having an enormous-belly-laugh at this 'slimming tip'

[LovelyBertha]

OK ladies, this is a super way to shift that unsightly post-baby fat. I really should try it, apparently.

Breakfast: Bowl of uncooked oats, low fat yoghurt and a chopped-up apple.

Lunch: A cup of Marigold Swiss Vegetable Bouillon.

Supper: See lunch.

That's it.

I can see why you'd lose weight

How long do you think you could last beforeyou gnawed your own arm off?

Nothing for supper?

Wow, that looks like something off a pro-anorexia website... Dodgy

Yum...

Where do I sign up?

'It's a good one to do for a week if dh is away on a business trip or something.'

Hahahahahaha!

The person who shared this gem is one of those who likes to stay nice and slim for her husband. She is thin, but looks like she's sucking a lemon.

I've only been un-pregnant for 5 months, and I'm bf. This advice was offered out of the blue - I wasn't moaning about being fat. Only put on a bit of weight anyway, nothing a pair of control-pants and a thick layer of winter clothes wont solve.

Nutcase I reckon.

Pass the cake...

What are you talking about littlemoominmother, you get another whole cup of Swiss Vegetable Bouillon!
A WHOLE cup!!

I think you are just being greedy, you'll never lose weight with that attitude

That diet is seriously scary. I think I would last about half an hour on it.

Someone in RL told you to do this with no prompting?

How rude

The bouillon is soo salty though, you'd die of thirst.

I hope that sucked lemon has been calorie counted.

The breakfast sounds fine but salt solution for lunch and dins .

Oh she sounds like just my sort of person!

The best diet tip I ever heard was during a weight watchers meeting (one of the many times I joined). The leader said that rather than having a chocolate kimberly biscuit (Irish biscuit of which there was a complete craze a few years ago - 2 soft ginger biscuits with marshmallow in between, covered in chocolate, groan!), put a tip of ground ginger in your tea and it tastes just the same! In what universe I wondered? I didn't last long with that leader for some reason.

Reminds me of the numpties who used to work in an office with my sister - endlessly gassing on about their weight, trying all sorts of ludicrous ideas like stock cube and hot water for lunch etc.

One of them said to my sister 'I wish I had a figure likes yours, then I'd just sit and eat cakes all day!'.

Er - think that one through, love.

Why has no-one mentioned uncooked oats yet?

Bleurgh. I wouldn't last through breakfast!

Kimberly biscuits sound wonderful!

I think I'd rather stay fat

Where can I get Kimberly biscuits then?

NotTelling- I'm putting her complete lack of tact down to her half starved, brine-soaked brain....

oh yeah - I forgot to say- if you drink Liquorice tea between your 'meals', it stops you from feeling quite so hungry.

Mmmmmmm.

The joy!

I think you need to secrete a packet of jaffa cakes about your person and start eating them ostentatiouly at her every time she comes near you. Make a real overdone "mmmmmmm yummm mmmm" noise and smack your lips, she will recoil in horror and never bother you again.

That is revolting. You'd digest your own stomach if you did that for a week, surely?
I read one recently that went "when you want to eat something, wait 20 minutes and see if you still want to eat it. If you do, do..."
Surely people who can wait 20 minutes before they eat something don't have weight problems?
Time for some

Blimey can you imagine what your farts would smell like?

Roffle, Ruby

if you chew off own arm you lose weight as the mass would be burned off and waste excreted too.....

Hey! what a great new diet tip....

My favourite diet tip was from a very grand old lady - her suggestion was to eat a Ryvita biscuit after every meal. So eat the meal you always eat (say take away curry followed by lots of cake) but the additional Ryvita makes it all ok.

Now I quite often have that breakfast, it's very tasty. You get uncooked oats in muesli so it's not that odd, and if you leave the oats with grated apple over night it goes really nice.

But two cups of bouillon? Puke. Fad diets are insane. It's like the Special K challenge "mmm, sugary cereal twice a day. Healthy". Or bloody SlimFast. Why can't we just eat normally?

My favourite diet tip came from Ulrika-ka-ka...(paraphrasing)

While watching your children eating their yummy tea of fish fingers and chips, sip a cup of tea. When they have pushed their plates away (but have left those ever-so-tempting leftovers), simply take the teabag out and dump it on their plates, thereby taking all temptation of 'cleaning the plate' away.

yeah right.