What's the Craziest Diet Myth You've Heard?

AlsDonkBoxSquat

There was one a few years ago, something about drinking your own urine (and no, you didn't have to be pregnant for it to work). All I could think was, "seeing as it would make me vomit, that would work very well."

MJ7910

any type of cleanse involving water, lemon and cayenne pepper. it's called starvation and it doesn't really do anything but make someone think they are doing somethign other than starvation.

samanthanic0le

never expose it to bright light (especially sunlight, which will kill it); never get it wet (which will make it multiply); and, most importantly: never, ever feed it after midnight.

omg!! gremlins hahaha

saragato

The peanut diet. A lady I worked with a while back said she could eat basically anything as long as she was chowing down some peanuts all day. She didn't stop eating peanuts ever and would answer her phone while chewing a mouthful of peanuts or go to meetings with her jar of peanuts and keep munching through the meeting.

I can't even see how that might be thought to work-- fiber, maybe? How crazy!


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If she put on fruit flavored lip gloss, kissing her was probably like having a PB&J.

I'm sorry, that's the first thing I thought of from that.

caritiger

The apple diet. You basically eat two apples a day and nothing else. Apparently Beyonce used it? Ridiculous.

LOL they will put Beyonce's name on anything! You would lose weight, true, but what an awful way to do it!

gogidget

any diet that limits you to eating one thing only!

NinjaChickie

An ex-coworker once told me (while eating a large McDonalds fries) that there is nothing wrong with fries, they are potatoes, and potatoes are a vegetable, and vegetables are good for you.

We tried to explain the whole concept of "deep fried" but it was beyond her comprehension... :noway:

So there you have it.... fries are a vegetable!.
Now who's coming to McD's with me? :laugh:

JBsCrazyGirl

I'm not sure about crazy, but disgusting would be vinegar shots in the a.m. for metabolism boost

Yuck! What is that supposed to do? Wake you up by making you puke!?!?

http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/dr-ozs-anti-diabetes-drink

theshow4jsu

My grandmother believed that eating a teaspoon of Dawn or Palmolive dish soap every day would dissolve fat in her body. She swore she read about it in Reader's Digest. She ate a lot of soap...

Did grandma fart bubbles? That would've been a hit at family get togethers...

mcpherson4

She ate a lot of soap... hilarious!

gg9nerak

I did the Atkins diet years ago and fried chicken was never on it...the flour from the breading would have disqualified the food...I did lose weight but too restrictive and you gain all plus back...all in all not a healthy diet.

caritiger

dont eat after 6

There are a lot of folks who do that one-- a lot of doctors even say that still! I try not to eat too late, but just because it wakes me back up before bedtime.

bigredhearts

the one where people order tapeworms and ingest them so that you will lose weight...

greasygriddle_wechnage

That eating too few calories will make you gain weight.

Believe it or not, a weight-loss program that overly restricts calories will set you up for failure, as will a skipped meal. There is a point at which cutting calories will work against weight loss because consuming too few calories leads to increased appetite and low satiety as your body prevents starvation. You will find it hard to implement your healthy eating goals when you’re feeling hungry and dissatisfied. And you will suffer from cravings, ultimately causing you to fall into under-eating and over-eating cycles.

Your body will make a choice: lose body fat or lose muscle. An inadequately fueled body will choose to drop calorie-burning muscle rather than fat. Excessive loss of lean muscle mass leads to weight loss without improvement of body composition or health. This leaves you frustrated and ever-battling your weight. The body will slow it's metabolism to an absolute stand still to "keep it going".

Get informed, and think about it!

Jennfur2610

The HCG diet sounds pretty crazy to me...

Agreed. My cousin did this and she lost almost 50 lbs. However she has a lot of health issues now because of it.

caritiger

never expose it to bright light (especially sunlight, which will kill it); never get it wet (which will make it multiply); and, most importantly: never, ever feed it after midnight.

Hahahaha! Good One!


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opus649

That eating too few calories will make you gain weight.

Believe it or not, a weight-loss program that overly restricts calories will set you up for failure, as will a skipped meal. There is a point at which cutting calories will work against weight loss because consuming too few calories leads to increased appetite and low satiety as your body prevents starvation. You will find it hard to implement your healthy eating goals when you’re feeling hungry and dissatisfied. And you will suffer from cravings, ultimately causing you to fall into under-eating and over-eating cycles.

Your body will make a choice: lose body fat or lose muscle. An inadequately fueled body will choose to drop calorie-burning muscle rather than fat. Excessive loss of lean muscle mass leads to weight loss without improvement of body composition or health. This leaves you frustrated and ever-battling your weight. The body will slow it's metabolism to an absolute stand still to "keep it going".

Get informed, and think about it!

:grumble:

theladyy

An ex-coworker once told me (while eating a large McDonalds fries) that there is nothing wrong with fries, they are potatoes, and potatoes are a vegetable, and vegetables are good for you.

We tried to explain the whole concept of "deep fried" but it was beyond her comprehension... :noway:

So there you have it.... fries are a vegetable!.
Now who's coming to McD's with me? :laugh:

Well, pizza is now a vegetable, so fries must be as well!

bikermike5094

licking a dogs butt berfore you eat will decrease your appetite.

caritiger

the one where people order tapeworms and ingest them so that you will lose weight...

I hear that actually used to be popular, which is just disgusting!


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budhandy

licking a dogs butt berfore you eat will decrease your appetite.

gross but true

miss_september

An ex-coworker once told me (while eating a large McDonalds fries) that there is nothing wrong with fries, they are potatoes, and potatoes are a vegetable, and vegetables are good for you.

We tried to explain the whole concept of "deep fried" but it was beyond her comprehension... :noway:

So there you have it.... fries are a vegetable!.
Now who's coming to McD's with me? :laugh:

Not to mention that potatoes are a STARCH, not a VEGETABLE (I work with potatoes for a living right now....this common misconception gets very annoying!) lol

Bull2707

fasting

hazev74

never expose it to bright light (especially sunlight, which will kill it); never get it wet (which will make it multiply); and, most importantly: never, ever feed it after midnight.

^^love this!! lol :laugh:

bcattoes

I can't remember what it was called, but it was some diet where you could only eat carbs like, during a certain 2 hour time period. Or many it was a 45 minute time period? And after that window of time, no more carbs. So you'd eat like a rabbit for most of the day, and then load up of donuts and corn muffins and bagels from the hours of 7 am to 9 am. It made no sense at all- I never understood how that was supposed to work.

Oh, that reminds of a diet my sister was on years (and years) ago where you could eat breads and you could eat meat but you were never supposed to eat them together or within a certain amount of time of eating the other.

ArtGeek22

The grapefruit diet. That was rediculous.

I actually ate grape fruit everyday as part of my snack and in 1 year I had lost 30 pounds..........but I'm not sure if the grapefruit was what helped? LOL!

I have actually heard grapefruit acts as a hungry suppressant or something. But I agree, it sounds ridiculous! (and I don't like grapefruits anyway :laugh:)

theladyy

That woman told me a number of crazy diet stuff she'd read on the internet over the years. I remember the last time I saw her, I was 20 then, she patted my stomach and told me to take up smoking basically to smoke a cigarette every time I felt hungry and if that didn't work, do pot.

I always joke with my parents. who smoke, about taking it up to help lose weight. The first time I did it, the looks on their faces were priceless! Also...I don't think pot would really help with weight loss...lol.

bcattoes

licking a dogs butt berfore you eat will decrease your appetite.

Ugh! I'm not sure that one is a myth. :sick:

Vegan_Chick

The Twinkie Diet was pretty rediculous

deadstarsunburn

My gym teacher in high school said as we stretched "If you stretch everyday you'll lose weight it just melts away fat I don't know why no one does it!"