The dumbest diet you ever tried?
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the "military" diet! All came back plus some...
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- Alli
- Doctor prescribed Fastin (appetite suppressant) and strict 1200 calorie diet **I did lose 60 lbs over a few month span through continued diet and exercise (duh) but regained most of it over the course of a year after a bad car accident set me back
- Doctor prescribed Fastin and strict low carb diet. Not sustainable. I like carbs too much
- My mom was heavy on the low fat diet which she forced me into when I was a teen
- Slim Fast
- Protein supplemental shakes in place of breakfast
- 1000 calories a day diet which morphed into a 500 calorie a day diet
- The Master Cleanse
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my wife went on a '3 bananas a day' diet... sounds awful.. I tried atkins, great at first, steak and bacon every day! after a week I was laid up in bed for two day with zero energy.. felt so bad... Getting it right now thanks to MFP! :-)0
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caracourtney83 wrote: »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.
You think the gall badder problems were directly related to the diet? I believe that. It is scary.
Yes I do believe it. I've never had issues until a couple months of being on Medifast. All the soy they use in their products wasn't good for me I don't think.0 -
Way back when I was a junior in high school (1974) I tried the pregnant horse urine diet. Of course, it wasn't called that, lol. It is what is now called the HGC diet. I took injections and kept to a 500 calories per day diet. Yes, I lost weight. Probably about 25 pounds over two months. Soon as I stopped I regained the weight. Now I know it was the very low daily calorie intake that made me lose weight. Funny thing...back then I weighed about 175 pound and thought I was HUGE.0
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I did the Cambridge Diet 3 times!!
3 shakes a day for 3 months - I lost 3 stone - a stone per month ( 14 lbs ) then surprise surprise gained it all back again plus some every time!
How I survived on 3 shakes a day I have no idea - I had a very active job on my feet and worked 12 hour shifts most days!
It's taken me all these years to realise there is no quick fix!
What an idiot!
I can safely say I will never "diet" again - I lost 18lbs without putting much effort in at all.
I can't remember where I heard it but my new motto is " never eat anything your Grandmother wouldn't recognise"
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When I was in high school I decided that I could survive on 1 apple and 1 glass of orange juice a day. After 4 days I ended up passing out in the photgraphy lab and spent the next 3 weeks convincing my guidance counselor that I wasn't on drugs.0
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tracyannk28 wrote: »When I was in high school I decided that I could survive on 1 apple and 1 glass of orange juice a day. After 4 days I ended up passing out in the photgraphy lab and spent the next 3 weeks convincing my guidance counselor that I wasn't on drugs.
Oh, this made me think of something! In high school, we would all do no breakfast, and then french fries for lunch. The french fries were $0.50 and they were about the size of a size-small fry today at McD's or Burger King (gigantic portions weren't all the rage yet in the 80s). So I would estimate maybe 250, 275 calories. That was our official "diet." Then a small dinner at home. We fainted and lost a lot of hair, but we were thin.
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the oatmeal diet, all I had was two bowls of plain oatmeal with water per day for a week...nearly passed out in the gym0
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Water fasting for a whole week when I was a teen. It landed me in the hospital..0
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Lemonade diet cleanse. No solid food for 7 days..until I began hallucinating food. I lost 9 pounds and gained it back in a day!!0
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tracyannk28 wrote: »When I was in high school I decided that I could survive on 1 apple and 1 glass of orange juice a day. After 4 days I ended up passing out in the photgraphy lab and spent the next 3 weeks convincing my guidance counselor that I wasn't on drugs.
Oh, this made me think of something! In high school, we would all do no breakfast, and then french fries for lunch. The french fries were $0.50 and they were about the size of a size-small fry today at McD's or Burger King (gigantic portions weren't all the rage yet in the 80s). So I would estimate maybe 250, 275 calories. That was our official "diet." Then a small dinner at home. We fainted and lost a lot of hair, but we were thin.
I loved the 80's!!! Good times...good times. Bad hair - but good times!
I used to pop Dexatrim (sp) all the time - wash it down with Jolt Cola!
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I see a new Purium fad. Anyone on it now? Thoughts?0
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It's a tie between two diets/supplements:
In high school, my boyfriend told me to take twice the normal dose of ephedra pills (I can't remember the brand name anymore, this was the late '90s). I took them and after several days I felt lightheaded and unwell, so I stopped and eventually dropped the weight in the form of the boyfriend.
My first year of college I ordered a bottle of liquid chitosan from an infomercial. I took that for awhile and imagine that - no results!0 -
I tried Visalus for a bit. Worst idea ever. What bugged me the most is that the guy that sells it, is actually an old friend of mine. It's safe to say I won't rely on him anymore for any nutritional advice.
The shakes were terrible, they made me go the bathroom every hour, and worst of all, they cost a fortune per month. Their ads with their nutritional value vs. whole foods are very misleading, and can easily be appealing to the uneducated.
Sticking to a healthy diet has proven effective time after time. Not some marketing product.0 -
marinabreeze wrote: »It's a tie between two diets/supplements:
In high school, my boyfriend told me to take twice the normal dose of ephedra pills (I can't remember the brand name anymore, this was the late '90s).
Was it Stacker 2? I took those and thought I was having a heart attack. They're totally illegal now!
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tracyannk28 wrote: »marinabreeze wrote: »It's a tie between two diets/supplements:
In high school, my boyfriend told me to take twice the normal dose of ephedra pills (I can't remember the brand name anymore, this was the late '90s).
Was it Stacker 2? I took those and thought I was having a heart attack. They're totally illegal now!
Similar when i was taking Metabolife 365.
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I liked my big hairtracyannk28 wrote: »tracyannk28 wrote: »When I was in high school I decided that I could survive on 1 apple and 1 glass of orange juice a day. After 4 days I ended up passing out in the photgraphy lab and spent the next 3 weeks convincing my guidance counselor that I wasn't on drugs.
Oh, this made me think of something! In high school, we would all do no breakfast, and then french fries for lunch. The french fries were $0.50 and they were about the size of a size-small fry today at McD's or Burger King (gigantic portions weren't all the rage yet in the 80s). So I would estimate maybe 250, 275 calories. That was our official "diet." Then a small dinner at home. We fainted and lost a lot of hair, but we were thin.
I loved the 80's!!! Good times...good times. Bad hair - but good times!
I used to pop Dexatrim (sp) all the time - wash it down with Jolt Cola!
and Jolt
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ETA: I once bought these "metaslim" pills from Walmart that were supposed to help speed up your metabolism to lose weight... I had to stop taking them after a couple of days because I could feel my heart racing even when doing no exercise and was afraid of landing myself in the ER![/quote]
Metabolife was the worst diet I ever tried for this very same reason. My friend was selling it and she swore by it, so I had to try it. I almost went off the deep end. I learned that I can't do anything with ephedra in it.
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The 400 calorie diet or less a day. At 130 lbs I was unhappy with my weight a few years ago. I went to one of those weight loss centers to get prescribed adipex but because I wasn't overweight for my frame the one doctor wouldn't do it. Went to one of the other offices a few weeks later with 20 lbs of weights hidden under bulky clothing and got it prescribed just to stop me from eating. I got down to 126.4 in about two weeks but I was a miserable *kitten* without food.0
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tried the maple syrup cleanse ..... for half a day
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i tried the all cookie diet i made myself it was the worse ever i was extremely hungry everyday it only last 2 weeks i quited with headaches and fear i did lose 2 lbs tho.0
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Oh man I've done so many dumb diets. Both commercial, and invented by me too...
But the most ridiculous ones have to be when I decided to eat only ice cream for a day, or only chocolate for a day, or only one type of fruit. Somehow I guess I thought I'd get sick of eating that food but lol no with the chocolate especially! I was 14 so I guess I didn't know much better but I'm surprised I didn't get diabetes or something. I actually lost weight initially which was weird, I guess chocolate is a diuretic? So I was like YEAHHH and kept eating like 3000 cals of chocolate a day. And then I suddenly stopped losing and got fat like overnight hahah don't try it! Also did a diet when I ate only bananas. Got fat on that too!
Out of the commercial diets I've tried, for me it was the Dukan diet. I mean, I like the principle and stuff but it left me absolutely terrified of putting carbs in my mouth and after surviving on basically chicken and greek yogurt for a while, it led to a long streak of binging and I gained back a lottttt of weight. So it isn't a dumb diet in itself, just for me it didn't work. Towards the end I felt like puking all the time.0 -
I tried "Herbalife" in the 6th grade. No loss that I remember. In high school I tried ipaca? syrup exactly one time. What the F--- was I thinking? Desperation.
Having my tonsils taken out at 18 made the biggest difference ( not a diet ) I dropped 20 pounds in a month. Looked terrible at 130 lbs. size 7.
Now I'm 10 lbs. from my gw of 155 lbs. and wearing an 8. LOL0 -
TropicalParaMonster wrote: »the "military" diet! All came back plus some...
i tried this diet recently about a month ago. got to day 3 and only got through breakfast. what broke me was that all i knew i was having for lunch was 5 crackers and a slice of toast and i was in such a dizzying fog, i couldn't think straight. my ex-fiance did it with me and lost 6 lbs by the last day and i didn't lose a single thing. he even ate a twix bar!! i was hangry to say the least...
lemonade diet--tried it once in college. made it through 4 days until i started getting stomach cramps and decided to just eat. it shrunk my stomach but of course i took care of that within a week
vegan diet--i literally tried this diet like 4 different times throughout college and just couldn't keep with it for more than a week. apart from the constant flatulence, it was a struggle for me looking at every single label to make sure animal products weren't involved and i would keep making exceptions that led to me just not being on it anymore.
hydroxycut--once again, gave it the old "college try" in college. i bought the drink mixes and got the worst case of the spins and i felt like i was going to gag on my own spit. luckily i only drank one drink mix. never. again.
my own 10g/day carb diet--did this a couple of years ago when i first got engaged. basically, i lived off of meat, cheese and eggs with little room for veggies. i lost weight, that's for damned sure, but i remember being so tired all the time. i'm a supporter of low carb diets, but definitely only 10 grams a day is gonna wear you out.0 -
The "Eat for your blood type" diet. I'm embarrassed I tried it!0
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I've done the "cabbage soup diet" a couple of times-- I usually just used it to kick start my diet. The soup is pretty good, but when that's about all you're getting for 7 days, it's tough!0
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The summer between high school and college I ate nothing but pickles and cheese. Got down to 98 lbs...woohoo! Never mind the fact that I nearly passed out every time I stood up, I was skinny!0
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The Halfalargepizzaeverynight diet was the worst...I was doing that and EatwhateverIwant at the same time. Would you believe I didn't lose anything? I actually GAINED 60lbs!0
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