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.

While I'm here, can I say how much I despise the Adkins Diet? I still see people eating a pound of bacon... but nooooo, they can't touch a stalk of brocolli! So I read the entire Adkins book from front to back. In the very last pages, in a very small, gray box, it says that you have to watch your portion control. In the back of the book there's an index that tells you exactly how much bacon you can have, how much cheese, how much steak, etc. The portions are regular-size portions that you'd expect on any weigh loss plan. But nobody reads the small print, so they keep killing themselves with piles of protein thinking they are following the Adkins Diet. Wrong. You have to measure, even on Adkins.

Sorry, just getting home from work. As per the two glasses of milk and two apples, I think I can attribute the little weight I did loose to all the bathroom visits. I read that the body would adjust and this would stop. Well, needless to say, MY body did not adjust. I came off of it and gained the weight back over night, Oh my. (smile)

I lost tons of weight on Atkins...and generally loved it. I could have up to a cup of day of most (but not all) veggies (which btw is maybe what I was already having) and fell in love with splenda...but those first 4 days were riduclously hard and I missed fruit and cereal. Now I sorta refuse to diet (which means my walk with wl will be slower)...eat what I want (generally...I never was a sweet eater but love food in general) and eat smaller portions. I'm schedule for fill number 2 (which hopefully will put me at 2cc's) and hope I won't have to revert to dexatrim to keep the food urges down...especially now that I've started wogging again. *Sigh*...I can't wait for it to get better.

When I was 16 years old, I was tired of not fitting in at my school, never getting any dates, always getting teased, etc. I sold my horse for $1000 so I could have a local dentist wire my teeth shut for a year!!! Crazy, crazy, I know... I really did lose a lot of weight and for the first time was under 200 lbs but of course it all came right back once I was released from my wired food prison. Life actually improved dramatically when I finally graduated high school. I've never been teased with such cruelty since then. Actually I don't think I've even openly been teased since then. I'm sure people have had their own thoughts and stares but fortunately people do seem to gain some manners in adulthood.

A friend of mine had her jaws shut & had the same results (big loss, even bigger gain.) I asked my dentist to do it before getting banded, and he said, "No way, LEAVE MY OFFICE." He just loves me.

Anyway, I need some crazy crash diet right now. Duh, you'd think getting a major surgical weight loss procedure would do the trick, but my head is all friggen screwed up. Obsessive compulsive addictive whacked out psycho hereditary genes or something.

OK OK...how many of us ever did the Cabbage Soup Diet???LOL

I LOVED the Cabbage Soup Diet... for the first few days. Then I hung a "No Cabbage" sign on my front door.

Love cabbage, loved the cabbage soup diet, especially when I spiced it up, but after two weeks of straight cabbage soup it gets old and yukky...

I did the cabbage soup diet, the first week was easy, then coming home and my whole house smelled like it, it got old fast! I don't think I will ever forget that one!

When I was about 15 my mother took me to a local Dr. There would be a huge line to get into his office on Friday afternoon. You would pay the receptionist, the nurse would write a script, the Dr would give you a Water shot and he would sign the script for diet pills, that was in the 70's. Man that was great speed!!! Do you know I was about 150 lbs, I thought I was huge. After the Dr lost his license, (believe it or not), I gained all my weight back plus 30 more lbs, then it was weight loss clinic, weight loss center, diet work shop, diet center. I lost and gained the same 50-100 lbs over and over again. After my 2nd daughter was born I took redux, I loved that!! plus I got "down" to 200 lbs, it took a while but I eventually gained all of it back, (I think it took 4 years to gait it all back!!.

I havent been under 200lbs since I was about 20 (pre kids). I hope to be there by August.

I did the black beauties thing too, but I dont think I slept for about 3 months...

Doesnt top the zapper story, that must have been horrible!!

I think the wildest ride I had on a diet was when I did Meridia weight loss pills... I was taking them in the morning and washing them down with two cups of coffee...(maybe three if it was a hard morning). I didn't realize that the Meridia was a stimulant and then the caffine in the coffee would compound it. I would start SWEATING PROFUSELY.....it would just pour right off me....Then the heart would start racing...my blood pressure was up....and then I use to have to either walk around the building at 100 miles an hour, or HOLD ONTO MY DESK ... cause it was blast off time! If I couldn't get away from my desk, I would shake and jitter....Oh my God, I was tweekin!!! It was horriable! I lost 30 pounds in three months...but damn near killed myself with my blood preassure going nuts!!!! Then within 3 months of being off the Meridia, I gainned back 60 pounds!!! Pretty bad experience, but NOTHING like Delarlas camp from hell!!

TTYL

Here's a good one. Before I got my band I was moving forward with the bypass (since my insurance covers bypass.) My primary doc is like my girlfriend, and she begged me not to get a bypass. She asked me if I'd try a new diet pill first.

So I took her speed, which made my blood pressure go sky high, then the insomnia kicked in. I had an appointment with my gyno, who knew I was on the diet pills. She gave me blood pressure medicine and Xanax to help me sleep and to take the edge off the diet pills.

Pretty blue pill for Breakfast, white one for lunch, blue for dinner. How patriotic. And deadly. So I took out a loan and got the Band.

My Phen-Fen doctor was fat. So was his nurse.

Here is my almost never ending list i gave to al the Doctors to try & get approval from insurance(which I didn't) The nerve of them telling me I hadn't tried a doctor supervised year round(12 mnths in a row) diet! Who the hell sees a Doctor for a year every month for 12 in a row for a diet anyhow?? You go to clinics & gyms don't you? LOL

Any how the only thing I didn't do was that Fat Camp-which I would have loved to do if I could have found on close by. I think my craziest was the Vitamin B-12 shots & some sort of pill-I had no idea what it was truthfully. I think Letha did the same thing-LOL

I have been on many diets-from weight watchers to atkins to richard simons=) I even tried Xenical,which was a pooin' nightmare!!!! I tried just about ever diet pill known to man.the craziest thing i ever did though was have an eating disorder for about 3 years. I lost 50 lbs,gained 80 lbs then lost 80 lbs in about 6 months. It was terrible i was constantly taking diet pills and feeling like i was so fat even though i was boney. Somehow i overcame it and gained about 150 lbs. I am now doing it the healthy way and feel so wonderful and confident already=) and this time i will keep it off!!!