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Julie norton    2,850

Julie norton
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I laugh reading these... But how sad we truly tried...

White rice and banana diet. Nothing else...

One bowl diet. If it fit in the small bowl 3x a day....

Of course I was just a teenager w/5-10 lbs to lose.... I thought...

I actually am at that same weight at 60 and of course it is healthy and a good size...

If I knew then what I know now, I guess I wouldn't be me????

Wish I hadn't thought I "wasn't good enough". I was. Sigh

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Sajijoma    1,324

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I have tried soooo many bad diets, but the cabbage diet was definitely one of my least proud moments. The run around the perimeter of the house between bites one was bad too. Basically you had 15 mins to eat then done or not you had to get up and run around the house before coming back to eat. I ended up shoveling and then puking every time. Didn't curb hunger at all. ????Also the Eat this not that diet. Instead of eating ice cream for example, you were suppose to see you could eat up to 24 low cal Popsicles for the same calories and fat. Somehow it turned into us eating an ungodly amount of Popsicles and still wanting ice cream when we normally would have had a little ice cream and been happy. nutrisystem was definitely bad though not the worst, sadly.

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LessOfMe0503    157

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Since there aren't enough stupid diets already out there... I would make diets up. Of course I was about 8 and all I knew about nutrition were food groups.

I would make a list of foods I wasn't going to eat. For example- mushrooms, onions, applesauce, Peanut Butter and bacon. Now, the fact that I don't even LIKE some of those foods is telling. Even at 8, I thought weight loss was about not having things.

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Josho    7

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Same as everyone else. Done loads of fad diets. My worst was the HCG diet. Lost lots fast but after 3 months I couldn't continue on 500 calories a day. My hair was falling out and I put all my weight back on and more very soon after I stopped. With the amount of money I've wasted on diets I could have bought a house by now!!!!

I really hope my insurance approves my surgery! !!!!

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