Tell us about the stupid diets you took part in before MFP - We have come a long way baby!

Soopatt

@Alatariel75 - so true! It is the same impulse that drives people to gather a mob to do other crazy things, when they are happy to do sensible things on their own. Perhaps you feel less crazy when you bring others in on it?

Who wants to grab a torch with me and hunt down Frankenstein's monster?
Who wants to go looting?

*drifts off for a cup of tea on her own, feeling no need to gather a crowd for support*

ireadlabelsdammit

Grapefruit diet - with my mom, it didn't do much.
Dexatrim - didn't do much.
Hydroxycut - lost weight, gave me permanent stretch marks.
Hydroxycut- a second time 10 yrs later, made me shaky, maybe too much caffeine, stopped after 2 days.

Azexas

I've tried a bunch of derp before I realized all I had to to was count calories.

-Hydroxycut: had terrible heart palpitations and shakiness
-Special K diet: so stupid I don't know where to start
- Slimfast: I don't think I lasted a week

There was another "fat burner" that I tried that I can't remember the name of it. Probably for the best.

madhatter2013

TheVirgoddess wrote: »

I used Hydroxycut when I was 18 and not even a little fat.

Okay so I use this currently. Not because I think it'll help with fat loss but it does give me a little extra boost of energy right before I work out. I don't take 2 pills a half hour before each meal, though. Just two right before I workout with my protein shake...every other day.

madhatter2013

smotheredincheese wrote: »

I did Slim Fast for a while, I thought it was great at first because who doesn't love milkshakes? But I couldn't think about anything apart from food, and I'd have the shakes for breakfast and lunch, then a healthy dinner, and then gorge myself on chocolate in the evenings.

I also used to go to spinning classes wearing a plastic 'sweat vest' under my clothes, the instructor said that it would make us sweat out fat cells or something totally legit like that. I can't deny though, there was something very satisfying about peeling the sweaty plastic of my body after the class.

LOL Yeah my husband is dead set on thinking the more he sweats, the more he'll lose. He wears 7 layers of clothing while working out, one of which is a sweat suit he got online and a stocking cap. It's like 90 degrees where we work out. I guess he'll finally listen to me when he passes out during a workout.

serenity1097

I did all the caffeine pills (was sent to the hospital with heart attack symptoms on one of them, can't remember the name), Slimfast, Herbalife, Isagenix...went through a phase in the '90's of basically starving myself, existing on less than 500 calories a day (that didn't last long & the binges after a few days were horrible, LOL).

rosehips60

I've been thru all of them I think.

Grapefruit and bacon.

In high school I ate a granola bar and drank a can of Tab for breakfast, had a can of Tab for lunch and then ate supper because my mom would have freaked if I didn't eat supper, I lost weight but of course gained it back.

I tried the no carb diet but gave up on it when a banana had me salivating for fresh fruit that wasn't a grapefruit.
My mother-in-law bought my husband and I some truly revolting diet powders when we were in college, there was a cold strawberry shake and a hot "cream of chicken" soup, oh lord it was so nasty, obviously didn't last too long on that.

I tried Slim Fast but I found out I really need to chew something, I even tried freezing it to trick myself but no go.

I've also been through Weight Watchers several times starting in junior high, way back when you had to eat liver once a week as part of the plan (anyone else remember that?). Liver is the one food I cannot eat. Weight Watchers worked for me everytime but I never was able to get to their magic number of maintenance so I never knew how to keep it off.

cosmiqrecovery

TheVirgoddess wrote: »

I used Hydroxycut when I was 18 and not even a little fat.

GOD same, only i was sixteen and still in high school. shouldn't have even been able to BUY those pills, but no one checks those things. every time i'd splurge on a "good" (read: expensive) product i seemed to get caught and have them confiscated. way to waste your babysitting money.

have i got some horror stories about stackers, though. cheap? yes. easy to digest? no. taste terrible? yes. taste even worse on their way back up because your stomach rejects them? GOD YES.

cosmiqrecovery

Alatariel75 wrote: »

What always strikes me is how people doing these crazy diets always want someone to do it with them "I'm starting the egg diet, who is with me??" "I'm doing a 5 day cleanse, who wants to join??" You never have people start a thread saying "I'm starting a moderate and sensible eating plan which involves working out how much I need to eat to lose a reasonable and sustainable amount of weight over a undetermined period of time, who's wants to do it with me?"

people can't seem to engage in self-destructive behavior without dragging other people down with them. thus the pro-ana community became a thing.