My coworkers do this diet and i can't help but laugh

Losingthedamnweight
Losingthedamnweight Posts: 535 Member
edited November 8 in Health and Weight Loss
Sometimes it's just hard to keep it all in. I just don't understand people sometimes...but ya know what. Enough about me. What do you all think? Overview and then link

"The Omni Drops program includes consumption of the drops, Omni IV liquid vitamins, Nite Lite and the recommended menu. The first 2 days of the Omni Drops program consists of eating very high calorie foods that contain high fat and sugar contents. This is called "loading". This is the time to eat every bad food you've always dreamed of eating! The more you gain during these 2 days, the better - this will set your body up for a great "dropping" period. Don't worry though, you will lose it all in the following 48 hours. Eat cakes, cookies, ice cream, fried foods, pizza, cheese, etc. - these are all acceptable foods. You can even drink all the alcohol you want during this time! It is important that you load properly as this is a very critical part of the diet. People that chose not to load properly have found that the rest of the unwanted weight does not drop as easily as those people who took the time to load. You want to eat all day with a constant feeling of being "full". You will also need to drink 3/4 to 1 gallon of water in addition to eating all the food - don't forget this! You will also need to be taking the Omni drops 3 times a day, 10 drops at a time. Do not begin loading if you have not started taking the Omni drops! "

http://omnilisapinasco.blogspot.com/2013/10/omni-drops-program-overview-phases-1-2.html?m=1
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  • SnuggleSmacks
    SnuggleSmacks Posts: 3,731 Member
    edited October 2014
    A diet that insists that I load up on cake and cookies and pizza and ice cream for two whole days??

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  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    Oh I love it ..thanks for the early morning laugh :grinning:
  • thinkpositive92
    thinkpositive92 Posts: 111 Member
    Haha sounds too good to be true!
  • 1pjah7
    1pjah7 Posts: 24 Member
    This is the kind of crazy diet I would have done in the past. Fast weight loss only to gain it right back shortly after. One of the posters in the comments section said she was dizzy, weak, and almost fainted twice, but she lost 14 pounds. Some endorsement.
  • harlequin0318
    harlequin0318 Posts: 415 Member
    Wow - thats a diet just asking for a lawsuit
  • nessab70
    nessab70 Posts: 47 Member
    haha that is a classic
  • Losingthedamnweight
    Losingthedamnweight Posts: 535 Member
    1pjah7 wrote: »
    This is the kind of crazy diet I would have done in the past. Fast weight loss only to gain it right back shortly after. One of the posters in the comments section said she was dizzy, weak, and almost fainted twice, but she lost 14 pounds. Some endorsement.

    My coworkers did this and complained how they felt "like crap" and "had headaches all the time" but acted like i was crazy when i suggested calorie counting and fitness pal saying "i don't think that would work. You can't just eat whatever you want. Everybody knows that"

    I eat whatever i want and in a short period of time have lost about 30 lbs already. Even after seeing that, they still either do crazy diets or outright starve themselves. I don't understand it. I really don't. They probably assume i'm lying when i say "i just ate jack in the box today and feel great. As long as i stay under my calories, i eat whatever the hell i want".

    I feel bad for them because its like a dysfunctional cycle of "lose weight and be miserable-gain weight back shortly after-lose weight and be miserable". How many times are you going to make a mistake before you learn from it?
  • austinsneeze
    austinsneeze Posts: 220 Member
    that's disgusting.....
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    edited October 2014
    Well that's a diet I could stick with... too bad it won't work, lol!
  • MyaPapaya75
    MyaPapaya75 Posts: 3,143 Member
    I don't see why anyone would laugh at them....honestly for the most part some of us here have been on diets that have failed from time to time and some diets that have been a success... I agree it sounds too good to be true I myself probably wouldn't try it and would offer them advice if they seem to get frustrated but I don't get my rocks off by laughing ..
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    Well to be fair, starting a diet like that seems counter-productive for sure, but if it gets the 'piggying out' out of your system, it's not necessarily a bad thing, IMO. I find it easier to stick to a new diet when I've just had a total splurge.
  • kendalslimmer
    kendalslimmer Posts: 579 Member
    When you lose another 30lbs your co-workers will start listening, I'm sure! (You're doing really well btw!) For now... just make sure they don't hurt themselves!!
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    Are the drops a laxative?
  • LiftAndBalance
    LiftAndBalance Posts: 960 Member
    Wow, just wow. That's horrible.
    Use oil-free makeup, moisturizers, lotions and hair products.

    Sure, I guess because the oil will seep through your skin and make you fat... And
    REMEMBER, YOU ARE ACTUALLY CONSUMING 3,000 CALORIES EACH DAY EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE ONLY EATING A SMALL PORTION OF THAT! The other calories are coming from those released from the consumption of abnormal fat stored in your body which is made available through the direct impact of the Omni drops resulting in rapid, healthy weight loss.

    Seriously?

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  • kat_snowflake
    kat_snowflake Posts: 20 Member
    Liftng4Lis wrote: »
    Are the drops a laxative?

    That's a really good question!

    It's a bit like the Chinese detox tea my ex-flatmate once got in Chinatown having been assured that it would not have a laxative effect only finding herself stuck in the office toilet every morning for half an hour...

    She gave up on the easy fix tea and added it to our medicine shelf instead in case of constipation issues... :)
  • michaelachallis
    michaelachallis Posts: 137 Member

    I can't even....
  • Foamroller
    Foamroller Posts: 1,041 Member
    It sounds not like a diet. More like a scam...
  • PRMinx
    PRMinx Posts: 4,585 Member
    Francl27 wrote: »
    Well to be fair, starting a diet like that seems counter-productive for sure, but if it gets the 'piggying out' out of your system, it's not necessarily a bad thing, IMO. I find it easier to stick to a new diet when I've just had a total splurge.

    Yes, but if you consider the rest of the diet it is a very bad thing because it basically promotes a binging then VLCD cycle. This is honestly one of the most destructive diet plans I've read.
  • WalkingAlong
    WalkingAlong Posts: 4,926 Member
    It sounds like what Extreme Weight Loss and The Biggest Loser tell contestants-- Load WAY up on food and water weight before starting so your losses look all the more astonishing.
  • LastCupOfSorrow
    LastCupOfSorrow Posts: 15 Member
    WalkingAlong wrote: »
    It sounds like what Extreme Weight Loss and The Biggest Loser tell contestants-- Load WAY up on food and water weight before starting so your losses look all the more astonishing.

    Wait... is this for real? That breaks my heart. I believe it but I don't want to!
  • StaciMarie1974
    StaciMarie1974 Posts: 4,138 Member
    Marketing strategy on this one is brilliant!

    Saw my doc recently and in discussing my loss, she asked what program I followed. Said I'm too cheap buy anyone's program, so went the logical way of paying attention to how much I eat & move more. She said for me to tell everyone because they don't believe her, when she says that is how to lose weight. People don't want simple, put in the effort 'programs'. They want to pay for a magic pill/drink/powder that promises magic.
  • ncscott11
    ncscott11 Posts: 100 Member
    The diet only works because if you follow the plan you are only consuming 500 calories a day. The drops are supposed to help suppress your appetite (I have not done this but watched people who have). It's extreme and crazy if you ask me.
  • gnalani
    gnalani Posts: 126
    Sounds like the binging portion of the diet is to ensure that people quickly jack up their weight with water retention. I can be up a few pounds of water weight the morning after eating out -- can't imagine if I took all the limits off and ate til I felt noticeably full constantly for two days! No wonder people then lose so quickly after continuing on with the diet... and it must feel absolutely horrible.
  • stacyjh1979
    stacyjh1979 Posts: 188 Member
    It makes me nauseous just to read that. People are desperate for an answer that gets results but doesn't require long term commitment. In the end they will see what a bad idea this is but in the meantime you can't influence them if they don't want to listen to reason.
  • stealthq
    stealthq Posts: 4,298 Member
    Well, I could follow the first two days of that diet. Hell, I do that every Thanksgiving and Christmas.

    But the rest? No, no, no. No 500 cals/day unless I have food poisoning. Or am recovering from food poisoning and just can't stand the look or smell of food. Stupid me didn't consider marketing Staph toxins as a diet strategy. I mean, so what if I was so weak I had to sit down every couple of hundred feet or fall over?
  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    edited October 2014
    Ridiculous diet is ridiculous lol. I cannot tell you how many times people have asked me how I lost the weight and I watched their eyes glaze over when I tell them, "Counting calories and exercise." *shrug*
  • gothchiq
    gothchiq Posts: 4,590 Member
    Scamalama ding-dong! lol :p
  • BuddhaMom74
    BuddhaMom74 Posts: 147
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    ...but acted like i was crazy when i suggested calorie counting and fitness pal saying "i don't think that would work. You can't just eat whatever you want. Everybody knows that"
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    ^^ This!!
    I have one co-worker taking "Skinny Fibre and another who calculates an amino acid to protein ratio on everything telling me I'm "not doing it right"! ...umm...as of today, I've lost 30.5lbs (since mid-July), and you've lost...nothing...but yeah...I'M doing it wrong!! :)
  • libbydoodle11
    libbydoodle11 Posts: 1,351 Member
    Magic omni drops?
  • _whatsherface
    _whatsherface Posts: 1,235 Member
    Mmmmm pizza =P
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