WE SMIRK, YOU DECIDE

A producer and an editor at Fox News are going on the Gitmo diet.

...It is perhaps not entirely accurate to say that while sitting in our seats one recent day, our stomachs spoke to us while watching a press conference in which the Guantanamo prisoners' meals not only were described, but also shown in their full glory. The photo opportunity elicited chatter that planted a seed that slowly germinated into a full-on project....

Armed with the two-week meal cycle, which can be found on Tony Snow's Web page, we decided to follow the diet, staple for staple, and see what happens.

We may gain weight if we eat everything on the diet, which averages 2,684 calories per day. We may lose weight, considering we're both making radical and healthy changes to our current snacking patterns. After all, the diet offers very little refined sugar or processed white flour.

Whatever happens, we're here to talk about it...

No word as to whether the two Fox producers also plan to subject themselves to being chained hand and foot in the fetal position for 24 hours at a stretch, or to permanent detention without trial.

(The Tony Snow page is here. The dietary guidelines are a PDF.)