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1. Ear Stapling. Think about this: how many chubby people do you know with multiple piercings? (If you're having trouble envisioning, think about going to a Ren Faire.) 2. Original Hollywood Celebrity Diet. Sure, you too can lose weight if you live on 400 calories a day for two weeks. Wow, it's like magic! 3. Kimkins. Gives sketchy advice like super-low calorie levels and also laxatives (eeek!), but finding out that the diet's supposed inventor and biggest success story actually weighs over 300 pounds must have been très awkward. 4. Hydroxycut. Starbucks sells buckets of caffeine for much less money than these capsules, and with no scary ephedra accidentally making its way into your misto. 5. Celluslim. Random words thrown together to name pills that made a lot of people feel ishy. Sounds like a bunch of bullshit to us. 6. Chitosan. Weirdly, found to reduce cholesterol to some extent, but totally does not help you lose weight even a little. 7. Slim Slippers. Are you kidding us? Reflexology has no proven association with weight loss or metabolism and also, need we mention that these are slippers! For your feet! 8. Hoodia. It might be TrimSpa, but it's also bullshit, baby! 9. Diet Patch. Come on, you're on a diet, not an ocean voyage. 10. Mariah Carey's Purple Food diet. No, really. Purple food. 5 CommentsLeave a comment |
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I have gotten suckered into a few (ha "few" is putting it nicely!)on that list - stupid stupid stupid!! Kimkins is the one that makes me feel like the biggest fool of all!
I did a combo hydroxycut + Atkins + protein powder diet. I didn't eat because I was too busy reorganizing my closet, the neighbor's closet, and every cabinet and drawer in the house. To say that I was a little manic is an understatement.
Heh Purple Food. That really rare steak I ate on Saturday was kindof purple.
Though my sad secret is that I got a check from the settlement for Trimspa false advertising.
Kimkins really should be in it's own category! Fraud, bullying, develop an eating disorder in less than two weeks while the owner eats sugar cookies and berates you for not losing fast enough. Lose your hair, feel nauseous all the time (SNATT is good???) eat only egg whites and wreck your metabolism after you pay her??? Seriously folks, give your heads a shake. If you have the energy that is!
Great list! There is more about Kimkins here:
http://calorielab.com/news/2007/10/16/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-kimkins-diet
http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/b/2007/12/02/kimkins-diet-scam-update.htm
Stop the fraud! Kimkins members may join the Kimkins lawsuit.
http://kimkinslawsuit.wordpress.com/
Here is a video that explains how easy it is to join the Kimkins lawsuit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zxURudcNes
It includes an eggnog martini - it's worth a peek!