Worst diet advice!!!!!!

just stop eating, it will work..

saving for later

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

Bump to finish later....

Cotton balls soaked in orange juice.

WTF?

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.

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...

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.

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.)

"You should do a cleanse!"

Run. Run fast.