OMG I remember those little candies! My mother had those too! I remember taking those (I think maybe that they had some sort of appetite suppressant in them?) and hoping to get "thin" like a fashion model -- although I was a perfectly healthy weight and height as a young teenager.

Needless to say nothing happened.

My craziest diet was Weight Watchers, before the points system, even. I obsessed about food -- what I could have, and when, and how much. Dreamed about it, thought about it all the time. Dreaded the weekly weigh-in, knew that I would never be able to make their goal weight (probably hadn't weighed that little since I was ten - a tall, bony ten!) Jumped off the weight watchers wagon when I was pregnant with my third child, then devised my own diet while I was nursing her. No potatoes, no rice, no coffee with caffeine, lots of salad, vegetables, fruits, and protein, no butter and little oil. I lost tons of weight and had good nutrition, I'm sure -- had I realized that oil and fat would have kept me satiated, and that I could have eaten this way forever, I might have kept it off!

Alas. But I'm glad, even this late, to have discovered this WOE.