Has anyone tried a fad diet before?

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Tanie98
Tanie98 Posts: 675 Member
edited February 28 in Health and Weight Loss
Did anyone tried a fad diet before you found mfp? If so how long did it took to gain the weight back? I have never done a fat diet before and I have no intention to since you are gain that weight back. I am just curious how long it normally to gain the weight back once you go back to your regular eating habits after a crash or a fad diet

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  • FIT_Goat
    FIT_Goat Posts: 4,227 Member
    I tried being a vegetarian for a while. Does that count?
  • TutuMom41
    TutuMom41 Posts: 278 Member
    Fad diets work fine as long as you reevaluate your lifestyle to a calories in calories out system. I lost 180 lbs on a medically supervised liquid diet (no carbs) and gained it all back plus. It took 5 or so years of slow painful gaining.

    The diet I used to get to where I am today started at no carb for the fast losses but my diet evolved to make healthy sustainable choices. I have maintained my loss for 12 years
  • Lucy16030
    Lucy16030 Posts: 1
    I think most of us have tried a fad diet at one time or another. My big mistake was just not eating. Needless to say the weight came back as soon as I started putting food in my mouth. I'm struggling now... age, weight and lack of exercise are contributing factors... but we are going to Florida in January and I don't want to be mistaken for a beached whale.
  • Tanie98
    Tanie98 Posts: 675 Member
    I think most of us have tried a fad diet at one time or another. My big mistake was just not eating. Needless to say the weight came back as soon as I started putting food in my mouth. I'm struggling now... age, weight and lack of exercise are contributing factors... but we are going to Florida in January and I don't want to be mistaken for a beached whale.

    lmaooo:happy:
  • numinousnymph
    numinousnymph Posts: 249 Member
    yes, when i was 16/17, but i had an awful relationship with food and my body and had an eating disorder (combo of bulimia and anorexia). but i was not underweight. but anyways, i tried one truly terrible one which was a super low-carb diet, i think around 25g or less a day, and about 75% of your daily intake was just plain macadamia nuts. yes, really. i think the total daily calories was supposed to be at around 1,000 or 1,200. i also tried that cabbage soup diet where i had cabbage & veggie soup for lunch and dinner and pretty much no snacks in between. they both sucked.
  • Iwishyouwell
    Iwishyouwell Posts: 1,888 Member
    I did low carb/Atkins off and on for years. Don't regret it one bit as it provided me so much.

    I maintained most of my loss primarily with that for about 2 or 3 years. Eventually I fell into a pit of nightly ice cream and cake eating that brought back all my weight and then double. I don't consider it a "fad". It actually helped me tremendously.

    This go round I lost the first 40 or so lbs low carbing, maintained it for from May 2011-June 2013, then switched to intermittent fasting to start moving the scale again. I don't low carb anymore but I do still eat a diet based heavily off those foods, so my diet is probably overall lower in carbs than the average person. Well, of course, except the days I completely splurge out on sweet treats.

    Other fad diets I tried?
    Grapefruit Diet
    3 Day Diet
    Cabbage Soup Diet (the worst)
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    Yes from 2010 (Fall) until I found MFP I yo yo'd using the 17 day diet...

    Is it a fad...potentially...it does give you a good base on good healthy foods etc but it's too easy to fall off that diet and gain the weight back on phase 4 as it doesn't discuss calories, portion sizes or how to keep the weight off...

    Along with the soup diet, WW (not a fad really but doesn't give you the right tools) Atkins for about 3 days.

    Exercise only...low calories so for 20 years I yo yo'd between 165 and 205...this is the first time in my adult life that I have been this light (even when in the military) and I have been doing well...

    Only at maitenance for just over a month so far but I feel good. The first and only time I lost weight and kept it off was in HS when I counted calories.
  • DellaWiedel
    DellaWiedel Posts: 125 Member
    I tried the South Beach Diet once like 10 years ago when I was in college and my roommate talked me into it. I only lasted a few days. I discovered Splenda didn't agree with my stomach after sucking down sugar free ice cream pops for a few days. I also discovered too much vinegar didn't settle too well with me either after having salads with oil and vinegar twice a day... After several unpleasant trips to the bathroom, I gave up on that diet. I wasn't even overweight then either, that's the strange part. I just gave into peer pressure. Guess I learned my lesson from that...
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    No, never have. I really wanted to do the Beverly Hills diet when I was about 14 (and a perfectly okay weight), but it was too difficult to get all the needed foods at the time. That's a super stupid diet, for anyone not familiar with that particular bit of 80s culture.
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