Your Most Outrageous Diet Tricks


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Weight loss isn’t easy, and it’s no piece of fat-free cake for the stars, either. Even they rely on some pretty crazy methods to drop unwanted pounds. When she needs to lose weight, Cameron Diaz cuts out all white food (like pasta and bread) because it can have high amounts of sugar, her trainer Teddy Bass told InStyle. And Lily Allen attended hypnotherapy sessions … at a reported $600 an hour! … to help curb her eating. We’ve heard of lemonade diets, soup diets … even cookie diets!

Now tell us: What’s the craziest thing you’ve done to lose weight? We promise not to judge!

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Alison January 22nd, 2009

The reality is DIETS DON’T WORK – they are a short term fix with unhealthy consequences either physically, emotionally or both. It is concerning that People magazine would post a page like this would just encourage conversations on outrageous diet habits. Some of the comments already posted are concerning, unhealthy and potentially could encourage others to have eating disorder behaviours (like extreme calorie restriction). As the manager of an eating disorder centre I see the reality of diets and their potential to cause further harm.

A good rule of thumb- eat a variety of foods for nutrition, taste and enjoyment. Focus on health and not looks.

Marie January 22nd, 2009

I have Celiac Disease, struggled with weight as a child, and was the “fat girl.” For somebody to say that just cutting out gluten and “white foods” is simply a way of life is unfair. I have lost weight, but it’s really about health for me and others who SUFFER. For somebody to just do it temporarily and go back, what progress is made? I don’t think it’s sensitive nor is it right to post dieting tricks on the internet.
How about instead of binge eating and ignoring exercise and then crash dieting, you follow a healthy regime and work out? Hmm..sounds wild.

Alexandria January 22nd, 2009

That is so WEIRD that some of you are JUST starting the Master Cleanse, cause so am I, right now! Eerie. Anyhoo! It all depends on your body type. My friend who is naturally skinny said that only when she became vegetarian and stopped eating meat, she lost weight. She has soy, eggs, and dairy though. And I noticed she eats really slow. She is also a night club dancer on weekends and eats very little, except water, on those days. She says that her upper body is always cold, but she says her legs always feel warm. The same goes for another really, really skinny friend of mine. Also, her body is very soft, like a teddy bear when you poke it. But my second skinny friend has a hard, muscular body and is skin and bones everywhere else. I am the opposite of them both in that I gain weight easily and have an apple shape figure and gain weight in my upper body more, with broad shoulders (luckily I don’t have problems with voluptuousness in the chest area of course, unlike my skinny friend who gains weight, if any, below her waist). I never thought this, but my first friend poked my thighs and said that I seemed to be more muscular. Which would explain the difference between her softness and my toughness, I guess. But I am not tight muscular, like someone with a sports figure. I have probably more muscle, but it sags a little compared to, let’s say, my mom who even at 60 is tight all over and use to be athletic growing up and is very strong and is not very voluptuous in the chest area.

I noticed that when i moved out of my parents home and lived on my own, with no car, in another state, and would walk around alot, including carrying groceries and such, I lost a ton of weight. The minute I got a car and a desk job, I ballooned back, but not as badly as when I was living with my parents. It’s due to the fact that when you move to an urban area with no car and have to walk around alot to get to places, as well as carry things while doing it, you naturally lose weight, keep more busy, socialize more and are less hungry. Just sitting around does not help at all. You have practically no metabolism when you’re sitting. And because we’re raised to believe that we HAVE to eat all the time in order to sustain energy and be healthy is a myth. I discovered this after 29 years of struggling with weight. The fat on your body is a storage system of energy. You need to use up the fat that’s already on your body. I don’t believe eating 4-6 small meals a day, or going on a high protein diet, or even going to the gym helps much! You need to use up the stored fat on your bones! Eating every 2-3 hours because you think it’s detrimental if you don’t is a hoax! And it’s all really mental. The fact that you get dizzy or mentally lethargic is all due to you’re way of THINKING. Meaning it’s all mental. You can literally cause yourself to have sugar prolems and high blood pressure problems because you feel that if you don’t take something, whatever it is, you won’t be able to do things and then you start thinking, “My head feels weird because I didn’t eat anything. I better eat atleast a slice of meat or something, so I’m okay.” Just keep thinking in your head, I need to use up the fat that’s already on my body before I feel like I HAVE to eat something or else my metabolism will slow down or I’ll feel weird or lack in this or that. We were all raised to think this way. Of course, this does not go for people who are already diagnosed with diabetes and heart problems. It’s too late for them. They did something during their lives to cause themselves to become ill with a disease. High blood pressure and diabetes runs in my family, but I guarantee you, if i take good care of myself, I may never get or may really delay those problems, unlike my parents and all their siblings and relatives of their generation., who did not properly keep themselves healthy enough (despite how much they believe they did so, cause I know for a fact they didn’t). You can beat genetics and what all these nutritonists and doctors say. I don’t believe in taking medication and I do believe it has alot to do with your activity level, eating stle and above all MENTALITY. All I have to say is, use up the stored fat on your body, because it’s doing you no good sitting there. And STOP following all these fad diets, unrealistic exercise regimes and so-called experts with several degrees or what have you.

The two things that have really worked for me is detoxification and a calorie-restricted diet (look up Calorie-Restriction or something like that online). And do everything you can to get rid of the nastiness in your colons and toxins in your body. And don’t worry about gaining back the weight, cause everyone always does. Not a problem. Your weight is supposed to fluctuate.

jess January 23rd, 2009

I’m ashamed to say it, but last Spring I stopped eating everything during the day except for a grande latte with protein at lunch. And I asked my doctor to put me on an anti-depressant that I knew would kick start my metabolism. I dropped my calorie intake to 800-1200 a day, but allowing myself to eat whatever I wanted until the caloric limit was met (real soda, croissants, chocolate caramels). I dropped 15 lbs in about 7 weeks and kept it off effortlessly for most of the year. I relax in the winter and usually go back up to 125-130 (I’m 5/5), but I try to enjoy the upswing in my weight too (I swear a little padding fills in the fine lines!)

nicola January 23rd, 2009

I actually ate MORE that I used to and lost weight. I had 1500 calories per day but everything I ate could have only one ingredient (no processed or packaged foods) . I lost 22 pounds and have kept it off. I have lost my taste for bread, alcohol, red meat, and cheese alltogether.

Anna January 24th, 2009

i ate fruit and vegetables only… and less meat. i walked 4-5 times a day with leg and arm weights. I lost 11 pounds in 2 months. easy

denise January 24th, 2009

I ATE CEASAR SALAD FOR 6WKS WITH LOTS OF GARLIC.I LOST 30LBS AND THE GARLIS ACTUALLY CAME OUT MY PORES.I SMELLED LIKE A COIL OF KOBASAW A UKARANIAN GARLIC SASAUGE I STUNK BAD BUT I SURE LOOKED GOOD.

Victoria January 26th, 2009

do you think if it weren’t for all the additives and preservatives in our food today, especially here in the US of A, we may not be battling such a problem with obesity? I believe our FDA, Department of Agriculture and all our government oversight committees should implement new standards to force the food industry to curtail the “fat” and high sugar content from the end food product. The consumer is losing in the end with health issues as a result of eating this “junk,” while these fat cats get richer. It’s high time our government step in and do something about this epidemic. The statistics are out there. People are dying from unsuccessful bariatric/stomach reduction surgeries — all to reverse years of eating all the wrong foods. Where is the consumer food industry watchdog?

macgaff January 28th, 2009

Cameron isn’t that crazy, all those “white” foods are horrible for you.

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Frances January 29th, 2009

I stopped eating, got down to a size 0, then died.

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