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So, I was with a sense of disgust that I read THIS article over the weekend on women who are losing weight last minute before their weddings by using a 24/7 NG tube feed – where their calories are limited to 800 per day. This bothers me 1). Because they will immediately pile this weight back on as soon as the tube is yanked, 2) . That they are too lazy or uncommitted to controlling their caloric intake on their own, 3). That there are health care providers out there that will offer this service, and 4) That the wedding industry has become so over the top that everyone wants a fairy tale celebrity type wedding to the point that they will do anything to squeeze into a tiny dress they will never ever be able to wear again afterwards. Also, it is not without risk.
Do men get all amped up about it like this? I would say NO. We just want to get the dang ceremony over as soon as possible and go on the honeymoon!
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I read where one Dr. is charging $1500 for the procedure.
That is horrible! I just can’t wrap my mind around why anyone would want to do this. Really, if you want to calorie-restrict, just keep your ass away from foom. Show some restraint at the table for a couple of weeks before your wedding.
But…that wouldn’t have the desired effect of showing how far the brides will go to look “perfect” for their wedding day. I see this as a status symbol. A dumb one, but a status symbol, nonetheless.
*coughs* that should be “food”, not “foom”, apparently my fingers aren’t working.
This trend scares me. Why are we women allowing media to whip us around like this ?~! Are there any spines out there at all ? If so, where are they ?~?
Trend? Oh puleeze. This is just the latest OMG-how-horrible faux news story that gets everyone’s knickers in a twist. (Makes me miss all the bad mommy stories.) Just how common do you think this is? Do you personally know anyone who would do this? I have a great idea — let’s not get outraged over a “trend” that’s completely made up.
Well, it’s being done period. That’s bad enough for me.
Sadly, I DO know people who would do this. Let’s hope they don’t get married anytime soon.
random question: what are the long term risks of this compared to something like the lap band for someone with a bunch of weight to lose?
i have a lot of weight to lose, but i’ve lost about 20 pounds in two months with weight watchers- slow and steady…
Just want to show that you don’t have to be thin to have a man make this much fuss over you; the bride-to-be is definitely not petite. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJWlavnM6b0 .. so stupid ~ people knocking themselves out to be skinny when, as someone else pointed out, all that weight (and then some!) will simply return once the process is abandoned. Watch this very heartening clip. You’ll see that love comes in all shapes & sizes.
I dunno. I find women with foot long white boogers to be a real turn-on.
I was actually more shocked by the “daily injections of human chorionic gonadotropin.” This one, provided by the “Medi (sic) lean Clinic (sic) is an FDA-established fraud, but even though the practitioner (sic) tells the patients (sic)
“flat out what the F.D.A says,” they still pick the placebo for treatment. And it works! Ca-ching!
First off, GROSS.
Secondly, I got redirected to myspace when I clicked this in google RSS feed so I could read the whole post. Just an FYI.
That chick in the pic is pretty hot.
Bizarre. Reminds me of that diet tactic where a special brace is fitted and wired, so that you can only open your mouth wide enough to insert a straw and sip fluids. Anyone tried the MacDoubleCheese-Smoothie? Because that’s what some of these crazy people did.
I wonder if your puree Twinkies and put them down the tube?
Dear Gun-diva
Show some restraint at the dinner table some weeks before the wedding?
Seems sexist much….
are the men asked to loose some pound and wax their legs and do their hair and and and
So what about if those women are already skinny and even if not, why harp at the women and ‘blame’ them to do something different and show ‘discipline’ instead of questioning what brought them so far as to do such a drastic unhealthy thing?
Like women starving themselves, enough restraint at the dinner table for you?
How about vomiting food up if you didn´t have enough restraint…how about breaking your leg bones to gain a few inches through this procedure because you are not lanky enough according to the women magazines standards about what is pretty?..or injecting one of the strongest know toxins under your skin to paralyze your muscles to avoid wrinkles?
Also some advice here maybe? Using tape and tape back the skin to avoid wrinkles or such?
Not another kind of stupid diet to loose some real or imaginary inches and pounds is the problem here.
The problem is that women are conditioned since kindergarten to be thin, wrinkle-less, pretty, dolled up, plastered with make up, doing this and not doing that to be a real woman and to be called pretty.
And than they end up under the knife because their selfworth and the way they see themselves is so bent that they criticize and harm themselves with getting ‘prettier’ when there is no need for it because they hear the same manure from any female and male person they encountered over the years.
The real problem is societys double standards, shaming women if their bust sags a bit or there are wrinkles and in the other breath they shame women for breaking down under the pressure of society and fellow women and doing surgery to somehow reach the ideal that is presented in the medias.