The dumbest diet you ever tried?

autumnpath · May 2013

Worst diet: eating whatever the hell I want in whatever amount I want. That's what got me here.

THIS. ^^^

Acg67 · May 2013

Clean eating diet

trophywife24 · May 2013

Atkins, by far. It worked while I was doing it (read: while I was starving and eating cheese and pork rinds) but then I fell off the wagon, got dragged under it for several miles and got even fatter. :blushing:

Imani9629 · May 2013

48 hour juice diet. I had just moved to Las Vegas and it was 115 degrees outside and all I had was that stupid juice for 2 days. I almost passed out from dehydration

luckyjuls · May 2013

I haven't done it but my in-laws went on the diet where you put little metal balls behind your ears and move them around whenever you are hungry. Oh and you barely eat anything the whole day. I think they were allowed an apple for breakfast and lunch and maybe 3 oz of chicken and veggies for dinner. My FIL didn't last a day. My MIL lasted a week and lost some, then gained it all back.

PSYCHO.

moni_tb_192 · May 2013

The apple diet... the version I tried was a 7-day diet, back when I was 15. One of my friends from high school had done it to fit into her sweet 15's awesome dress (yup, I still remember how incredibly pretty it was) and I decided I'd give it a try. I managed to make it to day 3, and since then, I've been able to have one or to apples a year. Hate them now!

Candi_land · May 2013

Cabbage Soup Diet. I lost weight but no one wanted to be near me thanks to the raunchy smells coming from my *kitten*.

MizTerry · May 2013

Oh my, I haven't heard of Susan Powter in a long time!
I did the cabbage soup diet.
I did the Dexatrim and Metabolife back when they actually DID halfway work (for me, anyway...yeah, I know it was the ephedrine).
Some I'm too embarrassed to even tap out.

judypriv · May 2013

Cabbage Soup in the mid 90's. My dad and I did it and we both lost a lot of weigh but my the third week we were actually gagging on the soup when we ate it. We were putting it in the blender and chugging it cause one more spoonful wouldn't have been puke city.
The high school diet where I ate an apple for breakfast. A apple and a glass of milk for lunch and a bowl of soup and a glass of milk for dinner. I lost 30 lbs in 30 days but my dad was going to have me committed for anorexia! Lord, I wish I was as fat now as I back then when I thought I was fat!

tsikkz · May 2013

bump

RepsnSets · May 2013

Green coffee - I lost about 25 kilos but then they banned it cause it had a nasty substance in it that explained the racing heart, insomnia, high blood pressue, absolutely no appetite and jitterness

LOL someone should of smacked me in the face hard back then!

Danilynn1975 · May 2013

eat more to lose wieght! hahahahahahahah

Timshel_ · May 2013

I drank beer and ate chips for a few days back in college. That didn't do well.

SLLRunner · August 2013

I tried so many diets that I have lost track: AIDS (little chocolate squares before each meal to curb your appetite), Slimfast, egg diet, cabbage soup diet, and the list goes on.

I also fell for the "eat all you want and still lose weight!"--namely, Susan Powter and the McDougall Program.

None of them are that healthy in the long run, especially Powter and McDougall because of the super low fat. However, I love some of McDougall' s foods.

I will never diet again, but hopefully I will do what I'm doing now for the rest of my life.

Zuzanna100 · August 2013

Hmmm. I've done almost all of them, twice! (not HGC).

Dumbest would be the cookie diet. $60 for not many cookies because you don't eat many cookies but that's all you eat!

I'm doing Atkins now. It's worked before and not worked after but it's been long enough I think it's working again. It has to be a lifelong way of eating for me. Carbs do bad things for my joints and I can do only limited types of excercise, so my diet has to be in order for me to feel good. It's hard to get in my calories unless I'm cooking corned beef and cabbage-then it's an all day buffet-but allowed!

magerum · August 2013

Peeing on an electric fence.

tonynguyen75 · August 2013

May get a lot of hate on for this one:

Paleo.

Gwibbertronii · August 2013

In order of appearance; Carbohydrate Addicts diet...Atkins #1...weightwatchers.... Slimming world...weightwatchers....calorie counting.....slimfast....weightwatchers....calorie counting....weightwatchers....intermittent fasting....now on #Atkins 2 (low carb but not quite as hard as Atkins #1).

My adult life is based 50% on dieting, and 50% emotional bingeing on sugar and carbs. I bet I've got enough insulin in here for a whole family.

Ninkyou · August 2013

All of them. Once I realized I needed to change my lifestyle and not diet is when all the magic started to happen. Screw diets.

FatOldBat · August 2013

The Stillman Diet, Atkins' great grandaddy: high protein, no carbs, no butter or oil in meal prep, 8 glasses of water a day. It worked for Karen Carpenter (for a while).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stillman_diet

SLLRunner · August 2013

My friend's MD put her on the Paleo eating plan because of issues with joints and joint pain. She sticks to it most of the time, and her pain has lessened considerably.

I think it's honest of you to say that Paleo was a ridiculous diet for you.

tonynguyen75 · August 2013

My friend's MD put her on the Paleo eating plan because of issues with joints and joint pain. She sticks to it most of the time, and her pain has lessened considerably.

I think it's honest of you to say that Paleo was a ridiculous diet for you.

Well I basically thought I could eat as much as I wanted as long as it was organic meat, veggies, nuts or fruit. I didn't gain any weight, but I did spend a butt load of money on organic meats. T_T

lsorci919 · August 2013

Diet pills. I worked out while taking them and watched what I ate. So really it wasn't the diet pills that were making me lose, it was the eating right and exercise. Without the right food and exercise the pills did nothing for me except give me the shakes and kept me awake at night.

0somuchbetter0 · August 2013

The summer between junior and senior year of high school I ate nothing but pickles and crackers. I was cranky and shaky and nauseated and I even passed out a couple of times, but when the scale reached 90 lbs (I'm 5'3') I thought I had succeeded.

shadus · August 2013

Oh man... the number of stupid diets I did.

Juicing.

Carnation instant breakfast (you can actually live off these for months, its just monotonous and when you go off hard to keep it off, doctors sometimes have people use them instead of the more costly liquid supplements if they have jaw surgery).

Fast food diet for a few months to prove a point (that you can lose weight eating anything).

Full fasting for a month at a time. (eg: eat nothing for a month)

Some cleanse or another with cayenne pepper, maple syrup, and lemons. (still remember the stupid recipe years later)

Atkins (for me... it's just not feasible, it works fine for many people even long term.)

Sensa/caffeine/diet pills/ephedrine (worked while taking them)

Nothing but lettuce (couldn't do cabbage it disgusts me)

etc... the problem with 90% of them... they're just not maintainable indefinitely... and if you're not forcing yourself to be accountable you end up right back where you started in a few months. The accountability is what I'm really seeking on mfp... must maintain even after ending the 'lose weight' phase.

MadisonHein · August 2013

I did the ABC diet, SGD, and "healthy" SGD. (skinny girl diet). like i didn't finish the whole diet plan since i felt really weak. pretty stupid/dangerous thing to do :$

Honestly I dont understand how some people can stay on that diet for the whole month and not wind up dead?!