Benny Blanco Goes on Pizza-Only Diet and Loses 5 Lbs.

Benny Blanco shared the results of his five-day, pizza-only diet to prove that “you can lose weight, eating literally anything.”

Benny Blanco shared the results of his five-day pizza diet to prove that “you can lose weight, eating literally anything.”

The prolific music producer, 38, explained his plans in an August 21 TikTok: “I’m going to eat one pizza a day and lose weight. My pizza of choice? One large thin crust” from Domino’s. Showing a small slice of the pizza, he quipped, “Like, how is this supposed to last me a whole day? This is one-sixteenth of everything I can eat today.”

Blanco, who began the challenge at 152.2 lbs, shared that the point was “to prove you can lose weight, eating literally anything.” He stayed committed, even bringing the pizza with him when joining wife Selena Gomez for dinner at a restaurant.

His diet had a few setbacks — like when he accidentally dropped a slice on the ground, or returned to the studio to find “someone ate like eight slices of my pizza.”

By day three, “I’m tired of pizza,” he shared. “I hate my life.” And by day five, “I don’t even remember who I am as a human being. Like, what was life before pizza?”

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Still, Blanco shared that the diet had its benefits: “l tell you something. I feel f–king good,” he continued, before breaking out into a sprint. “Spring in my step!”

A small crunchy thin crust pizza with no toppings from Domino’s contains less than 900 calories a day. That’s far below the minimum of 2,400 that’s recommended for a man Blanco’s age. And while it may offer weight loss in the short term, “eating too few calories makes it difficult for someone to get enough nutrients, which isn’t a healthy approach,” registered dietitian nutritionist Marina Rabkin said, per Hackensack Meridian Health.

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The next day, he weighed in: “You see that: 147.5. I just lost 4.7 pounds in five days eating only pizza,” Blanco said. “Nothing matters. You can do whatever you want.”

He continued, “F–k failure,” the name of his memoir, which comes out September 15. “F–k everything. Get my book right now, guys.”

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