10 Crazy ways to lose weight that actually work

Apparently, if you spend hours looking at salty or sweet foods on Instagram, you won't want to eat them. I tried it with pizza and didn't work for me, but it did for almost 200 people.

Did you hear about the lady that swears she lost weight by having sex three times a day?

Super mami, actress and business woman Jessica Alba offered a tried and true tip: fajas.

Jason Vale has become the #1 expert in everything regarding juicing in the U.K. He swears that only drinking juices two out of the seven days of the week allowed him to lose 54 lbs.

Dr. Alan R. Hirsch of the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago asked 3,000 volunteers to smell banana, peppermint or apples when they felt hungry. On average, they lost 30 lbs. Incredible!

Ben Walton was obese until he tried a simple approach: skip one meal a day. He reported a weight loss of over 200 lbs in nine months.

Jennifer López's secret is one I'm adopting TODAY. Apparently, she always has a bottle of grapefruit oil in her bag, and takes a whiff when she gets hungry. La Diva del Bronx swears it helps.

Alejandro Chabán, the Latino diet guru and Despierta America host*,* swears by the trick of putting an elastic band in your wrist and snapping it each time you want to overeat or chose something fattening.

Imagine going from size 24 to 10, thanks to your Instagram followers. That's what happened to Phoebe Court, who started to diet and posted everything she ate on social media. Now her support group is almost 50,000 strong.

However, the most surprising tip I found in my research was to cook your own meals. Every success story included this. Sounds simple, right? When I cook, I taste everything and then eat. Cooking at home may be better than eating out, because, who knows what's there.