My doc wants me to lose 20 lbs (actually, it is closer to 15 now hooray me!)
Anyway, a friend has (I think mostly in jest) sent me some fad diets. My favorite is the Ben And Jerry’s diet. It allows you to eat a whole pint of Ben And Jerry’s each day - but ONLY THAT! It turns out that would limit your caloric intake (if you got no calories from your liquid intake) to around 1200 calories a day. Actually I don’t know that I enjoy ice cream enough to eat only that each day.
The Cabbage Soup one does not sound good, but she swears the soup is quite tasty.
Please note: I am not on a fad diet, I am not recommending a fad diet and I am well aware that they are not healthy for you - further, weight loss should be gradual if you want it to be permanent.
The shrimp diet. Just shrimp and cocktail sauce, with some Shrimp Scampi for a change of pace once in awhile. When I die I want to come back as a whale so I can eat all the shrimp I want.
I think the OP is asking for ridiculous fad diets, but in all honesty I had a lot of success with South Beach. Lost over forty pounds back in 2004 and kept it off until this past winter when emotional junk and a leg injury conspired against me. Now that I want to lose weight again, I’m right back on it. Finishing up week two as we speak. Er, type.
Yeah, I was kinda looking for the weird and the fun. The ice cream diet made me laugh. I suppose people do it, but it seems out there. I know people who have done the cabbage soup diet and swear by it, but that one seems out there too.
My favorite stupid example that I trot out when discussing weird weightloss systems is my famous “Butter Diet”.
You have a tasty stick of butter for breakfast, then another stick of butter for lunch, and then a sensible dinner of water before bedtime. About 1600 calories per day. Watch the pounds just disappear, especially with all the exercise I recommend.
And say hi to the ER doctors when you wind up in the hospital
My BIL says he is going to write a book called The Four Bean Diet. Pretty much lose all the weight you want by eating four kinds of beans. There is absolutely no science to back it up, but that won’t stop many people from trying it anyway.
My favorite one I saw on TV. Probably one of those, “It’s so amazingly true you won’t believe it.” type shows on one of those channels that air those types of shows.
This elderly lady was a Breatharian. She sustained her self soley on proper breathing and sunlight. Everyonce in a while she would indulge herself with water.
Linky to breatharianism.
My favorite is probably Atkins.* Yes you can eat 50lbs of bacon a day and lose 20lbs a week. If there is a heavin one of the buffets will only serve bacon.
Also there’s the one diet** where you only drink water with a squeeze of lemon, some red pepper flakes and honey in it.
I don’t really know much of anything about the diet except you can eat a lot of meat.**
**I’m totally going on memory and I haven’t had my 50lbs of bacon today so I don’t have the energy to go looking it up.
The concentration camp diet. This one is good because it gives you lots of choices. Pick a concentration camp from history and research what rations the prisoners were given. Asian ones are the best for extreme weight loss while German POW camps are more moderate unless you pick a Jewish one. Build yourself an enclosure in your house or in your yard made of razor wire. Get friends of family to give you your rations at weird intervals. This is one of the harder diets but it is almost impossible not to follow it and weight loss is assured which is why it is so appealing.
Wow, I think you’ve won the thread. It’s sometimes hard for me to believe just how crazy human beings can be. How crazy and/or stupid does someone have to be in order to convince themselves they don’t need to eat…and even take it far enough to die of starvation like some of those people did?
The grapefruit diet. Somehow the combination of bacon and grapefruit juice turbo-charges your metabolism or something and you lose weight. “The more you eat the more weight you will lose.” Riiiight.
