6 Weird Diets that You SHOULDN’T Try!
Oh Boy, people sure have created some WEIRD diets in order to lose weight. We look at 6 of the strangest diets that people actually thought would work! Suffice to say all of these diets are BAD IDEAS and you shouldn’t try them…
Once you start thinking about wanting to lose weight, you’re faced with a scary task. How do you make sense of all the conflicting information out there? April 2019 is our month of weight loss and obesity education! We’ll be examining diet plans, work-out plans, nutrition, weight-loss groups, the science of obesity and weight-loss, and even some things you can do to make money for losing weight!
Weird Diet #1 – The Tapeworm Diet
The perfect weird diet for crazy people and parasite lovers. Who writes down ‘Infect Self with Tape Worm’ when trying to figure out how to lose weight? Suffice to say, this is a bad bad bad idea.
Buy hey, on the plus side, hey at least you get a free low-maintenance pet!
Weird Diet #2 – The Cigarette Diet
For an unlimited time, this diet comes with a free side of lung cancer!
Weird Diet #3 – The Air Diet –
Also known in some circles as starving yourself. The air diet is a dumb and dangerous approach to weight loss. Basically you pretend to eat food, but really only drink salt water. Do you really need a doctor to tell you how dumb this idea is? This worst part… unlike most of the other diets on here, this one is pretty recent.
On second thought… maybe I should start one of those meal box plans. For only $20 a month you get 4 weeks of empty boxes. Bon appetite!
Weird Diet #4 – Fletcherism
Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew.
Spit.
This diet was all about chewing your food excessively and then spitting out the pulpy mush still left.
The diet’s founder even had specific rules about how many times to chew each type of food. Out of all the weird diets, this one has a grain of good advice in it. Eating slower is a good idea. I mean, chewing your french fries 900 times won’t help you lose weight, but being more mindful about eating is always a good idea!
Weird Diet #5 – Cotton Balls?
“So what’s for dinner tonight?”
“I was thinking of having cotton balls.”
“Yum, that sounds great! I’ll have some too.”
So with this diet you dip the cotton ball into a liquid and eat it. Probably one of the dumbest things you can do with a cotton ball (That’s not a challenge!)
Also, this another recent diet that breaks my historical diet rule. Sure makes that chewing diet look pretty smart in comparison!
Weird Diet #6 – Arsenic Pills?!
Oh comeon seriously?
Yeah I’m sure poisoning yourself will help you lose some weight. Why don’t you just hack off a leg while your at it. That’ll help you drop a few pounds. This item on the list of weird diets is thankfully harder to obtain now we don’t put arsenic in our diet drugs.
Look, there’s no shortcuts to losing weight. I wish there were! Fad diet of today, become the material for comical posts tomorrow. What’s no joke is the impact that being overweight has on your health and well-being. If you’re interested in learning about the quickest way to lose weight you should talk to your doctor, read our article, and do your research! Also, carefully crafted diet plans like those offered by BistroMD or created by a nutritionist bolster your chances for your weight loss goals.