Benny Blanco Loses 4.7 Pounds on 5-Day Pizza-Only Diet

Q: How did a stolen slice of Domino's almost derail Benny Blanco's controversial five-day weight loss experiment while visiting luxury hotels?

The stolen slices nearly derailed Benny Blanco’s five-day pizza diet because his plan depended on tightly rationing one large thin-crust Domino’s cheese pizza per day. He had framed each piece as part of his entire daily intake—saying on day one that a slice was “1/16 of everything I can eat today.” So when he returned to work on day two and found that someone had eaten several slices—he said “like eight”—it disrupted the calorie-controlled setup that made the experiment possible. That problem followed him into a luxury setting the same day. While visiting the Sunset Tower Hotel in Los Angeles with Selena Gomez, Blanco stuck to the challenge by bringing and eating his small allotted pizza slice under the table as Gomez ate the hotel’s food. The contrast underscored how rigid the experiment had become: even at an upscale hotel, he could not replace the missing slices with other food without breaking his own rules. Despite the setback and his growing frustration—by day three he said he was tired of pizza and hated his life—Blanco completed the challenge. He said he started at 152.2 pounds and finished at 147.5, a loss of 4.7 pounds over five days.

3 articles · Updated · E! NEWS · Aug 22

Blanco said a five-day pizza-only experiment cut his weight to 147.5 pounds from 152.2, a 4.7-pound drop he documented on TikTok.
The 38-year-old said he tried the stunt to prove “you can lose weight eating literally anything,” limiting himself to portions of a large thin-crust Domino’s cheese pizza.
Day 2 brought a setback when someone ate eight slices of his pizza, and by Day 3 he said he was tired of pizza and “hate my life.”
By Day 5, Blanco said he barely remembered life before pizza, though he also claimed he felt “good” and had a “spring in my step.”