Diets for the lost and mortified, By Mark Morford

[madokie]

Oh, how weak we have become. How whiny and wretched, tormented and convinced -- convinced! -- we simply cannot do even the most mildly difficult thing all by ourselves, lest we break, wail and beg for medication.

Behold, the latest micro-trend story that's not really a trend because no one you know is actually foolish enough to try it, all about how some otherwise healthy but still desperately inept women are paying large amounts of money to have a doctor insert a feeding tube up their noses, down their throats and into their stomachs. For multiple days at a time. By choice.

Are these women sick? Are they dying? Are they toothless and limbless and cannot feed themselves without spilling hot soup onto the rug? Are they Lady Gaga? No, they are not. ...

(Full URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/04/18/notes041812.DTL&nl=fix)

[JNelson6563]

1. Here have some cake. Stuffed with hot dogs.

Funny stuff but disgusting too.

[madokie]

2. Kick

[malaise]

3. Damned madness

I give up on humanity

[madokie]

4. Its about to a point where we'll have too in order to keep our sanity

[malaise]

5. And that's the truth

[tinrobot]

6. It's a bizarre version of a low carb/Atkins Diet

The report on the ABC link says the diet is 800cals/day of protein and fat, no carbs. You lose weight via ketosis. It's basically Atkins with a feeding tube.

You could do the same thing eating nothing but bacon for 10 days, and it would be a lot more fun.