May I suggest... You'll lose 20 pounds in a week!

Honestly why do people want to lose weight so fast! There is no magical diet that can actually help you lose the weight you need to lose and maintain it, in a healthy way. I rather eat 1200-1500 calories a day of healthy stuff and lose 1-2 pounds a week than to hurt my body and lose "5-10" in a week.

I'd rather lose 1-3 pounds a month eating 1800-2100 calories a day of healthy stuff.

-Don´t train before you lost weight or you will become all bulky
-wear spanx all the time
-drink water instead of meals ( you should see me when I don´t get enough to eat! :devil: )
-skip dinner for a week

And most of the suggestions without me even asking for one.

Sadly, I tried a lot of gimmicks (even the herbalife ones).... I just couldn't stick with them at all. It felt like I was not allowed to enjoy the food that I love.... Since coming on myfitnesspal, I've made a lifestyle change that I could stick with. I don't have nagging cravings (if I do, I eat that food that I'm craving just in a smaller portion). I'm not grumpy or moody or feel like i'm starving myself. I'm happy, energetic, and feeling great!!! I've changed a lot of things at small amounts at a time. It's rare if I go to a fast food place now (maybe once or twice a month- whereas before it was like once or twice a week). I choose fruit and veggies to snack on versus cookies. There's so many little things that I have just changed in my daily lifestyle for the better.... Heck, I'm even going to a gym and using an elliptical (which I swore I would never use again- almost fell off of one the first time I used it yrs ago)....

Don't fall for the diet gimmicks... Oh, and if you want proof that a lifestyle change is better than any one of those gimmicks: I'm in a weight loss class at my church. The ladies that are in charge are selling herbalife. Thankfully, you don't have to use their products to be in the class. Almost (if not everyone else) in the class was using their products during the first round of 12 week classes. I went to the classes understand more about nutrition and things like how much protein, fiber, etc our body needs and also to have an accountability group. Well, in the end I was the biggest loser in the class (and I started 4 weeks later than everyone else)!!!!! That's proof right there that you do not need to do some diet crap to lose weight!!!

That is some amazing dedication to be able to stick to that kind of crap.
I'll never understand how these celebrities can drink lemon water with Cayanne in it for three or 4 days…
Screw that give me food.
Maybe I'm a glutton… Okay I'm probably a glutton…
But I don't care brother be fat than drinking lemon oatmeal whatever…

See you around

You're looking great by the way.

lol thank you! Yea I have heard of the Cayanne pepper and lemon water.. "Beyonce" does it... That's just sick

I did that mess about 3 years ago for 14 days. Lost a ton of weight but when it came time to come down from it I got sick as a dog. Gained all the weight back and then some.

I bought some pills from one of those 'As Seen on TV' stores - you were supposed to take them after you ate and they claim to congeal the fat from your meal and it would pass through before your body could absorb it. The demonstration was very convincing however, that was the only impressive thing about them. I still can't believe I spent so much money on gimmicks like that.

I had a doc who suggested I do the Scarsdale diet.

I found a new doctor.

may fave of wall was laxatives in each meal!! nice
you can eat what ever you like then.....just make sure you never walk far from the toilet!!

LOL i love that one!!

Yeah some one mentioned Herbal Life. I tried that and was even a distributor long long ago. Someone also suggested the cabbage diet. LOL I lasted a day and got smart. I could not believe people did that. Most gained it all back and then some. There is no quick fix remedy to weight loss and there are no DIETS!

I thank God I realized that and got on the right path to healthy eating. It is not a walk in the park but well worth it when you see the results.

I'd much rather find the magic pill that'll help me lose 20 pounds of fat a week (for a week or 2), than do all the hard work for most of the year. And honestly I don't believe most people who say they do not want a miracle cure. I wouldn't bother about maintaining much either. It it just takes 1 day a month stay at my target weight while eating what I want, I'd take it. I'd still go train because that's helping me run and lift, but I'd happily do without all the calorie counting and skipping of ice cream.

Unfortunately miracles do not exist. I'm not surprised if you lose 5 lbs if you only drink water for 3 days, you've just cleaned out your intestines, good luck with your next meal, that'll show on the scale immediately. But if and when there's that miracle, I'm definitely in for it.

Drink water with cinnamon sticks in it. It will literally melt the fat off of you! Yeah right.

"For breakfast you have oatmeal, for lunch a can of tuna, then for dinner a can of green beans. I know this lady who lost six pounds in a week". A CAN of green beans. Guess Frozen green beans just don't melt the same amount of fat cells.

may fave of wall was laxatives in each meal!! nice
you can eat what ever you like then.....just make sure you never walk far from the toilet!!

Ewww, and I thought Ally was bad with the anal leakage. That may cause anal flooding!

DOUBE EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW I lmao reading this one! Thanks, made my day!

What I hate... I mean really HATE(!!!), are the people who see me and say: "Wow, you look GREAT! You've lost so much! Hey, you should try X diet/pill/ect. I hear you can lose, like, 10 pounds a week."

Um, ok, you just told me I'm looking good. You can see I'm losing, and doing fine with it. What on earth makes you think I'm looking to *change* what is working for me?


ETA: Forgot to mention this. There is a place around here that is advertising that you can "spray your fat away" Dear Lord, help the poor people who fall for that one! And they've named their store Healthy Systems USA. Because yeah, it's not only healthy (it must be, it's right in the title :huh: ), but patriotic as well. They even have a little jingle, it goes "if you've got fat, don't worry 'bout that! Call Healthy Systems USA!" :noway:

One of my friend did a protein diet, where you can only eat veggies and dry "proteinated" food. She gained everything back as expected. But the worst to me was the nutritionist (using that term very loosely here) told her she should continue with the weight loss even after she got really skinny.

Certain people are just terrible.

Funny how anything that is advertised that promises success without hard work...is just crap. Lots of diets out there but only one thing can change your life...YOU! Funny to read all of these posts.