noticeable amount of weight. Size 14 to a 10. Couldn't go in the pool on the last day as all my bikini bottoms fell off, and they were tight in the first day.

Ate EVERYTHING in sight when I got home.

DoYouEvenLift · 06-02-2015 02:07PM

For the millions he'll be paid for the role I'd have no problem doing the same.

Still not as bad as Christian Bale's transformations between roles for a while there, they can only be described as absolutely traumatising for the body. I even think it'll have negative consequences for his health down the line.

gerrybbadd · 06-02-2015 02:07PM

Donegal Dan wrote: »

This is GOLD!

No, it was copper

Donegal Dan · 06-02-2015 02:16PM

DoYouEvenLift wrote: »

Still not as bad as Christian Bale's transformations between roles for a while there, they can only be described as absolutely traumatising for the body.

How does one even begin to mentally fight off the hunger that results in eating only a small tin of tuna and an apple per day? Id be climbing the walls!

Or not. I wouldnt have the energy.

DoYouEvenLift · 06-02-2015 02:21PM

Donegal Dan wrote: »

How does one even begin to mentally fight off the hunger that results in eating only a small tin of tuna and an apple per day? Id be climbing the walls!

Or not. I wouldnt have the energy.

Batman needs no calories!

gerrybbadd · 06-02-2015 02:22PM

Donegal Dan wrote: »

How does one even begin to mentally fight off the hunger that results in eating only a small tin of tuna and an apple per day? Id be climbing the walls!

Or not. I wouldnt have the energy.

Wasn't Beyonce once rumored to be surviving on honey and Cayenne pepper mixed in water?

Woshy · 06-02-2015 02:24PM

gerrybbadd wrote: »

Wasn't Beyonce once rumored to be surviving on honey and Cayenne pepper mixed in water?

It was maple syrup, cayenne pepper, lemon juice and water I think!

Smidge · 06-02-2015 02:28PM

Gran Hermano wrote: »

In summary: chemo.

Hope you're doing ok(given the circumstances):)

Donegal Dan · 06-02-2015 02:40PM

gerrybbadd wrote: »

Wasn't Beyonce once rumored to be surviving on honey and Cayenne pepper mixed in water?

Woshy wrote: »

It was maple syrup, cayenne pepper, lemon juice and water I think!

And no solids whatsoever? Whatever about an actor doing it for a role, a celeb doing it for vanity reasons is just silly.

Dravokivich · 06-02-2015 03:27PM

Jason Stathom was doing some crazy stuff like this a year or two ago as well apparently. don't really remember what it was though.

I think they just try to do the most extreme thing they can think of, to appear dedicated to what they are doing.

blackwave · 06-02-2015 03:39PM

connundrum wrote: »

Euro 2012 in Poland.

A week long diet of Carlsberg.

A fellow survivor of the Carlsberg fan camp I take it?

Mark Wahlberg lived on liquids + nuts for 6 months. What was your most extreme diet?

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