- I just made a mistake. I was mad hungry, right,
and I just ate chicken McNuggets.
(groans) And my stomach's hurtin',
it tasted so delicious!
(fake crying)
(upbeat music)
- This week we are trying out Beyonce's Coachella
"Homecoming" diet and man am I gonna be hungry.
- I'm a big fan of Beyonce.
I love her music, I love everything about her.
- I wouldn't say I'm a fan but I respect Beyonce.
- Does Dawson have a creek?
Hello, like what? Of course I'm a fan of Beyonce!
- My normal diet is platanos, platanos, and more platanos.
- I... I'm pretty healthy but I could always be healthier.
In the end, I normally trying to listen to
what my body wants to eat and I'll eat that.
- Or I go to the Jamaican spots and eat oxtail.
Shoutout! Shoutout to my Jamaican's son!
- I try to be as low-carb and low-sugar as possible.
I have PCOS, which is a hormone disorder,
and what most doctors recommend is to be "keto,"
and it's very hard for me to do.
Very hard.
- I'm a huge fan of like fish, so I'll do salmon.
I love spinach, I love beans, I love to make sure I'm
incorporating fiber in my diet but other days child,
I'll just be eating whatever the Lord leads me to eat.
- [Ella] Beyonce described her diet in the "Homecoming"
documentary as: no carbs, no meat, no fish,
no sugar, no alcohol, no dairy.
(laughing) No fun!
- Uh, I don't think any hyper-restrictive diet is
good for long periods of time.
- With me I don't think this is healthy for me because
I need to have meat, I need to have fish,
I need to have protein in my diet, I need fiber.
- I don't think this is healthy.
I looked this up and most of the articles said
don't do this diet.
- The hardest part is not eating meat.
I feel like I never spent a day without eating meat,
I eat meat almost every day.
I think the toughest one-
(sound effect)
What am I gonna eat? I don't know what to eat.
And she don't eat any carbs, then what the (beep)
am I gonna eat, spinach?
I don't like kale, it tastes like rubber, that (beep) nasty.
- So we have a pact and that is if at any point
during the week we start to feel sick or unhealthy,
we're just gonna eat what our body is telling us to eat,
get the nutrients that we need.
(laughing) I'm... maybe it will be fun.
- (gasps) This is a bad idea, I just realized.
- Okay, let's start this diet.
Let's eat this air, let's drink this water, let's get to it.
- So fun fact, I realized I actually have never tried to
even be vegan before.
And I didn't think about how hard that would be for me
because I really do eat meat all the time.
So day one I was feeling really motivated.
I got some chia pudding and I figured out that
chia pudding was a good breakfast for me.
- It's an hour after I ate my veggie breakfast and
I feel a little lightheaded.
I felt really lightheaded from just eating like
a bunch of veggies uh, I got really hungry really fast.
And that happened the whole week.
- I'm joined by water...
and I'm also joined by pretzels.
I'm trying, I really am trying.
I woke up this morning, had blueberries, water,
I'm gonna do better.
Day one's not going so well.
- I got a plan son!
I got this book right here,
this gonna be my secret weapon.
But the only thing is, I gotta go shopping.
- So I'm at Disneyland for Marvel night and
there's literally nothing I can eat.
I can't eat anything, I really didn't think this through.
It smells like bacon right here, you're the worst.
That's great, that's great.
- Yeah, it is.
- [Gadiel] Some vegan food thanks to Alexis, thank you.
- (speaking foreign language)
- All right.
- So I just got back with my healthy, vegan,
keto ingredients, I'm going to make a salad.
For protein, I'm adding a little baked tofu.
That looks pretty good to me.
- Hi y'all, so it turns out this (beep) got milk in it.
I didn't read that, I'm too hungry to read anything.
(record scratches)
Yo don't judge me but
I had to get McDonald's.
Every time I was looking for excuses to start the next day.
Imma eat this right now and then I can go shopping
for like vegan stuff but not today, not today Lord.
Okay so living in New York you kind of, you know,
gotta make it work for you.
So what works for me for the morning when I
have breakfast, I like a good acai bowl.
I go to my favorite breakfast spot.
I pretty much did that for like three mornings straight
because I'm not good at breakfast.
- So for breakfast I'm gonna have this coconut yogurt.
Let's see what it tastes like.
Oh God, oh God this is so bad.
It tastes like baking soda mixed with coconut, maybe?
But after about like the first day or the second day,
I was feeling so great.
- [Gadiel] Supposedly a vegan chicken season wrap, son.
We ready, Imma dig into this.
- Okay so I looked up a recipe and I made like an
avocado pesto with zucchini noodles and tomatoes.
It looks super good 'cause today's kind of like
I felt full but I have like this enduring headache and
feel lightheaded when I stand up and I don't think
that's pretty normal so.
I wasn't working out and still felt tired,
I didn't feel energized.
- So in a fun turn of events,
I'm so hungry that I'm eating the coco-yo.
(chuckles) Mmm.
- [Ella] Here's the real deal and
I feel so bad that I did this.
I only cheated one time.
Last night it was Friday and it was a friend's
going-away party and I drank and
I ate three pieces of pizza.
And the next morning I actually felt terrible,
like my stomach was hurting, like a lot, a lot.
Which sucks because I was feeling actually really great.
So I think what I'm gonna do is try to do it
extra days to really see if I can do the full effects.
- [Chantal] Good morning, I am currently showing you my
shower curtain because I look like complete crap
this morning.
I wake up on day four, my stomach is in knots.
I had soured brussel sprouts and hope I do not
have food poisoning but I really feel like I do.
- All right so I'm very, very hungry.
And I just don't feel like experimenting with something new,
so Imma make a deal...
I'm gonna break my diet one more time but
in return for doing that,
I'm gonna go to Vons and I'mma buy all that vegan (beep).
- Day four I was feeling great,
I was feeling on top of the world.
[Kelsey] This is lunch with my vegan friend!
This is probably the most excited I've been about
eating vegan so far.
- [Gadiel] These are the oxtail, oh my God!
How can I say no to that, huh?
I'm so hungry my hands are shaking so uh, Imma dig in.
- After my misstep of pizza last night,
I decided to turn over a new leaf and
try to keep eating vegan.
[Ella] So this is my lunch.
[Waiter] Edamame?
- [Gadiel] All right so I'm going through the book and
I'm looking at this on how to create one of the meals.
One thing I don't like, I don't like bell pepper either,
I don't like tomatoes, this is out of the question.
Oh that one looks good, I could do this.
I need to start this, I need to start this.
So when it came to Monday, I started eating more vegan.
- I was like in the groove, I was eating like the
same thing for dinner and I really liked it.
- So I'm back at it and I'm at brunch and I'm about to
show you what I'm giving up.
[Ella] Valerie's eating pork fried rice.
Julia's eating a breakfast sandwich.
That's me.
- Today is lunch at work and it was super sad walking by
all of the meats but I'm pretty actually happy with
how my plate turned out.
It's fine.
- All right I'm eating this hummus wrap again,
I don't like this (beep).
When I eat regular food, I will eat and I'll get tired.
When it came to eating vegan food, that's when I felt like
I was more energized, I didn't need coffee half of the day.
- I grabbed a juice but instead of one of those
sugary juices, I got a green juice full of vege-da-bles.
- So I made it to four days, um,
I had to stop after day four because I unfortunately
encountered a very bad stomach bug.
- [Gadiel] Look at this, see now this looks
de-licious my friends.
One thing I'm noticing today, today is like the last day,
and I feel more energetic.
I did not know that once you eat vegan you have to eat a lot
more food than what you're used to because
the food flushes out immediately.
So I was getting a lot of headaches, I was hungry a lot.
I'm going to the bathroom a lot (speaks foreign language)
- After this meal, I can eat meat again.
- Man, this was interesting.
- It was ups and downs my friends,
(laughing) ups and downs.
- This was a lot for my brain to process.
Every time I picked up an item of food,
I was like "does this have sugar? Is this carbs?"
- I think I learned a lot more about my body and
also like about food in general this week than
I ever really thought that I would.
I had no idea there was protein in kale.
Did you know there is protein in kale?
In dark, leafy greens, there's protein in that.
(explosion)
- It was hard but it definitely made me reconsider things
that I thought I needed in my diet.
- You know how people be like, "I've been eating clean and
then I ate meat and I didn't feel good."
No, it's not that you don't feel good.
After you've been eating clean and then you eat McDonald's,
it really hurts your stomach.
- I say all this to say: Beyonce, your work ethic sis,
your hustle, I have a newfound appreciation for you.
- For her to go through this before a concert,
it shows me that she respects the art,
she respects her craft, and she respects her audience.
- I went pretty light on my workouts this week just to
kind of balance until my energy kinda bounced back,
Beyonce was doing a workout, a spin class, and
doing rehearsals every day.
I don't know how quickly I'm gonna go back to
eating all those things.
I think like a healthy, whole food diet is
actually good for everyone.
It just depends on what those whole foods are.
- I would not do this diet again but what I would do is
continue to try and be more vegetarian.
- What I will take away from this week is like,
I now know my own strength and I also know to
listen to my body.
Sticking to my doctor's orders, sticking to what my
nutritionist said is healthy for me to eat.
- I got the experience of how much it affects your body.
I want to take care of myself man,
so I'm probably gonna go vegan and with carbs.
But I'm not gonna go with the extreme of no carbs.
- I will say though, I'm not gonna be a complete vegan.
Like, I'm gonna, I wanna eat sushi again so...
Ooh maybe I should get sushi, I'm getting hungry now.
(soft music)