Tell us about the stupid diets you took part in before MFP - We have come a long way baby!

The ones which caused me to come here in the first place!

Atkins, What do you mean no bread?

floridamatty wrote: »

Atkins, What do you mean no bread?

I laughed at this. I've fasted before where I've gotten rid of meat and many other things I like. But when I heard about the Atkins diet, I was like "hell no, how I am gonna not eat any bread O.o"

The fake HCG diet - of COURSE it worked, you're only eating 500 cals a day. Lasted until I went to a wedding - gained everything back I lost and then some.

I use to be all into the "pro-ana" side of things when i was younger. I did the "skinny girl diet" or the "ABC diet"
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I also use to eat only 2 cans of baby food a day that was ...interesting

I also use to only eat broth type soup all day everyday and drink pepsi max

I use to put duct tape over my mouth and only cut a tiny slit in it so a straw could fit through it so i could drink water/pepsi max

I pretty much exsisted off pepsi max when i was younger

I also kept a "thinspiration" book and it had like pictures of models and swimsuits and little mantras like "Nothing tastes as good as thin feels" and "My hero's wear size Zeros!" Nicole Richie and Mary-Kate Olsen where like my ULTIMATE idols back then (when they were both dangerously thin)
I actually dropped a lot of weight (suprise suprise) but i was obviously not healthy but it was just the enviroment i was in, i was in highschool and all my friends where doing the same thing we'd all get through like 1-2L of water a day at school and eat one apple a day...one of my friends actually passed out and was in hospital for 2 days due to not eating we actually had peopel come to school and talk about dieting and the danger of restricting food and stuff because of it!

I'm in a much better place though now and doing things right this time!

I listed some on my profile, but I forgot about the SlimFast diet! Ugh - I loved chocolate milk/shakes before that diet. I guess one good thing that resulted from it is having that particular addication curbed after consuming 2 out of 3 meals of it for several weeks.

I tried it before they allowed snacks, too, so I was consistantly starving.

Oh - and the expense... Wow - a 12-pack was less than a week of supplies.

I was also one of those people that went crazy over the fat-free fad. "FAT MAKES YOU FAT" used to be the slogan. I bought so much Entimens and Snackwells crap and would stuff my face with it because "Woo! Fat free! It's harmless!"

Nutrisystem. I cannot begin to describe how foul the food was. I lasted two excruciating weeks.

3 day military diet.

Oh, the funny diets I've tried.

• Apple a day with lots of water (nothing else). Did that in high school for 1-2 days here and there to fit into clothes for a date/dance/whatnotevent. Definitely not healthy, but all my friends were doing it, too.
• TJ Miracle Soup. Not so bad - at least it's somewhat nutritious. I usually lasted about 4 days. Did this one several times over the years.
• Nancy shakes. My neighbor was selling their "nutritional products" and wouldn't leave me alone. I was weak and bought a container. (He was also my best friend's brother, so I was kinda stuck). The shakes had a "secret" ingredient that made you feel full, but it wasn't listed on the label - just something like "proprietary weight loss herbs" or something like that. I actually think it was psyllium husk. I did it for about a week and then dumped the rest. I didn't like consuming a "secret ingredient" that I didn't have a clue what I was.
• Adkins. I lasted about 5 days. Never been so bound up in my life! (sorry if tmi). It actually was making me nauseous to eat so much meat, cheese and high fat foods. I believe I ate mostly fruit and vegetables for the next month.
• Weight watchers. Just when I was getting the hang of it, they went and changed it up. To Point Plus. WTH?? Plus, it annoyed me to no end that my heavier friends got more points than me. Didn't seem fair. I lasted about 2 months the first time. About 2 weeks the second time. (I know this works for some people, just not for me.)

What REALLY works for me for weight loss is good nutrition, plenty of exercise, lots of water and eating at a calorie deficit. Gee, who knew?

the lemonade diet... which is not as good as it sounded. I pictured this yummy lemonade and I had to have this revolting maple syrup, lemon juice and cayenne pepper mixture. Gag! Its been 10 years and i still can't look at a bowl of lemons without getting the heebies.

South beach, which i actually like, but anything that restricts me that much will not last for me.

slim fast lol ewww

I once lost a lot of weight exercising and eating 1,000 calories a day, of course it could not be maintained and I gained it back after a few years off the wagon.

I got about six days into the 7-Day Diet and wanted to kill everyone around me.

In '01 or so DBF and I both tried some kind of speed pills... yeah, great until I didn't take them on the weekends and spent the entire weekends sleeping.

Soopatt wrote: »

My cousin was heavier and more desperate that me. She had her jaw wired. All she ended up doing was hammering chocolate bars flat to feed them through the gap and liquidizing all the things she ate before and drinking them

That's actually a little freaky...

Lets see..... when I was a teenager back in the seventies (I wasnt even fat then) I took dexatrim diet pills and these diets candies that were believe it or not called Aids. In the nineties, I did the Phen Phen prescription diet pills. After that I tried the diet where I could never eat after five PM. And although they arent really weird diets, I also tried Atkins, South Beach, and W.W. (twice) Oh, and some other over the counter pill in the nineties, I forget what but I think it started with a M lol.