Food & Diet Trends Remembered

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

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.

All meat caveman diet.

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

Muffins. Muffinshops in every mall.

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

Oat bran

SnackWells

Olestra.

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

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

Royal Jelly.

Melba toast and sundried tomatoes

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

Pritikin, low fat, low sodium plant based IIRC.

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

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.

The Cambridge Diet

My sis was so into this.

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.

Fen Phen

The 100 calorie snack fad.

Ugh.

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

Doctors prescribed amphetamines as diet pills.

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

Richard Simmons Deal A Meal.

The sunshine diet works people!

Love my fat free SnackWells. So healthy!

The Dukan Diet aka the bad breath diet

The Zone

Tab...mother lived on it

STOP THE INSANITY!!

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

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.

Herbalife

r32, LOL.

Herbalife!

That was it! I gained weight on that.

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

Figurines.

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.

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

Tofutti!

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

The watermelon diet!

dexatrim

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

here's a commercial for dexatrim

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

Water, cayenne pepper and lemon juice “cleanses”

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

Elimination Diet

Rice Cakes

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

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

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!

Colon Blow!

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.

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