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Friday, October 30, 2026Oct 30

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Pierce: Fast-food diet: fact or fiction?

I was standing in the checkout at Bi-Lo last weekend scanning the magazine headlines while I waited my turn at the cashier.

I couldn’t care less about Brangelina’s latest love spat or the diva drama on “Dancing With the Stars,” but one headline grabbed my attention: “She lost 54 pounds on the Taco Bell diet. Drop 7 pounds a week eating fast food!”

Wait. You had me at Taco.

I mean really, no woman could walk away from that tease any more than she could a BOGO sale sign in the shoe department at Belk!

So I tossed that copy of Woman’s World into my cart. Long story short: Floridian Christine Dougherty lost 54 pounds by choosing one of the seven items on Taco Bell’s reduced-fat Drive-Thru Diet menu for one of her daily meals.