A Funny Website "Everydiet": Every Fad Diet Imaginable
Recently, I stumbled across a website I found hilarious and thought some Serious Eaters might as well. It's basically a database of EVERY fad diet (and a few non-fad diets) that have ever existed.
My favorite is the "3 Day Diet," which I remember was passed around my mom's office (on a Xerox copy) when I was a preteen. It's a "magic" 3-day diet that is supposed to produce weight loss if you follow it exactly. One of the meals is
"2 beef franks or hot dogs
1/2 cup carrots
1 banana
1 cup broccoli or cabbage
1/2 cup vanilla ice cream
Black coffee or tea (Sweet & Low or Equal) or water"
http://www.everydiet.org/diet/3-day-diet
Another fad diet I hadn't even heard of is the 'Bread for Life' diet:
"The foundation of the diet is bread; up to 12 slices of bread a day...this must be ‘light’ bread which contains 35-45 calories per slice. Heavier breads and those containing nuts and raisins may have up to 90 calories. These are not forbidden but not recommended for everyday use - and allowed as long as daily bread calorie quota maintained."
http://www.everydiet.org/diet/bread-for-life
My favorite is the pocket diet, which means you have to eat a pita for every meal, and only what can be crammed into a pita.
Anyway, just for laughs. I couldn't believe how long the list was, and how different the diets were!
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10 Comments:
I checked it out HeartofGlass and was astonished at how many of those diets I actually tried, way back when. Funny stuff there! The one that would definitely work was the amputation diet, but oh my! Very tongue-in-cheek on that one. Thanks for sharing and starting my day off with a belly laugh!
PerkyMac at 9:28AM on 01/21/09
I remember in the 80's that deal-a-meal by Richard Simons was an explosion. There was this lady at the office that I was working at the time followed that diet and she lost a ton of weight, but of course a couple years later she gained it back. I also remember in the 70's when everyone was on the famous (or infamous) water diet. lol.
pjracz10 at 9:40AM on 01/21/09
Broken jaw diet works for a while.
dmcavanagh at 10:00AM on 01/21/09
@dm ~ hope you don't know that from personal experience. I'd want milkshakes and figure out how to liquify lobster with drawn butter.......;-)
PerkyMac at 1:42PM on 01/21/09
@perky- you and I should know this one.
pjracz10 at 4:01PM on 01/21/09
That also makes me think of a line from "Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion"--"Remember when I had mononucleosis in high school--best diet EVER."
HeartofGlass at 6:22PM on 01/21/09
hot dogs and vanilla ice in a diet, i need me a Xerox copy of that one
snackosaurusrex at 10:31PM on 01/21/09
Interesting site - thx.
Ribster at 5:56AM on 01/23/09
I'm so doing the pita diet. Then I'm going to learn how to make pitas and make pitas with pockets the size of mah head! :D
scarletini at 12:48PM on 01/28/09
@HoG - or "The Devil Wears Prada" where the other assistant says "I'm just one stomach flu away from my goal weight!"
cowprintrabbit at 1:12PM on 01/28/09