In college my friends and I went on a yogurt and matzoh diet. That pretty much describes it, except diet soda, black coffee, tea, and water were permitted. Three yogurts a day, and up to five pieces of matzoh. (Not matzoh ball soup--plain, dry matzoh.) The idea was you were supposed to be two weeks on, one week off, then back on for five days, two off until you lost how much you wanted. I lost eight pounds in the first two weeks, but never could bring myself back to it. It took me years to enjoy yogurt again. Blecch! Annie
P.S. My best friend who got me into this was studying nutrition. I make sure to remind her of this horrid mess of a diet as often as possible.
Well, there are so many of them it's hard to choose! Some that come to mind are the cabbage soup diets, or the ones where you only eat foods of a certain color (i.e. Monday's are purple, Tuesday's brown, etc.). I don't know anyone who has actually done those diets though. I know one diet a friend of mine is always going on is the blood type diet, which I think is just plain whacky! You eat according to your blood type and she's not allowed to have any kind of meat but chicken, according to them! Yeah, okay :).
I've actually never really tried any fad diets. I have always done calorie counting, although I have taken it to extremes. At one point in time I was eating 2 salads a day with mustard or salsa for dressing adn veggies and turkey or chicken only and then maybe a serving of fat free potato chips or something like that. Yeah, not a good diet! I was just too obsessed with keeping my calories down and went WAY too low, that's why I have to be careful so I don't do it again.
The wackiest have to be any liquid diets.. cabbage soup, grapefruit, whatever..
The wackiest I've tried was something called a chemical diet.. you are given a list of stuff to eat at special times.. you even eat cake and icecream and all.. and somehow when you eat exactly like how it's written things cancel each other out and you lose weight.. very rapidly.. and the weird thing is: it really works (mind you that you're not starving, you're very full and you're losing weight).. hats off
In college my friends and I went on a yogurt and matzoh diet. That pretty much describes it, except diet soda, black coffee, tea, and water were permitted. Three yogurts a day, and up to five pieces of matzoh. (Not matzoh ball soup--plain, dry matzoh.) The idea was you were supposed to be two weeks on, one week off, then back on for five days, two off until you lost how much you wanted. I lost eight pounds in the first two weeks, but never could bring myself back to it. It took me years to enjoy yogurt again. Blecch!
Annie
P.S. My best friend who got me into this was studying nutrition. I make sure to remind her of this horrid mess of a diet as often as possible.
The wackiest I've ever heard of was the peanut butter diet. I love peanut butter, but I couldn't eat it every meal, every day.
The wackiest I've ever tried is the celebrity juice diet. I lost two pounds in two days and as soon as I started eating real food again I gained five!
Kaelynn
Well, there are so many of them it's hard to choose! Some that come to mind are the cabbage soup diets, or the ones where you only eat foods of a certain color (i.e. Monday's are purple, Tuesday's brown, etc.). I don't know anyone who has actually done those diets though. I know one diet a friend of mine is always going on is the blood type diet, which I think is just plain whacky! You eat according to your blood type and she's not allowed to have any kind of meat but chicken, according to them! Yeah, okay :).
I've actually never really tried any fad diets. I have always done calorie counting, although I have taken it to extremes. At one point in time I was eating 2 salads a day with mustard or salsa for dressing adn veggies and turkey or chicken only and then maybe a serving of fat free potato chips or something like that. Yeah, not a good diet! I was just too obsessed with keeping my calories down and went WAY too low, that's why I have to be careful so I don't do it again.
Staci
The wackiest have to be any liquid diets.. cabbage soup, grapefruit, whatever..
The wackiest I've tried was something called a chemical diet.. you are given a list of stuff to eat at special times.. you even eat cake and icecream and all.. and somehow when you eat exactly like how it's written things cancel each other out and you lose weight.. very rapidly.. and the weird thing is: it really works (mind you that you're not starving, you're very full and you're losing weight).. hats off