Just for Fun

I was thinking about the Herbalife diet and it was good, I just couldn't stick to it.  So everybody, what diets have you tried I think I will start in chronological order 1.  Counting Calories 2.  Physicians Weighloss  (I would go eat Arby's after weigh in) 3.  Weigh****chers, time and time again 4.  Lots of beer and extracurricular weekend activites in college, little food, this is why I am now finishing college at age 40 5.  I exercised a lot for a while, I was a county beach lifeguard until age 22 6.  Breastfeeding after pregnancy, it was supposed to help with weight loss, so I figured I could eat whatever, lots of BK double cheeseburgers (protein you know) as long I as breast fed. 7 This is the worst, I worked for a Bariatric Doctor.  I'd take the pills, eat the shakes, then go out to dinner with her 8.  South beach, adkins, blood type, carb addict diet, every book in the last ten years Thanks God for WLS.  Not only I have I lost weight, I have regained some sanity Mary

OMG !  too funny! Starting as a young PRE-teen.  I would diet, I would say at around age 10.  Which is really sad considereing I was probably underweight then.  My obsession with being thin is what led me to being fat. 1.  My mom was always on a diet.  I would steal her "diet pills" and not eat.  Dexatrim, some sort of chewy caramel appetite suppresant things, etc. 2. I changed portion sizes.  I walked around with a measuring cup and would only eat what could fit in that cup.  Three times a day.  That was it. 3. Chopsticks.  I only ate what I could pick up with chopsticks.  It made me eat slower and made it more frustrasting.

4.  I went on the popcorn and diet coke diet (my own creation) hehe.  I would eat a bag of popcorn from the vending machine.  Not the microwave kind, the lance chip size bags ...about 60 calories and a diet coke at lunch.  that was it all day. 5.  Grapefruit diet...nuff said 6. All liquid diet.  If I couldn't drink it, I didn't have it.  My diet consisted mostly of broth made with bullion cubes. 7.  Slimfast 8.Less than 10 grams of fat a day diet.  I wrote down everything.  I could have no more than 10 grams of fat in a day period. 9.  Exercising 4 hours a day and eating less than 1000 calories a day. 10.  ACUPUNCTURE!!!!  I had my ears stapled.  Something I read in a magazine.  I immediately went and had it done.  Not the soft fleshy part of your ear.  THE HARD CARTILAGE LOOP THAT LEADS TO THE INSIDE OF YOUR EAR!!! 11.  Various other magazine related diets 12. WEIGH****CHERS times 1000 13.  Phentermine, Meridia, Xenical, etc.  More than once, different time in my life. 14.  Atkins, Sugar Busters, South Beach, the insulin resistance diet, 14. LA weight loss x3 This has come to be more like a list of my eating disorders and then to a list of diets.  I will say what my mom did and what my dad had to say about it had a lot to do with it.  This is why we mus****ch what we do and say about ourselves in front of our daughters!!!  2.

Since I have been overweight since 1979, I don't even think I can remember all the things I've done to "be normal".  I can tell you this: losing weight has been the main chapter is this life of mine.  If it had not been an issue, there's no telling what I could have accomplished with all that extra time! In no particular order, because I can't remember an eternity ago: 1. I danced and exercised when I was 20. 2. Richard Simmon's Deal A Meal and his exercise videos, too. 3. Duke University Rice Diet 4. Grapefruit Diet 5.  Weigh****chers ... many, many times 6. Herbalife 7. Jenny Craig

8.  I breastfed too, Mary, and was thrilled when I read that so many women lost weight while doing so.  I, however, did not.

9.  Carbohydrate Addicts Diet

10. Sugar Busters Diet, more than once

11. Atkins Diet, many times

12.  Dexatrim pills

13. Counting calories

14. Low-fat diet ... as much sugar as you wanted, just no fat.  Uh huh. 15. Slim-fast ... over and over again 16. South Beach Diet 17. Lots of treadmill walking helped me to lose about 50 pounds once.  Then I stopped.

18. The Master Cleanser Diet ... what demon from hell came up with THIS particular diet? 19.  There must be a dozen other things I tried from celebrity books and magazine articles. I was a desperate woman for many many years. Like most ot us, the years of "dieting" is what made me fatter and fatter with each passing year.  For the first time in my life, I feel in control.  What a gift.

Overweight since childhood here so I think I have run the gambit as well.  Starting with: 1.  Mom controling what I ate, did not work, I had a bike, allowance, and a 7-11 around the corner. 2.  Mom going on a diet to "show me" it could be done. 3. Dr/Nurse supervised diets X 3 4.  Diet Pills - Meredian 5.  Counting Calories 6. Becoming a diabetic. 7.  Adkins (or a version of it, I never read the books) 8. Weigh****chers. 9.  And I can not tell you how many times of doing it myself.  In 2001 I started walking on a regualr bases, no help. After the last Dr. Supevised diet, my before pics (most of have seen it), was back in 2001.  I am with you Mary Thank God for WLS and my insurancce paying for it, or I would never had done it. Julie

I don't think I can remember all of them...but here goes.... 1.  Slim Fast....over and over 2. Atkins.....over and over 3. Suzanne Somer's diet...kind of like Atkins....did this one several times as well 4. LA Weight Loss...I did this one once by the rules and then  did it by myself several times 5. Breastfed!! 3times!!!!! 6. Followed a diabetic diet  several times 7.  1000 cals a day 8. Low fat  a million times There are probably more!!!

Hi Mary...  I love when you do the lists!          I have a funny one to add.... have you ever heard of the diet pills called "dream away" diet pills?   they were selling them on tv around 20 years ago....  needless to say... they DID NOT work.    yeah... I think it was Kathy? shirt that said it best.... with the eating right and the exercise?   (along with our great surgery tool?)   add that in with at TON OF STRESS....  and hey.....   i think we lose... haha I love your list though.   I am still waiting on the sanity part though after my wls?   perhaps after i move out of the northeast?  hmmm? Hope everyone is having a good monday.  mine has been pretty manic. I miss everyone in SC! hugs, J