What’s The Most Ridiculous Diet You’ve Ever Heard Of?
by Erika • Wednesday, Dec 2, 2009 • 11 comments • copy this link
There’s the ice cream diet. The mashed potato diet. The cookie diet.
Diet, diet, diet. We’ve all heard the word. We’re sick of the word. We’re even sicker of dieting than we are of the WORD diet.
Having said that, I’m interested – what’s the most ridiculous diet you’ve ever heard of? I’ve got a few, but I want as many people to participate in this one as possible. So share! Post the most ridiculous diet you’ve ever heard in the comments! Let’s laugh together!
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The Cabbage Diet ranks up there, along with that “Hollywood Fasting Diet” drink stuff. The Cookie Diet blows my mind too – basically its Slim-Fast all over again, just in a “cookie” instead of a drink.
Oh, and I haven’t actually seen anyone do this, but I’m reminded of the diet one of the characters used in “The Devil Wears Prada” where she said she starved herself until she was about to faint, and then she ate a cube of cheese. *smh*
ha! i heard of the donut diet years ago. basically you eat nothing but donuts for like breakfast and lunch or something…YEAH RIGHT donuts is what got me in trouble when i first started losin weight! hahaha
great post.
-elledub
(@loryn24)
I found this link and i know there are tons more out there for the world’s craziest diets:
http://www.elle.com/Beauty/Health-Fitness/Craziest-Diets-of-All-Time
that ridiculous lemon ade diet everyone heard Beyonce was on…Oh and let’s not forget the cereal diet she allegedly used to get thin for the movie Dream Girls..or was it Pink Panther LOL!
Well, twitter doesn’t do my story justice! I’ve done the Lemon Cleanse and felt better for giving my mind and body a break (this was in the New Year).
My mum once put me on this crazy lemon cordial/grapefruit diet (I was 12, 13) in the hope of ‘cutting’ the puppy fat (now a grown dog) that was clinging to me. That worked really well… not.
Worst ever diet for me had to be the SlimFast, though. Lactose intolerance (then undiagnosed) + milk-based product = superhuman levels of flatulence. You remember how Missy looked in her ‘I Can’t Stand The Rain’ video, in that balloon suit? Yeah.
It got so ridiculously bad that I’d fart before I spoke – like if I was asked a question. Conversations in my new language were… interesting. My then-boyfriend asked me, ‘is it 1 for yes and 2 for no?’ FAIL.
I’ll add the Mayo Clinic diet to the list. Eggs, bacon, coffee and grapefruit. Meat and salad. All seems harmless, but it’s that part about eating as much as you want until you’re stuffed. I don’t know anyone that has tried this diet and stuck to it long enough to have success.
As a Creole, I’m perfectly perfect and shit but when I wasn’t Creole, y’know before I became a Creole this always kilt me… Some kinda diet where you could eat ANYTHING only if you did something like use a certain machine while prepping foods like a magic chop or a slap bullet or whatever and it reduced the fat.
BULL. If I eat everything no matter how I make it I’m ingesting calories and carbs and fat and food and junk.
The eat anything you want diet is bogus. THAT’S HOW I GOT LIKE THIS TO BEGIN WITH, even though I’m Creole and I’m not imperfect cause I’m Creole.
Thanks, everyone, for sharing! I swear there’s a method to my madness, but if you come up with ANY super crazy diet you’ve seen or heard… you’ve GOT to share!
Tracy, I’ve never heard of that Mayo Clinic “diet.” That’s so unconventional sounding, that I can see where the allure would be.
Jubi, I’ve heard of the cookie diet before – that, in particular, is one of the things that I’m intrigued by… not because it works, because of the particular pitch involved. Not *any* cookie will work.. it has to be THEIR cookies. LMAO!
Loryn, I’ve dealt with this donut diet stuff before.. once upon a time, I think I accidentally went ON the donut diet… it’s probably why I had so much weight to lose in the first place, LOLOL.
China, I’m with you on the Master Cleanse. That’s definitely not a “diet,” but a detox… but thanks to Beyonce and the media that jumped all over this quote, it’s used as a diet ALL the time. I guess that ties into what I was going to say to Tracy!
Tracy, You’re right! The “Lemonade Diet” is soooo not a sensible “diet.” I’ve been on it, but I used it as a detox to cleanse my system before I changed my eating habits completely. It doesn’t work as a diet. I DO have to agree with you on the cereal diet, though. That one’s just…funny. LOLOL
To my beloved Creole Pimp… you have to blend all your food up in the magic blender type thing? Now THAT is LOLworthy, LMAO! I’m glad to see that you can see through that, though… I’m also sure you have that ability because you’re Creole. LOL!
The peanut butter & jelly diet. You replace all your meals with a peanut butter & jelly sandwich and watch the pounds melt away…….NOT! My co-worker did this for 2 weeks!! All it did was make her skin break out!! Who thinks of these things?? LOL
The craziest diet I ever did was the Three Day Diet – the one where you are supposed to lose 10 lbs in 3 days by eating tuna, dry toast, beets, green beans…oh, and a 1/2 a cup of vanilla ice cream for dessert every night!
This is my first visit to this site – I love it!! I’m starting my journey for the millionth time now, and hopefully this will be a great motivator for me.
Not sure how crazy it is, but would love to get some feedback on the Atkins diet.