Q: Would you pay someone to shoot a staple into the most sensitive part of your ear?
A: No way! What kind of question is that?
Q: What if they promised it would help you lose weight?
A: Hmmmn…how much would it cost?
People Will Try Anything
November 6th, 2007 · 8 Comments
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1 Melissa H. // Nov 6, 2007 at 9:36 pm
My cousin in NY and his GF did this. He dropped weight like mad, eating 400 cals a day (sick sick sick). It was sick. I haven’t seen him in a couple months, and we’re not that close where I could ask…but I can’t imagine he’s managed to keep it all off. I should ask him…
2 Sara // Nov 6, 2007 at 9:50 pm
So he was so “not hungry” due to the ear staple that he was eating only 400 cals a day or what?
3 Kendra // Nov 7, 2007 at 12:25 am
Wow. 400 calories a day that is disgusting; I think i just had that in chocolate. I know it is just horrible, the chocolate I mean. Well, now that I think about it the stapling seems extreme too but who knows…I wonder if you just had accupuncture in your ear if it would work. My friend has an accupuncturist; I am going to see if she will ask him about it.
4 Melissa H. // Nov 7, 2007 at 3:17 pm
No, he was on a restricted diet and the ear stapling was supposed to serve as hypnosis or something newfangled an weird. He did say he was less hungry.
This was back in May…I haven’t seen him since.
I think it is CRAZY and I told him that no one can live on 400 cals. I think he had to be exggerating. He did drop 15 lbs in like 2 weeks…but whatever.
Work out more, eat less, lose weight.
5 Melissa H. // Nov 7, 2007 at 3:19 pm
PS–What cracked me up most? He said he had “so much energy” and yet this is the guy who dined out 3 meals a day and didn’t exercise.
At dinner he had fish and steamed veggies–not unlike anything I’d eat. But his bfast and lunch? Probably had been next to nothing.
6 Sara // Nov 7, 2007 at 3:22 pm
crazy! you CAN live on 400 calories, your metabolism just shuts down to basically nothing. yeah, “So much energy” - i’d like to see him try one of your workouts, Lissa!
7 Melissa H. // Nov 7, 2007 at 3:47 pm
LOL… I guess you “can” but who’ d want to? When it comes to long term sustainability… who wins? Us doing it the healthy way. Slowly. He has gained and lost weight his whole life…
He’d never make it. Esp. not one with Cora, my new HRM :)
8 JavaChick // Nov 7, 2007 at 7:40 pm
Eek None of this sounds good. The ear stapling or the 400 calorie/day diet.
Acupuncture, maybe. It’s been around for a long time and it’s proven. Ear stapling…I don’t think so.
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