Name any diet gimmicks or fads you have ever tried.:)

Athijade

South Beach is the closest I have done. At the time it actually worked for me and I didn't find the restrictions too hard. I enjoyed the food and didn't miss carbs all that much. My friend and my mom were also following it so that helped a ton!

Now though I have food restrictions due to medical reasons so cutting out anything else is not something I want to do. I am trying to get back on the wagon now after other medical issues and think I have come up with something that will work best for me.

MsBaz2018

I tried Alli. I didn't think it would help with weight loss but I was hoping it would slow down weight gain.

Slimfast
Although as others said is it really a fad? I just replaced maybe a couple of meals a week with it. I quite liked it tbh.

South Beach diet
I don't remember anything from that one. In any case I always very loosely interprete those diets. I ate crepes every Saturday during that South Beach period (just because I like them)

nicholahmola

bossvt wrote: »

Pretend you're entering menopause diet (for men too)
Pretend someone's died diet
Pretend the tax man is chasing you diet
Pretend you're about to get evicted diet
Pretend you have been cast for a film and you have to get up early and go on set and the camera adds 3492818495 pounds diet

I almost fell off the treadmill laughing at this...

New_Heavens_Earth

WW multiple times
Sadkhin complex diet
Rice diet
Low fat, high fiber
Bodybuilder style cutting diet
Exchange plan
Slim Fast
Special K cereal diet
Juice cleanse
Whatever diet that Prevention magazine or Women's World magazine was advertising for that issue (I always picked up an issue, along with my binge foods )

spiriteagle99

2aycocks wrote: »

AnvilHead wrote: »

I tried the keto fad for almost a year, about 17 years ago. Lost weight, but couldn't see giving up some of my favorite foods forever for no good reason.

I don't remember if this diet had a name that many years ago. It was before Atkins. Do you?

Stillman's was the all protein diet before Atkins. Almost no carbs were allowed. It was just eggs, cottage cheese and meat. No salad, no veggies, no cheese or milk. I couldn't eat eggs, cottage cheese or chicken for years afterwards. I was a teenager when my mother started this diet. My sister and I joined her though we weren't very heavy. I don't know if we lost any weight or not. IIRC, we'd do it for a month or so, then go off it, then start over again after all the weight came back.

bigbandjohn

NewChapterInMyLife wrote: »

I forgot about some of these:) i also did the Slim Fast thing.

Penn Gilette (of Penn and Teller) has made comments about slim-fast, saying he was on the Milkshake diet in the 70's... and his tasted better!

Does anyone remember the 3 day "Heart Association" diet? 3 days a week you ate a very specific list of foods, and then would eat normal the other 4 days of the week. I could never do it because it involved eating cantalope, which to say I despise it is a gross understatement of a gross understatement.

HoneyBadger302

It's been many many years since I tried these, but the ones I tried included:

Slim Fast
Garcinia Cambogia
HydroxyCut
Apple Cider Vinegar

None of them ever worked LOL.

ghudson92

5 Day Juice Cleanse - a sad time in my life, I like solid food a lot!
Bootea Teatox - not fun. Too much time spent on the toilet.
MyProtein Meal Replacement - went along the same principles as all the shakes, plus some strange capsules. Again, very sad.
Cleanse and Detox tablets from Holland and Barrett - useless waste of money.

I can't tell you how glad I am to be on the other side of all that nonsense and be losing weight in a healthy and steady way.

ADeCapua

Let's see, I tried Slim Fast shakes (starved and didn't lose any weight), but I did need my gallbladder removed thanks to stones. Richard Simmons Deal-A-Meal plan (unworkable at all for me). I did a low-fat, higher carb diet with Stop the Insanity's Susan Powter and exercised to her videos. The videos were good, and I did lose some weight (20 ish pounds) (and I'd still recommend them) and had a relatively healthy pregnancy doing it, but ultimately didn't stick with it. My former doctor wanted me to buy shakes/meal replacement bars from him - at an extra charge for his help and monitoring! -told him no thanks. Aren't doctors supposed to help you if you need weight loss as part of his regular job? He also suggested to me gastric bypass surgery, again, no thanks. As for fad fitness equipment. when I was a teen I bought a device with a handle, spring and pedals. You put your feet in the pedals, and did sit-ups holding the handle. I really hurt my back very badly doing this, and today I have arthritis in my back. I also bought one of those ski type machines at a yard sale when I was a young adult. Neither helped me. I'm old enough to have had a vinyl record album that came with picture instructions for exercises to do when I was a teen in the 1980's. And I tried an aerobic weight loss club in middle school, but it only met once a week, so was never enough exercise, even in my leotard, to lose any weight. It also disbanded quite quickly.
Thank God for MyFitnessPal, calorie counting/portion control, works with added exercise!

michael1976_ca

I tried some pill for weight loss. It gave me the twitching in the eye and i couldn't sleep. It sucked

ShayCarver89

Slim Fast, Special K diet, Lemon Juice diet (with the cayenne pepper) the cabbage soup diet, Weight Watchers, Keto, Atkins, Rainbow..I'm sure there's more I just can't think of them right now

EloiseBean

healthy skinny girl diet
abc diet
the beyonce lemonade diet
5 bite diet

bootyrubsandtacos

Keto
Scarsdale diet
South beach diet
Jenny craig
Lean cuisine for lunch and dinner
Slimfast

margbarco

Slim fast - In high school when I wasn’t even close to overweight and never thought about my weight but my best friend (who was also normal weight) told me about the shakes and we drank them to “be skinnier.”

Jenny Craig - Two years after my 3rd pregnancy (with twins), I was a lean 144 pounds. But I had it in my head to get down to 127 which is what I weighed before my first preganacy. I got tired of eating the same microwaved food day after day. Since I didn’t understand about calorie deficits, I thought there was something magical about the food they sold because I lost a few pounds.

Ballerina Tea - had NO CLUE what this actually was (Senna). The box showed graceful pictures of tall, thin ballerinas in tutus, and the cashier at the Asian market assured me it worked. When my resting heart rate shot up, I googled, and realized I had been dehydrating myself

Severe Calorie restriction - coupled with the ballerina tea, I lost about 10-12 pounds in a few weeks. Was so hungry, broke down and gained it all back quickly.

Dr. Mercola’s keto diet - but I didn’t know that it was in fact keto at the time, about 5 years ago. Lost weight but only lasted two weeks, got dizzy and flushed, which scared me! Marched into the kitchen and promptly ate a ton of crackers and instantly felt less anxious. (Not saying keto is a fad, just that I didn’t know what was normal or what to expect.)