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* In ''Literature/TeenIdol,'' Cara Schlosberg is so desperate to lose weight fast and look like the popular girls that at lunch, she only gets a few lettuce leafs and a carton of milk. She keeps giving up before the day is over and eating cupcakes at her locker between classes. Jenny is able to get her to stop after spending a day with her, teaching her (among other things) that eating a full but still healthy meal is going to do her much better than just a salad. By the end of the book, Cara isn't any slimmer but she ''is'' a lot happier and more confident in herself, even getting a boyfriend.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/GarfieldSpecials Garfield's Thanksgiving]]'': Jon puts Garfield on a diet the day before Thanksgiving. Garfield is served a single lettuce leaf. This exchange occurs:

* In Creator/MegCabot's ''Teen Idol,'' Cara Schlosberg is so desperate to lose weight fast and look like the popular girls that at lunch, she only gets a few lettuce leafs and a carton of milk. She keeps giving up before the day is over and eating cupcakes at her locker between classes. Jenny is able to get her to stop after spending a day with her, teaching her (among other things) that eating a full but still healthy meal is going to do her much better than just a salad. By the end of the book, Cara isn't any slimmer but she ''is'' a lot happier and more confident in herself, even getting a boyfriend.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E6MermaidManAndBarnacleBoyPickles Pickles]]", upon seeing the FatBastard Bubble Bass about to make an order, [[DeadpanSnarker Squidward]] reacts with "[[YouAreFat Let me guess, Tiny, a small salad?]]".

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "Pickles", upon seeing the FatBastard Bubble Bass about to make an order, [[DeadpanSnarker Squidward]] reacts with "[[YouAreFat Let me guess, tiny, a small salad?]]".

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* ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'': In "Mãe de Dieta" ("Mom on a Diet"), Ms. Five forces the family to support her new dietary regime, which consists of meals such as a single piece of lettuce for lunch or two stalks of celery for dinner. Although she manages to accomplish her goal of slimming down, she is horrified when she realizes her husband and son have gotten thin to the point of being clinically ill. This causes her to abandon her diet, restoring the status quo.
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* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'': In "[[Recap/BrooklynNineNineS1E20FancyBrudgom Fancy Brudgom]]", Terry, Amy and Gina go on a very 'scientific' diet, despite them all being in perfect shape, as Captain Holt points out. All the meals are pre-planned and delivered. For example, the breakfast consists of an orange wedge, three cashew nuts, and a solitary grape. Another meal is a single baby carrot (the container says "ingredients: carrot") or one almond.

* ''Literature/GeronimoStilton'': In "A Cheese-Colored Camper," William Shortpaws' personal chef, Tina Spicytail, decides he needs to lose weight and only serves him an olive and a single piece of lettuce for dinner.

* ''Literature/PoisonedApplesPoemsForYouMyPretty'': In "Thumbelina’s Get-Tiny Cleanse—Tested", Miss Muffet tries a diet consisting entirely of rose petals, pine needles, and mist. She shrinks so small that she gets wrapped up and eaten by a spider.
-->Next issue: The Secret of a Svelte Arachnid—''Small portions of lean protein.''

* In chapter 26 of ''Manga/PetShopOfHorrors'', one of the Customers of the Week is a teenage girl desperate to lose weight before a big dance. Count D gives her a personal trainer [[note]] in reality, a cat[[/note]] who has her eat a salad for her dinner the first few nights.

* In Creator/MegCabot's ''Teen Idol,'' Cara Schlosberg is so desperate to lose weight fast and look like the popular girls that at lunch, she only gets a few lettuce leafs and a carton of milk. She keeps giving up before the day is over and eating cupcakes at her locker between classes. Jenny is able to get her to stop after spending a day with her, teaching her (among other things) that eating a full but still healthy meal is going to do her much better than just trying to eat a salad. By the end of the book, Cara isn't any slimmer but she ''is'' a lot happier and more confident in herself.

->'''Mildred''': Oh, Maud! Gosh, you look a lot thinner, and your hair’s got longer.
->'''Maud''': I know. Mother put me on this awful diet. I wasn’t allowed to eat anything except lettuce and celery and dreadful stuff like that. Still, I’m out of her clutches now, so it’s back to good old school dinners. Three cheers for date pudding and custard, I say!

-->'''Lila''': And what do I get for lunch and dinner?
-->'''Nathalie''': Well, for lunch today, during your photoshoot, you have a single salad and water, no dressing, and carrot sticks. Tonight's dinner is grilled chicken breasts without the skin and spinach on the side.
-->'''Lila''': No dessert?
-->'''Nathalie''': Of course not! Sweets are strictly prohibited!

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-->'''Ashley''': I want you to savor that bite, Grace! Remember how nice and cool it was! Vegetables should be your favorite food! When you're hungry tonight, think about that salad, how good it was, how much you wanted to finish it! Let yourself crave it! Soon, you won't ever find yourself wanting greasy chips or fatty sweets anymore; you'll want that salad!

* In Creator/MegCabot 's ''Teen Idol,'' Cara Schlosberg is so desperate to lose weight fast and look like the popular girls that at lunch, she only gets a few lettuce leafs and a carton of milk. She keeps giving up before the day is over and eating cupcakes at her locker between classes. Jenny is able to get her to stop after spending a day with her, teaching her (among other things) that eating a full but still healthy meal is going to do her much better than just trying to eat a salad. By the end of the book, Cara isn't any slimmer but she ''is'' a lot happier and more confident in herself.

* ''Literature/{{IT}}'': Ben Hanscomb, as an adult, relates a story to his friends about how he lost so much weight. Having been bullied by the students at his high school, and the coach, he decides he's going to lose weight. He learns that you can eat as many raw vegetables as you want and not gain weight so he eats copious amounts of raw salads and practices running until he has dropped several sizes and goes on to defeat the coach's best at a track meet.

* ''Manga/TakeResponsibilityForMyStomach'' addresses this trope in its very first chapter. When Ritsu first decides to try and lose weight, she declares that she'll eat nothing but salad for the following three months. A week of eating nothing but salad does cause her to lose a couple of kilograms, but she very quickly becomes sick of the flavor (or lack thereof), her physical appearance starts to suffer, and she ends up passing out and collapsing after a shift at her part-time job due to malnutrition. Ruka steps in to help Ritsu with a much more balanced dieting plan afterwards.

* In chapter 26 of Manga/PetShopOfHorrors, one of the Customers of the Week is a teenage girl desperate to lose weight before a big dance. Count D gives her a personal trainer [[note]] in reality, a cat[[/note]] who has her eat a salad for her dinner the first few nights.

* While many people live on vegetarian or vegan diets successfully, eating only vegetables and/or fruit for longer than a few weeks or so—while it will probably cause weight loss—can also result in health issues. The reason is that those foods don’t contain enough of certain nutrients like protein, vitamin B12, omega-3 and omega-6 fats, vitamin D, iron, and calcium. For those reasons, people eating a vegan diet often include vitamin supplements.

Alice is trying to lose weight, and the first thing she thinks of is to go on a diet. She resolves that, to reach her goal weight, she will eat nothing but salad. It makes perfect sense, because: Vegetables are low in calories and some of the healthiest things you can eat. Eating less calories leads to weight loss. Therefore, eating only vegetables (or fruit) every day will help her lose weight the fastest! Sometimes the portions she eats will be comically tiny and in amounts nobody could feasibly survive on, like a single piece of lettuce a day.

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* ''Fanfic/LilasLament'': Lila steals the Earrings and Ring and makes a Wish to switch lives with Adrien, becoming Gabriel's daughter and a rich and famous teen supermodel. When she sits down to breakfast in the Agreste house, she eagerly anticipates being served a luxurious meal. To her surprise, she gets celery sticks and whole-wheat toast, with Nathalie explaining that she has to stay thin for her modeling career.

* ''Literature/{{IT}}'': Ben Hanscomb, as an adult, relates a story to his friends about how he lost so much weight. Having been bullied by the students at his high school, and the coach, he decides he's going to lose weight. He learns that you can eat as many raw vegetables as you want and not gain weight, and so he eats copious amounts of raw salads and practices running, until he has dropped several sizes and goes on to defeat the coach's best at a track meet.

* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'': In "[[Recap/BrooklynNineNineS1E20FancyBrudgom Fancy Brudgom]]", Terry, Amy and Gina go on a very 'scientific' diet, despite them all being in perfect shape, as Captain Holt points out. All the meals are pre-planned and delivered. For example, the breakfast consists of an orange wedge, three cashew nuts and a solitary grape. Another meal is a single baby carrot (the container says "ingredients: carrot") or one almond.

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