Wow talk about a blast from the past!!! I remember my mom taking Dexitrim, or some other otc weight loss pill. I remember that when I was a teenager I started pinching them for myself! Yikes! Also her otc water pills! Not a good thing. I remember my mom being on a liquid diet .... it gave her the worse gas too!
Now those were some really um, shall we say,
intresting weeks. Then of course there were the diet center, and weight watchers days. I remember my mom binging the day before starting so those were good days, we got lots and lots of junk food. Then it was diet time. Bleak bleak days. I now can tie these "bursts" my mom had into her manic and depressive periods of her bi-polar.
When I was in my twenties I joined some place (I can't even remember the name of the center) but it was the enzyme diet. Where they gave you stuff to add to hot water. And there was puddings and cold drinks also. I think that it was mentioned in an earlier post. And with this diet, you could chew all the sugar-free gum and eat all the sugar-free mints you'd want, once again.... Talk about some wicked gas!
I can also remember reading about "diets" in mags like
Cosmo and
New Woman magazine where it'd be a cup of black coffee for breakfast. It's no wonder I hate coffee to this day! I'd follow the "diet" for about 2-3 days and then eat anything that wasn't nailed down!