Comments on: What Is The Most Ridiculous Diet Of All Time?

By: Liza

Liza — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:15:14 +0000

Weight Watchers.

Because they alloted me so many points that I didn’t change my habits and thus, didn’t lose any weight.

I am currently on a plan that most would find ridiculous, and I don’t feel like being told I’m a bad fat person so I’m not going to get into it. Suffice to say in the long run I’ve learned a lot about what areas will always be a struggle.

By: Christy

Christy — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:00:31 +0000

Several years ago my mom, me and my sister all decided it would be a great idea for us to jump start our weight loss by doing Herbalife together… during our family vacation. (?!) We were so cranky from not getting to eat actual food more than once a day – and my brother and dad chowing down right in front of us didn’t help either. Awful!

By: Jazmin

Jazmin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:58:33 +0000

So a while ago, back in my home town in Mexico, everyone was raving about a magical cure. I was down for vacation and everyone kept telling me it was wonderful and that so many fat women had lost weight. All you had to do was go to the doctor and he would put this little machine up to your ear and it gave you a little shock and you would lose weight guaranteed! You just had to keep going back every two weeks to get it done. After hearing so much about it, my mom finally decided to take me to go see the doctor. Now, I never believed a single word of it, but heck, why not give it a try? Well sure enough, we go in,the doctor shocks my ear and tells me that now I will lose weight, but not if I don’t follow this huge diet booklet, word for word. I laugh, say ok and walk away. Turns out, that this doctor was just giving everyone the Atkins diet but all these women believed it was the magical ear shock that was doing the trick. I looked at it and decided I couldn’t follow it because it took out cereal, at a time when I was in high school and only had time for cereal in the morning. Turns out the women who were on the diet were women who were at home all day and were able to eat the smaller meals because they didn’t have classes where if you were even chewed gum the teacher would threaten to kick you out.
I can tell you how hilarious I found that people still refused to believe that it was the new diet they were following that was making them lose weight, not whatever “magical” ear thing the doctor was doing.

By: Lois Waller

Lois Waller — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:49:31 +0000

Arlene,

My mom was (and is) very much the same way, and I am grateful for it. However, I still suffered from ED-NOS when I was a young teen and starved myself into an amenorrheic state!

By: fatfighter

fatfighter — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:02:12 +0000

The ramen, mac-n-cheese, drinking too much coffee because I’m working two full time jobs diet worked great for me.

By: Arlene

Arlene — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:43:50 +0000

One thing I can say I’m especially thankful for after reading many of these responses is my mom never putting me on a diet. She’s always had plenty of body image issues of her own– always putting her own and stangers’ bodies down while I was growing up and now still(which I’m sure is harmful to daughters in itself)–but she never made disparaging comments about my body or made me feel not pretty or good or thin enough or like I shouldn’t be eating that cookie or bowl of ice cream or whatever. I think it would take me years and years of therapy to get over what some of your mothers have done to you guys, particularly those of you who were perfectly healthy to begin with.

By: Madge

Madge — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:27:09 +0000

I dunno, I did really well with the South Beach diet – it was the thing that got me into eating real food, rather than processed crap. I ate a ton of fruit and veggies, so I wasn’t starved for carbs, and allowed myself whole-grain bread and red wine (both ok in the plan).

I’m doing a similar thing now, since being on South Beach was the healthiest-feeling time of my life. I think it’s all in how you approach it… if you use any diet as a way to yo-yo or get rid of your good carbohydrates and fats, that’s going to feel terrible.

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:37:31 +0000

One year, my mother and I went on the grapefruit diet. You eat half a grapefruit for breakfast, a hard boiled egg and half a grape fruit for lunch, and a boneless skinless chicken breast and (you guessed it) half a grapefruit for dinner.

I lasted two days before freaking out and consuming an entire medium pizza while my mother was out with her friends. I tried desperately to hide the box and destroy all evidence, until she came home and confessed to eating an enchilada dinner at a Mexican place. We were both crazed with hunger!

I’ve done Weight Watchers. Yeah, you get totally obsessed with food, and it’s really expensive.

South Beach – I lasted about a week and a half, until one day I blanked out on the drive home from work and couldn’t remember what street to turn on to get to my house! Guess what? The brain needs carbs to function properly!

By: JenJen

JenJen — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:22:48 +0000

Now that I think about it, since childhood I’ve been on quite a few diets – not one of them has worked.

I was put on these particular diets mostly by my mother, who has some major body issues herself. (She’s lost a huge amount of weight, but she’s still not happy with herself.)

With her, I’ve been on everything from a form of the Atkins diet, all the way to the incredibly dangerous Phen Fen (or however that’s spelled).
I’ve even been on the Slim Fast “diet” that a previous poster had talked about earlier in this thread, and it’s one of the many diets that have left me so freaking hungry I had no idea what to do except to eat something with the shakes!

As for the diet that I think is most idiotic, I’d have to say that pretty much all of them are – none of them are the “magical cure”. None.
I’ve even bought the subject up with my own mother. Whenever I bring up the fact that the diet industry pulls in over 2.4 billion dollars per year, she gets this blank stare like she doesn’t have any idea what I’m talking about. When the light bulb goes off, she gives me this tries to give me this head-buried-in-the-sand answers that absolutely make no sense.
Especially when I tell her about about how much her beloved Weight Watchers rakes in per year, she pretty much sits there and says that I’m full of b.s. (Which, I’m not.) I only tell her because I care. That, and I want her to be happy with her body.

Okay, enough ranting for now. Bye.

By: anna

anna — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:42:28 +0000

how about the fat free diet?? loaded with calories…but no fat! sure to be a crowd pleaser…all the bread you want!!