Do Diets Work? Thought I'd share my history in close to accurate chronological order starting in 1984 (25 years ago)! In 1984, I had my most successful weight loss of 22 pounds during the summer between seventh and eighth grades. I remember my first day of school outfit: an acid washed, two toned designer denim disaster in a size 3/4. I probably wore the same outfit to go see Purple Rain with my BFFs, at the time. I remained a size 3/4 until the second week of that same school year.
If I repeat something that simply means I tried it more than once. This does not include countless diet plans that filled the pages of health magazines, rag magazines, and newspapers:
Ideal Weight, Weight Watchers, Scarsdale Diet, Grapefruit Diet, Marajuana Diet (thought fewer calories than beer but didn't account for the munchies), Weight Watchers, SlimFast, Cabbage Soup Diet, Atkins, Hollywood Diet (chased by bees while drinking this nectar-like substance), Jenny Craig, Metabolife, Metabolift (resulted in embarrassing ER visit), Cabbage Soup Diet, Atkins, Weight Watchers, other people's Nutritionist's diets, Shani's "Eat only When Hungry" diet, Health Store brand liquid diet, Scarsdale Diet, Atkins Diet, South Beach Diet, cutting out dairy on my own diet, Health Store Detoxification Diet, NutriSystem (swelled to a balloon from excessive amounts of sodium), Curves Diet Plan, Special K challenge, Cabbage Soup Diet (the final time- B refused to flush the entire vat of soup down the toilet for me EVER AGAIN),Weight Watchers, Jared's Subway diet (lasted five days), my own Nutritionist's Diet Plan, Zone Diet, colon cleansing diet, "I'm gonna be a vegetarian for three days diet", Acupuncturist's Diet Plan (another abandonment of dairy), Bikini Fit Detoxification and Diet Plan, South Beach Diet, Flat Belly Diet, DineWise home food delivery diet, Sparkpeople.com diet plan, "I'm not gonna diet and just shut my mouth diet".......and counting.
This week I lost .2 lbs. I hope to claim an eight pound reward soon.
"Mmm, this is good, I think that we like it because it's cold."
-Stacey Goldstein on Jandelle's frozen yogurt
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Shani's diet wouldn't work for me. Since I am hungry ALL the time, when would I sleep?
Congrats on the progress!
somewhere alomg the way i'm sure we all tried at least 3/4 of the diets you mentioned-I'm a firm beleiver that basically all diets work it's just too damn hard to stick to one- but you are so inspirational- keep it up!!!!
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