What's the most ridiculous diet you've heard of?

EmilyTwist1

The photosynthesis diet. Basically, no food. Period. You get water and sunlight. Granted, the only people I've ever heard of attempting this were doing it for ethical reasons (ie, don't kill anything ever, even plants), rather than weight loss reasons.

leggup

The "lose 10 lbs in 7 days" diet that is repinned 1000000X. The one that is like, "day 1 eat all the fruit you want, except banana. Day 2 eat all the veggies you want, but no potatoes. Day 3..." I think day 5 even has a cabbage soup of sorts. Ugh.

Lowynes

My friend tried to live off of grilled cheese and Ramen noodles during his sophomore year to save money. He made it about 3 or 4 months before the complete lack of vitamin C led to him developing scurvy.

Rubie81

Years ago a co-worker went on the 'soup diet'. I don't know what was in the soup but she'd have it three times a day and every day of the week she could add something for lunch with the soup. For example, one day it was the soup and SEVEN tomatoes. So freakin' gross.

Rubie81

Had to look up this whole tapeworm thing: Because of the health risk, tapeworms are banned for sale in the United Kingdom, the same as in the United States. That doesn't mean you can't buy them — or some other potentially dangerous substance being marketed to hopeful dieters as tapeworm — online. In August 2013, the Iowa Department of Health notified public health workers about a woman who had visited her doctor after becoming ill from eating a tapeworm pill she purchased on the Internet. Mosley traveled to Kenya and obtained his parasite from cysts containing tapeworm eggs on a cow's tongue he located in a slaughterhouse. Can we just pause here for a collective "Eww!"? He ate three of the cysts and, six weeks later, gulped down a tiny camera remotely connected to an iPad to discover if he had any, in his case, welcome guests in his intestine.

That is crazy.

Mighty_Rabite

Any diet that recommends massive calorie restriction, promotes snake oil "fixes" or both.

The HCG diet is a bad one. Take HCG and eat 500 calories a day. Sure, you'll lose weight, but you're not going to sustain any lean mass, so welcome to a screwed up metabolism, especially once you jump off the diet and start eating like a human again! ^__^

chrisdavey

clean eating diet

VoodooSyxx

Cabbage soup diet. I was put on it by a Navy recruiter when I was a teenager. I lasted about 3 days. You do not even wanna know what happens when you eat nothing but a natural laxative for 3 days straight. Thankfully I ended up getting a scholarship and went off to college instead.

tenaciousdee78

yep! Lol!!!

In January my husband decided he was going on a diet of just having cup a soups...it didnt last very long and he ended up feeling quite ill

JazmineYoli

The Air Diet

Also known as "L’Air Fooding" this French fad diet was popularized by a Dolce & Gabbana campaign. It showed Madonna and a few other celebrities holding up delicious foods to their mouths but not eating them. The concept of this diet is that you cook the food, put it on the plate, serve a setting like you were actually going to eat it and then rather than consume it, you hold it up to your mouth but do not take a bite. It is supposed to fool your body into thinking you've eaten. However, the diet is not completely without substance (no pun intended), dieters are allowed to drink water and have some salt soup (which is exactly what it sounds like: hot water and salt).

Starving people should be allowed to kill anyone who's tried this.

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Exactly

JaneLane33

It seems like at least half of the people I know have tried that awful cayenne/honey/lemon juice cleanse or whatever. I have yet to actually meet someone who has finished it in its entirety on account of how sick it makes them. :ohwell:

I did this once. I didn't even manage to make it a full day. I caved by dinner time.

lemurcat12

My mother bought the Beverly Hills diet book and at one point when I was a teen I was all excited to try it, but I could never figure out how to manage the logistics, like getting all the necessary food. It's totally wacky--all about not combining foods but eating all you want, but of course the rules make it quite difficult to eat a lot of calories overall, too complicated.

I remember there being lots of pineapple. I think there was a pineapple on the cover.

MyLovesMyLife

The baby food diet

jellybeans37

the bite diet. Don't count calories, count your bites. It actually works for some.

Yagisama

Anything with the words "detox" or "cleanse."

JBfoodforlife

The 750 cal a day diet (Invention of my own oh so many years ago...lol)... I needed to lose 30 pounds in 30 days when I was in the Marines... (Longer story, wont bore you...)... So I decided that 2 hard boiled eggs for breakfast, a hot dog for lunch and a McDonald's hamburger happy meal with diet coke for dinner was good... Oh and all the diet pepsi I wanted... Needless to say I did lose the weight... But plenty of days I had to stop and sit down or id pass out... Crazy!!

crys_aintgivingup

Has anyone done the Dukan diet? It was such a craze a few years back and I think it's still on bestseller shelves in some bookstores. I did it for a week and lost 5 lbs - got constipated, couldn't sleep, had cold sweats, gave in, gained 10 lbs right away. :flowerforyou:

stephe1987

M&M diet. Eat only M&Ms.

Alatariel75

The "Israeli Military Diet" - my Mum did it when I was a kid, 8 day diet where each day you only eat one food:

Days One - Two: Apples (black tea/coffee allowed)
Days Three - Four: Cheese (black tea/coffee allowed)
Days Five - Six: Chicken (black tea/coffee allowed)
Days Seven - Eight: Salad (black tea/coffee allowed)

ghostsnstuff

The candy bar and coca cola diet. Not even kidding.

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Seriously?