Here's What Happened When I Tried Kim Kardashian's Post-Baby Diet

Celebrity Sarah Carty 10 hours ago

Kim Kardashian showing off her enviable body. (Photo: Getty Images)

At 27 years old, I’m actually quite proud — even smug! — that I’ve never bought into a fad diet in my whole life.
Sure, I’ve avoided overdosing on chocolate. And I’ve limited the amount of times I reach for the phone and order a Hawaiian pizza with a side of chicken wings and garlic bread. But really, I just love junk food too much to ever fully turn my back on it.
But when Kim Kardashian stepped out at LAX last week looking superslim in a body-hugging dress, just six months after giving birth to little Saint West, I needed to try whatever she was on — despite the fact she’s admitted to wearing two pairs of Spanx at a time. Lord knows how she hides the visible lines.
We’ve seen countless celebrities bouncing back within weeks of welcoming their little bundles of joy into the world. But the selfie queen and Keeping Up With the Kardashians star has lost 60 pounds since December.
To put that into perspective, that’s over 8 pounds every month. And calorie-wise, the equivalent of 240 sticks of butter, 60 pints of beer, and 46 pizzas.
And while I may be proud of my blatant disregard for dieting, I’m certainly not about to shout out from the rooftops the number of pizzas I’ve consumed since Christmas.
So when it came time for somebody to be a guinea pig for Kim’s post-baby diet, I volunteered (feeling very like Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games) because hey, what harm could it do popping my fad diet virginity on a plan that limited my carb intake?
And so began my three days of living on Kim’s post-baby diet, aka the Atkins diet.

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How it works: In a nutshell, you’re allowed a very limited intake of “good carbohydrates” throughout the week and encouraged to eat a lot of protein, veggies, and Atkins bars, which are meant to fill you up,  to stop cravings.
So here’s how my three days living like Kim went.
Day 1
Day 1 of my diet was supposed to start on Monday morning, but really it started on Sunday when I spent a good two hours in the supermarket in Sidney, Australia, looking like a scared tourist in a foreign country, desperately scouring the aisles for the obscure ingredients on Kim’s list. If only I had a picture of the face of the fishmonger when I asked her for a fillet of halibut!
When Monday morning rolled around, I realized I had totally underestimated the preparation time required to make this diet work, and ended up standing in the kitchen at 5 a.m. in my nightgown, cooking a turkey sausage with scrambled egg and smoked Gouda cheese on a pan, willing the fire alarm not to go off and wake up my whole building. At 6 a.m., I was out the door, making it to my desk for 6:30, smelly breakfast in hand.

Breakfast on day 1: scrambled eggs, turkey sausage and smoked Gouda cheese. (Photo: Sarah Carty)

Followed by: Greek yogurt with 1/3 cup of fresh blueberries. (Photo: Sarah Carty)

Snack: Atkins bar. (Photo: Sarah Carty)

I quickly forced it down at my desk and moved on to Part 2 of breakfast (yes, there’s more), which was 4 ounces of Greek yogurt and 1/3 cup of fresh blueberries. Needless to say, I didn’t finish it all.
Despite not being a morning-snack type of person, when 10:30 a.m. arrived, I was determined to stay on Kim’s diet plan, and chowed down on an Atkins low-carb, high-protein bar, which was surprisingly quite tasty.
Thankfully, I was more prepared for lunch, which was grilled lime chicken over a spinach feta salad. While it may not look like much, it was a welcome respite, after I’d eaten what I would normally eat in my whole work day that morning.

Lunch on Day 1. (Photo: Sarah Carty)

Snack of one medium carrot with four tablespoons of hummus. (Photo: Sarah Carty)

A dinner of barramundi and green beans. (Photo: Sarah Carty)

At 3:30 p.m., snack time came around again, and I found myself sitting on my sofa watching the new episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, while munching on one medium carrot and four tablespoons of hummus. Who am I?
Although it is glaringly obvious that Kim spends a lot of her life working off all that protein in the gym, I decided to skip the treadmill and prepare dinner and my food for the next day — and watch a lot more TV.
After finding it impossible to snag a fillet of halibut in Sydney, I settled on a piece of barramundi for dinner, with sautéed green beans. The verdict: It may not have been very satisfying but it certainly filled me up enough, so I didn’t need a slab of chocolate and a cup of tea on hand while I watched Game of Thrones that night.

Day 2