Hello everyone,
I wonder what was the wackiest, weirdest, most vile diet you have ever been on. I have only ever really attempted one diet in my lifetime and it was enough to put me off for life!
A few years ago when I was working at an American summer camp I came across a diet book for Hollywood. The cover said that Liberace and Linda Gray were huge fans and had written endorsements by them. The back was a picture of the author's skeletal frame. It was based on fruits like strawberries, blueberries, watermelon, magoes, pineapples - really high water contents and expensive foods. The reason why I thought it was good was because it said I could anything I wanted and still lose weight: chicken with skin, lobster with butter, cheese cakes etc: no counting calories, no weighing foods and no low fat anything! Anyway, when I attempted it I found that it was really really really expensive to eat like this because you have to eat nothing but fruits for 2 whole weeks (the first phase) to clean out your system. What happens if straweberies, watermelons and blue berries are not in season? You would have to pay £10 for a kilo of blue berries and a kilo is not enough to get you through the day. Anyhow, I ended up eating loads of acidic fruits and my mouth was bleeding from the amount of acid I was consuming and the enamel on my teeth was wearing thin. Furthermore, I didn't have enough fruits in the house to get me through the day and ended up eating other foods, which ruined the diet. In the end I didn't lose any weight whatsoever and I nearly lost my teeth!
Despite saying that you can eat whatever you want, you actually can't eat it WHEN you want. It was very rigid and the foods had to be in certain order. You still have to give up foods like milk, which I thought was bad because of the erosion to the teeth by the fruit acids.
On closer reading of the book, I realised this was one sick woman forever obsessed with the scale and 'potruding hip bones'. I could not believe I bought into all the rubbish she was espousing. Quite frankly, if I ever see her in person I would like to kick her bony little arse!
After that I am loathed to ever go on another diet! Now I avoid any regime that smacks of rigidity, structure, promises the earth and cost earth.
Yen
I wonder what was the wackiest, weirdest, most vile diet you have ever been on. I have only ever really attempted one diet in my lifetime and it was enough to put me off for life!
A few years ago when I was working at an American summer camp I came across a diet book for Hollywood. The cover said that Liberace and Linda Gray were huge fans and had written endorsements by them. The back was a picture of the author's skeletal frame. It was based on fruits like strawberries, blueberries, watermelon, magoes, pineapples - really high water contents and expensive foods. The reason why I thought it was good was because it said I could anything I wanted and still lose weight: chicken with skin, lobster with butter, cheese cakes etc: no counting calories, no weighing foods and no low fat anything! Anyway, when I attempted it I found that it was really really really expensive to eat like this because you have to eat nothing but fruits for 2 whole weeks (the first phase) to clean out your system. What happens if straweberies, watermelons and blue berries are not in season? You would have to pay £10 for a kilo of blue berries and a kilo is not enough to get you through the day. Anyhow, I ended up eating loads of acidic fruits and my mouth was bleeding from the amount of acid I was consuming and the enamel on my teeth was wearing thin. Furthermore, I didn't have enough fruits in the house to get me through the day and ended up eating other foods, which ruined the diet. In the end I didn't lose any weight whatsoever and I nearly lost my teeth!
Despite saying that you can eat whatever you want, you actually can't eat it WHEN you want. It was very rigid and the foods had to be in certain order. You still have to give up foods like milk, which I thought was bad because of the erosion to the teeth by the fruit acids.
On closer reading of the book, I realised this was one sick woman forever obsessed with the scale and 'potruding hip bones'. I could not believe I bought into all the rubbish she was espousing. Quite frankly, if I ever see her in person I would like to kick her bony little arse!
After that I am loathed to ever go on another diet! Now I avoid any regime that smacks of rigidity, structure, promises the earth and cost earth.
Yen
