Fad Diets

laurenellenmarie

My mother is the definition of a fad dieter...Her latest, "I'm only going to eat steak for two weeks so I can lose thirty pounds." Yeah Mom, let me know how that works for you.


Any one else have similar stories?

kimothy38

Just steak? Sounds like an expensive diet.

laurenellenmarie

Oh yeah like two days in she will quit.
She's done this my entire life.

fitmum2be

too right my mother in law is doing the HCG diet well was she stopped after a few weeks and went back to her old ways theres no middle ground for her and my mate is doing the 500cal a day diet..... ARGH! eat healthy people it's a lifestyle change!
My mate did lose a lot of weight on the 500cal diet like 20kgs .. she weighs less than me now but has no tone at all, hates working out and if she puts anything in her mouth over her 500 she gains a kg lol

TheVimFuego

I did the low fat one for a while.

It was hell.

Zylahe

Yep,
A" how did you lose your weight, was it just healthy eating?"
B. " yeah and my 15 min stroll everyday, just being more aware of hat i eat"
A " yeah i' m going to lose a stone in the next tw weeks"
B" umm ok then ...."

I was actually speachless.

wolfchild59

My mother in law is one of the smartest and most amazing women I know. I absolutely won the inlaw jackpot when I met my husband and became a part of his family. I respect and admire her in more ways than I describe.

But the woman is ridiculous when it comes dieting and losing weight. When I met her she was on Weight Watchers and even teaching classes about WW at her church. Since that time she's yo-yo'd up and down on her weight constantly while trying things like Atkins, juice fasts, back to Weight Watchers, South Beach, etc. Her latest is that she's doing the OptiFast Shakes and bars and no other food of any kind. She started last month and will finish just before Thanksgiving.

She always loses a bunch of weight while on the diet and talks about how great it is and always tells everyone how this is really the best way to do it and how amazing it is. Then as soon as the WW session ends or she stops the plan she's on, all of the weight comes right back on.

And both she and her husband do it together each time, he's actually even bigger now than when I first met them. At one point, he was eating a total of 800 calories a day and biking back and forth to work every day, 45 minutes both ways.

They both constantly talk to me about how I lost the weight and what I did but never actually seem to hear what I tell them because then they just move on to the next fad diet. It makes me so sad.

bokodasu

I wish I could remember the one I did back in the 80's - today it would be a chain email, but back then everyone was passing it around on photocopies. It claimed to come from the AHA (it didn't, but we didn't have an Internet to look things up on) and basically it was "starve all day, have half a cup of ice cream before bed". Anyway, my mom put a stop to that after about two days when she figured out what I was doing, so go Mom. I did NOT fall for the cabbage soup or grapefruit diets, even though my coworkers were really pushing both of them. Oh, and the HGH one that another coworker did a couple years ago and kept talking up and trying to get the rest of us to do. (All the other women I worked with were skinny; I didn't want to, and the one who did it wound up heavier than when she started.)

laurenellenmarie

Oh yeah! Was it like the three day diet? Where you eat like beets, green beans, three crackers and then ice cream? The "chemical breakdown diet" I think they called it!

Yes. My mother made us do that once. I lost seven pounds. She lost two. She never did it again because "It just didn't work like she wanted it to."

WendyTerry420

My mother is the definition of a fad dieter...Her latest, "I'm only going to eat steak for two weeks so I can lose thirty pounds." Yeah Mom, let me know how that works for you.


Any one else have similar stories?

OMG! Your mom and my mom should do lunch! :laugh:

One thing I take away from it is that I will never be a fad dieter. My mom has tried everything out there, except moderation. Since the latest fad diet doesn't work (again), she gives up for a while and goes back to her old eating habits. I can't get her to exercise at all either. She says she is too fat to exercise. :frown:

Determinednoob

I am on a "fad" diet. It is called "high protein"

peuglow

Just steak? Sounds like a delicious diet.

Fixed

laurenellenmarie

Yep. I stopped by her house three nights ago. Fresh batch of chocolate chip cookies.

Went by today, ANOTHER batch of cookies half eaten.

She wonders why she gains weight....

WendyTerry420

I am on a "fad" diet. It is called "high protein"

:laugh:

karenhowell2012

Check out this for a fad diet - blue sunglasses?!
http://www.theranktank.com/blog/2012/11/a-new-dieting-fad-has-reared-it-s-head-the-see-diet-tried-it-yet-/