Okay, what's the most insane diet you've ever tried? As Harley Nana would say, "fess up."

Mine has got to be the Schick Center for Weight Loss back in the 80's. All the other kids spent their money on Spring Break vacations, while I paid $1,000 (huge money for a teen back then) for TORTURE CAMP.

The Schick Centers used electric therapy to make you stop smoking and eating. I went twice a week for "Electric Aversion Therapy." Each session I had to bring my favorite binge food. I'd sit in a sterile white room flooded with heat lamps. They'd attach a battery-operated electric zapper thingy to my inner wrist, while a Nazi drill sergeant stood over me instructing me what to do. I'd have to shove the offensive junk food in my mouth and chew, then spit in the trash. With every bite he'd give me a good zap, then make me shove another mouthful in. They made me dump the candy on the table, then they emptied a huge bag of sugar on top and made me cram tablespoons in my mouth. Each time the zapping got harder till I'd jump out of the chair a little. Then I spit and started again. This time close your eyes and shove more sugar in your mouth, only when my eyes were closed they dumped salt on top of the sugar so now I'm crying with my mouth stuffed with M n' M's, table sugar and horrifying dry salt - cheeks stuffed full and mouth so dry that the salt and sugar fell through my pursed lips like sand through an hour glass. Then as if I weren't humiliated enough with tears dripping into the sugar and salt making paste on me, they squeezed fish emulsion scent under my nose while making me grab rolls of fat and visualize how disgusting the junk food was with my left hand and mashing melted M n' Ms with my right hand. Just before I sank to the floor in heaving sobs, Hitler tells me to wipe the melted chocolate all over my shirt, then yells at me when I refuse. Try to picture a fat teenager, bawling with melted candy smashed in her hand sitting next to a trash can filled with spit-up food in a room smelling like the foulest dead fish, chocolate smeared all around mouth with salt/sugar past dribbling off her chin and an electric shocker taped to my baby-fine soft inner wrist flesh.

Here's my challenge: Top that.

hey lisa...it was a diet that i made up all by myself...i call it the sugar junkie diet...

i went to rehab when i was 15 and i met a girl who did crank (crystal meth or bathtub crank made out of ephedrin) to control her weight. it is very hard to kick and it is a huge problem here in TN.

a doctor prescribed a diet for me when I weighed about 195 pounds. I was a size 14, and would sink like a rock in a pool...

he wanted me on 300 calories a day. Not 1300 calories, but 300 calories.

I lasted an afternoon....

300 calories a day? He should be shot. I bet he couldn't eat a 300 calorie snack.

I dieted off and on from the time I was 16 (I'm 55), but sure haven't tried them ALL -- not according to what I'm reading here, anyway! But I do remember as a young single woman in my 20s fighting the 200-lb mark (which looks good to me now BTW), I enrolled in something that I think was called the Medical Diet. I went to a house-turned-clinic where they doled out my allotment of shrink-wrapped food for the week -- as I recall it was just one grocery bag. I took it home and proceeded to eat the whole week's worth of entrees in one sitting. So much for that attempt!

Oh Jackie, that's a funny one! I remember doing that when I was on Nutrisystem, which is basically the same where they give you pre-packaged space food. I'd eat all the Desserts by "borrowing meals" from the next day. I'd be in so much food debt the first night that I'd just say, "screw it" and blow the whole diet.

NUTRISYSTEM alone was the biggest joke! They called it a hamburger, but it was a dry sponge. You set it in Water for a few minutes and it came to life. That's pretty damn scary!

The one I hated was the cabbage soup diet. I even had my DH doing it! My house stunk so bad from that soup that we couldn't stand to walk in the back door after work! Anyone remember that one?

My favorite made-up one was all the fruits and veggies I wanted, and Peanut Butter. Nothing else... lol

I did really well, but probably more due to my membership and commitment to the gym at the time...

Betty, I think the Cabbage Soup Diet was actually the Beverly Hills Diet... if memory serves me well, you got to eat as much of that cabbage soup as you wanted. Mabye it wasn't the Beverly Hills, but as soon as I read your post the smell of pungent stinky cabbage soup flooded my memory all too well. They say that scent is the strongest sense for memory, so I apparently remember the cabbage soup very well! And I remember the first few bowls were really tasty, but after living off of it the smell could gag you!

Yes, the first few bowls were really good, and I love cabbage. I thought I had found the perfect diet! NOT!

How bad is it that I have my band and I am still doing the Special K diet? It is my favorite cereal and it goes down easily. I eat 1 cup of cereal 2 times a day and then eat a regular meal which I am keeping under 500 calories. I am so busy it doesn't feel like a diet and it is either Special K or nothing so I feel better getting something down.

One thing I’ve prided myself on is that I haven’t been a big dieter. I watched my mother struggle through one diet after another, and always having initial success only to see the weight return. Notice I didn’t say “fail” or “failure.” After thinking about all the different diets that have been posted here, I realized that I’ve been on a big whack of them. Weight Watchers, Neutrasystem (can I get a new gall bladder?), the grapefruit diet, different food combinations diets, the cabbage soup diet (love cabbage soup…), different supervised diets, giving up chocolate for lent (gained 15 pounds during that lent.), Atkins, and I’m sure there half a dozen more that I have blocked out of my memory…

So. It turns out that I have been a big dieter all along. Funny how I don’t recognize things while they are happening.

Best diet success I ever had was on adipex.

Here's how it went:

Adipex in the AM.

12 cups of coffee

1 Lean Cuisine for lunch

5 Grey Goose Martinis

(10 olives)

Pack of Marlboro Lights

(About 4 hours of sleep)

After a few weeks I had to keep upping my adipex to keep the speed going.

Luckily this was when I was in my 20's and I was single. It also made me CRAZY. Not to mention HIGHLY irritable. I lost about 65lbs. Went on to lead a healthier lifestyle....gained it all back (including my sanity) and then some! Ahhh....the good old days.

Daisy Doodle That sounds like a rush from He!!

Greg, are you really going to try to make us feel bad for taking drugs two decades ago MR. POLICE-MOM-MONITOR-DUDE? HUH? Are you on drugs? I can't even take cold medicine these days without hallucinations! Daisy, I think I published that Apidex Diet back in them good old days! Kim, you must be dropping weight like crazy. I'm jealous!

The craziest diet I did was the Stop the Insanity with Susan powers in the early 90's?? You got to eat, breathe and move. You could have carb galor but no fat. So I vas happy with the 1/2 dozen bagel thing for a while and lost 20 lbs or so. Only to break down and go back to burgers and fries which put the 20 plus 10 in a flash.

She was an infomercial maniac, where is she now??

I'm going through the test phase to be a banster.