The worst one wasn't a diet but a diet aid....it was something U were to wear in your ear and it was supposed to suppress your appetite. The second worse were those d~mned plastic sweat suits U were supposed to wear around the house or while U exercised to burn fat or just literally sweat to death.

Not really a horrid diet -- but a complete waste of time -- Slim-Mint gum. Can't for the life of me think how that gum would have made me cut down on eating - and it didn't. It was probably from the '70's.

I haven't really done any horrible diets... I did the T-Factor Diet when I was a kid. My dad put me on it and I lost 16 pounds. (A much needed loss at the time)

I did the Rotation Diet which wasn't too bad except for I was quite hungry all the time. I did it for 3 weeks to get ready for lifeguard training when I was 17. Lost 15 pounds in those three weeks. That was probably the most decent low-fat diet I've ever been on.

Probably the worst... you're gonna laugh... when I was 16 I tried Atkins, but I didn't know what I was doing cause I didn't read the book. My aunt told me stuff about it and I just sorta went by what she said. But I had no clue what I was doing and it sucked.

I can tell you about diets I was told to try but never did...I was told to try Atkins by a 750 lb doctor who could not examine me, I had to walk up to him for him to examine me. Well...he said to try atkins, I could eat a dozen eggs and a slab of bacon if I wanted. I looked at him like he was insane and because of him I didn't discover Atkins for 3 more years!!!

So, I switched to another doctor who told me to try the Blood Type diet...I'm A- so he told me to eat lots of cayenne pepper and other foods according to my blood type. I thought to myself...what the heck is wrong with these doctors???

Thankfully I learned the right way to do atkins but I could've lost weight along time ago...