The Worst Diet Trends People Have Ever Tried

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Oct 26, 2021 1:30 PM EDT

People have tried all types of crazy things to lose weight. Often, the quest to get skinny takes a toxic turn. In an AskWomen thread, women shared the worst diet plans they've tried themselves or plans they've seen their beloved family and friends try. Evidently, they didn't exactly go as planned. Keto came up often in the thread, so we're officially marking that one off the list of diets to try. Scroll down for the craziest diet trends we saw on the thread. 

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    Human body - r/AskWomen - Posted by u/okay389 20 hours ago What is the worst diet plan you have ever followed or have seen someone else follow?
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    Scroll down for the most toxic diet trends. 

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    Human body - AccordingSky7840 · 20h · edited 14h Keto, this s't sent my gallbladder straight to Valhalla
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    That's one wa to describe keto. 

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    Handwriting - ScrawlingItForever · 19h I had a friend who in high school started taking these vinegar tablets. I asked her if they worked, trying to make her think rationally. She said, "yes, because I vomit if I take enough." So yeah, that
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    Smile - pickinrhubarb · 19h Dirty keto. I can't for the life of me understand how a diet of meat, cheese, eggs, mayo, etc is healthy.
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    Handwriting - chrissyishungry · 15h Level up from the coffee & cigarettes diet I subsisted on in my early 20s.
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    Handwriting - nessii31 · 20h I tried low carb for like 4 days. Then I decided the headaches and sluggishness aren't worth it and just counted calories.
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    Font - IeuanTemplar · 20h Urgh. Hands down, my Dad did a "cabbage soup diet". Essentially you just replace nearly all your meals with cabbage soup. It stank, he stank, the house stank, just everything. It was awful. He did lose a bunch of weight, like it worked, but Holy shit there was a cost.
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    Mammal - Independent_North236 · 19h Someone wanted to loose weight but kept eating several high calorie protein bars per day and wondered why they were not loosing weight.
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    Font - msstark · 19h A coworker once followed a diet where all she ate was onion and pepper soup. Of course, this made her s:.it her brains out and ingest almost no calories, so technically it worked for a couple weeks... until she obviously gave up.
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    Font - LilMissStormCloud · 18h A lot of people are buying those herbalife meal replacement drinks from these "nutrition" stores around here. They are at least $4 a drink and are basically herbalife powder mixed with pudding stuff or kool-aid. I've never seen someone actually lose weight and yet we have the stores popping up everywhere. I had family that was involved with one and they didn't get paid except tips because of how the place was set up. Her husband quickly talked sense into her.
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    Font - peppermind - 18h My sister does one every so often where she's required to eat a full cantaloupe daily for about a week along with low carb veggies and white meat. She hates cantaloupe.
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    Font - Manchestergirl901 · 17h A group of girls in one of my previous jobs were obsessed with losing weight and they used to eat toilet tissue to "fill" their stomachs and make them less hungry. A typical day was Diet Coke and toilet tissue.
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    Font - Bramxo · 18h The teas I see all over Instagram. It's shocking what people will post for money
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    Font - Blueroses_Fireflies · 18h My friend's nutritionist allowed her three raisins between lunch and dinner. Three raisins. Sometimes dinner was just some kind of smoothie. She lost 12kg in three months. Then gained it all back because she was obviously starving.
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    Font - Kitteh_Kate · 19h He said it was vegan diet but it was all just noodles, expensive "ready to eat" vegan sauces and lots of bread with vegan sausage/cheese. No fresh fruits, no veggies, no nuts... not very healthy
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