How I Lost 20 Pounds in Two Months on the Krispy Kreme Donut Diet
Author: Nick
Category: Money
Topics: food, health
You may recall from waaaaay back in the early days of Punny Money that my wife once held a part-time job at a Krispy Kreme, maker of some of the finest donuts in the world. What you probably don’t know is that she only kept the job for two months, in between college semesters. During those two months, I ate about 500 Krispy Kreme donuts of assorted varieties… and I lost 20 pounds doing it. Here’s how it happened.
One of the great benefits of working at Krispy Kreme is that, every day you go in to work, you’re allowed to bring home a dozen free donuts. (Correction from my wife: that’s the only great benefit of working for Krispy Kreme, unless you consider smelling like donuts constantly no matter how much you clean yourself a benefit.) It only took a few days of the smell of glaze and toppings to turn my wife off the donuts forever, but she still happily brought home a dozen for me each day she worked.
At first, my wife only worked a couple of days a week at Krispy Kreme. But as her manager realized her superior skills over the other workers—i.e. speaking more than two words of English, and not constantly trying to rob the cash register—she was asked to work nearly full time. That means she could bring home a dozen donuts five days a week for free. I could have just asked her not to bring home the donuts, but I pretty much never refuse free food. So she brought home around 60 donuts a week… and I ate them all.
It wasn’t just the regular glazed donuts, either. While the policy varies from one Krispy Kreme location to the next, my wife was allowed to take home any of the more expensive donuts with toppings and frosting and other yummy things. My favorites were any of the donuts with sprinkles, especially the orange and black Halloween ones (which were still served well into December there). According to the Krispy Kreme nutritional information (PDF), each sprinkled donut comes with about 270 calories, 12 grams of fat, and some other numbers that would give any decent dietitian a heart attack just reading them. And yes, I ate 12 of those five days a week.
So how in the name of chocolate glazed crullers did I lose 20 pounds eating 60 donuts a week? Well, it’s really quite simple:
- I have an active metabolism. I generally eat around 3,000 calories a day anyway, and I’m a relatively healthy weight for a person my age and height. I’ve had several doctors look at me and say I’m perfectly healthy, so I guess it’s sort of like having a superpower (though I’d gladly trade it in for x-ray vision).
- If you eat 12 Krispy Kreme donuts, you don’t feel like eating anything else for at least 24 hours. Here’s the key to the Krispy Kreme Diet that can make it work for anyone. If you’ve ever had more than a couple of them at the same time, you’d know that multiple Krispy Kreme donuts can really fill your tummy… and then some. After eating my dozen a day, I didn’t want to look at food again… until the next batch of donuts came home.
In the end, it’s probably for the best that my wife left Krispy Kreme after only a couple of months. I’m not sure how much longer I would have lasted without vegetables, protein, and arteries full of blood instead of glaze. I will admit that I do sometimes still long for my daily dozen, and my wife has caught me once or twice sneaking a sniff of her old work uniform that still has a hint of that donutty aroma on it.
Oh, and I should probably mention that I’m not a licensed anything, and if you try to duplicate this diet on your own, you will probably die before you get to the third day. Then again, if any of you emo cut-yourself-all-day MySpace losers out there wants to end it all with some style and flair, I could think of worse ways to go that drowning your vital organs in a bucket of warm, delicious Krispy Kreminess.
I’m just saying…
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34 Responses »
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Rebecca
June 25th, 2008 at 5:11 am
Similarly – I had once heard of the “happy meal diet” on which a friend claimed to have lost a heap of weight. She ate 2 happy meals a day and nothing else. Same concept as you explain above.
But I like the Krispy Kreme diet more, certainly there is more “variety”.
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Maria @ Frugal Homesteading
June 25th, 2008 at 10:05 am
My friend won a year’s free donuts from Krispy Kreme by standing in line outside a newly opening location all night long. As one of the first customers, he claimed his prize of 50 free dozen donut coupons. We were treated to donuts each Sunday after that, and this was before I cut sugar out of my diet, so we were happy to help him enjoy his prize.
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Chris
June 25th, 2008 at 10:17 am
You should make a video of this in response to that guy who lived off McDonald’s for a month and got fat and almost died…
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Frugal Dad
June 25th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
I truly envy people like you. I drive by a Krispy Kreme and gain four pounds–Five if the “Hot Donuts” sign is illuminated!
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Jerry
June 25th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
This post made my day! Alas, I do not share that high metabolism thing, and I am sure that the diet would indeed kill me within a week or three… or at least lead me to meet my health insurance deductible (which would also kill me within a week or three). I can’t eat more than one donut – or any other fried food, actually – without getting really-really sick to my stomach. Actually, that’s probably not a bad thing in my case!
RIP, Julius Stickman.
Jerry
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Kyle
June 26th, 2008 at 10:40 am
You know what goes great with Krispy Kreme? Grits. And coke.
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rocketc
June 30th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Dude! I am so doing this! Thanks for the advice! I have about 40 lbs that I would like to shed and I can’t think of a better way than to stuff Krispy Kremes down my pie hole.
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Boston
June 30th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
WOW. That is my kind of diet…..now I just need to somehow convince my wife to work at Krispy Kremes…..any suggestions?
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Jerry Dill
July 7th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
I like this diet. Sounds like you could retain diabetes after eating so many donuts. I can’t eat more than two original Krispy Kreme donuts. Best of luck to anyone who can.
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stewart
July 12th, 2008 at 2:57 am
hmm…this sounds interesting
me alone… i not even can finish more than 2 donuts.
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July 17th, 2008 at 8:41 am
I personally enjoyed your story. I can imagine myself eating those donuts to while reading your blog. And doing that made me think of not eating donuts again for the meantime.
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Brian
August 5th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
What a great diet! Think I will start today
Don’t know if I will lose any weight, but going to have fun trying
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May 19th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
No extreme diet is healthier than a balanced diet. Your body needs all nutrients so cutting one or more nutrient completely off of your diet is bad for your health.
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June 19th, 2009 at 9:15 am
haha I love the idea of a Krispy Kreme diet. Those things are just so delicious.
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June 26th, 2009 at 2:50 am
It’s probably for the best that my wife left Krispy Kreme after only a couple of months. I’m not sure how much longer I would have lasted without vegetables, protein, and arteries full of blood instead of glaze.
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July 16th, 2009 at 4:13 am
I’d love this diet!!! At least for the first few days. I am not sure if I was able to eat any more donuts afterwards, but then maybe that how it would work for me!
And hey, if I do that with all my favorite foods, I can have a good time and after a few weeks my food choices will automatically be reduced to the healthy stuff!
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July 16th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Having an active metabolism is the key to lose weight. You can do this by eating small meals 5 times per day.
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Cal
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:37 pm
ITs True-
I worked at Starbucks for a year and basically the only things that every went in my mouth were Donuts, pastries, black coffee and cigarettes. I was already skinny to begin with by after a few months and all those free pastries, especially those monster apple fritters, I dropped so much weight people would often tell me I looked emaciated. I’m not sure what was doing it, but it was probably the lack of protein and nutrients that made me drop so much weight. Its not the healthiest thing to do, but it sure is nice being able to eat as much junk as I want.
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March 29th, 2010 at 2:00 pm
I will start today
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July 15th, 2010 at 1:55 am
It was probably the lack of protein and nutrients
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July 15th, 2010 at 1:57 am
I don’t want to look at food again
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July 19th, 2010 at 3:03 am
This shows me how much better I feel when I eat right and exercise.
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August 5th, 2010 at 9:24 am
I could never lose weight that way. I gain weight so easily. I would probably gain 5-6 pounds a week, even if I did exercise
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August 10th, 2010 at 4:28 am
I eat little, I am constantly on a diet and I always have several kilos more than necessary, it is because I seldom exercise… Sport is an important factor in losing weight
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August 11th, 2010 at 9:23 am
I can have a good time and after a few weeks my food choices will automatically be reduced to the healthy stuff!
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