Guest guest Posted May 13, 2008 Report Share Posted May 13, 2008 I never really did any crazy diets. Weight Watchers was the only one I did. I did eat some crazy stuff though. They recommend that you have 2 tsp of oil everyday and my leader said she ate it on her cereal in the morning to get it over with. So my breakfast used to be a 1/2 cup of All Bran and 2 tsp of canola oil. No wonder I never wanted to get up in the morning! :)megnponcho wrote: I thought it might be fun to share some of the more insane things we have tried or diets we've been on... Reminders of why we will NOT diet again!The second to last diet I was on was one bag of lite popcorn, one package of Ramen Noodles and 2 cups of SF Jello. About 600 calories per day. This lasted a good while, about 4 months. Lost 50 pounds, gained back 39, then went on this one:The last diet I was on I had a Slim-Fast for breakfast and lunch and one lean cuisine for dinner. About 740 calories per day. (Of course, I would end up eating 4 or 5 lean cuisines and 2 or 3 Slim-Fasts late at night because I was dying.) This was, of course, all I ever kept in the house, Slim-Fasts and Lean Cuisines, because anything else was gone in about 1.25 seconds...I was facing another month of Slim-Fasts and lean cuisines when I discovered IE. Thank you lord! I'll never do that again.... EVER...:)Meg Now with a new friend-happy design! Try the new Yahoo! Canada Messenger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 13, 2008 Report Share Posted May 13, 2008 > > I thought it might be fun to share some of the more insane things we > have tried or diets we've been on... Reminders of why we will NOT > diet again! > Hi Meg, Fun idea for a post! Insane things, you say? One diet I followed required us to eat a potato before bedtime to increase our serotonin. Words fail me to describe how much I did NOT feel like eating a potato before bedtime. Complete waste of time. Then I recall one diet where you could eat whatever you wanted at one meal each day, as long as you ate everything within a one hour period. I would pile up platters of food and dessert so I could devote the full 60 minutes to stuffing my face as fast as I could. Needless to say, that did not work too well. Then there was the diet where I could not combine protein with starch, so I could have a salad sandwich, but God forbid you should have a hamburger with a BUN or put tuna between 2 slices of bread and don't even THINK about having toast with your eggs. And I remember WAY back, some kind of hot dog diet where you ate hot dogs and vanilla ice cream every day. The last diet I did (and I do mean the LAST diet) involved drinking unsweetened cranberry juice (no sweeteners allowed, it will change the pH!), eating ground up flaxseeds, and drinking hot lemon water. No dairy and almost no carbohydrate starches allowed. About 2 weeks of that ordeal and I could barely face getting out of bed in the morning. That is when I decided I was DONE with dieting and I discovered Intuitive Eating. I won't even mention all the other insane diets I tried, such as Atkins and Weight Watchers. B. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 13, 2008 Report Share Posted May 13, 2008 Craziest one I can remember, though I don't recall the " official " name for it, invovled eating grits or oatmeal two meals a day, and one " regular " meal. I called it the " Prisoner's Diet " cause it reminded me of eating GRUEL two meals a day. Yuck! Lost some weight, but of course it came back. I did ATkins for nearly a year and I do have to say I enjoyed it and lost a lot of weight. But it's just not sustainable for the long term - I wasn't willing to kiss carbohydrates goodbye for the rest of my life. But I'm a big protein-eater anyway, so Atkins was probably the best for me overall, just not long- term. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 13, 2008 Report Share Posted May 13, 2008 The craziest " diet " I went on was just a crazy strict calorie counting phase. Towards the end, I was only " allowing " myself to eat around 300 calories/ day. I gave up when it got to the point where it was not going to be possibly to continue losing 3 lbs a week. I dropped about 37 lbs on that diet, and gained back 78 when I quit! Because this is how our bodies and our pysches respond to being half starved. IE makes way more sense. No horrible backlash, no yo-yo. It's slower but it ought to be! > > I thought it might be fun to share some of the more insane things we > have tried or diets we've been on... Reminders of why we will NOT > diet again! > > The second to last diet I was on was one bag of lite popcorn, one > package of Ramen Noodles and 2 cups of SF Jello. About 600 calories > per day. This lasted a good while, about 4 months. Lost 50 pounds, > gained back 39, then went on this one: > > The last diet I was on I had a Slim-Fast for breakfast and lunch and > one lean cuisine for dinner. About 740 calories per day. (Of course, > I would end up eating 4 or 5 lean cuisines and 2 or 3 Slim-Fasts > late at night because I was dying.) This was, of course, all I ever > kept in the house, Slim-Fasts and Lean Cuisines, because anything > else was gone in about 1.25 seconds... > > I was facing another month of Slim-Fasts and lean cuisines when I > discovered IE. Thank you lord! I'll never do that again.... EVER... > > > Meg > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 13, 2008 Report Share Posted May 13, 2008 I am probably one of the 'odd' persons out here, as I never really dieted in the standard fashion - I'm too darn rebellious lol!! (and phew too!) But I have eaten some 'strange' ways when it came to thinking about loosing weight. Once I ate LIVER for breakfast because it made sense to me. And it actually did a goo job of 'holding' me until lunch time, so maybe 'crazy' ideas are better? The worst thing that I did when trying to loose weight was beating myself up for eating something 'bad' and of course also overeating when I was going to start 'dieting'. Since starting IE I now know why what I thought was a good joke - I just had to think 'diet' and I immediately felt hungry - fell flat when I said it to others. . . Its the TRUTH!! ehugs, Katcha > > I thought it might be fun to share some of the more insane things we > have tried or diets we've been on... Reminders of why we will NOT > diet again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 14, 2008 Report Share Posted May 14, 2008 I did the 48 hour Hollywood Miracle Diet prior to my husband's reunion. (and promptly ballooned up to my highest/current weight) I'm also recently off of the Toddler Diet - I eat whatever he doesn't. ~ Mischief ~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 14, 2008 Report Share Posted May 14, 2008 About two years ago (or so) my friends and I did a " spoof " commercial for " Wish Vision " magic weight loss plan. " You put on the rose colored glasses and *poof* the weight just disappears! " It was really fun. It came with three workout videos " Sweatin' 'til I'm moldy " " buns I'd like to steal " And I can't remember the third one.... Anyway the first person was me-overweight then we paused the video and my very thin friend stepped into my place and we turned the camera back on...poof! It was really funny! It also came with wish vision magic pills and glasses. The " pills " were smarties in an empty film container with a fake prescription label. The glasses were sunglasses painted pink. I used it as an introduction to IE at work...to laugh about diets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 14, 2008 Report Share Posted May 14, 2008 This afternoon I went to the bookstore near my work (while waiting for my Chinese food, haha). I poked around in the cookbook section then went to the diet section (oh, the irony) to see if there were any new IE-type books in stock. There's a stool to sit on and so I sat. And just sat there with all of the silly diet books. Flush Your Gut, South Beach Heart Diet, What to Eat, What Not to Eat, The Real Age Cookbook, Skinny Bitch in the Kitch (why can't you just SAY you're a vegan cookbook? not that there's anything wrong with that), etc. So, I just sat there. It was like visiting an old friend that you don't have much in common with anymore. I perused some of them to see if there were any good recipes (damn that Skinny Bitch book - I would have bought it had it not been so hardcore). Mostly, though, I just felt sad about how many people throw their money away on these things...sad that I threw my money away on so many books, programs, etc.Anyway. Sorry for the rambling! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 Hi , That is so funny! I thing the old friend description is very apt. I remember on ebay seeing a huge set of about 35 diet books, all different, for sale in a group for .99 cents! It really made me laugh. That's about what they are worth... Meredith Palmer wrote: This afternoon I went to the bookstore near my work (while waiting for my Chinese food, haha). I poked around in the cookbook section then went to the diet section (oh, the irony) to see if there were any new IE-type books in stock. There's a stool to sit on and so I sat. And just sat there with all of the silly diet books. Flush Your Gut, South Beach Heart Diet, What to Eat, What Not to Eat, The Real Age Cookbook, Skinny Bitch in the Kitch (why can't you just SAY you're a vegan cookbook? not that there's anything wrong with that), etc. So, I just sat there. It was like visiting an old friend that you don't have much in common with anymore. I perused some of them to see if there were any good recipes (damn that Skinny Bitch book - I would have bought it had it not been so hardcore). Mostly, though, I just felt sad about how many people throw their money away on these things...sad that I threw my money away on so many books, programs, etc.Anyway. Sorry for the rambling! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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