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Food & Diet Trends Remembered

What were some of the trends you recollect? I remember frozen yogurt, kale and cottage cheese & pineapple.

by Anonymousreply 55November 21, 2020 6:09 PM

Grapefruit for breakfast. A diet plate at a diner used to be a hamburger patty with a side of cottage cheese.

by Anonymousreply 1November 20, 2020 5:12 AM

Eating everything sans bread. Even burgers. They say the devil comes in many forms, one of them is bunless hamburgers. Only satan could produce something so unholy.

by Anonymousreply 2November 20, 2020 5:19 AM

All meat caveman diet.

by Anonymousreply 3November 20, 2020 6:49 AM

The grapefruit diet and the pineapple diet were big 80s fads. I think Cher subscribed to one of those two.

by Anonymousreply 4November 20, 2020 4:34 PM

Muffins. Muffinshops in every mall.

by Anonymousreply 5November 20, 2020 4:51 PM

Don't forget Ayds...!!!!

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by Anonymousreply 6November 20, 2020 4:56 PM

Oat bran

SnackWells

by Anonymousreply 7November 20, 2020 4:58 PM

Olestra.

by Anonymousreply 8November 20, 2020 5:05 PM

Fit for Life, i.e., food combining. Only fruit for breakfast. No mixing of starchy carbs and proteins.

by Anonymousreply 9November 20, 2020 5:08 PM

Fit for Life, i.e., food combining. Only fruit for breakfast. No mixing of starchy carbs and proteins.

by Anonymousreply 10November 20, 2020 5:08 PM

Royal Jelly.

by Anonymousreply 11November 20, 2020 5:11 PM

Melba toast and sundried tomatoes

by Anonymousreply 12November 20, 2020 5:12 PM

Slim Fast (80s) a shake for breakfast! a shake for lunch! a sensible dinner! and you'll want to stab someone in two weeks!

by Anonymousreply 13November 20, 2020 5:14 PM

Pritikin, low fat, low sodium plant based IIRC.

They actually have a spa/retreat on one of tRump's properties in South Florida (Doral?).

by Anonymousreply 14November 20, 2020 5:19 PM

I lost weight on the cabbage soup diet. The Beverly Hills diet gave me hemorrhoids. There was a diet in the 80s with a lot of product to buy and sell that ended up being a cult. I can't remember the name but I remember I gained weight on it.

by Anonymousreply 15November 20, 2020 5:22 PM

The Cambridge Diet

by Anonymousreply 16November 20, 2020 5:34 PM

My sis was so into this.

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by Anonymousreply 17November 20, 2020 5:37 PM

OptiFast Liquid Diet. That was Oprah's diet in the late 80s when she lost all the weight and pulled a wagon with 60 lbs. of fat on stage to demonstrate.

by Anonymousreply 18November 20, 2020 5:37 PM

Fen Phen

by Anonymousreply 19November 20, 2020 5:41 PM

The 100 calorie snack fad.

Ugh.

by Anonymousreply 20November 20, 2020 5:46 PM

The whole Fat Free trend which is still going on. No fat = more sugar. Sugar Free = more fat.

by Anonymousreply 21November 20, 2020 5:56 PM

Doctors prescribed amphetamines as diet pills.

by Anonymousreply 22November 20, 2020 5:57 PM

R15 Oh yes -- the cabbage soup! I think we lost some weight because we expelled so much gas!

by Anonymousreply 23November 20, 2020 5:58 PM

Richard Simmons Deal A Meal.

by Anonymousreply 24November 20, 2020 6:37 PM

The sunshine diet works people!

by Anonymousreply 25November 20, 2020 7:18 PM

Love my fat free SnackWells. So healthy!

by Anonymousreply 26November 20, 2020 7:29 PM

The Dukan Diet aka the bad breath diet

by Anonymousreply 27November 20, 2020 7:33 PM

The Zone

by Anonymousreply 28November 20, 2020 7:34 PM

Tab...mother lived on it

by Anonymousreply 29November 20, 2020 7:34 PM

STOP THE INSANITY!!

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by Anonymousreply 30November 20, 2020 7:40 PM

Susan Powder (sp?) and Jane Fonda aerobics -- ok, not diets but definitely weight loss gurus

by Anonymousreply 31November 20, 2020 7:48 PM

I have horrible memories of my mother trying to force her South Beach Diet desserts on anyone in her vicinity.

This one tastes exactly like cheesecake! — ricotta cheese, Splenda, one sliced strawberry.

This one tastes exactly like chocolate mousse! — ricotta cheese, Splenda, cocoa powder.

This one tastes exactly like a cinnamon roll! — ricotta cheese, Splenda, cinnamon.

by Anonymousreply 32November 20, 2020 8:06 PM

Herbalife

by Anonymousreply 33November 20, 2020 8:12 PM

r32, LOL.

by Anonymousreply 34November 20, 2020 8:15 PM

Herbalife!

That was it! I gained weight on that.

by Anonymousreply 35November 20, 2020 10:35 PM

No one remembers keto? It's very popular right now.

by Anonymousreply 36November 20, 2020 11:36 PM

Figurines.

by Anonymousreply 37November 21, 2020 12:01 AM

Pinkberry-style frozen yogurt was all the rage for awhile -- I'm gonna say about 15 years ago -- and then it sort of just petered out.

by Anonymousreply 38November 21, 2020 12:08 AM

Richard Simmon’s Salad Spray. They tasted like a cat pissed all over your salad.

by Anonymousreply 39November 21, 2020 1:23 AM

Tofutti!

by Anonymousreply 40November 21, 2020 1:51 AM

R39 Salad Spray! I bought it in various flavors. It all tasted the same and YES like cat piss!

by Anonymousreply 41November 21, 2020 2:34 AM

The watermelon diet!

by Anonymousreply 42November 21, 2020 3:48 AM

dexatrim

my mom lived on dexatrim and peanut butter and crackers one summer in the 80's. She got really thin

by Anonymousreply 43November 21, 2020 4:05 AM

here's a commercial for dexatrim

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by Anonymousreply 44November 21, 2020 4:12 AM

I remember when it was all about low fat and carbo loading. Yes, "carbs" were called "carbos" back then.

by Anonymousreply 45November 21, 2020 4:15 AM

Water, cayenne pepper and lemon juice “cleanses”

by Anonymousreply 46November 21, 2020 4:20 AM

Tasti di Lite. At one point in the 90s they were more ubiquitous than Starbucks and Duane Reade combined.

by Anonymousreply 47November 21, 2020 6:36 AM

Elimination Diet

by Anonymousreply 48November 21, 2020 7:24 AM

Rice Cakes

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by Anonymousreply 49November 21, 2020 7:41 AM

The Shangri la diet. Drink a tablespoon of oil twice a day.

by Anonymousreply 50November 21, 2020 8:04 AM

The limbless diet. You’ll weigh far less without your arms and legs!

by Anonymousreply 51November 21, 2020 11:30 AM

The 'hot dog diet' - 5 saltine crackers, 2 hot dogs, 1 cup of broccoli and a half-cup of vanilla ice cream. It was supposed to be endorsed by the Heart Association!! Yeah, right.

Also, the '3 day military diet' included the above!

by Anonymousreply 52November 21, 2020 1:20 PM

Colon Blow!

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by Anonymousreply 53November 21, 2020 1:59 PM

Phen-fen was the godsend for fat whores. When I asked a fellow FAT WHORE if he was concerned about the heart valve health concerns he said "GURL, I would rather die thin be buried in a piano!"

she's fat again.

by Anonymousreply 54November 21, 2020 2:17 PM

Macrobiotic diets. The name makes it sound sciencey, but it's very "woo".

by Anonymousreply 55November 21, 2020 6:09 PM
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