I was reading some articles and came across this list of diets. Sadly I have been on most of them.  How many diets do we try before WLS? 

Check this list out, do you see the "one" that was going to get you to goal?

Diets A-Z

• Atkins Diet
• Baby Food Diet
• Best Life Diet
• Biggest Loser Diet
• Body for Life Diet
• Cabbage Soup Diet
• Cheater's Diet
• Cookie Diet
• DASH Diet
• Dr. Andrew Weil's Diet 
• Dr. Phil's Ultimate Weight Solution
• Eat More Weigh Less Diet
• Eat Right for Your Type Diet
• Eat This, Not That!
• Fast Food Diet
• 5 Factor Diet
• Flat Belly Diet
• Flavor Point Diet
• 4 Day Diet
• French Women Don't Get Fat Plan
• Fruit Flush Diet
• GenoType Diet 
• Glycemic Index Diet
• Grapefruit Diet
• Hallelujah Diet
• hCG Diet 
• Healthy Living With Ellie Krieger
• Jenny Craig Diet
• Joy Bauer's Your Inner Skinny Diet 
• LA Weight Loss Plan
• Lemonade Diet
• Low-Carb Living
• Macrobiotic Diet
• Martha's Vineyard Diet Detox
• Master Your Metabolism
• Mayo Clinic Diet
• Medifast Diet
• Mediterranean Diet 
• Naturally Thin Diet
• New Beverly Hills Diet
• Nutrisystem
• Park Avenue Diet
• Perricone Diet
• Personality Type Diet
• Pritikin Principle
• Protein Power Diet
• Raw Food Diet
• Rice Diet
• Shangri-La Diet
• Skinny Vegan Diet
• Slim-Fast Plan
• Sonoma Diet
• South Beach Diet
• Spectrum Diet 
• Step Diet
• Sugar Busters Diet
• The Dukan Diet
• Thin for Life 
• 3-Day Diet
• 3-Hour Diet
• UltraMetabolism Diet 
• Volumetrics
• Weight Loss Cure 
• Weigh****chers
• YOU: On a Diet
• Zone Diet

12. And some I even repeated (i.e. I didnt learn the FIRST time)

Forgot to add the "I'm addicted to Ephedera" DIET.

It is scary to me about many of these diets I've been on and some of them multiple times!! 

Thanks goodness for WLS. 

7 and am so so so SOSOSO ,did I say Soooooo, glad that my dieting days are over thanks to my WLS!

About 9, repeatedly, and they are missing Lean Line, my personal favorite before WLS.  I agree with what someone else said.  Thank God my dieting days are over!

I'm a weirdo who didn't actually do all the diets before choosing WLS.  So the only one I've done is Body For Life.  It was pretty awesome, but instilled some bad habits :(

Atkins (Induction Phase Queen here)  Best Life (read books & used journal)   Body for Life  Cabbage Soup Diet   Andrew Weil (huge follower)   Dr. Phil's Ultimate Weight loss solution (read)  HCG Diet (GNC capsules- started)  Jenny Craig (2x's)  L.A. Weight Loss (Briefly)  Slimfast Plan   YOU on a Diet (read)  Weigh****chers (4x's)

Other things I tried - Hospital stay liquid diet study, Exercising until gym staff told me I needed to get off machines, fasting until dizzy, phentermine (3 short rounds),  Seeing a nutritionist 1 time per week for 2 years, psychotherapy group for compulsive/binge eaters, OA, FAA, Individual psychotherapy for compulsive/binge eaters, Meeting strangers at night in a nearby state  - they have now coined their name to "The Nelson Method" - this was the most bazaar and before they organized and moved to California.

Oh, and the Lap Band.

I'd love it if I could just be free from this food weight stuff completely.  You have to be totally self absorbed and narcissistic to have an ED.