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Now that we're halfway through May, it just occurred to us it might be time to drop a pound or two if we're going to squeeze back into our Speedo this summer (the looks we get at work are just priceless).

But we've tried every diet we can find our favorite, although somewhat ineffective, was the eat all the pizza and donuts and drink all the beer you want diet so we're running out of ideas.

Or, we were, until we stumbled upon these (since we haven't seen our feet since October of '99, we stumble a lot). "The Drinking Man's Diet": It emphasizes carbohydrate control (big whoop), but recommends drinking gin and vodka.

The Great Masticator: San Francisco art dealer Horace Fletcher's weight loss technique allows you to chew your food 32 times, but not swallow it, using the theory that you can get all the nutrients you need just from chewing. You couldn't get all the fiber you need, though, and would-be followers were not moved.

The tapeworm diet: Swallow a tapeworm and let it eat, uh, we can't continue. This is just too, too revolting (sorry, Liz!), although you can still find the worms online.

The, if we say cabbage, nobody will try it diet: Call it the "Sacred Heart Diet" or the "TJ Miracle Soup Diet" or the "Russian Peasant Diet," it's all the same. The plus: You can eat all the cabbage you want for seven days. The minus: You really need to ask?

Beyonce's diet: Drink six to 12 glasses of lemonade laced with (not what you're hoping) cayenne pepper and maple syrup. Beyonce used it to drop 18 pounds in 10 days, weight she put back on almost immediately.

And our favorite:

The beer and ice cream diet: Built around thermogenesis, a regular topic of conversation at Edge HQ (although the conversation goes like this: Person A: What's thermogenesis Person B: How the heck should I know? Was Phil Collins in it?).

The idea was that you could lose weight by consuming cold foods because your body had to burn calories to warm up the meal before you could digest it. Does it work? We think we read the answer somewhere, but we also think we'll conveniently forget it for now.

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Wednesday's Edge: Diets that are worth the weight

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