- I never eat sushi.
Whenever I go to a sushi restaurant,
I get chicken and rice.
- What?
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- Hey I'm Michelle Khare.
- And I'm Kelsey Impicciche.
- And this week we are switching diets.
I have not really changed my diet
in probably a couple years.
- Oh. - On my channel
I do a show called Challenge Accepted
where I take on a variety of different
extreme life changes, and every time I take on
one of those episodes,
I work with a professional nutritionist
so my diet varies completely based on the episode.
But what I'm gonna be giving you today
is what I call my in-between diets
which is what I do in between episodes.
I pretty much rotate the same types of grilled chicken,
and spinach and rice in various different ways.
- I don't normally like eat carb-y stuff,
but that'll be like a fun experiment
'cause it's been a while since I've incorporated
those things in my diet.
So it'll be cool to see if actually don't eat carbs
thing holds for me.
I think my diet's generally fairly healthy,
it's like slightly paleo keto inspired,
but honestly it's just kind of like a habit at this point.
- I'm actually looking forward to this
because I think everyone who's around me
is tired of me ordering the exact same thing
every time we go out.
- I'm more of an adventurous eater than you are?
- Yes.
(Kelsey laughing)
- Okay so I pretty much don't have anything
that is on her list, so I'm gonna go grocery shopping.
Michelle doesn't drink coffee
so guess who's not drinking coffee for a week?
- Currently grocery shopping for the week
with Kelsey's list, and some items that I usually don't eat
are zoodles.
- Okay, I'm back from the grocery store,
and here is my grocery store Michelle Khare haul.
These are all the things that I bought,
and then I have some things already at home
like some rice and quinoa,
so yeah it's gonna be interesting.
- So I just got home from training
and a really long day.
So I'm going to do the post mate's option
on Kelsey's meal plan,
and she apparently likes to order from a Greek restaurant,
I love Greek food.
Honestly there are like three things in here
that I'm just like not a huge fan of.
Olives, I really don't like olives.
I think that cucumbers are basically crunchy water,
and I don't want crunchy water personally.
And then pepperon, pepperon, pepperoncini?
But tonight I'm gonna be open-minded you know,
it's only day one,
don't wanna knock anything,
and your taste buds apparently change
every seven years, so maybe mine have changed.
- Michelle just texted me that she's ordering
from my favorite Mediterranean place,
my Mediterranean salad and I'm so jealous
'cause I would die (dog barking)
for some falafel right now.
- Okay, here is dinner,
and there are the olives. (laughs)
Honestly it's not that bad, it's pretty good.
- So first night for dinner,
I'm doing cooked quinoa,
I'm doing some mushrooms, and some grilled chicken.
It's looking good,
he seems to do it.
- Good morning, it is day two
and I'm about to have some dairy-free yogurt.
This is actually something I usually eat
in my regular meal plan.
The difference here is that I usually eat it
with other things, and I don't know how I'm going
to make it until noon.
- It's the morning, and I really wish
I could make my coffee,
I really could use a coffee right now.
And here is my breakfast,
I have this six egg whites which sound insane,
and a whole cup of raspberries,
and a third a cup of granola with milk.
Ignore my rollers, I'm going to a thing today.
Egg whites everyday gets boring,
luckily the fruit and granola are more tasty.
That was pretty good, I would do this again.
- So I just ordered my lunch from Creation Cafe
where Kelsey usually gets a soup,
and a small side of chicken,
I am starving.
I am honestly starting to get a little bit
of a headache because of how hungry I am.
Finally made it to the weekend
where instead of having a green juice,
Kelsey eats a meal for breakfast,
and we're making banana pancakes! (squeals)
(Kelsey crunching)
- Mashing some bananas over here.
One thing I like about Kelsey's diet
that's different from mine
is that she eats different things
on different days of the week.
The weekend's like fun banana pancake time,
and the rest of the week she's on a more strict
smoothie green juice type of thing.
It is fun to kind of have this little like
reward of pancakes.
They look good!
- We're filming on location so I had to pick a spot
that looked pretty healthy.
So I just sent Michelle a text to see what she would order,
and I guess I'll just order
whatever she tells me.
- I'm excited about this.
Mm,
it's really good, oh my God.
- Michelle just texted me back right after I ordered,
and I ordered what she ordered,
I freaking know what she wants now!
- An unexpected thing about this week for me
has been that I kind of forgot that along the way
I would be learning new recipes,
and that's really exciting.
- (stammers) This is a salad place
that I actually really like,
but I have to eat what Michelle would eat
instead of the salad I'm craving
which is so fun.
- [Man] Someone's getting a coffee.
- Yeah. - I thought you weren't
allowed to have coffee.
- I'm not allowed to have coffee, strictly speaking.
But I'm on a night shoot,
like I need this!
- [Man] That better be almond milk.
- It is almond milk.
- [Man] All right.
- [Michelle] Zoodles and chicken,
I also added the mushrooms,
but I just love mushrooms.
- We were up until 1:00am filming last night.
I am dead inside, and I needed a cup of coffee
to comfort me.
This is the cheat I am deciding to do two days in a row,
but here we are.
- So for breakfast today
I'm gonna try this Cocoyo living coconut yogurt
that Kelsey eats.
I hope this is good
because it was $5 per container.
It tastes kind of like fizzy like Kombucha,
this is interesting.
- Lots of chicken, lot of veggies, I did it.
We're gonna order for each other, and then swap.
- Okay. - (laughs) So go ahead.
- I, AKA she will have a Save Drake salad,
no cheese,
no cranberries,
but double chicken, double beets.
What are you having, slash me?
- You will be having my classic chicken Cobb salad.
No balsamic, no cheese, no tortilla.
- Like the first couple days
I was just like super hungry,
I had a headache, yeah. - No.
- Well what I ended up actually doing is
you know how you gave like four or five suggestions
for each meal?
- Yeah. - I would pick two,
and eat both.
(Kelsey laughing)
- All right, how's it going?
What do you think? - It's good,
it's good.
- [Michelle] Oh my God, you like it.
- I like it.
- [Michelle] Look at you eating your tortilla.
- Last dinner on Michelle's diet
is another one of quinoa, chicken, and mushrooms.
- I've eaten so many mushrooms this week,
been good actually,
but I'm excited to get a little bit more variety back.
I miss my diet a little bit,
but I've definitely learned a lot.
- My final thought is I'm ready to be back
on my old normal ass diet.
- Wow, I feel a little bit hurt.
My diet rocks, your diet's boring. (laughs)
- It's the truth.
- No I think that I learned a lot though
from eating your diet though,
and there's certain things
that I'll definitely keep
which is pretty cool.
- Some of my favorite things
that I'm definitely gonna keep cooking
are the zoodles.
The only reason I miss my old diet
was just because it was routine and habit,
but I also feel like it was important for me
to try new things.
- Your diet is so much more protein-dense than mine is,
so I think that I felt pretty heavy,
and it took a bit for my body to bounce back
being able to break all that protein down.
- [Producer] Was there anything from Michelle's diet
that you did not like?
- One thing was the egg whites,
I was so sad.
The other thing I didn't love was the exclusion of coffee,
and I will admit that I cheated twice,
and I definitely had coffee on set
when I really needed it.
- So I kinda went into this
thinking oh like this will be a fun challenge,
we're just like doing the thing for a week,
and it really made me think critically about food,
and where food comes from,
and how much community is connected to food.
Like yeah, I felt like it gave me
a new perspective on your life,
and like what you do everyday,
and it made me feel closer to you in that way.
And also just like sharing meals together
is something I think we
especially in America take for granted a lot.
- One thing I noticed that,
when you said brings us closer together,
I actually felt the same way
because I thought of you like three times a day.
- Well. - You know, like because
breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
I would actually do it again.
- I would be interested to like swap diets
with another person.
- Yeah, yeah. - Yeah.
- But I also think that I would definitely eat
some of these things that I ate this week definitely again.
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