What is the craziest diet you've ever tried?

Okay what is the stupidest diet you ever tried?  I need a laugh for the day and I know some of you have tried some pretty funny "diet plans" in the past.  For me it was the drops that you put in your drink once a day.  I mean me and my friend went in on them.  I mean seriously drops? What was I thinking?  And as I write this I remember I still have my ear stapled.  My last ditch effort before I came here. lol

i think my diet coke and popcorn diet had to be my stupidest one. 

uhmmm.. maybe i'm sheltered.. but your ear stapled?   where do they staple it and how is it supposed to help with weight loss?

my stupidest one was metabolife.. oy.. those speed pills made me feel aweful!

diet coke and popcorn??? was that your own invention?

yeah, that was my invention. i figured popcorn is really low in
calories, and diet coke has none, so i thought i was the smartest
person ever for thinking of it. (i was like, 14 or 15 at the time.) i
got sick of it in ohhhhhhh, a day.

ear stapling all the new rage...it is like acupuncture....it is supposed to work for smoking too.  They put this staple in your ear and actually if you do what they tell you to do.  ( this massage) it actually makes your cigs taste nasty and it makes you extremely thirsty and when you eat if you eat to much you feel ill.  It worked for a couple of weeks but then I got over it. and now I just need to get the staple removed.

but where do they put it?  it sounds horrible!

i'm sorry shanna, but i just pictured you grabbing a staple remover
from your desk and putting it up to your ear. it was amusing. :)

right in the middle ...i have seen some people with peircings there the staple goes right over the ridge...it didn't hurt ...you can read about it here.

*picks up the staple remover and thinks*

oh my goodness.. ouch!  of course this is from the gal who views ear piercing as a sport.. hehe.. 

I gotta say, there was an infomercial years back that stated you could loose weight by smelling their scents, chocolate and whatever, I never tried it but I was soooo tempted.  Everytime you get hungry you just whip out this stuff and smell it and BAM you're cravings are gone.

besides the "not eating" diets...I have tried the dexatrim pills that supposedly curbs your appetites.  It really did curb my appetite but when the pills wore off, I was STARVING and ate everything in site.  Really stupid.

Also, I have watch friends go through the ex-lax diets.  Eat what you want and drop loads later. 

We weren't the brightest crayons in the box.

Did anyone here ever try the cabbage soup diet? The one where you make this crap cabbage soup and you can eat that plus (this is from memory so its not right) veggies on Monday, Fruit on Tuesday (no bananas), bananas on Wednesday, 1 3 oz portion of beef Thursday, and then fruit and veggies, etc again. That was a cracked out diet. The cabage soup was awful.

I also did the all the bananas you can eat  diet. I got pretty sick of bananas.

Hollywood diet. Drink this nasty drink and don't eat for a day drop 10 lbs. Ha Ha Ha ok that made me laugh.....I can't belive I did that.

Geminmd, I did something similar.  Back then I didn't eat breakfast, but I ate bananas and saltines for everything else.  I usually ate a small 'normal' dinner, dessert, after dinner snack, etc. was bananas!  I'm surprised I even still like them!

I did the cabbage soup diet.....and the vegetable soup diet.....oh i also was on a weight loss shot before (mom is on it now) trying to convince her to hop on this site but she is stubborn and who am i to judge i am the one who told her about it lol

I think it was in the late 1970s.  I did the 3 day banana and skim milk diet - a glass of skim milk and a banana three times a day for three days. 

Bad idea!

The supposed "Chemical Breakdown" diet. It was said to be supported by the American Heart Association. When I researched it more, it was noted all over the place to be a hoax diet. What a crock! Diet ex: 1 cup of black coffee, 1/2 a hot dog, 1 boiled egg, 1 diet soda - errr, ok!

I did the Cabbage Soup one too. Then I changed it to all soup, all the time (sometime around age 15). That didn't last long, haha. Too much water = uh oh!

And then of course, the eat as little as possible. The most detrimental to my body.

When I was 13 years old, I devised a diet in which you could only eat things that you could toss up into the air and then catch in your mouth. Grapes and popcorn were good for this diet.  Dinner that night, meatloaf, was problematic. Thus the end of the catch-it-in-your-mouth diet.

Thanks for the laughs.  I am at work on my lunch break and just thought I would see what was going on.  I haven't personally tried a crazy diet other than not eat for a year but I did work with a lady who was on this crazy diet of bananas, hotdogs, and I think eggs.  She would eat 5 bananas one day and nothing else, 5 hotdogs then next, 5 hardboiled eggs the next and I think a combination of the 3 foods the next, eat normal for 3 days, then start all over on Monday.  I never understood that diet but she said her mom lost 50 lbs doing that.