Worst Diet You've Been On...

sunnybrunette126

Atkins was the worst... those first couple of days I felt like crap!

ccmccoy09

I totally forgot the working-Nordstrom-menswear-during-holiday diet. Long hours, 30 minute breaks (15 minutes of which is spent going back up through LP, out the employee door and around the mall to get to the regular entrance), lots of pressure to stay thin, and everyone smokes. It's essentially a coffee, cigarettes and salad diet. I was thin, but I can't imagine my skin and breath were very good!

wish21

A Detox7 body thing and Ali:frown:

keiraev

Cigarettes, cocaine, and nightclubs 4 nights a week. I was super thin and in pretty good shape from all the dancing.

Yeah, that was terrrrrrrible. Wait - no it wasn't!

Hmmm yes something along those lines! :smokin:

_Ben

No carb diet. Lost 10 pounds in 14 days, but very very irritating diet. Only did it to prove I could do it, and I could

Yakisoba

The my-chef-makes-me-so-nervous-that-I-can't-eat-anything-but-apples diet. Lost 35 pounds. It was horrible.

hottottie11

Aktins!! After one week, I had terrible craving, no energy, and chest pains....Any diet that labels a food good or bad...Moderation and Balance is the key...calories out > calories in

asyouseefit

Cabbage soup diet
High protein diet (the one where you only eat shakes and veggies - I think I lasted two days!)
Some crazy diet my mum found in a magazine. It was a 1000 cals a day diet and it featured weird recipes with ingredients we had hardly ever heard of!
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hottottie11

I am shocked by all the hate for different diets based on what happens WHEN YOU QUIT THE DIET.

Think about it.

You change how you eat, you start losing weight.

You then, for whatever reason usually due to not liking the food choices and liking the foods that bulked you up in the first place, you switch back to those very same foods, and gain weight back.

Then blame the diet?

Does any diet work once you return to eating the way that made you fat in the first place?

As far as gaining the weight back "more rapidly", this is normal for ANY DIET you quit. You are no longer a "newly fat person" but an "experienced fat person" with nice HUGE fat cells from previous use, and likely even excess fat cells, that slowly grew over time the first time you gained weight. Gaining weight the 2nd time is very easy compared to the first. It is why maintenance is a longer battle than losing.

Pick on any diet you want, but you cannot judge a diet by what happens when you quit the diet.

There is a certain element of self honesty required here. You gained weight because you switched to some other method of eating that is making your already big fat cells drink deeply again.

I hate Atkins because I hate the way it made me feel. I lose 7lb in the first week (all water weight anyway) and gained back 4 lb not because I went back to horrible eating habits. Actually I eat very well. I stupidly let someone convince me that carb were evil (stupid stupid me). THe weight gain was pure water.