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"Look, I understand wanting to drop some weight before your wedding. Of course your groom wants you to look like you on your wedding day, but there&amp;#x27;s no reason you shouldn&amp;#x27;t look like the healthiest version of you. I mean, when else in your life are there going to be 2,000 photos of you from a single day? You might as well look extra-good in them. And if you start a healthy eating and exercise regimen well before your wedding that actually turns into a lifestyle change, that&amp;#x27;s awesome. You know what&amp;#x27;s NOT awesome? Sticking a feeding tube up your nose and subsisting on 800 calories a day, just so you can fit into your wedding dress. Oh, and if you&amp;#x27;re paying $150 a day for the pleasure of having a feeding tube stuck to your face, you&amp;#x27;re a moron. Yes, people actually do this. In addition to profiling brides who joined Weight Watchers or hired a personal trainer pre-wedding, this article in The New York Times introduces us to a woman who &amp;quot;spent eight days on a feeding tube, a process that costs $1,500 for 10 days, so she would fit into her wedding gown when she marries in Argentina in June.&amp;quot; All the tubed-in nutrients are carb-free, so the tube feeding works like a low-calorie Atkins Diet, sending the body into &amp;quot;ketosis, the state in which the body burns fat rather than sugar.&amp;quot; p.s. In addition to weight loss, ketosis also causes constipation, bad breath and dizziness. Fun times! p.p.s. Basic nutrition tells us that if you eat 800 calories a day of ANYTHING for 10 days (lean meat and vegetables, even m&amp;amp;m&amp;#x27;s!) you&amp;#x27;re going to lose weight. You could eat three 4-ounce servings of chicken and three cups of broccoli a day for around 800 calories (and less than $10) AND you wouldn&amp;#x27;t have to walk around with a tube up your nose. Granted, your diet would suck. But again, no tube! The money part is annoying, but I&amp;#x27;m not going to tell people who have an extra $1,500 how to spend their cash. But it&amp;#x27;s so &amp;quot;The Emperor&amp;#x27;s New Clothes,&amp;quot; if that makes sense. This woman has a family and a fiance who presumably loves her, and no one bothered saying, &amp;quot;Hey, let&amp;#x27;s have salad for lunch and hit the gym instead of dieting within an inch of your life!&amp;quot; Are you guys as grossed out by this as I am? Or is it something you would actually try? p.p.p.s. Vitamin G readers agree that this woman is an idiot. p.p.p.p.s. ("^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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