Ok, looking for the dumbest, silliest, craziest weight loss program you ever tried?

Mine was the Arnold Schwarzenegger diet. I saw it in a newspaper one day. Here was the diet -- (at the time Arnold was the President's Exercise Guru) -- Everytime there was a food decision to make, such as carrots or doughnuts, you just thought "What would Arnold do?". Of course, Arnold would have the carrots. I thought this was silly, but started trying it. Sure enough, a week later, down 5 pounds, then 10 the next week. My wife was pretending I was Arnold as well, but that is another story. Finally, after about three weeks, I said to the Arnold question -- "Well, screw Arnold"!! And that was that.

i tried the all sex diet, but i had to give up after 2 minutes...

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Oh, I've done all sorts of stupid diets but the worst, hands down? The Alli pills. The idea is that the pills soak up all the fat you eat and you, um, excrete it rather than your body absorbing it. If you ate too much fat you would have an accident. So that was supposed to encourage you to stick to a low-fat diet. Well, of course we all know low-fat diets don't satisfy you so eventually I would slip up and eat something with too much fat in it. At the time I worked at a high-end corporate law firm and being unable to control my bowels was NOT an option! And! I was pooping ORANGE! After one too many pairs of ruined panties I threw the damned pills away.

I too have tried many but have to say the absolutely most impalatable one was the cleanse diet of lemon juice/maple syrup/ cayenne pepper. How I hated it. It was recommended you stay on it for 14 days. Somehow I forced that mess down for 14 days, lost 7 pounds, and of course regained as soon as I started eating again. Just the thought of it makes me nauseated.

i tried the all sex diet, but i had to give up after 2 minutes...

It's the going to the fridge for some leftover Chinese food afterwards, that is a killer.

Hmmmmm. That explains a lot why Popeye's forearms were so big, he must have not had a partner.

@@JustWatchMe yes!!! Aydes! I thought I was the only one who still remembered those nasty chocolate candy! HA!

Does anyone remember the Meal Replacement product that was like a large wafer sandwich cookie?

They came in a box and were individually wrapped in packs of 2...

What was the name?? I can't remember.

When I was a fat young teen and feeling truly ashamed of myself for the first time, ashamed of being fat, I saw the AYDS boxes in the drug store and was too naive to know that hucksters reign. I did not have much money, but bought the boxes, convinced my problems were over. That "candy" was nasty, but I kept eating it. Did not lose an ounce and eventually put them in the back of my closet, throwing them away years later when I moved out.

We laugh about all these horrible diets, but underneath each is someone who got taken advantage of by greedy people and fake diets. But did that stop us? No -- the diets continued unabated, all the way to WLS -- which really works.

I too have tried many but have to say the absolutely most impalatable one was the cleanse diet of lemon juice/maple syrup/ cayenne pepper. How I hated it. It was recommended you stay on it for 14 days. Somehow I forced that mess down for 14 days, lost 7 pounds, and of course regained as soon as I started eating again. Just the thought of it makes me nauseated.

I agree. This was the worst.

Medifast was probably the worst, so gross I lost weight my starving. Does anyone remember the cookie diet? That was hilarious, never lost even a pound.

I havent seen any Phen fen , mentioned. lol Gosh i was on it for three months before it got pulled from the market i lost like 50 pounds and loved it. of course there were the nights i forgot to take my nighttime fen, and you , do not ssleep, if you didnt take that part lol. but it was a learning experience. Me and my wife were on it, and we both started the same day, and on the first day we were sooo hyper from the phentermine, that we went and walked around the biggest mall in the area, not once , not twice but 7 times, just non stop walking , fast. lol never even went into a store. Looking back i realize why that stuff worked. it was basicallt like meth to pick you up and then a sedative to bring you back to reality. lol WHEEEEEEE!

lol

I didn't mention it because it worked so well.

Honestly I was on it, off and on, for years from age 15 to 22 (until they took it off the market) and loved it.

I haven't tried some of these but wanted to say thanks for the chuckles. It's both crazy and sad what lengths we will go to lose weight. Here's to ending the madness....

I remember doing HCG, only lasted 2 weeks. I was always starving when it finally came time to eat. The Sacred Heart diet was pretty rough too. I ended up hating that soup by halfway through. Though initially it was pretty good.

Like the others, I don’t have time to list all of the dumb diets I tried. I know there was one that had to do with shakes and time of day and day of the week. I guess it probably worked, but I didn’t stay on it long enough to find out for sure.

@@Alex Brecher Was that The Cambridge Diet? Those shakes were the worst! You may be too young to remember The Cambridge Diet. Nothing but shakes, and it cost close to a fortune! I wonder if that stuff is still around. Probably somewhere with the Aydes candies. lol