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    What was the worst fad diet you ever tried...

    Posts: 31 Member
    edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
    I figured now that I have realized it's all about healthy choices and portion control it may be fun to take a look at some of the worst "fad" diets we have tried. For me it was the Digest diet. Anyone else ever tried this? Shakes for breakfast and lunch and soup for dinner for days on end. After the first two days I would have traded my firstborn for a real meal!!

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    • Posts: 3,165 Member
      clean eating
    • Posts: 1,320 Member
      There is a monster thread around here somewhere with some truly eye-opening responses. The worst fad diet that someone else came up with? Slim-Fast or Special K. I've put myself on truly insane diets though.
    • Posts: 709 Member
      i think the cabbage soup diet. so embarrassing. and i hate cabbage! :o
    • Posts: 1,938 Member
      Take a look at this loveliness..Weight Watchers recipes, 1974.

      http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards/czarina.html
    • Posts: 659 Member
      edited January 2015
      The "Fat Flush" diet.

      Literally the worst. Didn't last two whole days.

      Special K and Slim Fast are close seconds.
    • Posts: 15,317 Member
      Fasting and coffee enemas. It was part of a college course I took :)
    • Posts: 1,320 Member
      I read an article this week about some jerk (flogging a kindle book natch) who tried 10 diets in 50 days and lost 30 pounds. The one that worked best was the one recommended by the British health service.

    • Posts: 709 Member
      obscuremusicreference wrote: »
      I read an article this week about some jerk (flogging a kindle book natch) who tried 10 diets in 50 days and lost 30 pounds. The one that worked best was the one recommended by the British health service.

      i read that earlier this week. interesting....

    • Posts: 38 Member
      I did the isagenix month plan once and dropped 17 pounds. Actually felt pretty good but man it was tough. The snacks are garbage and the fast days suck. I took a month off and tried another but failed. Then I gained it all back thanks to poor discipline since halloween. The only good thing about that system is the card that helps you put together a proper balanced meal.

    • Posts: 31 Member
      EWJLang wrote: »
      Take a look at this loveliness..Weight Watchers recipes, 1974.

      http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards/czarina.html

      OMG! I was crying I was laughing so hard at these!!!

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    • Posts: 723 Member
      Calories counting
    • Posts: 70 Member
      fearlessleader104 wrote: »
      Calories counting
      Dang it. You beat me to it.
    • Posts: 181 Member
      The only eating 3 Luna or odwalla bars a day....basically killed me
    • Posts: 78 Member
      fasting and clean eating
    • Posts: 1,009 Member
      Starvation.
    • Posts: 76 Member
      Cabbage soup for me. I can never look at cabbage the same !
    • Posts: 29,136 Member
      six small meals a day to increase metabolism and no carbs after 6pm….

      I also feel victim to sugar is evil/bad back when first started..
    • Posts: 403 Member
      obscuremusicreference wrote: »
      There is a monster thread around here somewhere with some truly eye-opening responses. The worst fad diet that someone else came up with? Slim-Fast or Special K. I've put myself on truly insane diets though.

      Yep… it was easily over a 100 pages long, I remember it…

      Wasn't there a poster who tried a diet that was basically comprised of laxatives and had to be nursed back to health…?

    • Posts: 2,528 Member
      edited January 2015
      Not horrible compared to some real humdingers I read about, but Slim Fast. It was way back after the birth of my oldest child (so, close to 16 years ago). And back then, Slim Fast only had the shake mix and only two kinds of bar--the flat square one that tasted like chalky dirt coated in chocolate colored wax or the one coated in white (yogurt?) waxy substance.
    • Posts: 1,382 Member
      AdvoCare 24-day challenge...... I was naïve and thought these magical supplements did all the work when really being in a severe calorie deficit while lifting weights might have had a bigger impact on why I lost as much as I did. What a waste of money!!!!!!!!!!
    • Posts: 13 Member
      For me, Keto. I know it works for many people, but I felt disgusted. I also really enjoy veggies, and I couldn't deal with cutting a lot of them out.
    • Posts: 76
      Juice fasting by far and the soup diet I gained back every pound I lost then some
    • Posts: 76
      Plus I was so miserable
    • Posts: 2,220 Member
      My sister once did a Watermelon juice diet. (only watermelon juice for 7days.. boy was she sick!!)
    • Posts: 669 Member
      I tried keto and had massive headaches for weeks.
    • Posts: 127 Member
      Yea well the lemonade diet . Well I guess it isn't really a diet it's supposedly a master cleanse . Gave me a headache and really bad acid reflux
    • Posts: 659 Member
      ebyla85 wrote: »
      Yea well the lemonade diet . Well I guess it isn't really a diet it's supposedly a master cleanse . Gave me a headache and really bad acid reflux

      http://youtu.be/6hhzdcRaB3I
    • Posts: 3,556 Member
      I tried way too many to remember them all but here's a few highlights:

      There was the eat 500 calories for 3 days straight, 2 days increase to 800 rinse and repeat.. no energy, lost some weight but also lost some hair and pissed off everyone around me.

      Of course I was dieting in the 80s so there was the cut out as much fat fad...

      Grapefruit diet.... cabbage soup diet... I'll take a pill and it will fix everything diet...

      The I'm going to make my life miserable and everyone around me hate me diet...

      Luckily I learned this time around to Keep it Simple and eat Gelato
    • Posts: 4,374 Member
      I ate less than 800-1000cals for months. I shouldn't be surprised about the hair loss. Heck, I have to stick at least sedentary maintenance during recovery and that's 18k according to mfp.

      Also, I lived off Lean Cuisines during a six month weight loss stint.
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