What is the stupidest thing you've done with your diet?

I have done a lot of dumb things. Paid for months of slimquick. The worst was probably paying $250.00 a month for nutrisystem. I can't believe I have lost more weight with mfp compared to 3 months of nutrisystem.

Let myself gain a LOT of weight back.

It has been very hard for me to lose weight in the past. I know we all put so much hard work in to this. So to undo all the effort is so not worth the stress it causes me later.

Good thing I am on track now and down to my smallest size as an adult!

diet pills. I passed out at work while taking them.

I've also tried atkins (and felt horrible and sluggish the entire time), the 1-2-3 diet, and the master cleanse diet. when I did manage to lose weight on those, it never stayed off, and I ended up gaining more back than what I lost.

After joining MFP last August, the stupiest thing I did was lose motivation for 3 months and sabotage all the hard work I had done losing 16 lbs (and feeling confident in myself) by putting it all back on. Motivation or lack of it is a real B****!! Though through the great friend network on here I am back and more determined than ever.

this!

So far, the stupidest thing I've ever done was to leave my scale on the stovetop while I was cooking something on another burner- my 3 year old let me know he had to go to the bathroom, and when I came back I found that I had turned on the wrong burner. My scale was all melty on the bottom and I had to scrape plastic off the cooktop :sad:

Stupidest thing I've probably done would be allowing myself to gain back the 50+lbs I lost a few years back.

I also tried a diet pill once.... was incredibly stupid.

When I first tried addressing my weight gain, I would log food into mfp, but was still eating junk. After a few weeks of logging "2 hotdogs, buns","dunkin donuts sandwich", and wondering why I wasn't losing weight, I gave up for a few months.

I feel pretty stupid now, but i'm glad I completely changed my diet and habits.

It's almost scary to think of the mindset I was in, knowing I was eating my daily allowance of calories in one meal and still hoping i'd magically burn fat...I guess that's sort of how most people who don't lose think though.

I ate under 1000 calories a day for several months. Sent to the hospital after one day my body wouldn't get out of bed.

Most expensive and stupid diet.

I have a couple:

Slim fast-Lasted a week. Gained it all back

Atkins- Lasted a week. Gained it all back

HCG- Lasted 2 weeks, lost 11lbs, almost passed out SEVERAL times, gained it all back plus 5lbs

HCG- Lasted the whole 3 weeks, lost 17lbs, gained it all back plus 10lbs


Thank God I am using MFP. 8 weeks and by Monday, should have a 17-18 lb loss and am running 5-8 miles a day on average. SO much energy!!!

Isolation workouts and heavy cardio

Stupidest thing I've probably done would be allowing myself to gain back the 50+lbs I lost a few years back.

This. I lost 55lbs. My gym changed their hours and I stopped exercising. Gained back 40 before I jumped back on the wagon.

When I first joined MFP I didnt look into anything or know anything about NET calories. I just thought I had to eat 1200 calories a day to lose weight. So I ate only 1200 calories a day and worked out at least 2 hours a day.
I was netting probably around 500 calories a day for over six months. I did lose all the weight fast, however maintaining it is a problem.
To think I could have been eating more that whole time and I still would have lost the weight.

The stupidest thing you can do with your diet is go on a diet. Eat what you love, just learn to control yourself and not eat the whole pig when you go to the luau.

THIS IS AWESOME. any time someone asks me about my diet my first response is, "i'm not on a diet, i don't believe in them." this is a way of life! the healthy, right way of life!

I would say it was when I bought the Smart Technique for over $200.00.... you know listen to the cd's and lose weight............ what a waste of money!!!!

I'll try to keep my long list short.

1. Super Dieter's Tea. I used to drink this stuff ALL the time, especially on weigh in day. This stuff IMO is dangerous. While it certainly makes the bowels move more, I'd rather up my fiber intake and let the pipes work as intended. End result? No extra weight loss, but alot of embarrassing moments at work.

2. Atkins. I did it. Love the "Eat as much as you want protein" that was communicated, but digging into the medical section of the Atkins book, one sentence saying that calories matter did it for me. Lost alot the first time but got frustrated that my wife on WW could eat rice and potatoes and lose as much as I was losing. A friend of mine was hospitalized for extreme ketosis on Atkins, so that did it for me.

3. Cabbage Soup diet. Yep. Desperation called for extreme measures. This was a BAD idea. I lasted 3 days. Surprised I'm still married after that fiasco.

4. Weight Watchers. Ok, WW is a good program and it does work. It's dumb for ME because I'm a guy who likes simplicity. I don't want to figure out if the protein/carbs/fiber/fat combo of everything I eat will max out my allotted POINTS for the day. I preferred it when it was Winning Points when it was mainly about calories. What I want is one target that doesn't require a science degree to tell me if I've had enough food for the day.

5. SlimFast/Shake Diet. SF Bars are nasty. The shakes are nasty. Hunger always hung around on SlimFast.

6. Biggie here...thinking I could just lose weight because I wanted to and could simply think myself thin. Just eyeball what looks right and thinking that it's ok to eat alot of sweets marked as lowfat. Nope. Not true on any count.