Dumb and Dangerous Diets
MrTolerable
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What is the most over-the-top diet you have participated in?
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One time I stopped eating desserts, it was horrible.0
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I've done several, from Atkins, which I loved, to the grapefruit diet, which I didn't care for, but I did learn to like pink grapefruit. The dumbest one was one my mom forced me to do when I was 14. It was called a chemical diet and you had to eat certain foods together, and the claim was that the chemical reactions made you lose weight but you had to do it for 7 days and than stop. We supposedly had to eat pickled beets and I was like, "Nope. Not doing this." :noway:
Also forced onto several diets using herbal supplements. She had a friend who sold Natures Sunshine products come over, look me over and tell me which gland wasn't working based on my body shape. She kept talking about my puffy hands meant I had thyroid problems and if I took these pills and drank this powder drink, the weight would melt off. Yeah...that didn't really work well for me, and I was starving all the time!0 -
One time I stopped eating desserts, it was horrible.
:laugh: I can relate to this.0 -
Also forced onto several diets using herbal supplements. She had a friend who sold Natures Sunshine products come over, look me over and tell me which gland wasn't working based on my body shape. She kept talking about my puffy hands meant I had thyroid problems and if I took these pills and drank this powder drink, the weight would melt off. Yeah...that didn't really work well for me, and I was starving all the time!
:yawn:
certainly doesn't sound like it would work.0 -
Soup diet. Eat this home made soup for breakfast and lunch and then a teeny tiny dinner. Yeah I lost weight. I also hate vegetable soup now.0
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I haven't participated in it, but that 30 bananas a day (or whatever it is) seems pretty nutso.0
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^I did a 12 apples a day diet.
with a dessert of laxatives
SURE! I lost weight - but I also felt like a giant crab apple :laugh:0 -
I went the starvation route...eating like 400-500 calories per day...it was awesome. I was tired, sick, and lost a bunch of weight pretty quickly. I quickly realized that all the weight loss was from muscle loss...so I don't do that anymore...lol0
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When I was in high school my friend came up with this brilliant diet that if you don't eat fat you will lose weight...I remember eating a lot of high carb high sugar foods and couldn't figure out why we weren't losing weight. :huh:
Since that diet didn't work I then tried the eating as little as possible diet...ugh.0 -
When I was in high school my friend came up with this brilliant diet that if you don't eat fat you will lose weight...I remember eating a lot of high carb high sugar foods and couldn't figure out why we weren't losing weight. :huh:
Since that diet didn't work I then tried the eating as little as possible diet...ugh.
ugh indeed - likewise I think we all tried that diet.
ugh ugh ugh.0 -
I was talked into "Eating for Your Blood Type" What a crock of crap!
My B12 levels plummeted and I had to have B12 injections weekly for months.
I can NOT believe I was so gullible, as I'm a firm believer in "everything in moderation". *sigh*0 -
What is the most over-the-top diet you have participated in?
Weren't you wearing a pin striped suit earlier with white shoes? ...or was that someone else?0 -
500 calories a day
Soup diet
Cleanses
Pills (weren't on the market and KILLED appetite)
Several of the shake diets
I added lots of weight during those years of trial and failure.0 -
atkins
hydroxycut
sub-1,000/day0 -
500 calories a day
Soup diet
Cleanses
Pills (weren't on the market and KILLED appetite)
Several of the shake diets
I added lots of weight during those years of trial and failure.
^sounds like amphetamines?0 -
Anyone recall Susan Powder "Stop the insanity"? All you ate was carbs.....ugh that was awful.0
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This one.....I would not call it dangerous by any means (it's only a week after all)...weird maybe. I lost 10 pounds in one week .....
SEVEN-DAY CLEANSING DIET--From the Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane, Washington for overweight heart patients:
This 7-day diet plan can be used as often as you like, but I would suggest possibly only doing it once a month, at the most. As a matter of fact, if followed correctly, it will clean your system of impurities and give you a feeling of well-being you never thought possible. After only 7 days of this process, you will begin to feel lighter because you will be lighter by at least 10 pounds, possibly as much as 17 pounds, and you will have an abundance of energy, as well. (I don't know if this much weight loss is really possible or if it would even be good for us to lose it this quickly; but, maybe it's because it's a "cleansing" diet. I think we do hold a lot of weight in our intestines... Yuck! I guess that's why we do cleansing diets, right???) Continue this plan for as long as you wish and feel the difference in both medical and physical disposition.
T-J MIRACLE SOUP (You eat this soup as much as you want along with the other foods for each day.):
6 large onions, 2 green peppers, 4 whole tomatoes (fresh or canned), 1 head of cabbage, 1 large stalk of celery. Season with dry onion soup mix. Cut vegetables and cover with water in a large pot. Boil for 10 minutes, cover, lower heat and simmer until the vegetables are tender. T-J Miracle Soup can be eaten at any time when you feel hungry. East as much as you wish and as often as you like. This soup will not add calories, so eat all you want. The more you eat, the more you lose... Enjoy! Yum, yum...
FIRST DAY--ALL THE FRUITS EXCEPT BANANAS: Your first day will consist of all the fruits you want except bananas. For all you melon lovers, this is the day for you. Two fruits which are lower in calories than most other fruits are watermelon and cantelope. Should you eat the melon, your chances of losing 3 pounds in the first day are great. You may also have T-J Miracle Soup today.
SECOND DAY--ALL THE VEGETABLES: Eat until you are stuffed with all the fresh (raw, steamed, or cooked) vegetables of your choice. Try to eat green, leafy vegetables, and stay away from dry beans, peas, and corn. These vegetables are good for you, but not now as you are trying to reduce your calorie intake. You may also have a large baked potato and T-J Miracle Soup today.
THIRD DAY--FRUITS AND VEGETABLES: Same as day one and day two including the T-J Miracle Soup, except for no potato.
FOURTH DAY--BANANAS: Eat as many as 8 bananas and drink as much as 8 glasses of skim milk on this day, along with T-J Miracle Soup. Bananas and skim milk blended together in a blender is very good way to enjoy this day. Bananas are high in carbohydrates and will lessen any cravings for sweets.
FIFTH DAY--BEEF AND VEGETABLES: You can have 10 to 20 ounces of beef and six tomatoes on your fifth day. Try to drink at least 8 glasses of water in order to wash away any uric acid in your body. You may also have T-J Miracle Soup today.
SIXTH DAY--BEEF AND VEGETABLES: Eat until your heart is content with beef, vegetables, and T-J Miracle Soup. No potato.
SEVENTH DAY--BROWN RICE, FRUIT, AND VEGETABLES: Enjoy brown rice, unsweetened fruit juice, vegetables, T-J Soup.0 -
I did the South Beach Diet a few years ago and convinced my entire immediate family to do it with me. Man, were we all *****y as hell!0
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I was talked into "Eating for Your Blood Type" What a crock of crap!
My B12 levels plummeted and I had to have B12 injections weekly for months.
I can NOT believe I was so gullible, as I'm a firm believer in "everything in moderation". *sigh*
I had a similar experience - resulted in having to get B12 injections weekly for 9 months.0 -
What is the most over-the-top diet you have participated in?
Weren't you wearing a pin striped suit earlier with white shoes? ...or was that someone else?
that would be me!
but it was a seersucker.. lolzzz 'pin striped' :laugh:0 -
What is the most over-the-top diet you have participated in?
Weren't you wearing a pin striped suit earlier with white shoes? ...or was that someone else?
that would be me!
but it was a seersucker.. lolzzz 'pin striped' :laugh:
It was difficult to decifer the specfic fabric from the profile picture..the shoes made the real impression! Haha!0 -
What is the most over-the-top diet you have participated in?
Weren't you wearing a pin striped suit earlier with white shoes? ...or was that someone else?
that would be me!
but it was a seersucker.. lolzzz 'pin striped' :laugh:
It was difficult to decifer the specfic fabric from the profile picture..the shoes made the real impression! Haha!
:drinker: thanks! Brooks Bros White Bucks FTW! :flowerforyou:0 -
Cabbage Soup Diet
Three Day Diet
Grapefruit Diet
Best diet I ever did that is considered "dumb and dangerous" by some people: Atkins0 -
500 calories a day
Soup diet
Cleanses
Pills (weren't on the market and KILLED appetite)
Several of the shake diets
I added lots of weight during those years of trial and failure.
^sounds like amphetamines?
It was ECA stack in a pill.0 -
Two days a year I fast for Jesus.
Yep, I'm Catholic.0 -
I was seriously anorexic (and many times bulimic when I did eat) for six years. I ended up hospitalized for malnutrition, I never told them I was anorexic- but I think they figured it out.
I quit and gained over 100lbs after. Now my metabolism is all funky and it's still hard for me to force myself to eat many times, and my stomach is very sensitive so I get nauseous a lot. That was the dumbest "diet" I ever did and it's royally messed me up for years.
I've also done other dumb diets and pills, that anorexic mentality isn't fixed overnight, it just manifested into many stupid diets.0 -
500 calories a day
Soup diet
Cleanses
Pills (weren't on the market and KILLED appetite)
Several of the shake diets
I added lots of weight during those years of trial and failure.
^sounds like amphetamines?
It was ECA stack in a pill.
^just did an ECA stack for 8 weeks 2months ago for a cut cycle- and had great results lol ...to each there own.
@TheBookSiren2 - I'm terrible sorry to hear that :flowerforyou: all though tough, I'm thrilled to hear how much better you are doing now.0 -
Two days a year I fast for Jesus.
Yep, I'm Catholic.
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Alli.
I was sharting volcanic oil for a week before I gave up
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When I was in high school my friend came up with this brilliant diet that if you don't eat fat you will lose weight...I remember eating a lot of high carb high sugar foods and couldn't figure out why we weren't losing weight. :huh:
Since that diet didn't work I then tried the eating as little as possible diet...ugh.
ugh indeed - likewise I think we all tried that diet.
ugh ugh ugh.
Yes, I tried this too.
Didn't work out so well.0
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