- The Chemical Diet
The chemical diet consists of forcing yourself to only eat lean, unfried meat, water, eggs and vegetables, with no fat and just a tiny bit of bread or fruit – hardly a laugh a minute! Apparently the combination of foods is supposed to interact chemically to burn fat. We’ll admit that this diet may be a quick fix for that upcoming wedding or holiday but an extreme diet plan like the chemical diet is not nutritionally balanced and does not contain enough calories for a healthy lifestyle.
Extreme factor: 5/10
2. Painful Tongue Patch
If you’ve tried all the diets under the sun and still can’t lose weight, cosmetic surgeon Nikolas Chugay has got your back. Actually, make that your tongue. There is a new medical procedure that will help you lose weight by making it painful to eat.
This extreme weight loss method is a medical procedure that involves stitching a small piece of polyethylene mesh onto a patient’s tongue, making it painful to ingest solid foods and forcing a low-calorie, liquid diet. “The patch is a pattern interrupt,” said Dr. Nikolas Chugay, the California-based plastic surgeon who developed the concept. “It is uncomfortable to eat solid foods, so people will all of a sudden remember, I am only to eat liquids.”
3. Cotton Ball Diet
Cotton ball diet includes eating cotton balls by mixing it with juice. This dramatically cuts down calorie intake as it makes one feel full without consuming food. But eating cotton balls is unappetizing and instead of a diet, it is disordered eating. It can lead to abdominal pain, bloating, an absence of menstruation and malnutrition.
4. Stomach balloon
This one sounds very uncomfortable… Presented as an alternative to surgery, for those struggling to lose weight you can now have a tiny balloon inserted into your stomach to help with portion control.
The balloon only takes 30 minutes to be inserted in the person’s stomach, and it’s inflated with saline once it’s in place.
The device, called Orbera, was designed for people considered morbidly obese, with a body mass index of 30 to 40, who have failed to lose weight with other diets and exercise. It lasts for six months so manufacturers promise rapid weight loss. But we’re not sure how a balloon in our tummy sounds…
Extreme factor: 9/10
5. Getting Urine Injections
Just when you thought there were no more diets to try, here comes one of the strangest. The regimen involves a daily injection of urine. Sheryl Paloni lost 43 pounds and more than 30 inches in 5 months. That’s when she heard about a very unorthodox, extreme weight loss program. The urine comes from pregnant women. Sheryl injected herself with it daily.
6. Tapeworm Diet
For the tapeworm diet, one has to swallow a pill that will have a tapeworm egg inside it. After the pill gets into your body, the egg inside it hatches and tapeworms will grow inside your body. These tapeworms will gobble down whatever you are eating and lead to weight loss. However, this diet can be really harmful and lead to bacterial infections, abdominal pain and neurological issues.
7. Freeze-Dried Poop Pills
Yes, unfortunately you read that right… freeze-dried poop pills are being tested to treat obesity, and it’s got us worrying that this will become a new weight loss trend in the near future.
Apparently they’re trialling it in Massachusetts to see if feces from lean and healthy people can have an impact on insulin sensitivity and body weight, with 21 obese participants taking the tablets for six weeks.
And although the leader of the study told People magazine that the capsules are ‘odorless, tasteless, double-encapsulated’, and that the screening process for donors is more rigorous than for blood donation, it’s still someone else’s poop! We wouldn’t even do it if it was our own…
Thanks, but no thanks.
Extreme factor: 10/10
8. Instaling a Nasogastric Dripping Tube
It’s truly disturbing when doctors come up with seemingly fad diets that could prove dangerous, but that appears to be happening all the time and most of them are also pretty successful. The latest to join the trend is an American doctor who is providing a drastic and quick weight-loss method, the K-E Diet. It involves putting food into your body through the nose, using a dripping tube.
9. Baby Food Diet
This is basically an effective means to cut down on calories and control portions by replacing several meals or snacks with baby foods like mashed sweet potato, pea puree and blended chicken. All you have to do is eat baby portion (25-75 calories in each portion) throughout the day and end with a regular-sized dinner. But, this can be dangerous as baby foods wouldn’t fulfill an adult’s calorie requirement for the day and result in nutritional imbalance.
10. Maple Syrup Diet
Here’s a diet that Cheryl’s said to have used when she was worried about putting on weight. The diet became famous when Beyoncé used it to shed 20 pounds for her role in Dreamgirls.
It’s also been tested on Channel Four’s programme, How To Lose Weight Well which got us thinking about how an earth we’d survive on maple syrup…
It’s pretty simple; mix Madal Bal Natural Tree Syrup with water, lemon juice and cayenne pepper, then drink the concoction instead of eating meals. This is a very radical way to lose weight and the list of side effects is long, from diarrhoea to headaches, nausea and mental irritability – we think we’ll give this one a miss!
Extreme factor: 8/10
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