The dumbest diet you ever tried?

dtroutman wrote: »

Ive tried HCG awful. But the worst was when I went with a co-worker and we got our ears stapled to lose weight. It hurt and a week later was so infected they had to pry the staple out it was terrible!!!!!

I know this is an old thread so not sure if this poster is still using MFP but WT actual F!! what even is the logic behind this?

justal313 wrote: »

The MEAEL diet. It stands for Move Extra and Eat Less.

If that's all it took don't you think everybody would be thin?

LOL..tongue in cheek?

The Beverly Hills Diet, a certain fruit for the day. My tongue was sore on pineapple day.

I did okay on lower carb but my cholesterol went up. I am going to see a dietician and will ask for good macro goals for me (I have health issues).

When I was a kid, my parents were gung ho about the cabbage soup diet for awhile so we all had to eat it every day. I don't think cabbage soup is bad to eat sometimes but it got old pretty fast. It made the house smell weird too. It didn't really help them lose weight.
As an adult, I haven't really tried any diet I consider dumb or crazy. I tried low carb for awhile but have steered clear of fad diets really. I just remember the huge pots of cabbage soup and it keeps me from trying fads.

Drinking apple cider vinegar water and eating magical cabbage soup

I did this really stupid Cheerios diet. I had Cheerios for breakfast and lunch (dry cereal, no milk), then ate a small dinner. I lasted about a week, then went to McDonald's.

I've tried a bunch. hcg was the most ridiculous although I lost about 15lbs in 20 days. That first week was torture. I remember calling my mother on the phone and crying because I was so hungry and weak I didn't think I could go on. LOL. I also made up my own low fat diet back in the day. Not sure I would call it dumb because it was pretty painless and worked. I refused to eat ANYTHING that had more than 3 grams of fat. But that meant candy and other sweets were just fine. I don't recall how much weight I lost but I know I was able to fit into a really tiny skirt I had for years and never wore. I don't think I even realized it was working until a coworker called me skinny. But that was back when I thought skinny was the thing to be. Now I know LEAN and muscular is all that!!!! Best "diet" isn't a diet at all. It's understanding how my body reacts to macronutrients, time of day, eating real food and maintaining a caloric deficit. In retrospect, it works better than Atkins, hcg, and any other thing I have ever tried. And it's the easiest. I only eat 1200 calories a day but I OCD about ways to maximize the volume and make my meals taste great. It requires advance planning but I am never hungry, tired or craving.

The Cabbage Diet.

It was all fine and dandy until the last day or so where I had to eat 8 bananas and 4 pints of milk. Turns out I am lactose intolerant and that was the day I found out.

Many years ago, I lost 35lb in a short space of time by only eating 500-800 calories a day. (Stupid, but I didn't know any better at the time).Then I started eating again and gained back 45lb in the same amount of time. I've lost the 45lb slowly and surely, after discovering MFP, and have kept it off!

Back in 09 i took Metabolife 365 and lost 80lbs in a 4 months but was suffering major side effects so stopped it. Gained it all back and more.

OMG, I did the ear-staple thing too. How stupid! I really thought it would work, too. Glad I've learned a little since my stupid late teen years.

wow this is a great thread . . . cracks me up how many crazy things we do to lose weight!!

I did some weird things with food in high school--I tried a vegetarian diet for a week once and probably lost a good amount in that week, but it def wasn't sustainable. When I was going through my "anorexic phase" I tried eating only every other day. Gah I don't know why I ever tortured myself like that. It was awful. I also tried atkins in high school and absolutely hated it. I ate eggs, cheese and meat for one day and felt terrible without the carbs. I could only manage that for one day.

This isn't really a diet, but I had high anxiety when I started college and would rarely eat outside of my dorm. I usually ate giant cups of hot cocoa / powdered cappuccino mixes, carb-rich trail mixes, nutrigrain bars and peanut butter & jelly (until I ventured to the dining hall not far from my dorm). Blegh. I think I nearly made myself get diabetes during that phase and still can't eat too much sugar at once.