Please, Please, Please no more "diet" threads

I've been eating clean.. It was hard at first because I found it hard to choke down my apple with dawn dish soap (lemon is the best) but I have lost alot of weight and my innards are pretty clean and my toots smell fresh

wait...can i use generic dish soap? i know that might be cutting corners, but i really prefer the taste.

I read, right here on these forums, this very afternoon...... That sipping baby unicorn tears first thing in the morning is the ONLY way to make the pounds go away. Has anybody here tried the Baby Unicorn Tear diet?

Right after college (some 20 years ago) I tried one of those caffeinated pill type things..for maybe one day. I felt so hyper and sick I said, uh uh. Then I tried Slim Fast, and that maybe lasted 4 days, till I sat in the work cafeteria watching folks eat realizing I would about kill someone for a salad even without dressing..meanwhile noticing the first ingredient in Slim Fast at the time was sugar. So yeah, stopped that. Other than that, nope, no fads for me.
Now I'm on the DIY eat lots of fiber and veggies every which way and less junkandcrap and exercise nearly every day diet. Much more sane. I've been the weight for about 20 years..as long as things go in the right direction, its all good, imho.

I don't know about everyone else, but I've been there. On every diet.

A "diet" is simply a way of eating. Most of us weren't brought up on a great "diet" (I grew up eating Twinkies, French fries and pork chops.) Most of us weren't taught how to plan meals, shop, cook.

In countries where food and eating well are big parts of the national culture..and big points of pride (France, e.g.), you don't see our levels of obesity.

It's fun to bash people for their stupidity, but I'm sure that all of us have done something as stupid as the cabbage diet or whatever the diet might be...even if it isn't a diet. We didn't know, we took a leap, we wasted some time and some money (probably) but we learned something.

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I'm working with a girl who recently started Slimfast. She is eating one 500-calorie meal a day, along with a few of Slimfast's protein bars/shakes.

I'm guessing it will last two days. Maybe.

Sounds like my friend. First is was body wraps, then some ridiculously expensive snakeoil pills, and this week it was "water with lemon". But will she ever track calories or go to the gym with me? Never! Too hard!

My Daily diet:

Breakfast: Half a bottle of raspberry ketones, 1 tbs of slimfast and sprinkled with visalus powder.

Snack: 1 liter of Wulong/green tea mixed with master cleanse (fat burning teas!!!!)

Lunch: HCG shot, followed by acai berry pills, and a hollywood cookie diet cookie (Learned this one from snookie)

Snack: 1 lean cuisine frozen meal (still frozen, heating food makes the calories more absorbable) sprinkled with MIralax for good digestion.

Dinner: 1 bowl of cabbage soup mixed with powdered hydroxycut.

Do you really have the nerve to suggest this is unhealthy?

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totally unhealthy ..

You only have five meals.

Everyone knows to avoid starvation mode you need 24 meals spaced out at exact one hour intervals...
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Oh I get it now. So when I go to work I take a big bag of apples with me to cover the 8 hours and then I'm so full that I'll just have a snack for dinner. And YUSSSSS no more sleepless nights lying in bed half awake - I'll be up making sure I'm eating every hour on the hour.

WHAT A BRILLIANT IDEA - thanks for sharing :-)

youre absolutely wrong about the six small meals. It's only if you don't eat breakfast will your metabolism will slow...

I'm more irritated when people I know in "real life" go on pills and fad diets and get all defensive when you try to tell them it's just not going to work long term. Usually not short term either. How about you just give me $100 instead? I'll buy you a shot at the bar later.