Crazy diets

[JLilley417 55]

Hollywood cleanse...absolutely disgusting.

[needtorecover 574]

I had a friend ask me to join her in doing "Virtual Lap Band" Apparently they hypnotize you into thinking you've had WLS and you magically eat like you do as if you had it. Needless to say I did not opt in for my BS Detector 9000 was screaming at me...

My uncle tried hypnotism. I think his version was aversion therapy where the hypnotist/therapist trained his mind to think food tasted terrible.

He's in bariatric surgery counseling now!

[gpmed 623]

I did some stupid shit in college, including the 2, 4, 6, 8 diet. You eat 200 calories the first day, 400 the next, then 600 and 800, and start over. I call that my eating disorder time.

I also tried some weird diet in high school that included drinking grapefruit juice at every meal and other bizarre requirements I can't recall.

So glad those days are over!

[HanSolo1977 261]

I'd rather be hypnotized into believing I was a super model with my own personal French chef and a hot body builder personal trainer and maybe a Latin lover poolboy...wait, I might be getting carried away. .. but I think that would stand a better chance of working than an imaginary lapband. That is a hoot

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Your form of hypnotism sounds pretty good. Just switch the gender of the trainer and skip the pool boy and I'm in

I did research it because I was curious and it has a frighteningly high number of practitioners and believers.

[Valentina 2,642]

I had a friend ask me to join her in doing "Virtual Lap Band" Apparently they hypnotize you into thinking you've had WLS and you magically eat like you do as if you had it. Needless to say I did not opt in for my BS Detector 9000 was screaming at me...

What a party pooper!

[Christinamo7 4,042]

the only crazy thing I tried was that prescription that kept you from absorbing all the fat you ate. It had very unpleasant side effects, and was certainly good at behavior modification. Unfortunately it did not do a thing about sugar, which is the real problem

[needtorecover 574]

the only crazy thing I tried was that prescription that kept you from absorbing all the fat you ate. It had very unpleasant side effects, and was certainly good at behavior modification. Unfortunately it did not do a thing about sugar, which is the real problem

Orlistat!! Yeah, I tried that in the form of Alli and I had a very, very unfortunate "accident" at work. I forgot I even took it lol... I think I blocked it out of my mind because it was rather traumatic.

Not so traumatic that other people knew about it... but traumatic enough. I'll leave it at that.

It was interesting to see the floating orange oil knowing I didn't absorb that fat and feeling pleased that I didn't absorb those calories. That being said, yes, sugar is the problem, not fat. We metabolize sugar to become fat but fat itself doesn't turn into fat on our bodies. Science.

[BrnAgn39 85]

Ahhh Orlistat...The stuff makes you shi@ motor oil.

[heather5565 959]

the only crazy thing I tried was that prescription that kept you from absorbing all the fat you ate. It had very unpleasant side effects, and was certainly good at behavior modification. Unfortunately it did not do a thing about sugar, which is the real problem

Oh god!!! I forgot about that one!

Yep tried that one too.

That one was the most disgusting one EVER

So gross

Like seriously... sooooo groooooosssss

Just think everyone. .. all of this reminiscing about shit diets that don't work... we will never have to do them again! Or spend anymore money on said shit diets!!!

We are all doing it a healthy way and have tools to keep it off!!!

Go us

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[heather5565 959]

Ahhh Orlistat...The stuff makes you shi@ motor oil.

Hahaha like literally.

And it's orange, which for some reason makes it even more repulsing

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[liannatx 897]

Mega green T, Zantrax, Metabolift, Metabolife, Slimfast, Curves, Weight Watchers, Atkins, Phen-Fen (way back), Phentermine, HGC, Cabbage Soup, Grapefruit, Rasberry ketones and Green coffee Bean, Sugar Busters, etc...

Crazy is that I tried it all!

edited to add:

When I lived on the border I went to Mexico and had Mesotherapy injections.... Lost 15 lbs doing nothing, all in my panni/gut. When the inevitable regain lbs came they brought friends.

[JLilley417 55]

I almost killed myself on metabolife. I was grounded in high school for being overweight by my parents..."lose 25lbs and you can see your friends again." That day I began having an eating disorder. I played football...I wasn't out of shape, long distance running didn't bother me even at a heavier size because I was, for all intents and purposes, still an athlete.

I popped 8-10 metabolife a day. I maybe ate a couple apples and a Protein bar was considered splurging. I could feel my heart racing but thought nothing of it. I dropped 50lbs in three weeks by not eating and literally allowing my body to eat my muscle because I was exercising so much. Hardly anyone noticed how much I lost because muscle is more dense and on the outside it maybe looked like I lost 15lbs...no one knew I was killing myself.

Contrary to popular belief, teenage men can easily have eating disorders as well. I'm glad I had a reality check, no one tried to help, no one knew.

[VSGAnn2014 12,992]

Jeez, I had forgotten about so many of these awful regimens and drugs!

One diet I did twice (and lost tons of weight on) was "liquid protein" back in the 1970s. It came in big plastic bottles and was made of horses' hooves / hides ... ugh!

I lost tons of weight. But as with all super-low-cal diets, my metabolism plummeted.

And as with all super-low-cal diets, when I went back on "real food" my eating habits hadn't changed at all. Coupled with my lower metabolism the weight came rushing back on.

Yes, diets don't work.

[HanSolo1977 261]

the only crazy thing I tried was that prescription that kept you from absorbing all the fat you ate. It had very unpleasant side effects, and was certainly good at behavior modification. Unfortunately it did not do a thing about sugar, which is the real problem

Oh I completely forgot that stuff. My doc put me on that as a jump start. Worst. 3 months. Ever. And I only lost like 5 lbs.

Edited March 10, 2016 by HanSolo1977

[Christinamo7 4,042]

I almost killed myself on metabolife. I was grounded in high school for being overweight by my parents..."lose 25lbs and you can see your friends again." That day I began having an eating disorder. I played football...I wasn't out of shape, long distance running didn't bother me even at a heavier size because I was, for all intents and purposes, still an athlete.

I popped 8-10 metabolife a day. I maybe ate a couple apples and a Protein bar was considered splurging. I could feel my heart racing but thought nothing of it. I dropped 50lbs in three weeks by not eating and literally allowing my body to eat my muscle because I was exercising so much. Hardly anyone noticed how much I lost because muscle is more dense and on the outside it maybe looked like I lost 15lbs...no one knew I was killing myself.

Contrary to popular belief, teenage men can easily have eating disorders as well. I'm glad I had a reality check, no one tried to help, no one knew.

I am so thankful you survived!

I almost killed myself on metabolife. I was grounded in high school for being overweight by my parents..."lose 25lbs and you can see your friends again." That day I began having an eating disorder. I played football...I wasn't out of shape, long distance running didn't bother me even at a heavier size because I was, for all intents and purposes, still an athlete.

I popped 8-10 metabolife a day. I maybe ate a couple apples and a Protein Bar was considered splurging. I could feel my heart racing but thought nothing of it. I dropped 50lbs in three weeks by not eating and literally allowing my body to eat my muscle because I was exercising so much. Hardly anyone noticed how much I lost because muscle is more dense and on the outside it maybe looked like I lost 15lbs...no one knew I was killing myself.

Contrary to popular belief, teenage men can easily have eating disorders as well. I'm glad I had a reality check, no one tried to help, no one knew.

I am so thankful you survived!