Diets

Amberlynn Reid has taken on many diets to lose weight, and her repeated attempts to lose weight (and resulting weight gain) has been the subject of much controversy.

All changes to her diet, including simply counting calories/attempting to stay under a calorie limit have been included.

## 2013

### 30 Day Squat Challenge

Amberlynn described the challenge as:

> The squats you will be doing are called: 1. Narrow Squat, 2. Narrow Squat With Back Kick, 3. Basic Squat, 4. Basic Squat With Side Leg Lift, 5. Sumo Squat. (Any of these squats can be found online if you don't know what they are exactly). Have fun! Day 1: 6 reps each Day 2: 10 reps each Day 3: 6 reps each, repeat 2x Day 4: rest Day 5: 5 reps each, repeat 3x Day 6: 10 reps each Day 7: 8 reps each, repeat 2x Day 8: rest Day 9: 9 reps each, repeat 2x, Day 10: 6 reps each, repeat 2x Day 11: 5 reps each, repeat 4x Day 12: rest Day 13: 7 reps each, repeat 2x Day 14: 6 reps each, repeat 2x Day 15: 5 reps each, repeat 5x Day 16: rest Day 17: 9 reps each, repeat 3x Day 18: 5 reps each, repeat 3x Day 19: 7 reps each, repeat 4x Day 20: rest Day 21: 10 reps each, repeat 3x Day 22: 8 reps each, repeat 2x Day 23: 8 reps each, repeat 4x Day 24: rest Day 25: 7 reps each, repeat 5x Day 26: 6 reps each, repeat 3x Day 27: 9 reps each, repeat 4x Day 28: rest Day 29: 12 reps each, repeat 3x Day 30: 10 reps each, repeat 4x
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Amberlynn completed 10 days of this challenge.

## 2014

### Counting Calories

Amberlynn's New Years resolution was to lose 77.2 pounds by staying under 1800 calories a day. She used MyFittnessPal to track her calories. She failed.

## 2019

### Optavia

Amberlynn became interested in attempting this diet when she was contacted by a "coach" on Instagram who sold Optavia products. Optavia is a multi-level marketing (MLM) company that sells food and programs that are supposedly to help people lose weight.

After buying the Essential Fuelings plan (which covered 30 days and cost over $300), Amberlynn quit the program after only a few days.

Of note is that Amberlynn would mispronounce the name of the company nearly every time she said it (Optivia, Optava, etc).

## 2020

### Noom

Noom is a paid weight loss app that helps people learn healthy habits and track their diets.

## 2022

### Counting Calories on Lose It! and 100 Days of Weighing In

At the beginning of the year, Amberlynn decided to attempt to lose 50 lbs in 100 days while weighing herself every day. She also counted calories on some days by using an app called 'Lose It!'. She did succeed in losing some weight but after becoming dissatisfied with her progress, she soon started gaining weight again.

On February 22, she announced that she would no longer be filming her weigh-ins.

### Weight Watchers (Sixth Time)

After losing most of her progress since the beginning of the year, she decided to try doing WW again. On the second day of WW, she ate all of her daily points and went into the negative on her weekly calories. She stopped after about three days.

### Noom (Second Time)

On February 16th, she started Noom again.

### Outpatient Eating Disorder Program

In her March 9th video, Amberlynn talks about starting an outpatient program with an eating disorder clinic. In her May 4th vlog, she states that she is "pausing" the program to focus on weight loss.

### 30 Days of No Takeout

On her April 4th video, Amberlynn stated that she was going to attempt to not order any takeout, saying that she hasn't gone that long without takeout since she was a child. In her April 14th video, she announced that she had failed the challenge after only four days. She blamed it on her mental health, saying that it caused her to binge.

### Jenny Craig (3rd Time)

During her ten day vlogging challenge in July, Amberlynn revealed that she attempted Jenny Craig again, but quickly decided it wasn't for her.