What's the stupidest thing you've ever done to lose weight?

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  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
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    the Master Cleanse
    Gotta say, THIS one sounds terrible!
  • fitpam90x
    fitpam90x Posts: 197 Member
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    I starved and binged for quite some time a few years back and then became bulimic. Now I'm completely binge/purge free and stick to completely clean eating and working out.

    Stupidest thing I've ever done. Also maybe tried living off off tea and coffee and rice cakes.
  • bluefox9er
    bluefox9er Posts: 2,917 Member
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    When I was a teenager (and probably didn't even really need to lose weight) I tried the Rice Diet. The Rice Diet is pretty much exactly what it sounds like - you don't eat anything but rice. After three days I started reflexively vomiting every time I tried to eat the rice. My body wasn't having anything to do with it. Needless to say, I didn't stick to this horrible diet .... or lose any weight.

    Any one else have any "what was I thinking" weight loss horror stories?

    eat 1,200 calories a day.
  • April9393
    April9393 Posts: 33 Member
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    Ate only a boiled egg and half a can of soup a day for around 6 months.
  • michael1976_ca
    michael1976_ca Posts: 3,488 Member
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    i tryed two different diet pills didn't work. good energy but the twich in my eye and comming off it was the really sucky part besides wasting money
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
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    Ate only a boiled egg and half a can of soup a day for around 6 months.
    WOW.
  • JamericanBoy
    JamericanBoy Posts: 484 Member
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    I went to a high that specialized in Science and Math. I loved to do science experiments to try and figure things out. One day I made a bet with some class mates that the human body could subsist on only multivitamins, fructose tablets and water if needed and eating food was not mandatory. Of course we told no adults about my theory and experiment. I lasted about three days before I blacked out in the middle of classes. It was another 24 hours before my stomach to keep anything beyond clear broth down.

    All in the name of science!
  • Cindyinpg
    Cindyinpg Posts: 3,902 Member
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    I went on the Cybergenics Slim Quick diet in the mid 90's. Handful of vitamins, bee pollen, niacin etc. Measely cup of oatmeal for breakfast, can of tuna for lunch, chcken breast and broccolli for supper... tons of water... Stairmaster for 2 hours a day.... worked like a hot damn until I quit and gained it all back plus some. :sad:
  • SarahWrittenThin
    SarahWrittenThin Posts: 595 Member
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    In the first year of college I would go several days without eating (up to 5) and would work out for hours and hours on end. If I would eat I would purge and feel horrible at myself for being so "weak" as to think I deserved to eat anything then I would work out for another hour or so after that as "punishment" or on days I would eat I would have to earn my calories. I would set everything to a net of 0 and then If I ate it had to be burned or I would be over for the day.

    Not the smartest or healthiest way of going about things or thinking of myself.
  • KeithAngilly
    KeithAngilly Posts: 575 Member
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    I thought "thermogenic" supplements would help... Ironically, it never occurred to me to eat less, much less starve myself
  • ziggiezambi
    ziggiezambi Posts: 253
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    I ate around 700 Cals a day + intermittent fasting for two months.
  • anemoneprose
    anemoneprose Posts: 1,805 Member
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    the first phase of the south beach diet. i have tried others, but never stuck with them long enough to make it to lunch. this one, i think i managed for ~10 & 12 days & stopped when i got loopy(ier)

    (So sorry it didn't work for you)

    I've done it & loved it ........ no bread, no booze, no sugar ...... what's the problem :laugh:

    But it did help me get my sweet tooth under control ....... then I lost 40+ lbs & kept it off for 6 years ...... so I don't think it's stupid at all:drinker:
    I've never done Phase 1 of south beach, but it doesn't look too awful, especially compared to some of these other stories.
    Congrats on your success with it.
    I read about south beach as I was losing weight a decade or so ago and it sounded a lot like what I was/am doing.... Phase 2/3 anyway.
    In fact, I joined the south beach group here because it's so close to how I've eaten the last decade. It just made sense (minus the commercialism and bars and what not).

    it's not stupid! south beach is what helped me retrain my taste buds. until recently (slippage, won't get into it), i too've been eating a lot like phase 2/3 for several years.

    the first phase made me, somehow, cranky, giddy & lightheaded at once (at the end, not the beginning - i think my brain needed more glucose than i was giving it). i'm not sure it's necessary, either... i mean, yes by comparison phase 2/3 are very easy, so that's instrumentally useful. and it's motivating to lose the 5-10 lbs of water weight or whatever it is. i can't remember the rationale for the phase 1 -- something about having to be weaned from white carbs? some metabolic process that needed stimulating? at some point i decided i thought that maybe wasn't so necessary, but i haven't thought about it in a while.

    all i know is, i wasn't very good company at the end of that phase 1, lol.

    glad others have made use of it. as a whole it was actually helpful to me too :)
  • Orfygirl
    Orfygirl Posts: 274 Member
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    Through my teenage years I starved myself. A couple of years ago I did the Visalas shakes. Whatever they have as a laxative in it made me so gassy and bloated I was always doubled over in pain from the gas build up in my stomach. The best part was during the 3 months, yes it took me 3 months to figure out this diet wasn't working, I gained 30lbs.
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
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    the first phase of the south beach diet. i have tried others, but never stuck with them long enough to make it to lunch. this one, i think i managed for ~10 & 12 days & stopped when i got loopy(ier)

    (So sorry it didn't work for you)

    I've done it & loved it ........ no bread, no booze, no sugar ...... what's the problem :laugh:

    But it did help me get my sweet tooth under control ....... then I lost 40+ lbs & kept it off for 6 years ...... so I don't think it's stupid at all:drinker:
    I've never done Phase 1 of south beach, but it doesn't look too awful, especially compared to some of these other stories.
    Congrats on your success with it.
    I read about south beach as I was losing weight a decade or so ago and it sounded a lot like what I was/am doing.... Phase 2/3 anyway.
    In fact, I joined the south beach group here because it's so close to how I've eaten the last decade. It just made sense (minus the commercialism and bars and what not).

    it's not stupid! south beach is what helped me retrain my taste buds. until recently (slippage, won't get into it), i too've been eating a lot like phase 2/3 for several years.

    the first phase made me, somehow, cranky, giddy & lightheaded at once (at the end, not the beginning - i think my brain needed more glucose than i was giving it). i'm not sure it's necessary, either... i mean, yes by comparison phase 2/3 are very easy, so that's instrumentally useful. and it's motivating to lose the 5-10 lbs of water weight or whatever it is. i can't remember the rationale for the phase 1 -- something about having to be weaned from white carbs? some metabolic process that needed stimulating? at some point i decided i thought that maybe wasn't so necessary, but i haven't thought about it in a while.

    all i know is, i wasn't really good company at the end of that phase 1, lol.

    glad others have made use of it. as a whole it was actually helpful to me too :)
    CHEERS!:drinker:
  • anemoneprose
    anemoneprose Posts: 1,805 Member
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    CHEERS!:drinker:

    :drinker: Cheers :)
  • ashandstuff
    ashandstuff Posts: 442 Member
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    I'll admit. There was a time where I just ate, MAYBE, 400 calories a day. For like one month straight. The weight came off, but it came RIGHT back as soon as I started eating. I got sick a lot that month too.

    Very bad idea. Ashamed of it really.
  • Rakalze
    Rakalze Posts: 8 Member
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    Stop eating
    Take Pills
    Abuse my SSRIs
    Try throwing up
    Over-exercise
  • betinafrantz
    betinafrantz Posts: 31 Member
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    last year Id start the week eating around 900 calories, and went down 200 calories everyday (900, 700, 500, 300), fast on the last day and repeat. So basically starving myself and trying to burn as much as I ate (i wouldnt log any exercise to not have the impression that i could eat more).
    pretty stupid, but I lost around 10kg in 4 months (after 4 months I gave up), one year after I got half back but would never do that ever again
  • momblobnomore
    momblobnomore Posts: 19 Member
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    When I was 14 a friend and I wrapped our stomachs with cling wrap and went jogging lol.
  • IntoTheSunset
    IntoTheSunset Posts: 25
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    This one takes the cake!

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