Shed the pounds: 6 Bizzare ways to loose weight

Shed the pounds: 6 Bizarre ways to loose weight

MF editorial team

16 Mar 2015

updated the 6 October 2015 à 23:15

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Stomach stapling
You'll be forgiven for thinking this was a torture method dreamt up by those in medieval times. Stomach stapling, or, to go by its fancy medical name: vertical branded gastroplasty is a surgery performed to limit the amount of food a person can eat.
After stomach stapling or banding, a person can eat only about three quarters to one cup of well-chewed food. Eating more than will result in nausea and vomiting.
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The tapeworm diet
If the contestants on X-Factor eating slugs made you squirmish, then this might not be the diet for you.
This method sees adherents eating tapeworms, which travel through the body eating, growing, and attaching itself to the intestine. While followers of the diet do loose weight, they also loose essential vitamins and nutrients to the tapeworms which lay eggs and multiply in the intestine.
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The feeding tube diet
Popular with brides to be who need a quick weight loss fix before their big day, this drastic weight loss measure involves tubes being placed in the nose, ported to the stomach, then hooked up to a small pump that provides a continuous drip of protein-fat liquid. At only 800 calories a day, with no solid food, weight loss is inevitable. So far so good considering all adherents of this procedure have lived to share their experience.
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Cyrotherapy
If jumping into a freezing lake while barely clothed is enjoyable to you then you might be a candidate for one of the hottest weight loss treatments yet: cyrotherapy.
The ultra cold treatment is designed to shock the body into action by revving up blood circulation and boosting the immune and central nervous systems. And by cold, we mean minus 135 degrees celsius.
On average, a patient would have to attend at least 10 cryotherapy weight loss sessions to loose somewhere between 6 and 10 pounds.
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Obalon
Weight loss pills have been around for a long time, but the Obalon is no ordinary diet pill. As its name implies, it's a pill with an inflatable balloon inside. Yes, a balloon.
Here's how it works: First, you swallow the pill, which is attached to a long, slim tube. Once the pill is in your stomach, doctors use the tube to inflate the balloon with gas, the tube is then disconnected and pulled out. The balloon can stay in for up to three months, and you can have up to three balloons in place at a time. The point of the balloon is to make you feel full, where after 12 weeks, the doctor performs an endoscopy to deflate the balloon and remove it through your mouth.
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Painful Tongue Patch
We all know half the weight loss battle wouldn't be so hard if food didn't taste so damn good and light up our sensory pleasures all the time. Well... what if eating became a painful process instead? That's exactly what plastic surgeon, Nikolas Chugay has done with Painful Tongue Patch, that, you guessed it, makes eating a torture.
The procedure involves stitching a small piece of polyethylene mesh onto a patient's tongue, making it painful to ingest solid foods which means wearers are forced to undergo a low-calorie diet instead.

Everyone wants to look good, but how far would you go to drop a few dress sizes? From tapeworms to tongue patches, we explore the drastic weight loss measures done in the name of skinny.

We’re almost one quarter into the year and most of you have probably given up on your New Year’s resolutions by now. Your pledge to get fit, eat healthy, and most importantly loose weight might have been rock solid in January, but then you found yourself giving in to those yummy Chinese New Year goodies in February and before you knew it, your well-meaning resolutions crumbled just like the nth cookie you shoved in your mouth.

We’ve all been there before. But while some of us might resort to going on crash diets, popping miracle-promising weight loss pills or hitting the gym religiously, there are others who think enough is enough and decided to take on drastic measures that will have the rest of us squirming and putting down that doughnut instead.

Honestly, we’re not so sure about adopting these methods – we’ll stick to good ‘ol exercise, thank you.

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