What is the Most Ridiculous Thing You've Done for Beauty/Weight Loss?

valdavis said:
My friend and I were really into tanning in high school....I know. She came up with the idea of using Crisco as sun tan oil!!! I only tried it once and did not last long since every bug in the neighborhood was attached to me in seconds flat. Obviously that was more in the name of beauty and not health!!
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Baby oil?? try olive oil!! Extra virgin for sure (makes it healthier lol).
others:
Dexatrim
Cabbage Soup diet (several times)
Apple cider vinegar
perms (okay, didn't work for me)
fasting
diuretics.

I'm sure i think of more *sign* i'm so gullible when it comes to fads.:eek:
 
The Mark Eden Bust Developer when I was around 12 years old... It was this pink plastic thing with a heavy spring and you pushed both sides together and were supposed to get boobs.... I'd use it every evening and the spring would squeak really loud... I quit using it when my dad complained about "what's that @*##& squeaking sound?" :eek:
 
Oh I forgot about Dexatrim. I wasn't even over weight in high school but we would run down to the drug store in the mall while working at Chik-fil-A and pick up dexatrim and then down it with Dr. Pepper....I guess we could have been doing worse things. Kept us making those chicken sandwiches and squeezing those lemons like crazy.
Of course I also had the glue on fake nails. Extra long and brightly painted. Nothing was worse than when one of those talons fell off into the french fry cooker....waited all day for someone to bring that one back up to the counter in their fries.

Ahhh memories
 
Val...Chick-fil-A is my favorite!!! They have them all over Texas, but now that I've moved to L.A....nothing. Every time I'm home I go get an 8 piece and sugar-free lemonade. You've struck a chord with me, girlfriend! We are Chick-fil-A chicks forever!

Denise...thanks alot. I just peed my pants laughing about the bust developer. Oh, how I wish you would have kept that to show your grandchildren. Did your dad ever know?

Wendy...I tried the cabbage diet but used purple cabbage...eeeyuck! It was bright purple...not appetizing. Okay...about the diuretics...have you ever tried a colonic? It's ALL the rage in L.A. I tried it and was surprised by how professional and sanitary it was. But you wouldn't believe what's going on inside the intestinal tract. Yikes! Still, no weight loss!
 
Jonezie said:
Val...Chick-fil-A is my favorite!!! They have them all over Texas, but now that I've moved to L.A....nothing. Every time I'm home I go get an 8 piece and sugar-free lemonade. You've struck a chord with me, girlfriend! We are Chick-fil-A chicks forever!
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Chick-fil-A has been my favorite for 30+ years. In the 70s, I can remember having a best friend who lived in Memphis and when she would come to South Carolina to visit, Chick-fil-A was the first place we'd go!

My sister lives in Corona, about 60 miles south of L.A., and there is a Chick-fil-A around the corner from her house. I love it! I visit her often, and have to go by every day for my sweet tea fix. Ironically, the couple that own the franchise moved there from Athens, GA, just 40 miles from me!
 
Remember Epilady??? The metal coil that rolled around and pull out your leg hair..... "totally painless". I don't know about you but I felt pain! Alot of pain... each hair pain.

Fun!

Heather
 
I went tanning for two weeks before my wedding. I've always been anti-tanning, but I broke down and did it when I saw how ghostly I looked in my dress. Thankfully, I was very prudent about it and only got a little bit of color, but I feel like a hypocrite for doing it.
 
icumom said:
I put saran wrap around my arms and legs while exercising to a workout from Teen magazine that had me walking across the floor in what would be described as a downward dog position...and what's more, I used to swear it worked!
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LOL! I completely forgot about this. My friend and I tried this.:eek::p:eek:
 
Okay, this might not be funny to some people, but if you want to talk ridiculous things done for weight loss, I had an eating disorder for 20 years trying to lose weight. The ridiculous part? I gained 100lbs during those 20 years!
 
I bought one of those belts that went around your waist and "zapped" you - it was supposed to exercise ab muscles and help you tone and tighten and what not. Best of all, you got to use this gooey clear ultrasound like gel on your body parts first - so you'd be a sticky, zapped up mess.

Oh yes. That clearly wasn't one of my best weight loss tactics.
 
mrstrace said:
I bought one of those belts that went around your waist and "zapped" you - it was supposed to exercise ab muscles and help you tone and tighten and what not. Best of all, you got to use this gooey clear ultrasound like gel on your body parts first - so you'd be a sticky, zapped up mess.

Oh yes. That clearly wasn't one of my best weight loss tactics.
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This has me me on the floor!

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Mrs. Trace...there is an America's Funniest Home Video with a woman whose belt short circuits and shocks her. I bet you could YouTube it. Your story was hilarious!
 
For "beauty" it would have to be my attempt from the late '70s until the early 80s to get my straight-as-a-board hair curly. The horrible four-letter word: PERM. It literally wasn't pretty, but after each failed attempt, I would try again. What a dumbass!:p
 
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