The Top Ten Most Ridiculous Diets

By: Brie Cadman ( Little_person View Profile)

Cabbage Soup Diet
Mmmm … cabbage. Good on St. Patrick’s day, not so good every day. Unless you’re trying to lose up to ten pounds in a single week, then maybe cabbage doesn’t sound so bad anymore. But being light headed, weak, and suffering from decreased concentration, as some diet participants have reported, does. Not to mention the inordinate amount of flatulence you are bound to have on a cabbage laden diet. Slim, but stinky.

Slim Fast
First a Subway sandwich, then cereal, now a Slim Fast shake or food item. The basic premise is the same: replace two meals with any of the above, you lose weight, and the maker of said item makes a lot of money. That is, until you grow so bored and tired of eating the exact same thing for two meals a day you quit, and realize that—wow—there are a lot of other foods out there that cost a lot less. Say, fruits and vegetables.

Blood Type Diet
According to this diet, different blood types should eat different foods. If you’re group O, you’re a hunter, and should eat meat. If you’re A, you’re a cultivator, and are best as a vegetarian. B? A nomad, eat dairy. The rare AB blood type should eat—you guessed it—a combination of the foods recommended for groups A and B. If this sounds more like the plot of a bad high school play than a diet, that’s because there’s really no evidence that your blood type has any influence on your weight or overall health. Look past the A’s, B’s and O’s, and you’ll see this a fad diet that doesn’t make much sense.

Russian Air Force Diet
This diet does not require you to stand in the bread line, but it does require you to survive on near starvation levels of food. Originally developed in the former Soviet Union to keep soldiers fit, you are allowed to put herbs, salt, pepper, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, and ketchup on all your meals. But about those meals … breakfast is coffee only. Lunch: two eggs, a tomato. And dinner allows you to feast on a sliver of meat and a salad. Yes, you will lose weight. Yes, you will feel like you’ve enlisted. And yes, you will feel like you are back in the USSR.

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It's true, so very very true. Any diet is pretty much a waste of your time if your looking for that quick fix! It takes time to put on weight so it too must take time to lose it. It's only natural and it makes sense! Eat right, portion your food and exercise! Enough Said..

Most everything is about portion control, with the slim fast and special K type diets. Like the Subway guy, he lost 200lbs eating subway every day? What was he eating before? CARS? Seriously though, if he was living off fast food and just switched to healthier fast food it would make a difference but it still is about changing your life habits. Not just a quick fix.

Based on its catchy name, it’s easy to dismiss Dr. Siegal’s® COOKIE DIET™ as “ridiculous” or a “fad diet” and to throw it into the same category as some genuinely absurd diets. But if it’s a fad, after 33 years and a half million people, it’s the longest-running fad going. Do even the most mimimal research and you’ll quickly realize that the system of weight loss that I developed three decades ago is actually sensible, practical, and effective. There’s no magic to it. My cookies, shakes and soup effectively control hunger without drugs and enable you to adhere to a reduced-calorie diet. My system has been the exclusive approach to weight loss in my South Florida medical practice since 1975. I’ve used it to help more than 500,000 patients lose weight, and more than 200 other doctors have use it in their own practices. Thousands of people in North America and the UK now buy them at CookieDietOnline.com, too. Sanford Siegal, D.O., M.D. Miami, Florida www.DrSiegal.com

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the description of the slim fast diet is WRONG. its replace ONE mean a day with a shake. not two. that would be rediculous.

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the description of the slim fast diet is WRONG. its replace ONE mean a day with a shake. not two. that would be rediculous.

Hmm an interesting point but I'm not sure if I agree with you. Jared Lorz

I lost 190 pounds using the Atkins diet and have kept it off for 5 years now. Now that I'm in the "maintenance" phase of the diet, I can eat fruits and vegetables, even pasta and bread (limited, admittedly). Maybe if you're one of those fools who thinks that you're following the diet by eating nothing but hot dogs, you'll feel terrible, but I found it to be a tremendously effective diet, compared to the "low fat, eat less, exercise more" diet which the FDA touts even as our nation gets fatter and fatter by the day.

Your article is being ripped off in two places: http://uncommonbody.blogspot.com/2008/01/top‐10‐most‐ridiculous‐diets.html http://hmv.co.in/blog/archives/33

all I have to say is, forget stupid diets like these. That doesn't mean that all diets don't work - I've lost 8 pounds the first 9 days on the Fat Smash Diet , and a total of 17 pounds in 6 weeks so far. What can and cannot be eaten is very specific and spelled out during each phase. I only wish they would give brand name examples of specifc foods (whole grain breads, juices, etc.) This is my first diet and I'm enjoying the results. More Reviews on the Fat Smash diet: http://www.buzzillions.com/dz_329090_fat_smash_diet_rev...

I agree with Rich Taylor.. I'm a fan of the atkins diet and have used it and modified versions of it successfuly for years. I feel healthy, eat ORANGES, and carbs. I just do a healthy balance. I also eat at SUBWAY. It's convenient and i get to control how healthy my sandwich is. I like that. I think this article is misleading, polarized, and ill informed. I'm not a fan of your ending either. Maybe your "ridiculous, unsustainable, and often times dangerous" (and should stop writing...) "at least until you come to your senses."

THOSE are the craziest diets? Haven't you ever heard of the <a href="http://www.tapewormdiet.net/">Tapewo...

If YOU knew what you were talking about YOU would know that you CAN eat an Orange on ATKINS..... If you read the book all the way thru you would know that you only restrict fruits on the Induction phase of the diet. Once you reach your desired goal you can add in fruits. I wish these sites would screen thier writers. Such a injustice to your readers.

Eating right is of course good for you, but starting to move that ass of yours will probably do you a lot more good. I get so tired of all this diet-talk; people focus on diets because they are too lazy for 30 minutes physical exercise a day. Do that, and you can eat whatever you want. Within reason of course, but far far far way from all these silly diets. Don't have time for a 30 minute workout a day, you say? How much time do you spend on researching various diets, discussing them with your friends, planning crazy meals and then complaining about how bad you feel because of them? Stop talking and start moving, dammit! :-)

The biggest problem with all of these diets is their focusing on losing WEIGHT. Let me clarify: you want to lose pounds of FAT, not pounds of MUSCLE. However, almost every diet out there makes you lose more muscle than fat. This is terrible, as it lowers your metabolism, making it even harder to lose fat (but easier to gain fat!). You want to follow a nutrition plan with a supporting exercise plan. Do not diet in isolation! And you need a nutrition plan that you can follow for life. That rules out crazy short-term diets. Let me reiterate: you want a plan that makes you lose fat, but keep muscle. Guess who knows how to do that really well? Bodybuilders. Whether you are a man or woman, you can benefit from the same fat loss strategies. There are many free resources on the web. I recommend forum.bodybuilding.com - they even have a women's section. Ask around; they are pretty friendly. There are also other resources that I am starting to review at my blog, ebooksreader.blogspot.com

I've tried the cabbage soup diet once a year, for the past ten years, for two weeks per year. It left me bloated and gassy, but dropped ten to fifteen pounds of the two week period, only to gain it back once I got sick of eatin' cabbage. I partially practice the russian air force diet, havin' only coffee for breakfast, and I love the hell out of catsup, puttin' it on most things, though, there's too much sugar in catsup. Needless to say, I'm very overweight since I quit drinkin' in 1996.

The weatherman in my hometown of Lexington, Kentucky once went on a Wendy's frosty diet in the 80s and lost a ton of weight - maybe 50 lbs. I couldn't believe it! I think I'd vomit frosties after the 6th or 7th...!

I'd like to add one - the low fat diet. Seriously, it doesn't work. Low fat products contain more sugar and sugar is really the devil to end all devils. I just hope that people do their research - look into the science behind things. We shouldn't just blindly accept what the government tells us is good for us, because we all know governments serve their own interests too, not just ours. Here's a good article for people who are looking for some science-based advice on what's good, what's bad and what is making you fat (hint: it's not fat). http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E2D6...

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