Every year, millions of Americans make New Year’s resolutions about the same thing: a diet. (Don’t just take my word for it: according to the Pew Center, 79 percent of New Year’s resolutions in 2024 were health related.)
I’ll save you a diatribe about the benefits of clean eating, and instead say this: dieting, well, is kind of miserable. Only the strongest-willed among us chooses a bowl of spinach over a bowl of penne.
Which is why I love this (admittedly) deranged story in Vogue’s October 1963 issue: The Champagne Diet. A tongue-in-cheek nod to calorie-restriction how-tos published by women’s magazines at the time, this “joie de diet” advises you to just drink champagne while you are doing it: “Champagne goes with every meal,” we wrote. A sample entrée? “Monday breakfast, scant half-cup orange juice. One egg, scrambled in a double boiler. One slice whole wheat toast. One glass of champagne.”
Now, I’m far from a nutritionist. So don’t read the Champagne Diet as any sort of endorsement. Do, however, read it for a little bit of levity.
From all of us at Vogue—happy New Year! |
