The dumbest diet you ever tried?

I was always dieting in high school and I have NO idea why - I was 117 and the same height I am now (5'4"). Anyway, more than once I did this weird 3 day diet in high school- it had strange things like prune juice and beets and stuff teenagers do not usually eat or drink. I never made it through and always went off by the middle of the second day.

Other dumb ones- cabbage soup diet (took a lot of work to make, took up all my freezer space and wasn't very good), Special K diet of eating the cereal for breakfast and lunch and then dinner, diet pills on and off when I was in high school, grapefruit diet, and I did order some type of expensive pills once that were supposed to curb my appetite but did nothing.

The Eating for Life diet wasn't too bad - you eat a palm size of protein and a fist size of carbs six times per day - you can add veggies as you like. Then one day per week you can just eat whatever you want. I did lose weight on this diet but it didn't fit into my schedule well because you have to eat so often and my work day is too busy to stop and eat sometimes.

No doubt it was the "Moon diet" which means that you eat nothing but liquids whenever the moon changes phases lol lame

1.The Physician's Weight Loss diet.
2. Weight Watchers(points system) when they become overly obsessed with fat free and diet food.
2. Engine 2 Diet (not practical or realistic) I will never give up yogurt!


The Physicians Weight Loss Diet in the late 1980's, it was a combination of the HCG and Atkin's diet. Extremely low carb and low caloric in the begining- 500 calories the first week then building up to 900 calories a day over the next several months. I went for weekly B12 shots and ketosis checks. I ate nothing but raw salad and lots of chicken, lean beef and fish. Fruit was forbidden except for a half a granny smith apple when I finally 900cal/day portion of the diet. The plan required you buy their tasteless shakes, lemonade and special salad dressings. Never again will I buy prepackaged diet meals.
Background:
Back in the 80's in high school I was obese, not very common back then. My mom wanted me on this diet more than myself even though I was not happy with my weight. I always was the "fat one" in the family. I had tried weight watchers(pre- points system) prior to it but was unsuccessful. PWL diet initially worked but with time my body was craving carbs, no wait my body NEEDED carbs. I received shameful lectures about not being in ketosis when I fell off the wagon. I had started on this diet around Christmas of my senior year and it lasted until spring around graduation prior to college, losing 30 pounds. I remember in college gaining at least 10-15 pounds my first year. It was carb heaven! Then my saving grace came- I transfered to a university that required me to walk because it was so spread out, started to eat healthy again. I was doing well for awhile with some ups and downs but nothing signficant until my mother passed away with pancreatic cancer . I had just reached my fabulous 40's, becoming an emotional eater (2nd worst diet). I am still trying to lose and have not given up hope. I joined Weight Watchers again, the monthly meetings are fine for group support but use their "points plus" loosely, verrrry loosely if at all. My biggest game changer in this weight loss/lifestyle change is exercise. My Fitness Pal helps me keep my calories and physical activity in check.

GM diet. Twice . Although the second time I barely lasted 3 days. It was the craziest diet I did. I was in high school then. Most recently I tried special k. Only thing I lost was money. I also made my own no added sugar/ sweets diet. I started cheating so much it stopped making any sense.

My Dumbest diet would have to be the watermelon diet, I strictly ate watermelon for seven days, I lost 6 pounds but gained It all back once the 7th day was over.

Last year I substituted 90% of my meals with lettuce and soy sauce 'salads'... I lost about 30 kg but also about half my hair and was really depressed/ low on energy.. I dont know why I couldn't see how silly it was back then lol. It makes sticking to my diet now seem like a breeze though!

I wasn't overweight when I was in high school so I've never been on any specific "fad" diet (good thing too because I was naive as hell)
I do remember when me and my friends bought those Garcinia Cambogia pills though thinking they would magically drop a few kilos of us without any diet/exercise change, smh

M______ wrote: »

Probably the chocolate and takeaway diet I spent 10 years working hard on

But where is the lie?!? XD

I find it amusing how people say they lost weight on a vegetarian diet. I have been vegetarian for 20 years and slowly gained weight. It's nothing to do with not having meat, I assume the meat they were previously eating was not replaced with anything therefore resulting in a drastic lowering of calorie consumption.

A friend tried this diet, no idea if it has a name: 3 days of nothing but rice, 3 days of nothing but chicken breast and 3 days of nothing but apples. You could drink water or black tea/coffee only.

On one of the apple days she had 14 apples! Think that would wreak major havoc with my stomach. She lost 9lbs during that time and was thrilled.

Full Irish breakfast every morning and about 12 pints a day for 2 weeks = 4kg gain

Some cave man diet I found online. You ate fruit, nuts and drank water all day. Then for dinner you could have whatever you want.

Then I tried the fat flush. I actually felt great on that health wise, but after a week I went in on a cheesesteak.

Everything I have tried in the past has caused me to have cravings and binge.

Medifast Diet. I know it works for some but it gave me horrible gastric problems, which resulted in needing my gall bladder removed. The food, save for a few items, tasted horrible. I did lose 80+ pounds on it but quit before I could do the "maintenance phase" and never learned how to properly eat. I started carb binging because that's all my body craved. So that + my slower metabolism I gained everything back and then some. Thanks to MFP I'm now doing it the slow and steady way. Calories in/calories out.

refuseresist wrote: »

I find it amusing how people say they lost weight on a vegetarian diet. I have been vegetarian for 20 years and slowly gained weight. It's nothing to do with not having meat, I assume the meat they were previously eating was not replaced with anything therefore resulting in a drastic lowering of calorie consumption.

My sister actually got to the heaviest she had ever been in her life as a vegetarian. The thing is that she was able, as a vegetarian, to eat lots of pasta, lots of more calorie-dense and highly carb-y vegetables such as corn and potatoes and so on. She was NOT subsisting on junk food, BTW. She carefully planned every single meal (was and is an excellent cook), got plenty of the vegetable rainbow in there, combined her proteins and so on.

But when people think "vegetarian" (well...when people who aren't vegetarian think that), they often envision a person sitting down to a big breakfast plate of oranges and celery stalks. Just ain't so. You can eat lots of pasta. You can eat lots of rice. You can eat lots of potatoes. Even balancing to make sure you're getting in your macros and micros, you can sure as heck eat your way to overweight even if you eat no animal products of any kind (even my niece, a vegan, has to fight the battle of the bulge).

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kaseyr1505 wrote: »

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 might actually be okay with this one. I *kitten* love cheerios

I was thinking the same thing! I would LOVE to eat Cheerios twice a day!