The dumbest diet you ever tried?

Alatariel75

Tony Ferguson. 2 crappy tasting shakes a day, a salad (no dressing) with lunch and 120g of lean meat with veg for dinner. Lost a heap of weight, very fast, put it back on just as fast when I stopped. I was grumpy and BORING the whole time I was on it. I even bought into the "you can turn your shakes into bread/pancakes/things that are almost real food" while on it. For shame.

hmaddpear

Oh dear...

Let's see. Cambridge diet, Slimfast. Generic 80's 1000 calories a day diet. Urgh.

Favourite dumb diet though was the Guinness and Burger King milkshake diet, when I was at Uni. This wasn't planned, but was insanely busy with my final year, working part time and running a small student union. I wouldn't have time to eat during the day, would drink a few pints of Guinness in the evening, then grab a milkshake on the way home. Lost three stone (42 pounds) on that. But gained it all back and then some after Graduation!

sjanejack

Well I tried slimfast, I used to use slimfast drinks, drinking them before I would get a lot of exercise. Their shakes didn't taste very good, I didn't actually lose any weight. Plus I was actually over-exercising. I've tried slimfast bars, and they just don't taste very good, like a gross candy bar. I didn't really try anything else though luckily.

Unaisha8

The lemon detox diet- I never do that mistake again in my life. I lost 7 lbs by the end of it but two weeks later, I put on 12 lbs and I didn't even have any cheat meals as I was eating clean.

mspoopoo

The worst by far is the Standard American Diet. Gain lots of weight, high blood pressure, diabetes.

I did SlimFast and Optifast and Weight Watchers.

I did create my own diet and did lose over 30lbs and kept it off for several years.

teamAmelia

Chocolate diet. You eat only one dark chocolate bar a day - about 600 calories.

Wine diet. Just dry wine and apples. At least a bottle a day. That was awesooooooooome. )))))) But couldn't work, drive or study so I stopped. But my mood was great ))

:laugh: :laugh: Sounds like someone was playing a joke on you...twice.

Maidofmer

anything that had the word diet in it

Maidofmer

Chocolate diet. You eat only one dark chocolate bar a day - about 600 calories.

Wine diet. Just dry wine and apples. At least a bottle a day. That was awesooooooooome. )))))) But couldn't work, drive or study so I stopped. But my mood was great ))

:laugh: :laugh: Sounds like someone was playing a joke on you...twice.

sign me up for that one!

kindasortachewy

eat more to lose wieght! hahahahahahahah

This -- BS!

MinMin97

Awesome question:happy:

PinkNinjaLaura

I thought I had tried them all...until I read this post.

LA Weightloss was ridiculously expensive, you had to eat these bad bars (that you buy from them of course) twice a day, and then periodically there was a 2 day thing where you drank this juice (that you buy from them of course) and ate small amounts of protein and green vegetables. Plus I had to go there 3x a week to weigh in. When I didn't lose weight as fast as they thought I should (needed to lose 2 pounds a week every week to stay on their schedule) there would have been an extra fee to keep going, on top of the $1K plus in fees, plus all the bars, juices, etc.

I did some thing through my former chiropractor's office where I ate 700 calories a day 6 days a week, took these pills that were supposed to make it okay, and then had one day where I could eat normally. I dropped 20 pounds fast then stopped losing - their solution was that I should eat less on my one normal eating day because THAT was the problem.

I did WW (lost 36 pounds but gained 15 back while still going to weekly meetings), Herbalife (lost 40 pounds & kept it off for a couple of years but couldn't lose any more than that), the soup diet (oatmeal for breakfast & soup for lunch & dinner every day-made it about 3 days), I met with a nutritionist, I did Protein Power (similar to Atkins - lost 38 pounds but then started eating carbs again), South Beach (didn't lose much weight but my cholesterol dropped nearly 100 points), Slim Fast, Special K Diet, Hydroxycut, etc.

sugarbum1990

I took some terrible advice from someone I thought was a friend, she gave me a "diet tablet" well thats what she called it that was meant to stop you feeling hungry...didnt eat for couple days and felt terrible.. that was quite weird.

In the past I guess also only drinking water and tiny mouthful of foods and way to much exercise.. not a good idea!! quick diets never work

Peachy1962

The milk diet!!! back in High school a lot of us girls were doing it!! No food except milk during the day and a small supper of 2 oz of protein and 1/2 cup of green veggies and milk before bed!! the whole fat milk was suppose to satiate the appiette and it did a fairly good job but Hey who could keep that up for long??

we all did lose some weight

cj731

HCG homeopathic drops - I lasted 10 days and every morning after getting out of bed, I would have to lean against a wall for 30 seconds and wait for the faint feeling to go and the black spots in my vision to fade. To be fair I did lose quite a bit of weight in that 10 days. I was seven kilos (around 15.5 pounds) lighter than I currently am, but I honestly looked fatter then than I do now as there was no muscle tone.
No exercise meant I probably lost what little muscle mass I had too, I was lighter but certainly looked pudgier and couldnt fit into clothes I can actually get into now. That's not to say other people haven't had success on HCG, but for me it wasn't successful. I rebounded from 59kg (just over 130 pounds) back up to 72.5kg (around 160 pounds!) within a few months as I just lost the motivation to continue after feeling so unwell on HCG and seeing so little improvement in my body.
I also tried the lemon detox diet - 3 days and two migraines later I quit that too!

WenHurley

Grapefruit diet - didn't work

Dexatrim pills - gave me diarrhea. The Imodium I took to stop it, counteracted the Dexatrim and I was extremely hungry.

SlimFast shakes - same as above.

Also, tried Weight Watchers. That one didn't work for me.

Now, trying to keep track of what I eat (eat less) & to exercise.

itsjustdawn

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

This right here.

wildheart_cowgirl

Cabbage Soup Diet, Lemonade Diet and The Hollywood Diet.

slimbettie

1. cabbage soup diet
2. maple syrup diet
3. herbalife shakes diet

sassy9111

There are many, but one is very very dangerous, and it never hurts to warn people.
Diet Pills, Ionamin, pure speed.
Did I lose weight?
YES
Quickly?
YES
Was I happy, pretty, and ready to date?
NOPE
My face was red and sore from not sleeping, my breathe stank, I was to tired to go out, and
I could have killed myself, because they were speed.
Oh, when you go off the pills, you eat again!

HeinekenMan

I haven't tried that many "diets." Years ago, my mom had a book by Martina Navratilova. She was a tennis star, in case you didn't know. I don't know the name of the book. All I remember is that she advocated eating lean meats, veggies and lots of carbs. She recommended pasta and potatoes. Today, people would freak out if you said you were on a diet with those foods. But I did really well on that diet. I loved to have a big baked potato or a plate of spaghetti. These days, I have noticed that starchy foods leave me hungry again after a few hours. I now eat whole wheat pasta. But I certainly don't avoid carbs. I still believe in their value as part of a healthy diet. I could never do the Atkins Diet.

SrJoben

Atkins.
Years ago,
because my parents were,
because apparently everyone was,
at that point,
for some reason.

aquarabbit

Easily the master cleanse. So stupid. I managed it for the full 10 days I wanted to and threw up my veggie soup for the next 4 days. Not worth it, didn't work, I didn't feel better, and I couldn't go to the bathroom right for the next 2 weeks. Never ever again.

smokinjackd

When I was way younger I wanted to see if I could lose weight by drinking only beer, I did lose weight actually, but it also led to a lot of partying, sex with women who's names I never knew, friends coming over at all hours, lots of dancing, bar hopping, house part............wait a second, that was the BEST damn diet I've ever been on, what was I thinking, sheesh, I must be getting old, what's wrong with me....carry on.

be_patient

omg my mum has been on a bunch of different meal replacement diets for who knows how long...optislim, optifast, celebrity slim, whatever. it doesn't work.

CannibalisticVegetarian

The worst diet I ever tried was a low carb diet. A friend of mines was doing it and so I decided to join him since it was obviously working for him. I tried the diet for maybe a week before kindly bowing out. The lack of carbs and food made me super b!tchy! In that week I'd lost about three or pounds too but that was packed on with extra weight to boot.

MermaidTX

Late 1970's - Liquid Diet (Slimfast & soup). The resulting diarrhea after the 3rd day was nooo fun!
Mid 1980's - the Lose 10 lbs in 1 month 1000 Calories a Day diet - gained 5 lbs instead of losing 8!

tsikkz

I feel like bumping this

asdowe13

Seefood diet - See food, eat food, infinitely better then those listed below.

Atkins
1200 calories/day
No sugar
Slimfast
Low Carb

ithrowconfetti

Not a diet per se, but I was dumb enough to buy into the "super" herbal supplements theory. I got supplements for cayenne pepper, chromium, hoodia, green tea, all those "thermogenic" miracles, and then "detox" ones like apple cider vinegar, black walnut, chickweed, triphala, etc. I lost a lot of pounds from a reduction in brain cells. So glad I bought them though, because I can safely say they absolutely do not work in aiding weight loss whatsoever.

apparations

Thanks for the bump, this was a fun read.
I took diet pills once in college, don't remember what they were exactly. I took them for a couple weeks, they made me feel weird.
Also, the paleo diet-- I ate what ever I wanted but no carbs or dairy. Might've worked had I done it at a calorie deficit. Instead I just ate like 8 pieces of bacon a day. And more meat than I've ever eaten in my life! If anything I maintained weight, but then my birthday came a long, I binged on cake and went back to carbs full force after that.