# Offer a new fad diet. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 15, 2014, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offer-a-new-fad-diet/683798 "2014-03-15T21:54:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tellyworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@tellyworth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tellyworth)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2014, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offer-a-new-fad-diet/683798/21 "2014-03-21T09:03:30Z")
Whistle Yourself Thin. It’ll work as long as you don’t stop whistling. ---
**Author:** ![ThisUsernameIsForbidden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ThisUsernameIsForbidden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisUsernameIsForbidden)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2014, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offer-a-new-fad-diet/683798/22 "2014-03-21T09:29:50Z")
Bacon, Whiskey, Cigarette Diet ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2014, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offer-a-new-fad-diet/683798/23 "2014-03-21T14:27:54Z")
Before every meal, eat 3 rocks - the largest you can swallow. Not only does it fill you up and keep you feeling full longer, but in time you won’t be able to ingest any more rocks and, by the rules of the diet, can no longer have food! Winner, winner, can’t eat no dinner! ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2014, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offer-a-new-fad-diet/683798/24 "2014-03-21T15:44:26Z")
> [@tellyworth](#): > > Whistle Yourself Thin. I can do one better. Whittle Yourself Thin. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2014, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offer-a-new-fad-diet/683798/25 "2014-03-21T15:48:42Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Occasionally, for work, we’ll have to send someone up to a grocery store to buy lots and lots of rolls (like ALL the rolls they have in stock 10-20-30 dozen, whatever they have). One of the employees, if he gets an odd look from another customer will say “I’m on an _all_ carb diet”. When I made 6 gallons of banana wine a few years back, step one involved buying a shopping cart full of bananas. Just for fun I bought a box of cereal as well. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offer-a-new-fad-diet/683798/26 "2014-03-21T16:04:46Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > When I made 6 gallons of banana wine a few years back, step one involved buying a shopping cart full of bananas. Just for fun I bought a box of cereal as well. We have a customer who would come in almost every single day and buy an entire basket of bananas, sometimes he’d come back later in the day and do it again. If you’d ask him about it, he’d make some joke about being a monkey (or an Eskimo). A few months ago I finally asked one of his kids about it. He said that he really did eat all of those and if he didn’t they’d find him on the floor since his legs would cramp up without because his potassium levels were so low. I think he’s also one of those types of people that gets, when he finds something he likes, he likes it a lot. Right now he comes in two or three times a week and buys six or eight of out spinach salads. He’s been doing that for about two years. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2014, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offer-a-new-fad-diet/683798/27 "2014-03-21T16:13:51Z")
The no-cut economy lap band diet: Get a metal belt with a strong clasp. Put it on and make it just a little tight. As it becomes looser, take it in a notch until desired waist size is achieved. You can eat anything you want but you cannot loosen that belt so be careful! ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2014, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offer-a-new-fad-diet/683798/28 "2014-03-21T17:10:17Z")
> [@ThisUsernameIsForbidden](#): > > Bacon, Whiskey, Cigarette Diet LOL!😛 [It’s true!](http://www.foodbeast.com/2013/11/18/100-year-old-woman-drinks-whiskey-and-smokes-15-cigarettes-a-day/) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Xs00fBj2nH0/hqdefault.jpg "I just like that story - Burgess Meredith") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs00fBj2nH0) ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2014, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offer-a-new-fad-diet/683798/29 "2014-03-21T21:00:11Z")
Once I lost 165 pounds in one day. I kicked my bf out. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offer-a-new-fad-diet/683798/30 "2014-03-22T08:18:59Z")
The Ranchoth Diet: You’re allowed to eat anything you want, but only while you read through a book of antique crime scene photos. Guaranteed to either make you lose weight, or become a sociopath within six months! ---
**Author:** ![LibrarySpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f9ae1b/32.png) [@LibrarySpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LibrarySpy)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offer-a-new-fad-diet/683798/31 "2014-03-22T16:09:52Z")
I was on the **Ranchoth** diet. I used to try and watch Criminal Minds over breakfast. Big mistake. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offer-a-new-fad-diet/683798/32 "2014-03-22T16:12:47Z")
It’s your own damn fault diet: Live on sponge cake, boiled shrimp and margaritas. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offer-a-new-fad-diet/683798.md?page=1)