The dumbest diet you ever tried?
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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.0
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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!0 -
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.0
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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.0
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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.0 -
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 ))0 -
anything that had the word diet in it0
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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 ))
sign me up for that one!0 -
eat more to lose wieght! hahahahahahahah
This -- BS!0 -
Awesome question:happy:0
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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.0 -
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 work0 -
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 weight0 -
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!0 -
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.0 -
Worst diet: eating whatever the hell I want in whatever amount I want. That's what got me here.
This right here.0 -
Cabbage Soup Diet, Lemonade Diet and The Hollywood Diet.0
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1. cabbage soup diet
2. maple syrup diet
3. herbalife shakes diet0 -
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!0 -
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.0
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