{"id":480,"date":"2012-04-18T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2012\/04\/i-would-never-marry-this-crazy-chick.html"},"modified":"2014-08-22T15:49:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T20:49:00","slug":"i-would-never-marry-this-crazy-chick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2012\/04\/i-would-never-marry-this-crazy-chick.html","title":{"rendered":"I Would Never Marry This Crazy Chick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Have you seen this story?\u00a0 The one about the crazy thing women are doing to lose weight for their weddings?\u00a0 You haven\u2019t?\u00a0 Here, read this\u2026.I\u2019ll wait.<\/p>\n

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Brides-to-be looking to shed that final 10, 15 or 20 pounds in order to fit into their dream wedding gown have taken a controversial approach to crash dieting that involves inserting a feeding tube into their noses for up to 10 days for a quick fix to rapid weight loss. <\/div>\n
The K-E diet, which boasts promises of shedding 20 pounds in 10 days, is an increasingly popular alternative to ordinary calorie-counting programs. The program has dieters inserting a feeding tube into their nose that runs to the stomach. They\u2019re fed a constant slow drip of protein and fat, mixed with water, which contains zero carbohydrates and totals 800 calories a day. Body fat is burned off through a process called ketosis, which leaves muscle intact, Dr. Oliver Di Pietro of Bay Harbor Islands, Fla., said. <\/div>\n
\u201cIt is a hunger-free, effective way of dieting,\u201d Di Pietro said. \u201cWithin a few hours and your hunger and appetite go away completely, so patients are actually not hungry at all for the whole 10 days. That\u2019s what is so amazing about this diet.\u201d <\/div>\n
Di Pietro says patients are under a doctor\u2019s supervision, although they\u2019re not hospitalized during the dieting process. Instead, they carry the food solution with them, in a bag, like a purse, keeping the tube in their nose for 10 days straight. Di Pietro says there are few side effects. <\/div>\n
\u201cThe main side effects are bad breath; there is some constipation because there is no fiber in the food,\u201d he said. <\/div>\n
Slipping into a wedding gown for a dream wedding is a moment of truth for most brides, but as many say that there is a real fear that it will not quite fit. That\u2019s how 41-year-old Jessica Schnaider of Surfside, Fla., says she felt with a June wedding approaching and 10 pounds she says she couldn\u2019t lose. She was desperate for a quick fix. <\/div>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t have all of the time on the planet just to focus an hour and a half a day to exercise so I came to the doctor, I saw the diet, and I said, \u2018You know what? Why not? Let me try it. So I decided to go ahead and give it a shot,\u201d she said. <\/div>\n
Schnaider said she was never hungry throughout the 10 days she was on the K-E diet, but admits that it still wasn\u2019t easy. <\/div>\n
\u201cIt was emotionally difficult, the 10 days of not eating,\u201d Schnaider said. \u201cAnd sometimes I had to give excuses to people who were asking are you sick? And I was like, \u2018No, I\u2019m not sick, I\u2019m not dying, I\u2019m fine.\u2019 <\/div>\n
\u201cI was tired. I didn\u2019t feel like exercising. The doctor told me that if you can compliment with walking for a half an hour on the beach, that would be great, but I didn\u2019t feel like doing that. I\u2019m a very energetic person, but those days I was a little tired.\u201d <\/div>\n
\"\"<\/span><\/span>Although the K-E diet is new to the United States, it has been around for years in Europe. Dr. Di Pietro charges $1,500 for the 10-day plan, and says the before-and-after pictures sell themselves. <\/div>\n
But critics warn that losing too much weight too fast can be dangerous, and it ultimately won\u2019t last. Di Pietro warns that people with kidney issues should avoid the diet. <\/div>\n
Many doctors also say that with so much pressure on brides to be perfect, it\u2019s easy to understand why this kind of rapid weight loss might seem appealing, but might not be healthy. <\/div>\n
\u201cIf you lose the weight too quickly your mind is not going to be able to catch up with a newer, skinnier you,\u201d psychoanalyst Bethany Marshall of Beverly Hills, Calif. said. <\/div>\n
Schnaider says that in her case she actually only kept her tube in for eight of the 10 days, skipping the last two because she\u2019d already lost the 10 pounds she wanted. <\/div>\n
She has kept it off so far, saying she is looking forward to her big day this summer. <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Oh. my. goodness.\u00a0 It still shocks me.\u00a0 Every darn time I read it.<\/p>\n

I could never marry this woman. For a couple reasons:
1) She\u2019s marrying someone else and has expressed no interest in me.\u00a0
2) I\u2019m a girl and I don\u2019t think that kind of thing is legal in Texas
3) Her sticking out collar bone scares me (did you see the picture? The girl needs a cheeseburger\u2026stat!)
4) I\u2019m just not that into her\u2026\u2026.<\/p>\n

because she\u2019s CRAZY!<\/p>\n

The only good thing about this diet, and it\u2019s the same thing I said in the 90s when women were having their jaws wired shut so that they could look hot, is that it\u2019s a big ol\u2019 red flag of crazy whipping around there. If some guy can\u2019t figure out that his girl is a loon after 10 days of a straw up her nose for no good reason,<\/i><\/b> then he\u2019s welcome to the big can of crazy he\u2019s about to open up.\u00a0 Because I know crazy girls, and once she\u2019s done starving herself to perfection she\u2019s going to turn her gaze away from the mirror and onto you<\/b>!\u00a0 And honey, good luck with that.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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