Name any diet gimmicks or fads you have ever tried.:)
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curved Tones, Love that name~ I like to sometimes, "Like last week" for this week, I use Wang Korean Red Pepper Chilli Flakes. Gives it a Nice Flavor. I have not had a problem with gassss so far its been 5months. And my Cabbage Soup sits in "Mason Jars for up to 2weeks" at a Time. I have had no problems with spoilage either. Maybe because I seal them tight like canning? I use all diffrent kinds of veggies in them, I make sure everything is diced up or puree'. then I poor it into the soup water. I have noticed that the bone in the soup makes a huge diffrents. I add a lot of spices, Black pepper, cumin, cinnamon, and cloves, ginger, cardamom, coriander, Thyme, parsley, and bay leaf, Cayenne Pepper, Rosemary, Marjoram, Tarragon. These are all my Fav so they go in everything I cook, no joking. I love them that much. I just shake, shake and shake.1
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LifeWithPie wrote: »I'm showing my age here.. but anybody remember Richard Simmon's Deal-a-Meal?
I did that.
OMG. I forgot to add that to my list! I did that too.
And I tried Sweating To the Oldies, but I really am not a video person. He had a tape to use for walking that I liked, though.2 -
Oh Mylanta where do I begin with all the "woo" I tried that I once believed in: CLA, Raspberry ketones, Green tea supplements, Green coffee bean supplement (which is different from green tea somehow and I was told I should be taking both), Garcinia Cambogia, L carnitine, diet pills that claim to burn fat while "reving up your metabolism", ACV. I am pretty much the poster child for woo when I began my weight loss journey 5 years ago. The worst part? I believed it worked and gave all my credit to these things when in reality I was losing weight because I was putting in the work of counting calories and exercising. I really should be the MFP cautionary tale of diet woo...3
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Fitnessgirl, you must be young, Granny here has been dieting since I was about 12yrs old with salads, cottage cheese and pinapple with pepper on top, just like "MOMMY". LOL
But it was at 14yrs old when my journy started and since the early 70's, 80, 90, 2000, 2010, and now 2018. So I'v been on a diet for 44 years. Wow~ I never thought of that, I have been on a lot of diets and only 3 diets helped me lose weight, over the years.
1950s
The Cabbage Soup Diet promises you can lose 10–15 pounds in a week by eating a limited diet including cabbage soup every day.
1982
The aerobics craze steps into high gear when Jane Fonda
1990
CYBERGENICS Advanced Quicktrim 14-Day Weight Loss, I lost 80lbs and kept it off until 2005 when the cancer started and after the surgery I was never the same, the weight just kept coming. Nothing worked in the last 11yrs.
2018
draxe com/cabbage-soup-diet/ 2 weeks on and 2 weeks off
biblical-diet-plan,18 2 weeks on and 2 weeks off, after I lose all the weight, I will just combind them, and just add the soup to a meal a day. I figured make it a life long eating habbit, I enjoy all these meals, I am a huge veggie eater so its just natural for me.
I have not had fast food in over a year I completly cut it out of my life, I have stopped a lot of things that trigger my over eating but it has taken me many years to finaly figure all this out. I don't miss them either and I have no cravings for any of them so far.10 -
Fitnessgirl, you must be young, Granny here has been dieting since I was about 12yrs old with salads, cottage cheese and pinapple with pepper on top, just like "MOMMY". LOL
But it was at 14yrs old when my journy started and since the early 70's, 80, 90, 2000, 2010, and now 2018. So I'v been on a diet for 44 years. Wow~ I never thought of that, I have been on a lot of diets and only 3 diets helped me lose weight, over the years.
1950s
The Cabbage Soup Diet promises you can lose 10–15 pounds in a week by eating a limited diet including cabbage soup every day.
1982
The aerobics craze steps into high gear when Jane Fonda
1990
CYBERGENICS Advanced Quicktrim 14-Day Weight Loss, I lost 80lbs and kept it off until 2005 when the cancer started and after the surgery I was never the same, the weight just kept coming. Nothing worked in the last 11yrs.
2018
draxe com/cabbage-soup-diet/ 2 weeks on and 2 weeks off
biblical-diet-plan,18 2 weeks on and 2 weeks off, after I lose all the weight, I will just combind them, and just add the soup to a meal a day. I figured make it a life long eating habbit, I enjoy all these meals, I am a huge veggie eater so its just natural for me.
I have not had fast food in over a year I completly cut it out of my life, I have stopped a lot of things that trigger my over eating but it has taken me many years to finaly figure all this out. I don't miss them either and I have no cravings for any of them so far.
Hahaha Yes I am young, mid 20's, but I have pretty much tried all the "woo" out there since I got serious about weight loss 5 years ago. Just thankful I found MFP when I did and did things the right way!2 -
P.s. Cancer runs in my family, it has for 5 generations. We have all had Cervical Cancer before or around 40yrs old. or endometriosis (my sister had). And we have all had historectomys, except my sister who had those tubes tied. I just wanted to say that because the diet's did not cause the cancer.4
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Itworks, slim fast, sauna suits, apple cider vinegar, but the funniest one was when I was in high school. Everyone was eating these little dried prunes all the time. Like breakfast: water and two dried prunes, lunch: water, small salad, two dried prunes, dinner: water small salad, two dried prunes, snack: dried prunes. Someone's mom told her that this worked, we all did it, we all hated her after two days and never did it again. The mom got a good laugh though. Lol.5
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I love grapefruit, I eat it every day! and I have a orange or apple and berries when they look good to buy. I'm on the Cabbage Soup Diet and it has never given me (gassssssss). that is because I put a soup bone in the pot when it is boiling so it adds a little oil which stops the (faaaaarrrrrtttts).
I thought you were on the bible diet.
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I did Slim fast and Atkins a few years back. Hated every second of it1
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quiksylver296; I thought you were on the bible diet.
Grapefruit is on that Bible List! A lot of fruit is and tons of veggies, nuts the list is long.
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Atkins. ...
My Mother and Step father went on this in 2003 to 2007. They bragged about this diet because they could eat all this meat and bacon and all they wanted too.
2007, my mother suffered from a stroke, stints was put in.
2008, 2nd stroke again. Doctor said Stop that Atkins Diet and put her on something else but my mother hates veggies, But she likes Ice cream for Breakfast? You know that mother that says, "here eat kake" for breakfast? that is my mother. ... Anyway.
2010, My step father suffered from Prostate cancer and Poof! gone! surgery! (no nookie any more). just hugs and snuggles.
Even after all of that they still eat bacon and lots of it and eat meat. The Doctor warned them said my mother will not survive one more stroke. it has played a tole on her she is in a wheel chair on Oxygen? A rock is a Rock!
P.s. I am not a meat eater, I might have 1oz of meat a few times a week or like I said a soup bone in the soup what ever falls off into the soup is meat? I am trying Lamb meat this week and Buffelo meat. ground up! needed a change. I don't do cow's to many hormones and Pharmaceutical.11 -
I did too! I did the exercise videos too. Now when I hear “it’s my party and I will cry if I want to” I think about exercising with Richard. Lol!LifeWithPie wrote: »I'm showing my age here.. but anybody remember Richard Simmon's Deal-a-Meal?
I did that.
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~Slimfast- ugh I Choked these down
~chewing gum diet- one of my friends in school told me to only chew gum all day and then just eat dinner. I did for a week and SURPRISE! lost weight, but then I wasn't really eating either.
~Richard Simmons- loved this, but I really didn't understand how weight loss really worked, so I never stuck to it.
~WW-monderate success- too expensive, and never really learned portion control
~Cabbage Soup Diet- I actually liked the soup,but it got old really fast.
~HCG drops- I don't know what I was thinking. 500 calories a day and drops. not my brightest moment
~Visalus- again with the shakes, they were awful.
~Raspberry Ketones- eh, just another supplement that did nothing.
~Chromium Picolinate- Someone told me this would magically make me lose weight. nope.
It's taken me years to realize there is no magic answer. Slow and steady is where I am finally.
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I lived in model housing in NYC, and not me, but the other guys would say “I’m hungry”, then go outside and smoke a cig then come back in and not eat lol. Meanwhile I gorged on everything1
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One meal a day
Stop the insanity
Slim fast
Metabolife
Atkins
The rubber stomach belt with Velcro as someone else posted
Saran wrap around my stomach and thighs,swoosh,swoosh when I walked haha
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Whilst I personally wouldn't exactly call it a gimmick or fad, i've done a Keto diet, which I sustained for quite some time. I already knew the reason why it worked, which is why I probably wouldn't call it gimmicky/fad-like (having plenty of success with plain CICO), but liked the satiety of high fat-low carb.
Life has changed again so it's fairly unsustainable right now, the restriction of a macro in addition to the restriction of calories can be very difficult, and i'm back to just plain CICO.2 -
Interesting how many people list SlimFast. I never really though of it as a gimmick or fad. Sometimes I would get a box and keep them at work and drink one if I was busy, didn't bring anything in and didn't have time or didn't want to go out for something. Sometimes when I was trying to cut back on what I ate, I would have them for lunch more often, but I never went on the SlimFast diet where you have two a day and a normal dinner. I just used them as a meal replacement sometimes. Sometimes I still will grab a shake to take with me in the kayak to go fishing or in similar situations, but these days I usually grab a single Muscle Milk; more protein and the reclosable top.5
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I tried carb cycling. I didn't like it because I like fats and carbs together in a meal. Years ago I bought these 'fat burning' pills of internet. God only knows what was in them. Needless to say they didn't work.1
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Ugh forgot about "mini-thins" from my high school days. Guess that counts. All i remember is the tingling sensation in my skin and hair..no good1
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Name any diet gimmicks or fads you have ever tried.:)
I can't.
Over the past 35 years, any time I've wanted to lose a bit of weight, I lost it using the eat less, exercise more technique. It was the only method that made sense.5 -
I did keto once. It was not a good time. Very low energy.
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- When I was at school I did the equivalent of the special k diet, except I did it with any cereal. It worked, but not long term
- At uni I spent pretty much two weeks just "eating" soup. Sure I felt full pretty much all the time and lost some weight, but when I went back to eating normally it all came back again. That and the weight loss was probably more to do with the fact that there was nothing in my body.
- I also did a potato replacement plan at one point where everywhere I'd replace the "potato element" (potato, rice, pasta, that sort of thing) of my meal with half a can of beans or lentils. In retrospect it was a method of lowering carbs and rising protein, but I got so bored of beans and it was never going to be sustainable in the long term.
- I know I tried super high fiber at one point, but I found it difficult to manage.
- Last time I tried to lose weight I probably drank my body weight in green tea every day due to a disillusion that it was going to help me to lose weight. I like green tea, so at least I enjoyed it not making any difference.0 -
My Mom, with all good intentions, put me on a diet when I was 10. It was based on a book, Dutchman Diet for Kids or something like that.I remember resenting every moment of it. The only thing I enjoyed was that I was allowed Diet Coke with vanilla extract in it.
Others I have tried through the years:
Joe Cross Juice Diet
Ideal Protein
Atkins0 -
Atkins -- a modified light version that I adopted for about 4 months with a coworker of mine who'd been on it for several months ahead of me. Lost a bunch of weight, put it all back on when I started eating anything with a carb in it. Never again!0
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TBH I have never tried any fad diet to lose weight, but one time several years ago my department at work thought it would be "fun" to do a 7 day cleanse together. It was really random. Like day 1, fruits only. Day 2, veg only. Day 3, fruits and veg only. day 4, beef and tomatoes (LOL) and I don't remember the rest. I gave up at this point. It was just some random thing my coworker found on pinterest. dumbest thing I've ever done.2
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TBH I have never tried any fad diet to lose weight, but one time several years ago my department at work thought it would be "fun" to do a 7 day cleanse together. It was really random. Like day 1, fruits only. Day 2, veg only. Day 3, fruits and veg only. day 4, beef and tomatoes (LOL) and I don't remember the rest. I gave up at this point.
Yuck! I would have brought doughnuts on Day 3. 1 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »TBH I have never tried any fad diet to lose weight, but one time several years ago my department at work thought it would be "fun" to do a 7 day cleanse together. It was really random. Like day 1, fruits only. Day 2, veg only. Day 3, fruits and veg only. day 4, beef and tomatoes (LOL) and I don't remember the rest. I gave up at this point.
Yuck! I would have brought doughnuts on Day 3.
I actually had pizza for dinner on day 1 but didn't tell my coworkers that
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I've actually been fortunate enough not to fall for any of the "real" gimmicks. I do recall chain-chewing a double pack of sugar free gum (sorbitol-sweetened), spending a miserable hour in the ladies' room afterwards, and wondering whether going out of my way to ingest sorbitol deliberately might not help me lose. Then I looked up the side effects of prolonged laxative use and decided against it. (I think part of the thing was, I was a university student living at home at the time. My father was a pharmacist. We never bought OTC meds. What he didn't get in blister pack samples from drug companies, he got wholesale from his colleagues. I didn't want to have to answer questions if he saw me with a box of Ex-Lax and if he got it for me, he'd be aware of how often I was asking for more. I thought this was a sneaky way to get what I needed, but I realized it was going to cause me wayyy too many problems.)
When I went vegetarian, I thought it might help me lose weight. Totally ignoring that French fries, brownies, candy bars, nuts, etc., were all vegetarian or had veg versions. I kept up the diet because I found I enjoyed it, didn't miss the meat, and it seemed to clear up a couple of dermatological issues, but weight loss was on my mind.
I tried crash dieting with basically crackers and tomato juice. Lasted a week.
Other than that, I don't think I've done much.0
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