Sarah B. Weir writes about what I seriously hope is not a coming trend.
Want to lose twenty pounds fast? Like in ten days fast? Just have a tube stuck down your nose and be fed through a bag and surprise, surprise! You’ll lose the weight.
Does this scare the living bajeezus out of anyone else? And it’s not cheap either—$1,500 for the ten-day program.
"People think I'm sick, I'm dying," Jessica Schnaider, 41, of Surfside Florida, told the Times referring to people's reaction to seeing her wearing a nasogastric feeding tube attached to a portable plastic bag of low-cal liquid nourishment. During the program, she skipped picking up her daughters at school because she didn't want to scare the other children.
But this does not deter her from her weight-loss plan.
What does she say to her children about why she has a tube down her nose? For vanity’s sake? Which is kind of humorous when you think about it; you have to look like you’re a seriously ill person to get to the desired end.
And, of course, as most people know by now, the weight loss will most likely be temporary and one might even gain back extra weight afterwards.
I was going to say—what will be next? Surgery to reduce body weight that is merely cosmetic? And then I was like, oh…yeah.
We’re already living in this beautiful new world.
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