You all know I am a sucker for most anything! Tonight I got thinking, hmm…we have never had a top ten crazy diet list. We have talked about it a little but never a real group of ten. I honestly thought I had heard of everything, but boy was I wrong. So many people have compiled Top 10 Crazy Diet lists it was easy to come up with one. I have to admit there are one or two that I have tried, but I can assure you that neither involve a tapeworm…GROSS! After checking out the internet here is my top 10 list. If you have any you would like to add leave it in the comments. Happy dieting!
10- The Weight Loss Cure They Don’t Want You to Know About: This diet gives the tapeworm a run for its money. Why? The weight loss “cure” consists of nothing more than ingesting the urine of pregnant women. Whether this is effective or not really doesn’t matter-there is absolutely, positively, a better way to lose weight than injecting yourself with pee.
9-Hallelujah Diet: Reverend George M. Malkmus was diagnosed with colon cancer, and instead of getting treatment, he changed his diet to “the original diet God gave mankind.” Although the diet consists mainly of good staples like fruits and vegetables, you can’t just eat produce you’d pick up at the store. No, this diet requires that you mail-order direct from the Reverend’s farm because the general American food supply is devoid of nutrients. Ironically, this diet has been found to cause nutrient deficiencies, and due to its high-fiber and beta carotine content, is less than ideal for cancer patients.
8-The master cleanse: Also known as the lemon water detox diet, this concoction can’t even really be called a diet because you’re not eating anything. With the master cleanse, you’ll subsist on lemon water with cayenne pepper and maple syrup. Incredibly temporary, any weight loss resulting from this detox will come back almost immediately.
7- The Magnetic Diet: The foundation of this diet is in understanding which foods attract either health or disease to the body. Contaminating magnetism supposedly attracts disease to the body and includes refined sugar, cholesterol, and white flour. Invigorating magnetism include fruits, whole grains, vegetables, lean meat, and foods containing antioxidants. In addition to only eating invigorating magnetism foods, the diet advocates doing meditation and re-programming the mind towards engaging in more healthy habits. Um, to me, it sounds like a new-age, catchy name for what we already know—eat a balanced diet, reduce sugar intake, reduce stress, and train your brain to replace bad habits with healthy choices.
6- The 3-Day Hotdog Diet: Also known as the three-day diet, this diet is ridiculous because it doesn’t recommend that you eat healthy food-in fact, you’ll eat ice cream as well. Instead, you’ll eat carefully counted portions of food, resulting in the oh-so-familiar calorie restriction that so many ridiculous diets feature.
5- The Cabbage Soup Diet: Also known as the “Russian peasant diet,” the “Sacred Heart diet,” and “TJ miracle soup diet,” this diet consists of eating a low-calorie cabbage soup for 7 days. It’s generally claimed to cause weight loss of 10 pounds within a week, although most experts believe that sort of weight loss is not possible. Most of the weight lost on this diet is water, so it’s not permanent. It’s also problematic because of a high sodium content, extremely low protein, feelings of weakeness, and increased flatulence.
4- The Pasta and Chocolate Diet: Pasta AND chocolate? You know the old saying: “If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is” and that’s the case here. You can’t drink anything but water, and the only chocolate you get is up to 1-ounce at the end of the day as an evening snack along with some popcorn, but you do get to eat pasta for lunch and dinner. Prohibited foods include sugar, alcohol, carbonated drinks, coffee, tea, nuts, all junk food imaginable except for popcorn, fried foods, dairy products, salt, and red meat. Do you know how small one ounce of chocolate is? Is it really worth it to not have a steak every once in a while? Most real diets encourage you to have some red meat prepared in a healthy way. This diet offers major food restrictions with a reward of 1 ounce of chocolate each night along with the absence of some very important nutrients.
3- The Caveman Diet: This diet revolves around trying to mimic the diet of the caveman. Allowed foods include lean meat (I suppose dinosaur meat was lean), fish, vegetables, fruit, roots, and nuts; and excludes: grains, legumes, dairy products, salt, refined sugar, and processed oils. All foods eaten are those that can be hunted and gathered. Please tell me why we would want to pattern our eating habits after a caveman? Wasn’t their average lifespan around 15 years old or something??
2- The Air Diet: The Air Diet of the Institute for Psychoactive Research doesn’t require you to avoid any foods or change your current diet or exercise habits—you just breathe. Instead of focusing on what you eat or how much you eat, you focus on breathing. The idea is that if you practice rhythmical breathing, then you breathe more air. The more air you breathe, the more weight you lose. The best part is that you can do this anytime, anywhere—while driving, laying in bed, working, walking, having sex, and so on. Allrighty then!
And #1 is…The Tapeworm Diet: Almost too disgusting to detail, this diet involves swallowing cysts that you’ve dissected out of beef carcass. The plan is to allow the tapeworm to live in you for up to 10 weeks, and then take prescribed medication to kill it. It should go without saying that this is perhaps one of the most dangerous diets you can adopt. It not only requires you to ingest a parasite, it encourages unhealthy eating habits, which are almost guaranteed to make you gain every pound back once the worm is gone.
XO A Tapeworm free Shannon
*To see entire lists check out these articles written by Pam Rogerson and RnCentral
You all know I am a sucker for most anything! Tonight I got thinking, hmm…we have never had a top ten crazy diet list. We have talked about it a little but never a real group of ten. I honestly thought I had heard of everything, but boy was I wrong. So many people have compiled Top 10 Crazy Diet lists it was easy to come up with one. I have to admit there are one or two that I have tried, but I can assure you that neither involve a tapeworm…GROSS! After checking out the internet here is my top 10 list. If you have any you would like to add leave it in the comments. Happy dieting!
10- The Weight Loss Cure They Don’t Want You to Know About: This diet gives the tapeworm a run for its money. Why? The weight loss “cure” consists of nothing more than ingesting the urine of pregnant women. Whether this is effective or not really doesn’t matter-there is absolutely, positively, a better way to lose weight than injecting yourself with pee.
9-Hallelujah Diet: Reverend George M. Malkmus was diagnosed with colon cancer, and instead of getting treatment, he changed his diet to “the original diet God gave mankind.” Although the diet consists mainly of good staples like fruits and vegetables, you can’t just eat produce you’d pick up at the store. No, this diet requires that you mail-order direct from the Reverend’s farm because the general American food supply is devoid of nutrients. Ironically, this diet has been found to cause nutrient deficiencies, and due to its high-fiber and beta carotine content, is less than ideal for cancer patients.
8-The master cleanse: Also known as the lemon water detox diet, this concoction can’t even really be called a diet because you’re not eating anything. With the master cleanse, you’ll subsist on lemon water with cayenne pepper and maple syrup. Incredibly temporary, any weight loss resulting from this detox will come back almost immediately.
7- The Magnetic Diet: The foundation of this diet is in understanding which foods attract either health or disease to the body. Contaminating magnetism supposedly attracts disease to the body and includes refined sugar, cholesterol, and white flour. Invigorating magnetism include fruits, whole grains, vegetables, lean meat, and foods containing antioxidants. In addition to only eating invigorating magnetism foods, the diet advocates doing meditation and re-programming the mind towards engaging in more healthy habits. Um, to me, it sounds like a new-age, catchy name for what we already know—eat a balanced diet, reduce sugar intake, reduce stress, and train your brain to replace bad habits with healthy choices.
6- The 3-Day Hotdog Diet: Also known as the three-day diet, this diet is ridiculous because it doesn’t recommend that you eat healthy food-in fact, you’ll eat ice cream as well. Instead, you’ll eat carefully counted portions of food, resulting in the oh-so-familiar calorie restriction that so many ridiculous diets feature.
5- The Cabbage Soup Diet: Also known as the “Russian peasant diet,” the “Sacred Heart diet,” and “TJ miracle soup diet,” this diet consists of eating a low-calorie cabbage soup for 7 days. It’s generally claimed to cause weight loss of 10 pounds within a week, although most experts believe that sort of weight loss is not possible. Most of the weight lost on this diet is water, so it’s not permanent. It’s also problematic because of a high sodium content, extremely low protein, feelings of weakeness, and increased flatulence.
4- The Pasta and Chocolate Diet: Pasta AND chocolate? You know the old saying: “If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is” and that’s the case here. You can’t drink anything but water, and the only chocolate you get is up to 1-ounce at the end of the day as an evening snack along with some popcorn, but you do get to eat pasta for lunch and dinner. Prohibited foods include sugar, alcohol, carbonated drinks, coffee, tea, nuts, all junk food imaginable except for popcorn, fried foods, dairy products, salt, and red meat. Do you know how small one ounce of chocolate is? Is it really worth it to not have a steak every once in a while? Most real diets encourage you to have some red meat prepared in a healthy way. This diet offers major food restrictions with a reward of 1 ounce of chocolate each night along with the absence of some very important nutrients.
3- The Caveman Diet: This diet revolves around trying to mimic the diet of the caveman. Allowed foods include lean meat (I suppose dinosaur meat was lean), fish, vegetables, fruit, roots, and nuts; and excludes: grains, legumes, dairy products, salt, refined sugar, and processed oils. All foods eaten are those that can be hunted and gathered. Please tell me why we would want to pattern our eating habits after a caveman? Wasn’t their average lifespan around 15 years old or something??
2- The Air Diet: The Air Diet of the Institute for Psychoactive Research doesn’t require you to avoid any foods or change your current diet or exercise habits—you just breathe. Instead of focusing on what you eat or how much you eat, you focus on breathing. The idea is that if you practice rhythmical breathing, then you breathe more air. The more air you breathe, the more weight you lose. The best part is that you can do this anytime, anywhere—while driving, laying in bed, working, walking, having sex, and so on. Allrighty then!
And #1 is…The Tapeworm Diet: Almost too disgusting to detail, this diet involves swallowing cysts that you’ve dissected out of beef carcass. The plan is to allow the tapeworm to live in you for up to 10 weeks, and then take prescribed medication to kill it. It should go without saying that this is perhaps one of the most dangerous diets you can adopt. It not only requires you to ingest a parasite, it encourages unhealthy eating habits, which are almost guaranteed to make you gain every pound back once the worm is gone.
XO A Tapeworm free Shannon
*To see entire lists check out these articles written by Pam Rogerson and RnCentral