Liquid diets are an extreme form of restriction, but they are seldom portrayed this way.
But they are voluntarily consuming liquefied food, and very few calories of it, for extended periods of time. Sure, people may not be rushing to get their jaw wired shut to lose weight.
As a teenager, I also had my jaw broken and wired shut, and I can tell you this is not what happens when you drink your food through a straw for four to six weeks. The reality of the liquid diet isn't depicted, only the results. Besides being problematic and offensive, Insatiable glamorizes a draconian, medically necessary liquid-only diet as a viable weight loss method. When the wires come off and Patty can eat solid food again, the weight stays off too (a major plot hole) and she finally gets revenge on her bullies. In Netflix's Insatiable, teenage protagonist Patty drops a significant amount of weight thanks to a liquid diet she goes on after her jaw is broken and wired shut. And more recently, a liquid diet was a major part of the plot in a popular television show. Why put in work when you can drink your food and call it a day? Thanks to social media and celebrity endorsements, cleansing and detoxing has become more popular than ever. Liquid diets are often depicted as a quick fix, a shortcut that gives you dramatic results with little effort. (Hint: Your liver already does that for you.)
The promise is that it will also magically cleanse your insides and rid your body of toxins. They come in different forms - juices, smoothies, meal replacement shakes, broths - but the idea is the same: Drink all your meals (or most of them) and lose weight, fast. Though the "it fad" tends to change from year to year (keto in, paleo out) there's one fad that won't seem to die: liquid diets. Every January, the internet becomes saturated with weight loss content and toxic diet culture rears its ugly head.
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