12 Most Creative Closet Designs

Sarah, the Thrifty Decor Chick, wanted to find a good use for an empty closet in her house. With some careful planning and carpentry, she turned it into a reading nook for her son. Now the little reader has a special place to go enjoy his books. (Link | Via)


If you lack space but not creativity, this headboard closet is an amazing idea.(Link)


Wondering what to do with all of your old Boyz II Men and New Kids on the Block tapes? You could take a cue from Dutch designer Patrick Schuur and turn them into a useful closet where you can store, well, your CDs and DVDs. The creative crafter used 918 old cassette tapes as mosaic tiles that he individually screwed onto a handmade wooden frame. The retro cabinet has since been sold, but before that it also served as a room divider at Schuur's studio. 
Elsie's most amazing closet! She turned a spare room into her dream girlcave. (Link | Via)


This family may not have a big entryway but they have a wide staircase which they turned into a mudroom of sorts with tons of storage for every family member. This project was done by organization specialists, California Closets, who, as you can tell, do much more than traditional closets (and in many more places than California). 


Closet + Office = Cloffice 


This closet is inspired by that old-school magician sword trick. You can use this closet to store whatever you want: books, cds, folded clothes, shoes, etc. You can even take out some swords and use it as a wardrobe, to hang some dresses or shirts. Design by Rafael Morgan, Brazilian designer. (Link | Via)


Chair closet. (Link)


At first glance this just appears like a well-organized wardrobe closet, but if you take a closer look you'll see one of the most creative closets ever! Designed by Lisa Adams of LA Closet Design, the clean, modern closet design features a flat screen on one of the sliding doors. Brilliant use of space! Great work Lisa! (Link | Via)


Your bags also deserve a distinctive place in your home (Kate Spade London Store). (Link)


How adorable is this little girl's closet? Bins and small pull out shelves create a pretty arrangement for storing all those sweet cardigans and striped leggings. (Link)


Closet with amazing door. 

8 Most Extreme Weight Loss Methods

 Getting Urine Injections

Just when you thought there were no more diets to try, here comes one of the strangest. The regimen involves a daily injection of urine. Sheryl Paloni lost 43 pounds and more than 30 inches in 5 months. That's when she heard about a very unorthodox weight loss program. The urine comes from pregnant women. Sheryl injected herself with it daily.

One weight loss counselor who offers the program said it's not the urine, but the hormone in it that takes off the pounds. “It's human chorionic gonadotropin,” said Iris McCarthy of Success Weight Loss Systems. She said hCG tricks your brain into thinking your body is pregnant. McCarthy said science has shown her hCG helps the body metabolize faster. “This will help you have patience to learn how to change your ways and change your relationship with food,” said McCarthy. (Link | Via)

 Having Sex up to 7 times a Day

The world's heaviest living woman is burning 500 calories by having sex with her ex-husband.

Pauline Potter, 47, became the Guinness World Record holder for heaviest woman last year when she weighed in at 700 pounds, but she's managed to lose nearly 100 pounds in the last year by rekindling her romance with her ex-husband Alex. Married for three years, they split in 2008 but reunited when he heard about her Guinness title. It didn't take long for them to land in bed together - repeatedly.

Potter describes how her reignited sex life with ex-husband Alex has helped her lose 98 pounds. “I can't move much in bed, but I burn 500 calories a session –- it's great exercise just jiggling around," Potter told "Closer." Potter, who had been consuming 10,000 calories a day, hopes to reach her goal weight of 532 pounds with the help of Alex. The two have sex up to seven times each day. Alex, who weighs just 140 pounds, does most of the work in the bedroom. (Link)

 Instaling a Nasogastric Dripping Tube

It's truly disturbing when doctors come up with seemingly fad diets that could prove dangerous, but that appears to be happening all the time and most of them are also pretty successful. The latest to join the trend is an American doctor who is providing a drastic and quick weight-loss method, the K-E Diet. It involves putting food into your body through the nose, using a dripping tube.

The K-E diet stands for Ketogenic Enteral Nutrition diet and is the work of Dr. Oliver di Pietro, from Florida. He promises to help anyone shed 20 lbs. in as little as 10 days. As part of the diet, dieters have to get a small nasogastric tube inserted into their nose going all the way to the stomach, through which a liquid solution drips constantly. The solution supposedly contains a mix of protein, fat and water and makes up 800 calories. A few hours of this and a process called ketosis is said to be triggered, which burns body fat due to the lack of carbohydrates. The fat is burned but the muscle and water in the body remain untouched. Dieters who want to achieve the best results aren't supposed to eat anything for a period of 10 days and also have to carry around the bag of nutritious fluid everywhere they go. 

 With Paintball Shots

Forget fad diets and gastric bands, the latest innovation in the war on obesity is fat busting paintball sessions. A UK paintball company has announced what is believed to be the world's first ever paintball fitness classes. During the sessions, people wanting to get fit will be invited to dodge paintballs while running an assault course, while the paintball centre's staff attempts to shoot them.

Organisers UK Paintball is targeting obese people with the sessions, which they believe will massively help with weight loss. The sessions will run as part of a ten week course, costing £199 per person, and it's believed that each participant can expect to burn between 800-1000 calories a time. Three or four shooters will be employed during the sessions to ensure that safe areas are kept to a minimum and that participants have to continue to run throughout.

Objects such as oil drums, felled trees, tyre walls and makeshift huts will all be removed to offer as little protection as possible to participants – encouraging them to keep moving and stay clear of the marksmen.

 Having an Imaginary Gastric Band
A gastric band (the LAP-Band) is a restrictive band placed around the patient's stomach that gives the sensation of a full stomach after eating smaller portions of food, thus letting the patient eat less and lose weightwithout going hungry. But fitting the band requires surgery, with potential side effects – so here's a novel idea; making obese patients believe that they have an "imaginary" gastric band through hypnosis!

A therapist convinced Marion Corns, 35, she had had surgery to fit the band by talking her through the procedure while in a trance. Hospital smells were even pumped into the room to boost the effect. Housewife Marion, who has slimmed from 15st 6lb to 11st 7lb, said: “Bizarrely I can even ‘remember' being wheeled into theatre, the clink of the surgeon's knife and smell of the anaesthetic.”

She spent £780 on five sessions with a therapist at the Elite Clinic in Marbella after her weight ballooned despite trying numerous diet aids. Afterwards Marion felt her stomach had tightened and she was full up on just a small portion of food.

Now she is losing 3lbs a week and her dress size has plummeted from size 22 to 14 in four months. (Link | Via)

 With a Painful Tongue Patch

If you've tried all the diets under the sun and still can't lose weight, cosmetic surgeon Nikolas Chugay has got your back. Actually, make that your tongue. There is a new medical procedure that will help you lose weight bymaking it painful to eat.

The medical procedure involves stitching a small piece of polyethylene mesh onto a patient's tongue, making it painful to ingest solid foods and forcing a low-calorie, liquid diet. "The patch is a pattern interrupt," said Dr. Nikolas Chugay, the California-based plastic surgeon who developed the concept. "It is uncomfortable to eat solid foods, so people will all of a sudden remember, I am only to eat liquids."

Over 60 people have opted for the surgery, resulting in an average weight loss of 20 pounds (over the one-month period the postage-stamp-sized piece of fabric stays stitched on). "These are people who have been through every conceivable diet; they've tried everything and for some reason they just cannot stop eating," he said …

 Using a Bite Counter Gadget

Mindless snacking is a problem for many weight watchers who might find they have polished off a box of chocolates while they are distracted by the TV. Now scientists have developed a device they say will help people pay more attention to what they consume by monitoring how many mouthfuls they eat. The Bite Counter is worn like a watch and tracks a pattern of wrist-roll motion to identify when the wearer has taken a bite of food. It was developed by researchers at Clemson University in South Carolina, who described it as a pedometer for eating.

 Spending a Week at 8,700 feet Altitude

Psst – wanna lose weight while eating all you want and doing no exercise? No, it's not a spammy Internet ad – it's real science! All you have to do is live a while at high altitude.

Overweight, sedentary people who spent a week at an elevation of 8,700 feetlost weight while eating as much as they wanted and doing no exercise. A month after they came back down, they had kept two-thirds of those pounds off.

The scientists ferried 20 overweight, middle-aged men by train and cable car to a research station perched 1,000 feet below the peak of Germany's highest mountain, Zugspitze. During the week-long stay, the men could eat and drink as much as they liked and were forbidden from any exercise other than leisurely strolls. The team measured the men's weight, metabolic rate, levels of hunger and satiety hormones before, during, and after theirmountain retreat After a week up high, the subjects lost an average of 3 pounds. A month later, they were still 2 pounds lighter. The scientists' data showed this was likely because they ate about 730 calories less at high altitudes than they did at normal elevations. They may have felt less hungry, in part, because levels of leptin, the satiety hormone, surged during the stay, while grehlin, the hunger hormone, remained unchanged. Their metabolic rate also spiked, meaning they burned more calories than they usually did. A high-altitude weight loss strategy could be viable, though studies have shown peoples' appetites bounce back after about six months at high elevation, Leissner said. “If you could do intermittent periods for one week, then go down, and then go back up, this might actually be helpful.”

8 Most Disturbing Diets

 The man who has been eating roadkill for 30 years

Rat stir fries and owl curries hardly sound like the stuff you would serve your friends for dinner. But surprisingly, Jonathan McGowan's exotic roadkill dishes are a big hit with his guests. The 44-year-old bachelor has lived on a diet of roadkill for the past 30 years to avoid buying meat from the supermarket. He has shunned pre-packaged meats and instead, dined on mice, moles, hedgehogs, pigeons, crows and gulls. The taxidermist from Bournemouth, Dorset, UK, never kills the animals himself but eats only what he finds at the roadside or in the woodlands. Mr. McGowan first got a taste for roadkill at the age of 14 when he cooked a dead adder that he had found. After leaving sixth form college, he lived alone and turned to roadkill to save some money on his weekly food bills. (Link | Via)

 The man who lost 27 pounds on Twinkie diet

Want to lose weight without giving up junk food? It may sound too good to be true, but nutrition professor Mark Haub proved you can have your cake and eat it too – by putting himself on a “Snack Cake Diet” and losing 27 pounds in 2 months. Haub, who teaches at Kansas State University, set out to prove that losing weight is simple: it's all about how much you eat, not what you eat. In other words, you can eat whatever you want, but you have to cut calories… After two months of eating the “unhealthy food,” his weight dropped to 174 pounds, and his BMI is now a healthy 24.9. Surprisingly, in addition to his weight loss, his diet seems to have improved his other health stats. In the latest results posted to his Facebook page on Nov. 5, Haub says his “bad” cholesterol, or LDL, dropped 30 points from 153 to 123, while his “good” cholesterol, or HDL, went up from 37 to 46 points. His triglyceride level, another measure of fat, dropped 39 percent. (Link | Via)

 The woman who has eaten nothing but pizza for 31 years

It isn't exactly food fit for a queen, but it's good enough for 33-year-old Claire Simmons. Claire loves cheese and tomato pizza so much that she's been eating nothing else for 31 years. Which means she's been eating the stuff since she was about 2 years old. That does sound too young to be eating pizza in the first place, doesn't it?. But it's not that she doesn't want to eat anything else, it's just that she can't. She shudders at the mere mention of other food and will gag if she puts anything other than plain pizza in her mouth.

What Claire suffers from is actually known as Selective Eating Disorder. Experts say she's on the road to killing herself with her diet. But she disagrees. According to Claire, she keeps herself healthy by drinking plenty of water and getting lots of exercise. This doesn't convince her GP however, who says that if she keeps this up, the lack of vitamins and minerals will lead to huge problems in the future, such as a stroke or heart attack. Claire can't help it though, given that she's terrified of eating fruits and vegetables.

The man who is seeking rehab to cure his 42-liter-a-week Diet Coke addiction

he man who is seeking rehab to cure his 42-liter-a-week Diet Coke addictionDarren Jones wants to check himself into rehab – to cure a bizarre addiction to Diet Cola. Darren, 38, knocks back 42 litres of the drink every week. Now the 35 stone (490 pound) father of two is vowing to get treatment for his $129 a week habit to get fit again and save his relationship with 33-year-old mother of two, Paula Mullen. Darren, of Stockport, Greater Manchester, said, “I believe what I have is an actual addiction and I start to worry if I'm getting near the end of the bottle. If I can't get in touch with Paula to get me some more I start to panic – it's like a drug or alcohol addiction. I called up Diet Coke to ask them if it's addictive and what I should do and they recommended putting water in it to dilute it, but it would taste horrid and I don't think it would help.” (Link)

 The teenage girl who is collapsing because of her 15-year-long chicken nugget diet

Things that happen when you refuse to eat anything but chicken nuggets for 15 years (like seriously, nothing else): You collapse from anemia. You have swollen veins in your tongue. Shortness of breath. Doctors tell you that you might die if you don't stop. You have a house full of Happy Meal toys. After a being rushed to the hospital struggling to breathe, 17-year-old chicken nugget addict Stacey Irvine admitted, “I'm starting to realize this is really bad for me.” Well, we're glad she finally realized it. (Link)

 The man who ate his 25,000th Big Mac

For almost four decades, Don Gorske has been eating Big Macs at an obscene and unprecedented rate. In 2011, he reached a new milestone -- finishing his 25,000th burger. 

Gorske, 59, says he's in good health and that he has the checkups to prove it. His cholesterol level is low and he was given a clean bill of health during his last physical, despite the fact that he exercises minimally. Gorske eats, on average, two Big Macs a day, and doctors say his good health is primarily a result of his genetics. (Link | Via)

 The girl who eats only Tic Tacs

Meet Natalie Cooper, a 17-year-old teenager who has a mysterious illness that makes her sick every time she eats anything. Well, almost anything. She can eat one thing that doesn't make her sick: Tic Tac mints!

For reasons that doctors are unable to explain, Tic Tacs are the only thing she can stomach, meaning she has to get the rest of her sustenance from a specially formulated feeding tube. (Link | Via)

 The man who lost 140 pounds on baked bean diet

After he was warned he was at risk for bowel cancer, Neil King of Essex England took action. No, he didn't add fruits and vegetables to his diet, and there's no mention of a regular exercise routine. Instead, he started eating baked beans, six cans a day to be exact.

He eats them with rice at lunch and with a potato for dinner. The "diet" has helped him lose 140 pounds. There's nothing special about beans though, except for the fact that they are low in fat and high in fiber. His weight losslikely came from dropping his daily eight pints of lager and meals that included sausage and bacon.

Though no one would ever recommend a diet with such restrictions, someweight loss experts do say that in the beginning stages of weight loss, dieters do better when they limit their choices. The fact that he gave himself so few options may be what helped King take the weight off..

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