What are the worst things you have done to try and lose weig

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  • sykin
    sykin Posts: 1,676 Member
    Lots of ideas, but only a couple actually put into practice. I was anorexic in high school (pretty bad) - I survived on a personal size bag of cheetos, doritos, or pretzels with mustard a day, and a 20 ounce bottle of mountain dew. I ate it at lunch so no one would give me a hard time and I could tell them I was eating. I did that for about 6 months until my new boyfriend (now my husband) found out and forced me to eat every time I went over to his house. Literally. After I gained a bunch of weight, I tried the "Hollywood Diet", which was this juice stuff you drank for 2 days straight - you were allowed the juice and water - that was it. I can only imagine how bad that was for you. I lasted about 8 hours before I scarfed down food.
  • duckie33
    duckie33 Posts: 46 Member
    Became vegetarian. It was traumatic. I am definitely an omnivore...
    Lol, I seem to be moving toward the vegetarian side. But, I love it that I crave salads with hummus more than meat now.
  • duckie33
    duckie33 Posts: 46 Member
    About 10 years ago I took over the counter diet pills.The third day of taking them I had a seizure. I lost a lot of my memory. I don't remember anything from that day, two years before maybe even more not sure and months after. I didn't know where I lived. I didn't know how to do my job. My husband spent the next few months having to tell me the same things over and over because I couldn't remember the day before. This went on for months. I was lucky that the people I worked with was understanding and patient. They had to teach me a lot of my job again. I still have a lot of problems from it. There is no miracle out there. You just have to commit to a lifestyle change of working out and eating right to lose weight and keep it off. I was 115 lb and a size 5 when I took them. It was so stupid.
    I never weighed 115lbs. I definitely skipped those numbers in high school. However, we are definitely on the same page now:lifestyle change. :o)
  • Ocarina
    Ocarina Posts: 1,550 Member
    This is embarrassing but I would eat my food but not swallow it. Just spit it out into s bowl. Absolutely disgusting. That was like 5 years ago. >.>
  • angelicdisgrace
    angelicdisgrace Posts: 2,071 Member
    Drank nothing but slim fast shakes for 3 days straight. I lost albs but gained 10 after I got off of it.
  • fbmandy55
    fbmandy55 Posts: 5,263 Member
    Three months after I graduated high school, I got my own place and I wanted to lose weight. A vegan I worked with at the time convinced me to try to cut meat out of my diet for awhile. So I ate one yoplait light and maybe a couple crackers or slices of provolone a day. Maybe the occaisonal piece of fruit or salad too. Thinking back on it now, I was probably only consuming 400 calories a day in food but drank MT Dew like crazy... I did that for a few months and lost 30 lbs. I was also prescribed to Adderall for ADHD but rather than taking the prescribed dosage, I was taking up to 10 a day. Lots of people my age were hooked on Adderall for energy and weight loss. It was king of a trend at the time but I actually had a prescription for it. I eventually started eating more, stopped the Adderall, put back on 10 and looked pretty good. Then I started eating meat again, had a surprise pregnancy and racked up an additional 50lbs.

    Thankfully my mom has worked with a dietician and trainer and she has influenced me quite a bit in making better choices. We rent together now and we make lots of healthy meals. I thank her now but as a child she was VERY hard on me about my weight. I didn't get her blonde hair, big boob genetics, I got my dad's neanderthal genes.
  • tammykoon
    tammykoon Posts: 298 Member
    This is embarrassing but I would eat my food but not swallow it. Just spit it out into s bowl. Absolutely disgusting. That was like 5 years ago. >.>


    Don't be embarrassed you aren't alone. My dad taught me this one. We shared a box of chocolates over the garbage can.

    In high school I combined that bad habit with about 10 others and a fad diet (Tuna diet -- YUK!!). I lost a ton of weight and my family was so excited. I was sick and they encouraged it.
  • chocolateandvodka
    chocolateandvodka Posts: 1,850 Member
    the ultimate divorce diet. substituting coffee as a meal replacement drink. for weeks. lost 30lbs rather rapidly... don't recommend it.
  • Karleyyy
    Karleyyy Posts: 857
    The only seriously bad thing I did was make myself get sick.
  • lizdavis07
    lizdavis07 Posts: 766 Member
    i went through a phase when i was younger that everytime i craved food outside of my normal meals, i would open up a jar of mayo and take a big whiff...(everything about mayo makes me sick to me stomach) i would lose my appetite for hours
  • Mkleder
    Mkleder Posts: 289
    As a kid in the 60's, AIDS...a chocolate candy appetite suppressant my mom had. It didn't work, I ate the entire box.

    In the late 70's, seaweed and vinegar diet. I lost my appetite and all the friends at my lunch table.

    In the 80's, just not eating...saltines and hot tea.

    In the 90's, low fat was the key. I lost weight, but looked and felt like a rag doll.

    Around 2000, the low carb diet. It worked, but I spent months craving Brussels Sprouts....there has to be something seriously wrong when you crave Brussels Sprouts.
  • aj_rock
    aj_rock Posts: 390 Member
    Ephedrine seems to be a common theme. Tried EC stacks myself, and I nearly went nuts. Felt like a paranoid schizophrenic :/
  • iAMaPhoenix
    iAMaPhoenix Posts: 1,038 Member
    I think the worse thing i did was proberlly wrapping myself in cling film, so that when i exercised i sweated more....
    But i only did it once it was a bit un-comfy.

    I would have paid a million dollars to see that. Please tell me that you have pictures as would love to have a good laugh every now and then...lol.
  • Thriceshy
    Thriceshy Posts: 708 Member
    As a teen (decades ago!) I starved. Literally. I kicked off my diet with 16 days of no caloric intake. Wound up passing out at school and winding up in the ER. Then I went six months with only 400 calories worth of orange juice a day (though I was allowed iceburg lettuce on Mondays and, once I'd lost 135 lbs, I was allowed one meal a week).

    Oh, and the laxatives I'd pop a few hours before that one meal a week.

    During this same stretch, I quit school so I could exercise all day. No kidding. Five hours of working out a day, plus long walks and hikes every day. That 135 came off in six months.

    I ate a lot of speed.

    My gums bled, my hair thinned, and my periods stopped for a year. My hands always trembled, I don't remember one day without a headache. And people kept telling me how great I looked. My friends all cheered me on.

    I actually kept the weight off for 8 years. But man, at what price, you know? I cringe to think what I likely did to my bone density. Who knows what other damage I did?

    I was utterly nuts. It's sad to look back and remember just how ill-informed and obsessive I was.

    Kris
  • PeachyKeene
    PeachyKeene Posts: 1,645 Member
    In my early twenties I took yellow jackets....ephedrine. Lost weight, yeah, but NOT a good way of doing so.

    me too!
  • Mdbondurant
    Mdbondurant Posts: 104
    What is no doze?
    A long time ago they sold it at gas stations and truck stops for drivers that had to stay awake for a long time. I don't remember what was in it, but it was bad stuff. I could not stop shaking.

    LOT's of caffene and they still sell the stuff... :noway:
  • wickedcricket
    wickedcricket Posts: 1,246 Member
    the coke diet (not the soft drink) tho I was my thinnest ever, not healthy
  • skinnywithin
    skinnywithin Posts: 1,392 Member
    let him move it !!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL

    diet pills and vit B12 shot from diet doctor !

    when I was in high school I was always thin and I look back and remeber why ...I would eat 1 pack of cheese on wheat crackers per day with a diet soda at lunch and rarely eat dinner !!! stayed thin but crazy idea!
  • LoveleeB
    LoveleeB Posts: 560 Member
    It makes me sad to read some of the above posts... The worst thing I ever did was to drink a bunch of water when I was hungry in order to hold out until lunch or dinner time. lol

    I love to eat too much to stop all together and I hate vomiting & taking pills. No thanks!!
  • JDMPWR
    JDMPWR Posts: 1,863 Member
    I smoked crack, it helped
  • mandeiko
    mandeiko Posts: 1,657 Member
    Freshman year high school, met a girl who was a bad influence on me, and I was short of being anorexic by working out everyday, and ONLY eating 2 hard boiled eggs each day. Yup. Not proud. Couldn't do it again. I LOVE food, and being healthy :)
  • ymamyma
    ymamyma Posts: 227
    I spent months craving Brussels Sprouts....there has to be something seriously wrong when you crave Brussels Sprouts.

    :laugh:
  • Sweetcheeks278
    Sweetcheeks278 Posts: 356
    This is embarrassing but I would eat my food but not swallow it. Just spit it out into s bowl. Absolutely disgusting. That was like 5 years ago. >.>

    I had a friend in high school who did this too. She would pack it in the back of her cheeks so her mom would think she was eating and then she would spit it out later.

    I took some order by mail diet pills - my son was 6 mths old and I was home alone with him. I called my husband at work bc I knew something was wrong and the last thing I remember was laying my son down on the floor and seeing his face in front of mine before I blacked out. Luckily my husband rushed home and found us both. SCARY to say the least. First and last time.
  • ymamyma
    ymamyma Posts: 227
    I did the grapefruit diet for just over six months while in high school. Anyone remember it? The smell of grapefruit juice makes me gag now.
  • LilRedRooster
    LilRedRooster Posts: 1,421 Member
    Back in high school, I tried stupid things like laxatives or throwing up occasionally when I felt like I'd eaten too much, but mostly I got away with eating around 800 calories a day, while training for a half marathon and going for my black belt. Literally, I was burning over 1000 calories a day, with high-intensity workouts, and going on nothing. Lightest I've ever been in my life, but I was CONSTANTLY craving food. I had vivid dreams about food, every night, and when I wasn't working or busy, I was thinking about food. Not only that, I never went out with people, for birthday parties or just to hang out, because I was terrified of food.

    It was like this private hell, 24/7, and I was miserable, even though I could fit into anything I wanted. Not worth it. I would never go back to that.
  • femmerides
    femmerides Posts: 843 Member
    oh man. i've done so many of the above. at least it's reassuring to know that i wasn't the only one! lol. and at least we're all doing a life style change now. :-)
  • thunt1990
    thunt1990 Posts: 157 Member
    I used to eat only 1 meal a day in high school. that was pretty bad. I tried the special k diet and turned into a crazy monster because i was so low on calories. The stupidest thing i ever tried was drinking dissolved gelatin to try to make me feel full. That was a suggestion from my grandma. Apparently it was all the rage back in the day. Bad bad things. Im glad im doing it the healthy way now :)
  • Louise12
    Louise12 Posts: 389 Member
    I dont know how i did it but at uni i was also short of being anorexic.. surviving off an apple and a weightwatchers soup a day with 2 hours in the gym .. lost a lot of weight ..gained some gall stones as i wasnt getting proper nutrition and ended up in hospital with my gall bladder out! NEVER AGAIN! i learned the hard way ....diets dont work .. a healthy lifestyle does!
  • MarlenaLB
    MarlenaLB Posts: 50
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    I took some order by mail diet pills - my son was 6 mths old and I was home alone with him. I called my husband at work bc I knew something was wrong and the last thing I remember was laying my son down on the floor and seeing his face in front of mine before I blacked out. Luckily my husband rushed home and found us both. SCARY to say the least. First and last time.
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    I did the same thing with over the counter diet pill. I was driving with my mom, little sister and brother in the car. Thank God my mom was in the care with me and I had my seizure before we got out of the driveway. it could have been worse than it was. My mom put the car in park. It would have been devastating if I would have been on the hwy with other drivers when it happen. It is a scary feeling.
  • PoeRaven
    PoeRaven Posts: 433 Member
    Adkins Diet
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