Dr. Tigerchik wrote:
other diet hacks from the 90s/early 2000s
grapefruit
cool whip - Halo Top has nothing on eating an entire container of cool whip. [a pint of Halo Top and a container of cool whip each have about 400 calories.]
special K diet
Do NOT do it.
My wife tried using it after having our second kid. She dropped the weight all right. And the weight kept coming off after she stopped the diet. It messes with the thyroid.
So I will say she "coincidentally" got Graves' disease exactly with the timing of her diet. She had to get her thyroid ablated, her weight has doubled and, needless to say, she can no longer do the ultras she loved to do.
Something that worked for my parents from the '70s, with permanent weight loss of 20 and 30 lbs:
The "Eating Man's Diet" which roughly speaking is this:
Alternate days:
(1) 90-100% of the calories needed for your ideal weight (you must NOT go under)
(2) 900 calories (you can go under)
I think it helps lose the weight because the "eating" days keep the metabolism from going into starvation mode (and you only have to diet "one day at a time"), and it helps keep the weight off because you become more attuned to the calories in the stuff you eat.
This is helpful especially when one is injured or on "old fart mode"; I unfortunately suffer from both.
Tri or tri not; this is no du. (--- with apologies to Yoda.) Slow triathlete who survived Huntsville, Lelystadt, Colmar, Fontanil, and
Szekesfehervar/Lake Velence. Arbor hydration specialist in a kid's park in Monterrey 4 times in the 1990s (and in the pits in 1994).