The dumbest diet you ever tried?

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.

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.

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.

anything that had the word diet in it

eat more to lose wieght! hahahahahahahah

This -- BS!

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.

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 weight

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.

Cabbage Soup Diet, Lemonade Diet and The Hollywood Diet.

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!

Atkins.
Years ago,
because my parents were,
because apparently everyone was,
at that point,
for some reason.

When I was way younger I wanted to see if I could lose weight by drinking only beer, I did lose weight actually, but it also led to a lot of partying, sex with women who's names I never knew, friends coming over at all hours, lots of dancing, bar hopping, house part............wait a second, that was the BEST damn diet I've ever been on, what was I thinking, sheesh, I must be getting old, what's wrong with me....carry on.

The worst diet I ever tried was a low carb diet. A friend of mines was doing it and so I decided to join him since it was obviously working for him. I tried the diet for maybe a week before kindly bowing out. The lack of carbs and food made me super b!tchy! In that week I'd lost about three or pounds too but that was packed on with extra weight to boot.

Not a diet per se, but I was dumb enough to buy into the "super" herbal supplements theory. I got supplements for cayenne pepper, chromium, hoodia, green tea, all those "thermogenic" miracles, and then "detox" ones like apple cider vinegar, black walnut, chickweed, triphala, etc. I lost a lot of pounds from a reduction in brain cells. So glad I bought them though, because I can safely say they absolutely do not work in aiding weight loss whatsoever.