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

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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.

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)

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.

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

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!

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.