What's the Craziest Diet Myth You've Heard?

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  • eriemer
    eriemer Posts: 197
    Did we all forget about the Baby food diet? Because pureed food apparently has less calories and is better for you....icky.
  • eriemer
    eriemer Posts: 197
    Here is the absolutely craziest diet advice. My Ex's mom who had bypass twice! Who is now in CHF and morbidly obese again, told me Fat and deepfried food was good for me while I was pregnant because she read that the baby needed fat for it's brain.

    Guess she missed the boat on DHA/ARA fatty acids and saturated/rans fats. I never followed her advise anyways. She was the same woman who kept trying to convince me a 2 week old baby should be eating tablefood and breastfeeding caused diseases.

    Side note her son is over 200 lbs overweight (had bypass too and gained it all back) and had intestinal rupture when he was a baby from her force feeding him solids.
  • saraann4
    saraann4 Posts: 1,296 Member
    Atkins means eating all the meat you want, prepared however you want. I knew a guy who because of his interpretation, would eat fried chicken wings nearly daily. The grease was clogging my arteries just being near it!

    My mom tried that and ate bacon every single day for almost every single meal and finally realized that she was gaining weight.
  • LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo
    LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo Posts: 3,634 Member
    I have an aunt who doesn't eat anything after 3pm. Well she did lost weight but I think the most part of it came from muscle weight because she looks saggy & still have flabby belly, jiggly arms (aka skinny-fat)
  • joe7880
    joe7880 Posts: 92 Member
    That eating too few calories will make you gain weight.

    Doing that only makes me cranky...

    Mine is: that creating a huge caloric deficit is a good idea. I finally started eating my exercise calories (well about 3/4 of them) and have my calories set to lose 2 pounds/week and i'm a very happy person b/c of it.
  • WinWinGo
    WinWinGo Posts: 99 Member
    The apple diet. You basically eat two apples a day and nothing else. Apparently Beyonce used it? Ridiculous.

    Apparently Beyonce did the maple syrup diet as well. I think I will refrain from taking dieting advice from Beyonce.

    I met a lady who did the maple syrup diet for 15 days, lost 31 pounds and ended up in the ICU due to her organs beginning to shut down.

    wtf a maple syrup diet? deff sounds like beyonce. she's such a dummy. as well as others who jump on that bandwaggon

    I highly doubt Beyonce ever did that "diet." More likely she just works out for 4 hours every day so she can eat what she pleases. Pop stars have that kind of time. Also, I'd be careful about calling people "dummy."

    The craziest diet I've heard of is going gluten free, or doing Paleo. I have no doubt these work, but damn, what a lot of extra bother to go to if you don't absolutely have to. I mean, gluten is really hard to avoid.
  • katy84o
    katy84o Posts: 744 Member
    My grandmother believed that eating a teaspoon of Dawn or Palmolive dish soap every day would dissolve fat in her body. She swore she read about it in Reader's Digest. She ate a lot of soap...

    Did she ever burp bubbles? haha like in little rascals

    *I realize now after reading through 8 pages, many have already made this joke..
  • Jladd42
    Jladd42 Posts: 23 Member
    never expose it to bright light (especially sunlight, which will kill it); never get it wet (which will make it multiply); and, most importantly: never, ever feed it after midnight.


    I heard this too. This one is true...
  • cimonroe
    cimonroe Posts: 36
    Dont eat. :)
  • eriemer
    eriemer Posts: 197
    The craziest diet I've heard of is going gluten free, or doing Paleo. I have no doubt these work, but damn, what a lot of extra bother to go to if you don't absolutely have to. I mean, gluten is really hard to avoid.
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    Gluten free is all the rage now! Didn't you get the memo? Apparently everyone who farts more then once an hour has self diagnosed celiac.
  • capriciousmoon
    capriciousmoon Posts: 1,263 Member
    "hollywood diet" 2 lemons sqeezed+1 tbls of maple syrup+ 20 oz warm water+cayenne pepper. 10x's a day
    note: you dont eat or drink anything els on this:drinker:

    Oh, you do get to drink more... you also get to drink salt water and laxative tea!
  • korsicash
    korsicash Posts: 770 Member
    Tape worms, can you imagine purposely giving yourself an intestinal parasite...NASTY!
  • Captian_Dathon
    Captian_Dathon Posts: 73
    That eating too few calories will make you gain weight.



    Believe it or not, a weight-loss program that overly restricts calories will set you up for failure, as will a skipped meal. There is a point at which cutting calories will work against weight loss because consuming too few calories leads to increased appetite and low satiety as your body prevents starvation. You will find it hard to implement your healthy eating goals when you’re feeling hungry and dissatisfied. And you will suffer from cravings, ultimately causing you to fall into under-eating and over-eating cycles.

    Your body will make a choice: lose body fat or lose muscle. An inadequately fueled body will choose to drop calorie-burning muscle rather than fat. Excessive loss of lean muscle mass leads to weight loss without improvement of body composition or health. This leaves you frustrated and ever-battling your weight. The body will slow it's metabolism to an absolute stand still to "keep it going".

    Get informed, and think about it!

    A few years back I very badly restricted calories, lost about 40 lbs, each week getting slower weight loss until I came to a complete halt, eating 300-1000 cals a day for FIVE monthes, and not dropping a single pound.

    (I gained a LOT after I quit, and maintained a much heavier 185 for years before beginning to lose weight more healthily last year, and have healthily dropped 39 lbs. I must admit, sometimes I fall back into some restricting ways, but generally I'm good.)
  • bunsen_honeydew
    bunsen_honeydew Posts: 230 Member
    Was there one out years ago, when people got the mouth wired shut?

    I think the modern version of that is having a piece of metal SEWN TO YOUR TONGUE.

    The "tongue patch diet". It's a thing :o
  • PapaverSomniferum
    PapaverSomniferum Posts: 2,670 Member
    Was there one out years ago, when people got the mouth wired shut?

    I think the modern version of that is having a piece of metal SEWN TO YOUR TONGUE.

    The "tongue patch diet". It's a thing :o

    I read that in a muppet voice. :flowerforyou:
  • sexycheesemonkey
    sexycheesemonkey Posts: 196 Member
    Banana splits are a perfectly balanced meal! You have your fruits, nuts for protein, ice cream is dairy and sugar...what more do you need! And another one from my darling grandmother "Well if you have lite food then you can have twice as much and still be cutting the calories"
  • mici0427
    mici0427 Posts: 54
    the one where people order tapeworms and ingest them so that you will lose weight...

    I hear that actually used to be popular, which is just disgusting!

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    Your link was not advocating the tape worm diet. It was actually listing pros and cons and telling readers why NOT to try it:-) Gross article,really

    Wasn't that like back in the 20s?

    Apparently there are still advocates! Wow! :s

    http://www.healthyweightforum.org/eng/diets/tapeworm-diet/
  • Captian_Dathon
    Captian_Dathon Posts: 73
    Did we all forget about the Baby food diet? Because pureed food apparently has less calories and is better for you....icky.
    HAHA! Years ago I ate sooooo much baby food because I was sure it would help...
    Of course, I was highly under my calorie needs, so I DID lose weight... but rather unhealthily. ^^;; I'd reccomend just eating good and exercising. Works just fine.
  • megsmom2
    megsmom2 Posts: 2,362 Member
    I don't know if anyone else remembers Metrecal meal replacement shakes. My grandma insisted that you drink Metrecal WITH your meal..not instead of it. I guess she thought it would magically neutralize the calories.
  • rugbyphreak
    rugbyphreak Posts: 509 Member
    The craziest diet I've heard of is going gluten free, or doing Paleo. I have no doubt these work, but damn, what a lot of extra bother to go to if you don't absolutely have to. I mean, gluten is really hard to avoid.
    Gluten free is all the rage now! Didn't you get the memo? Apparently everyone who farts more then once an hour has self diagnosed celiac.

    then i guess i have celiac's disease... :P
  • CoderGal
    CoderGal Posts: 6,800 Member
    You will loose more weight if you eat less <- stupid idea when given to people who are already eating significantly less then what they use to to maintain older weight
  • caritiger
    caritiger Posts: 82 Member
    That cotton balls are full of fiber and low in calories so if you eat them you will be full but lose weight. WOW.

    BLEAH!
  • Sidesteal
    Sidesteal Posts: 5,510 Member
    The blood type diet ranks up there.
  • barackobamamama
    barackobamamama Posts: 21
    That carbs are good for you!
  • caritiger
    caritiger Posts: 82 Member
    "hollywood diet" 2 lemons sqeezed+1 tbls of maple syrup+ 20 oz warm water+cayenne pepper. 10x's a day
    note: you dont eat or drink anything els on this:drinker:

    Oh, you do get to drink more... you also get to drink salt water and laxative tea!

    Anything with the word "Hollywood" in it is instantly suspect!
  • Sidesteal
    Sidesteal Posts: 5,510 Member
    That carbs are good for you!

    LOL
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    Eating too few calories will make you gain weight! That's not a myth! Don't you read the bottom of your log if you haven't eaten enough? If you eat too few calories you body goes into starvation mode and keeps everything. It doesn't think you are going to feed it again, therefore weight gain. Do the research, it's true.

    No, it's not true. Humans gain fat by eating more calories than their body uses. Period. That's how it's done.

    Starvation mode refers to damaging your metabolism, which causes you to burn less calories and lose more slowing than if your body was properly fueled.. But it does NOT magically pull calories out of thin air that your body then stores as fat. You have to consume calories in order for your body to store them as fat. (true story)
  • rileyk54
    rileyk54 Posts: 10
    I just heard one yesterday, a co-worker is on a diet where you eat as much as you can the first day...As bad as you can....Pizza, chocolate, chips, pop..you name it. Then the second day, you eat this powder 6 times daily, and only eat 500 calories a day for the next few weeks!!! And then you will lose 20 pounds in just 4 short weeks.......Omg....I feel sorry for people who have no clue. I directed her to come to this site and hopefully she will learn it's all about healty eating and excercise.

    A girl I know tried this, or something like it. Within two days, she said she could barely get out of bed, because she was so dizzy and fatigued from not eating. and then she found out the powder she was taking was some kind of growth hormone and she wanted nothing to do with it after that. I was super glad that I found out she stopped right away, I'm sure the consequences of that would have been very bad.
  • rileyk54
    rileyk54 Posts: 10
    Here is the absolutely craziest diet advice. My Ex's mom who had bypass twice! Who is now in CHF and morbidly obese again, told me Fat and deepfried food was good for me while I was pregnant because she read that the baby needed fat for it's brain.

    Guess she missed the boat on DHA/ARA fatty acids and saturated/rans fats. I never followed her advise anyways. She was the same woman who kept trying to convince me a 2 week old baby should be eating tablefood and breastfeeding caused diseases.

    Side note her son is over 200 lbs overweight (had bypass too and gained it all back) and had intestinal rupture when he was a baby from her force feeding him solids.

    OMGGGG, that's terrible! how ignorant is this lady! especially after something like that happened to her son? people just blow my mind...
  • Meatsies
    Meatsies Posts: 351 Member
    Diet Myth: Muscle weighs more than fat.

    I can't believe people actually believe this. A pound is a pound, no matter what the composition.

    Muscle is denser than fat, but it doesn't weigh more.

    Yes, clearly a POUND of muscle weighs the same as a POUND of fat.
    HOWEVER, 10 lbs of muscle looks a lot different than 10 lbs of fat.
    Ask one of my MFP buddies, who weighs the same as I do, and is about the same height.
    She's in a size 8. I'm in a size 18.
    Muscle DOES weigh more than fat, in that a cubic foot of pure fat would weigh less than a cubic foot of pure muscle.
    Obviously, if you're comparing pounds to pounds, of course they weigh the same.

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