oh what I couldn't do with 1400 calories of chocolate... lol!

I love the idea of burying soup in the back garden!

LOL, that's essentially what I was thinking when I read that post!! I was picturing mountains and mountains of chocolate... But then I realized that 1400 calories would really only buy me about 10-11 peanut butter cups (my favorite!). Curse chocolate for being so calorically-dense! Hehe.

I bet after a couple days, you wouldn't like chocolate anymore....lol At least not for a while.

I believe that 1400 calories of chocolate would start me on a binge! I am truly like an alcoholic.

1400 calories of chocolate...wow. But if you think about it, that is only two slices of Godiva Cheesecake (which I could have eaten on a stressful day) from the cheesecake factory. Or one chocolate shake at some places.

WOW.

My favorite bit of diet advice was when a co-worker noticed I was eating a banana every day for my snack. She said, "You shouldn't eat bananas, they'll make you fat." Then she went on to tell me some rubbish that you can survive on 3 bananas a day and that they are too carb laden. I should mention, this is after I had already lost 20lbs eating a daily banana as a snack! I just nodded and laughed to myself as I walked back to my desk.

When I was a girl, and being figuratively pounded by my mother's major food and body issues, she told me people only eat 3 meals a day because they are bored.

I had a doctor tell me to eat whatever I want for breakfast, eat a soup and salad for lunch, and then nothing after lunch except for water, so that I can go into fat burning mode the rest of the day. There was no way I would make it doing that. to go from 12 or 1 in the afternoon until bedtime. That's about 10 hours of no eating.

I just remembered a nasty diet that I had tried about 7 years ago... it was another one of those soup diets where you eat a tomato based soup that has every bean you can think of in it with chunks of vegetable. You eat this soup - as much as you want - for lunch and dinner every day.

It caused some very embarassing moments. :s bad stomach issues.

I also tried a Leak soup diet where you eat/drink nothing but leak soup for 3 days to kickstart weightloss. I made it through one meal and gagged at the thought of having to eat it again.

If only I could go back and slap myself upside the head for being a twit that thinks that sort of thing could work. lol

Oh, yes, the leek soup is from "French Women Don't Get Fat."

I remember reading about that soup & thinking, "No way. Fool me once with cabbage soup, fool me twice with grapefruit ... but I am not gonna fall for it again with leeks."

Hilarious! I'm determined that most of these so called diets are really a gigantic practical joke. But yes, I've heard them all- grapefruits, cabbages, broth soups. Blech. Everything but drinking pee... that's a new one.

I've heard thatyou should only eat once a day for ten minutes, but you can have anything you want in that ten minutes! Uh, really? Apparently you haven't seen what I can eat in 10 minutes! Plus, sumo wrestlers only eat once a day for a reason.

The "meat only" diet... sure.. if I was a tiger...

The fruitarian diet- where you only eat things that don't cause the death of the plant. Like you can eat an apple, but not a carrot because eating a carrot kills the plant. Some people take it even farther and you can only eat things that have fallen off the tree, so as not to injure it by picking. What the heck? What do you do when you're hungry? Sit next to an apple tree and blow on it till an apple falls off?

Or a friend that insists that she loses weight by only eating upside down. (She drapes herslef over a chair to make herself upside down) Huh?

I tried Atkins once.. that first stage... I should also mention I was a vegetarian at the time... I lost a lot of weight, and almost all my friends and family from my insane carb-deprived mood swings. I still can't eat sugar free jello!

I'll take moderation and exercise thank you much!

Wait.. I was wrong. Fruitarians are even more ridiculous. Here's a website on the ins and outs of fruitarianism... just in case you're looking for a laugh..

http://www.fruitarian.com/ao/WhatIsFruitarianism.htm

Basically you eat only raw fruits and seeds.. one of the benefits is apparently getting to repropagate the earth with seeds... sure, if you want to poop outside too!

south lake: how did you do atkins as a vegaterian?? I've tried so many times and failed!!

Maddie- I had a LOT of eggs and a lot of fish. Quite honestly, it was really pretty unhealthy and I felt like crap the whole time. Even the copious amounts of butter didn't make it better. I had better luck with Southbeach, though I find that I'm most successful in the long run with calorie counting (even though I'm no longer a veggie) But really... I reaaally wouldn't reccomend it, unless you're into punishing yourself big time.