The most ridiculous diet tips you've ever heard?
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tracyannk28 wrote: »Anything that comes out of the mouth of Dr. Oz....
that's one doctor i would not take advice from0 -
a juice diet to jump start fat loss
clean eating for weight loss
gluten/dairy/egg free for weight loss
blueberries will burn belly fat
a low carb/low fat diet
eating less than 1000 calories a day
meal replacement shakes0 -
mazza_pants wrote: »The other day a girl said that losing weight has nothing to do with calories, instead it's about counting the fat content only. U wot?
Also I recently heard about a "chocolate mono diet" where you eat ONLY 200-400g of chocolate each day for one week and drink only water. Again...what?! Surely that would make you gain 394789325 pounds? Wow!
What are the most stupid diet tips/advice you've heard? I need a laugh.
Actually- 100g of chocolate is about 500-550 cals depending on the brand and dark vs milk. So 200-400g would be about 1000-2200 cals. So you would still be in a deficit for most people, therefore causing weight loss . Not advocating this though, just pointing it out.0 -
kamakazeekim wrote: »a juice diet to jump start fat loss
clean eating for weight loss
gluten/dairy/egg free for weight loss
blueberries will burn belly fat
a low carb/low fat diet
eating less than 1000 calories a day
meal replacement shakes
I think this covers it.0 -
"Magic" foods that either cause you to lose or gain fat beyond their caloric content.
As in: Blueberries will melt your belly fat, but they are made of carbs and ergo evil and guaranteed to make you fat, oh, no, help me, I'm stuck in the BROSCIENCE LOOP OF DOOOOOOM0 -
no eating after 6 o clock
no eating after 8 o clock
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Eat more bacon--run less. It was a book advertised on I believe channel 5 recently. I believe it is "ridiculously interesting" personally.0
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It was a diet plan where you would eat anything you wanted one day and the next day eat nothing except a handful of supplemental pills and so forth.0
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A nutritionist ate nothing but Twinkies as his sole calorie source to see if he could lose weight. The truth is he did. But the fact remains his Twinkie caloric intake was set at 1800 days and 700 calories less than he had previously consumed. The moral of this diet is: reducing calories results in weight loss, eating Twinkies doesn't. (http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/)0
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Breatharianism:"Breatharianism frequently involves sungazing in the dubious belief that nourishment can be gained directly from the sun's energy through the eye, even though it is not a photosynthesising organ. This is likely to be just a woo-based explanation of "energy", which has little or nothing to do with real definitions of energy as a state-function of what can perform work. As with most supposed techniques of its type, proponents claim that the arts of breatharianism take years to master - usually this sort of excuse allows proponents to ignore evidence based on people trying and failing at the technique. It clearly requires a great deal of courage and self-discipline to be able to keep a straight face while talking about staring at the sun as a viable solution of the world's starvation problems."
Woman Dies of Starvation While on an All-Sunlight Diet
"She spent a week eating and drinking nothing — not even her own saliva — while consuming only sunlight and air. She stopped for a few weeks at the behest of her children, but eventually resumed.
She was found dead in her home last winter; the cause of death was ruled to be starvation.
At least three other deaths have been attributed to the pseudoscientific practice of breatharianism since prominent advocate Ellen Greve (AKA Jasmuheen) began touting "pranic nourishment" in the 1990s."
Seattle woman stops eating and goes ‘breatharian’ for FIVE WEEKS in attempt to survive on water and light
"Plants live on light, then we eat plants," she wrote on Facebook May 3. "Are we simply not accessing our inherent ability to live on light? ... After hearing of the possibility that this might be true, I received a 'calling' from within, from the Universe, to find out if it is so.
But she also makes note on Facebook of unpleasant-sounding side effects such as weakness, throwing up bile, dizziness, and frozen hands."0 -
~diets where you eat only one kind of food per day
~the master cleanse (or any other cleanse for that matter)
~women shouldn't lift weights that weigh more than 5 pounds
~vlcd's are always necessary to lose weight
~not to eat during certain times of the day (i.e., no eating between 7PM and 7AM)0 -
Due to my height, weight, lifestyle (I'm a student so I spend most of the day sitting in class or in a library) I would definitely gain weight on 2,000 calories. Just because the average woman needs 2,000 calories doesn't mean all women need it!0
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Nothing but apples and water for 7 days....I would die!!!!0
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Deedee1111111 wrote: »Nothing but apples and water for 7 days....I would die!!!!
Why would you torture yourself like that haha!!0 -
A coworker have started with these shakes and soups, which comes in these small portion packets and is powder mixed in water. It is insanely expensive and I honestly think it smells like vomit. And she is supposed to live on these things for 3 weeks. I would die if I could not eat anything fresh for that long.
Worst thing I think she'll get a discount if she recruit more people, so she is trying to sell it to us like crazy. My food budget is about $50 a week, I'm not spending $100 for a weeks worth of horrible powder.0 -
The other day I saw a post for the 5 bite diet. Uhhh, ok??!! I might could do that. I bet I could fit 1/3 of a steak as one bite... Bahahahahaa!0
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monkeystikx wrote: »At work, we have a lot of really thin Asian ladies. They claim by drinking hot water with their meals, that it melts the fat in their bodies to help stay thin.
Someone told me this, but threw in that adding lemon juice does even more and you can pretty much pee the fat out.
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My step-mother was on diet where she could only eat tuna, boiled eggs, and plain coffee or tea for 5 days out of the week and on the weekends she could have what ever she wanted. Needless to say she didn't lose any weight.0
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monkeystikx wrote: »At work, we have a lot of really thin Asian ladies. They claim by drinking hot water with their meals, that it melts the fat in their bodies to help stay thin.
HAHA I heard the opposite... Drinking ice cold water burns more calories...Uhhhhh OK?
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Recently, a friend told me I should only run on an empty stomach. When I mentioned I have low blood pressure, and would pass out, she replied "Oh, your body adjusts after a few weeks!"0
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Steph38878 wrote: »The other day I saw a post for the 5 bite diet. Uhhh, ok??!! I might could do that. I bet I could fit 1/3 of a steak as one bite... Bahahahahaa!
I remember that thread, the person was advocating eating no more than ten bites of food per day. JFC.0 -
enterdanger wrote: »I had some n00b that set up an account yesterday and needs to lose 70lbs send me a message that I would lose weight if I just cut out snacks. Now I know why people don't make their food diaries public.
Lol!
Someone told me I couldn't eat chocolate everyday if I want to lose weight...uhm hell yeah I can!0 -
Steph38878 wrote: »The other day I saw a post for the 5 bite diet. Uhhh, ok??!! I might could do that. I bet I could fit 1/3 of a steak as one bite... Bahahahahaa!
I remember that thread, the person was advocating eating no more than ten bites of food per day. JFC.
That was it. LOL.0 -
otheliemoor wrote: »A coworker have started with these shakes and soups, which comes in these small portion packets and is powder mixed in water. It is insanely expensive and I honestly think it smells like vomit. And she is supposed to live on these things for 3 weeks. I would die if I could not eat anything fresh for that long.
Worst thing I think she'll get a discount if she recruit more people, so she is trying to sell it to us like crazy. My food budget is about $50 a week, I'm not spending $100 for a weeks worth of horrible powder.
OMG. We must work at the same place. My coworkers did this too. I think it was supposed to be some kind of keto thing. I caught them in the ladies room and they were peeing on these litmus looking sticks to see if they were in ketosis or something. Very weird. A week later one of the passed out at a customer meeting from starving herself.0 -
If you only cut out sodas you will lose all the weight you want. You might lose the first 10 from not drinking sodas but that will be it unless you exercises and diet. Also every stupid commercial saying if you shake this over your food you will lose weight.0
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Zero calorie or negative calorie foods, like celery. Sure, the calories are low, but it still counts!0
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My own Mother who has yo-yo dieted for as long as I can remember is back on Weight Watchers. That's totally cool, I know it works for people. I hate that I keep being told MFP is too time consuming (i.e. weighing and logging, I may not be consistent but I do see results and it's free). Also that if I would just give up whole milk, whole sour cream, whole cheeses, etc., etc., etc. and only eat no fat/low fat/free substitutes, I would never have to worry about portion sizes or weighing or logging.0
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fat makes you fat0
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Avoid protein shakes, since they make you fat. For real, it's ONLY the protein shakes that made this woman gain weight, not the KFC, McDonald's, ice cream, cakes, etc that she was eating.0
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