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Re: *eyes bulging out of my head*
Sorry
What idiot doctor would do this..it is true, anything for a buck.
WTF is wrong with people?! Assuming it's not a shotgun wedding you had plenty of time to aim for realistic goals. If you didn't reach those goals, it's your own damn fault and doing this to lose a few pounds last minute is absolutely ridiculous! I get not quite reaching your weight loss goals for the weddding sucks, but I think people need to work on their self-acceptance before they stoop to this level of unhealthy crazy for one freaking day. Also, buy your damn wedding dress in the right size!
Any doctor or other healthcare professional that helps with this should lose their licensing. I thougth the HCG diet was bad.
Ewww. I would never be that despoerate to lose a few pounds. I would do it the correct way.
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Are you asking about the feeding tube itself or the calorie amount? 800 calories a day is definitely not healthy, but I don't think the tube feeding is necessarily 'unhealthy.' It's just not an ideal way of giving your body nutrients.
I can't even get to the story you are referencing because of the ad before it about amputees!!! WHY DID SHE TAKE OFF HER SOCK!
*shakes head*
The ends one will go to to get in that Vera Wang. Dear Bridezillas, the ends do not justify the means.
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Also, this shii!t is crazy
Putting your body into a state of ketosis is a pretty big strain on your body and kidneys.
The thing is that with the right dress, decent alterations, and faboo foundation garments, you can look fabulous regardless of size. I really don't understand why people go to these lengths.
But anyway, this is what we get when we decide that we like a "natural" look but hate on underpinnings.
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a NYT article about this and other bride diets was discussed on MM yesterday.
People on there who had had feeding tubes for medical reasons said it does nothing for hunger. In addition to it being nuts...
http://community.thenest.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/65170258.aspx
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DMaybe it's bitchy to hope that (in which case, I'm with you), but it's also very realistic and most likely what will happen. They will be so happy when they can eat again, PLUS no longer having to worry about fitting into the dress...it's a recipe for gaining all the weight back and more.
right? It's the one dress that you go back to alter several times before the day you actually wear it and that most people wear appropriate undergarments for. If there is one scenario that is best suited to making you look good no matter what your size it's your wedding day.
If someone has plenty of fat reserves and the 800 cals supplies sufficient protein to maintain their lean mass plus other necessary nutrients I don't see why it's technically unhealthy in the short term. Just because it's nuts to do this outside of a situation where you can't eat food ? unhealthy.
Also, I don't know that we really have evidence backing up the assumption that rapid fat loss will be followed by regain vs. a slow loss. People who lose fat slowly gain it back, too. The issue of adopting lifestyle changes is separate and yeah, I could see how that would be more successful if done in a way that suits the individual (ie, some people need to dive into things cold turkey, others ramp up/make incremental changes).
These people don't seem all that interested in lifestyle changes or health, though, and the lady they show in the photo doesn't exactly look like she has "plenty" of fat to spare. You have to wonder how someone could have the guts to do this and spend $1500 while the same effect could be achieved for free with some variation on a protein sparing modified fast.
This reminds me of like, two years ago when someone posted on the nest that her friend called her fat because she dared to suggest to her that she should wear some spanx under a dress while they were discussing some fancy event.
She got all huffy, "I am a size 2, sometimes a 4!" and was still bent out of shape when people tried to reason with her that shapewear had less to do with making you shrink and more to do with, you know, shaping you.
I mean shi!t, I was a size 0 in high school and you best believe I wore full spanx under my prom dress. Only in recent years has it become the thing to wear the tiniest imagineable panties and bras and then boohoo and pout that there are some unsightly bulges. When our 80 year old grannies were our age and size 000 they were running around in girdles and shapers too, not butt floss and little else.
Amen, nerdi!
I mean if you're all good with how you look in clothing without them, carry on. I'm certainly not advocating that everyone wear spanx and girdles and corsets and such. But I think it's far healthier to put on a shaper to get a figure you find more satisfactory than to have unrealistic expectations of your body and go to extreme measures to get something that unattainable.
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Shaping garments are where it's at.
I found a dress that flattered my shape for my BIL's wedding, even though I am not near happy with my actual shape/size. To add to making me feel good about how I look, I marched my happy ass to the store and found the appropriate bra and shaping garments. Plus, I'm having the dress altered to fit my body.
I'm even happier with how it looks now.