What's The Most Ridiculous Weight Loss Gimmick You Have Tried?

[♥LovetheNewMe♥ 1,216]

Hey fellow bandsters, I hope everyone is having a great week!

On the way to work this morning I was listening to the radio, 100.5 in Greenville, SC and there was a topic that made me chuckle. First on the news was the law suit that had been taken out against "Sketcher Shoes" People actually sued because the company in the advertising campaign actually said the shoes could make you lose weight. I had to laugh to my self, seriously, people actually thought the shoes would make them lose weight. But then I started thinking, hmmm, how many times have I sat up at night and watched infomercial after infomercial thinking. "Maybe that would work", I think I could do that diet, or exercise on that machine. So here is my confession of arrsoneals of my sins to lose weight,

1. Thigh Master

2. Oliptical stair stepper $1,500 dollars

3. Tony Hortons, gazelle, The premium model

4. shaker weight (new)

5. Yogo booty Ballea

6. Brazillian butt lift (new)

7. Power 90

8. Providian Life Science Diet

9. Jenny Craig

10. 10 minute work out ( I think Beach body sees me coming everytime. )

That is just my top 10, I could go on and on.

So what are some of your desperiate attempts to lose weight.

Looking at this list make me realize why I am so happy to have had lap band, I am sure a large portion of these pieces of equipement may work but with anything you have to be dicipline and dedicated to your goals.

Diane

[azhoselady 17]

this one touched me....

1) jenny craig (did great till I started eatting my own food)

2) sensa (omg what was I thinking)

3) shakeweight

4) amberen - I don't even think I am menopausal yet!

5) well 4 life

6) herbalife

7)Metabolife

8) walk away the pounds - dvds

9) cabbage Soup diet

10) this isn't a diet but that stupid hair removal system the was a white can opener looking thing with the coil on the end that caught the hair and ripped it out at the root? I don't recall the name of it. I got mine at costco and it was like 65.00 I thought I was gonna die the first time I used it! wow I am such a sucker!

[azhoselady 17]

oh and I just got the Brazil butt lift! I am so gonna use it soon!

[♥LovetheNewMe♥ 1,216]

I forgot about the cabbage Soup diet and I thought of a couple more crazy things I have done over the years, I must admit I am a life time member of weight watchers, I hit my goal in 1990 and was never able to maintain my goal weight so I always had to pay the $5 dollar meeting fee. I also did this crazy diet where you ate everything in 3's. 3 eggs for Breakfast, 3 burgers for lunch and 3 pork chops for dinner. That was all I ate for weeks, than there was the grapefruit diet, you ate or drank grapefruit before ever meal. Than there was South Beach and Atkins, the Zone. But hey I always lost it was the double and triple pounds that I always added back in the place of the lose. Should I say they all had my number and name, DESPERATE...

[annaben62 21]

The most ridiculous one I tried was a ear device that they took all theses important measurements and had this device that I wore in my left ear. Every so often throughout the day I was to wiggle it. This was supposed to put pressure on certain points to curb my appetite. It didn't work.

[Ladybandito 516]

Old thread, but pretty funny.

I'll add The Beverly Hills Diet, does anybody remember that one? It was like all fruit for a week, in particular order. I stopped when I passed out after 2 weeks on the "diet."

I also did the cabbage Soup diet, and Medifast and Optifast. The liquid fasts worked great, until I ate solids and gained it all back, and more!

[wonderpooh2u 33]

1. Metabolife

2. Trimspa

3. Stacker 2

4. Lipozene

5. Jillian Michaels cleanse

6. Raspberry Ketone

7. Garcinia Cambogia

8. Hip Hop Abs (feels good, but hard on my knees)

9. Rebounding

10. Cardio Glide

11. Gazelle (which I still own and LOVE!)

12. Thighmaster

13. Nutrisystem (20 lb loss in 8 mos, 40 lb gain)

I know there's a few others I've tried. Terrible!

[BetsyBee65 5]

I tried Garcinia Cambogia. I feel like such a sucker.