Worst diet advice!!!!!!

marcvandenberg

just stop eating, it will work..

lcfairbairn74

I have laughed (ok, snorted) my way through all of the responses.....yup, heard them all!! :noway:

MissRae123

saving for later

skinnylady2014

Hilarious!!!!

MzzFaith

Duuh skip breakfast I'm not that's fuel the main important to my body

mikey1976

bump for later

beattie1

Bump to finish later....

traceytwink

Try this herbalife shake its not like your normal tasting shake ( no that's because it tastes s@&* ) and you will lose weight fast, um no thanks I like real food

smantha32

Cotton balls soaked in orange juice.

WTF?

smantha32

I know someone who has lost 60 lbs in 4 months with this Cambridge *kitten*. 500 or 800 calories a day in shakes... I cannot wait to see how she will hold up once she starts eating again. She has had days where she slipped and had some fries and immediately had a big gain... So this is going to be interesting.

I did that one when I was a teenager. As soon as I started eating food again all the weight came back.

Rowan813

A coworker with an eating disorder told me to eat no carbs at all-just fruits and vegetables.(WTF) Oh, yeah and swim laps 3 hours a day. Thanks,but, I like a balanced clean diet and weightlifting. Seems to be working just fine.

graceire

Cotton balls soaked in orange juice.

WTF?

Really, I need to know what to do with the orange juice soaked cotton balls, otherwise how will I ever lose weight! :huh:

emibrus1

Cotton balls soaked in orange juice.

WTF?

Really, I need to know what to do with the orange juice soaked cotton balls, otherwise how will I ever lose weight! :huh:

Yeah you're supposed to eat them. Back in my anorexic days I was given off handed advice to eat toilet paper -around 10-12 sheets daily - to stave off hunger. Thank goodness I had more (barely considering how sick I was) common sense than that. I actually saw a news video a few months ago about how the toilet paper thing is starting to spread among extreme dieting though...

oohashbee

The people at my workplace are diet experts. So far I've been told:

* don't eat any carbs what so ever. Carbs is basically just fat, so you don't want to eat that. While you're at it, don't eat fat either.

* it's ok if you eat this salad, it's salad, it's good for you!!! (the salad was as big as my head and was in a bread bowl filled with cheese, ranch dressing and croutons)

* I'm going to start these shakes, you drink two a day then you can eat whatever you want for dinner and it just burns the fat, you should try it.

* it's ok to have a cheat meal, you ate a salad today so it cancels it out.


Uhhhhh....wow....

MarisaDLS2

A lot of bad advice was floating around in the 60's/70's/80's.

"Don't eat any food whatsoever, fast, drink water only and bouillion a few times a day for the salt."
I actually did this twice when I was 15 years old (39 years ago), for a week at a time.
I remember feeling ravenously hungry and actually faint at times.

Another was getting a staple in the ear,
(theoretically accupuncture-based to decrease hunger),
wiggling the staple whenever you felt hungry.
Yes, I did this.
No, this was not effective.

Another one was getting an inflatable device placed in the stomach.
The device inflated was the size of a small pop-can.
You were put under anesthesia, they inserted the deflated device into your stomach and inflated it.
This was supposed to make you feel full and your stomach would hold less food.
Later they discovered this caused gastric erosions and some perforated their stomachs.
Quickly fell out of favor after a lot of lawsuits.

Another horrible idea was surgical removal of the ileum (part of small intestine).
They performed this on a number of people who had dramatic weight loss,
then horrible complications from inability to clot properly
due to low or no Vitamin K (which is absorbed from your food by the ileum).
Something like 80% died from hemorrhaging/internal bleeding,
even a minor trip and fall, or bump into something could be fatal.
Another badly conceived idea with horrific consequences.

Raven2evil

Omg that's hilarious!!

I've been told that toasted bread doesn't have calories. The act of toasting it incinerates the calories!

omg thats the best thing i ever heard

psychedelicfrenzy

Here's a few good ones from the dumb "pro-ana/mia" communities/people that float around the internets that really tickle my peach.

ABC (some stupid "Ana" Boot Camp thing that has 50 days a severe restriction and calorie cycling--none of the calories going over 800 at the most. most days are under 500, 3-5 fast days, and one 800 calorie day. There's also a few 50 calorie days. Yes, 50.)

SGD/HSGD (Skinny Girl Diet/Healthy Skinny Girl Diet. Basically the same as ABC but not as restrictive and fruits and veggies do not count in the intake. It's pretty stupid.)

fruit/veggie/yogurt/juice fasting (I personally think this is stupid because a fast does not have anything that includes calories in my opinion. That just defeats the purpose of said "fast")

Even though I have an eating disorder, a lot of these "pro ED" diets and anything pro ED, just really annoys me. Basically with a lot of these, "it doesn't matter what you eat as long as you get only the targeted amount of calories allotted."

It's really annoying actually.
ED or not, these "diets" will only lead to you "binging".

Personally, I tend to be very restrictive, but that comes with my ED and my thought processes.... It's not fun.

But, personally, if a "fad diet" has a 3 or 4 letter acronym to define it or whatever, it's pointless and stupid.

(please don't give me crap for this post... I understand that what I'm doing is not "healthy" and such.. I'm not going for healthy... this is the illness and how I choose to go about things.. Please do not be offended or anything by anything I've posted. It is all my opinion.
sorry, im a paranoid person.)

Prephred

''If you want something bad eat Ice cream because it goes through you as it is more like liquid'' that's the advice of my close friend who is a 'fitness nut' trying to justify eating ice cream and to this day he claims he is right. still looks the same, but he is definitely right lol

LOL that is as bad as saying since ice cream is so cold, you burn up calories heating it up! No seriously that was what I was told.

Mommylicous

"You should do a cleanse!"

Run. Run fast.

psychedelicfrenzy

Reminds me another thing I saw someone said/tried. They wanted to lose x amount of weight by summer or something and said they were going on a diet.
But they said they were cutting out all sugars and sweets but it was ok to have ice cream because "it's a liquid so it won't count"
Im just like... are you stupid? :huh:

whitecapwendy

that homemade piece of chocolate candy with cashews and raisins I happily took lay st Tuesday night even though I had only 50 calories left for the day? I was happy to hear the maker of that candy say that she does not allow calories in her candy and that cashews have very little calories. (not!! but I ate it anyway)

PrajnaFaux

Worst advice? "You have to eat some sweets everyday, or your cravings will get worse and you'll binge."

I actually just saw this advice repeated in the current Runner's World magazine.

Honestly, for most of us with binging issues it's that first bite that makes us crave more. I have completely given up sugar and artificial sweeteners and rarely have cravings anymore, have lost 15 pounds, and have finally got a handle on my depression and anxiety. Yet, after telling people this, they still come back with, "You have to eat SOME sugar!" Drives me batty. Like I don't know my own body and triggers?

SunnyAndrsn

I recently had a FB friend, a former high school classmate, try and give me her pitch for her new "business venture". It was some MLM vitamin crap that were full of artificial sweeteners. I told her I was fine, had lost over 50 pounds without any of that, and she responded with "my protein shake is better than yours--it only has like 50 calories."

Um, no thanks, I'd rather have something with enough calories so that I feel full.

Next it was "but I lost 8 pounds in like 13 days"

Yeah, I lost 10 pounds my first few weeks too...so...what's your point?

So much of this crap is being peddled. I know of another MLM type scam that sells very, very over priced crap full of caffeine and clams to cure just about everything from migraines to arthritis. Need to loose weight? This product will work. Need to gain weight? This same product will work.

777twist

To me... most of the diet programs out there are the "Worst diet advice." I really hate the ones that say if you cut this out, you can gorge on that. This goes for those low to no fat, carb, or protein diets or the ones that restrict what you eat. Sure, you don't want to eat Fast Foods or processed foods very often, but other than that... just keep things balanced and in moderation.

But beyond those "programs and systems."

- Milk (A girl told me a guy told her a glass a day and she will lose weight)
- Carb Phasers or really any pill/drug (horrible idea... if you think you can just take a pill, you will eat double)
- Diet only (you have to exercise... even if you are old, injured or whatever, you need to move your body)
- B-12 shots (same as the drug thing above)
- Surgery (Sorry, if you can't do it without surgery, you probably wont keep it off. That being said, there are some people who are so fat they will probably die if they don't get some pounds off. For them, maybe even the short term reduction will help)
- Shakes or any type of drink only (just eat normal, shakes should be snacks, not replacing all your meals)
- Water (okay, I all for water, but I remember a guy who said if he just filled up on tons of water he wouldn't be able to eat as much and his metabolism would work faster, etc... Just drink the amount you are supposed to, water isn't a magic bullet)
- and finally all those things like cinnamon, cayenne, caffeine, dark chocolate, etc... that is supposed to jump start your metabolism and provide you with other benefits. Again, do these in moderation, but don't use them as magic bullets.

Well, those are main ones I remember hearing over the years.

goldenfish3

Don't bother exercising because once you have a drink you gain the weight again!

kckBxer396

Getting conch and/or daith piercing will cause you to lose weight. I've had both,just because I liked them. If there's any truth to that, it's because it was so sore 2 days later that it hurt to move my mouth!!! haha
Also, when I was a child, someone told me to tape my ears down at night and they wouldn't stick out as much. I know that doesn't pertain to weight loss,but I still can't believe the things some people try to get others to believe!

chubbybunnee

The Hcg diet. I just cant abelieve anyone has done this. I worked with a group of girls who did this a few years ago. While they all did lose weight, ALL of them regained within a year, and some have had hair loss, skin issues, etc.
Whoever thinks eating only 500cals a day from a list of 20 or so foods and injecting themselves with pregnancy hormone is a good way to live, I have some ocean front property in Kansas to sell ya!

So TRUE! I was working out and eating healthy and went from 225lbs to 171lbs using MFP as my guide. My friends wife was on the Hcg diet. She was bragging about how she had lost 14lbs of baby weight in a month on it and all she had to do was only eat 500 calories, drink an exorbitant amount of water, etc....I laughed at her and said "anyone would lose weight like that without drops because you are eating so little and filling yourself up with water! This is not a healthy way to lose it and maintain etc.... " She then said "why work hard when you don't have too?" I said "Because then my body will have muscle tone and will be healthy, I will have energy, and I can consume 4 times the amount of calories you are and still stay in my calorie limits because I was burning so many calories at the gym and during extracurricular activities." She took offense to it and said I was basically calling her stupid. I didn't mean to offend her, because she was just under educated and she didn't know any better. Different strokes for different folks. She got pregnant again soon after she stopped them, and she gained twice as much baby weight the second time and is still struggling to get it off. I can't criticize too much because I gained 20lbs back the following year during my divorce. (I am a severe stress eater especially when I'm depressed.) But I'm back on MFP and have noticed that even though I hadn't stepped into the gym in a year, I am still way better off now than when I first started! I couldn't jog longer than 20 seconds without being too winded, and now I can jog/run for 2 min before I start having to breathe out of my mouth. Still not fit enough, but an improvement from when I first started. I will swear by the basics for the rest of my life. No crash or fad diets. If you want that sexy body, you gotta work for it and fuel your body with what it needs to contribute to that. I'm angry with myself for gaining the weight back, but now my new therapy is yoga or going to the gym whenever I am able. The days I don't, I watch my calorie intake. I want to start 30 Day Shred all over again because I will swear by that routine!

Claudiaaa1528

Omg that's hilarious!!

I've been told that toasted bread doesn't have calories. The act of toasting it incinerates the calories!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Can't stop laughing!
It's the same thing with all the food we cook I guess HAHAHAHAHAHA

angelcurry130

have actually had someone tell me that my weight loss is super scary (averaging about 6 lbs a month) and that i need to stop drinking "plant water" (i happen to take about a TBSP of chia a day in a glass of water) so that i don't waste away...yeeeah.

ekahnicole

This has more than a few that make me facepalm.
Mixed in with some good advice as well, which in a way is even worse