What was the worst diet you ever tried?

For me it would be using Ali and doing the Herbal life diet.

The Beverly Hills Diet, circa 1980's. It was all fruit like watermelon. You were supposed to eat the seeds for protein LOL.

Atkins, for sure. Lost 45 pounds in 4 months miserable as all get out. Introduced carbs back in and it was all over. Gained 50 pounds in about a month.

Half a cantaloupe filled with cottage cheese 3X a day for 30 days.

Nothing but cabbage and rice Soup for 30 days.

Old school Optifast when it was just that gross, chalky drink.

Only eating dinner.

Shall I go on?

The Optifast one is the one that makes me throw up a little in my mouth just thinking about it.

The Dolly Parton Diet (in the early 80's) which was basically a cabbage/tomato broth diet. 3x a day until you reach your goal weight. I lasted 3 days.

probably the "military diet" that is circulating around pinterest right now

So funny the stupid things we did to lose weight. Lol

All of them! Every damn one I tried was the worst.....

Mine would have to be Optifast! Tried is when it was the Oprah fad and lost weightbut when you have a normal size stomach it is a killer!! Needless to say I gained it all back just like Oprah did! I love my sleeve!!

Mine would have to be Optifast! Tried is when it was the Oprah fad and lost weightbut when you have a normal size stomach it is a killer!! Needless to say I gained it all back just like Oprah did! I love my sleeve!!

I would love to be 2 months post op already.

I did everyone of them too! Ali broke me out in a rash. I did low-fat in the 90's. I did Atkins the first time in the 80's in Highschool. Although I will say Atkins was probably the closest I ever got to getting it right. Look at what they are leaning us towards, lower carbs for life and sugar is evil. I did Atkins for 1 1/2 years and kept the weight off even longer and didn't really gain it all back when I started the next round a few years later. I had a room-mate at the time, that kept telling me I was going to die from eating a lot of Protein and avoiding carbs and that I would not lose weight. She gave me the challenge I needed to lose a bunch of weight and prove her wrong. It became expensive because she'd get up in the middle of the night and eat all my cheese! I've done the cabbage Soup thing, I've done the clinic thing with low-carb and weight ins, Jenny Craig, Nutri-System twice.... However, I never did Weight Watchers, ever.

In the 90's I had a friend of a friend get thin really fast and made her tell me how, and she was doing low-fat - however, she was going to a "diet doctor". I signed right on up, got thyroid pills, and diet pills and lost a good bit of weight. The doctor was arrested at some point, and I heard not long ago that the friend of a friend has been a prescription drug addict ever sense, lost her job, husband, kids...

Four years ago I bought a bodybugg, after watching Biggest Loser and did great with it... when I wore it. I am putting it back on the day I start the liquid diet. Something about wearing it on my arm keeps me honest and logging everything I put in my mouth... I also like seeing how many calories I'm burning and my steps. I will go out of the way to get more steps while wearing it. I put it on during the summer, but with my job and sweating it makes my arm itch... but I'll be fine once I put it back on. It has cooled off and if I wear it next summer when my arm is smaller it won't be such a headache. I love having it on at the gym, because it will even track how many calories burned per minute. It breaks it down into moderate activity (at about 4 -6 calories a minute) and vigorous calories (over 7 calories a minute). I find myself fighting to get the vigorous calories.

My NUT did advise me to never go on a diet again. Follow the program, keep the basic principles, even if you treat yourself... but live it and resist going on any diets. Make this the way of life you will live from here on out. I'm the kind of person that is on it or off of it. I would go months, sometimes even years and decide to take a day off - and poof, I was gaining and off again.

Weight watchers, medifast, green tea, 17 day diet, herbal life, my latest diets have been HCG injections I bought online from India ( I got desperate this year) and this last obsession was with beach bodies shakeology.... Which is damn expensive for a shake..... So I see my doctor Friday to start this process.... She recommended it through email..... Very nervous!!!!!

The most ridiculous diet that reeled me in was a white rice and banana diet. I just remember I was so starving I could eat my arm!

Weight watchers' date=' medifast, green tea, 17 day diet, herbal life, my latest diets have been HCG injections I bought online from India ( I got desperate this year) and this last obsession was with beach bodies shakeology.... Which is damn expensive for a shake..... So I see my doctor Friday to start this process.... She recommended it through email..... Very nervous!!!!![/quote']

So you are just beginning the process?

My worst diet was probably hypnosis (positive changes). I gained 50 lbs on it so, no, not for me. My most successful diet was probably Atkins. It worked well for me in the first 8 months (lost about 100) until I stopped eating low carb and ate whatever.

My worst diet was probably hypnosis (positive changes). I gained 50 lbs on it so, no, not for me. My most successful diet was probably Atkins. It worked well for me in the first 8 months (lost about 100) until I stopped eating low carb and ate whatever.

Did the hypnotist make you act like a chicken while you were under?