AMAZING: 7 Most Extreme Weight Loss Methods!

It's very funny, the kind of things people subject themselves to, all in a bid to lose weight. Here are some of the most extreme weight loss methods you ever heard of!

1. Urine Injections

Very unorthodox...you dare say....you consider the word "wierd" when you realize the urine is from pregnant women. A weight counsellor said  it's not the urine, but the hormone in it that takes off the pounds. 

“It's human chorionic gonadotropin,” said Iris McCarthy of Success Weight Loss Systems. She said hCG tricks your brain into thinking your body is pregnant and helping you to inculcate patience and adapt to new feeding routines. Sheryl Paloni lost 43 pounds and more than 30 inches in 5 months through this weight loss method. Very, very, strange....
2. Having Sex Up to 7 Times in a Day

A funny one here....Guiness Book of World Records holder, Pauline Potter, is burning 500 calories by having sex with her husband up to seven times daily. She had divorced her husband in 2008 but the couple reunited when her husband, Alex, heard about her Guiness title.

She hopes to reach her goal weight of 532 pounds with the help of Alex who does most of the work in the bedroom....this is serious!

3. Food through the Nose (Dripping  Tube)



An American doctor, Dr. Oliver di Pietro, has come up with a drastic and quick weight-loss method, the K-E (Ketogenic Enteral) Diet. It involves putting food into your body through the nose, using a dripping tube.

He promises to help anyone shed 20 lbs. in as little as 10 days. As part of the diet, dieters have to get a small nasogastric tube inserted into their nose going all the way to the stomach, through which a liquid solution drips constantly. The solution supposedly contains a mix of protein, fat and water and makes up 800 calories. A few hours of this and a process called ketosis is said to be triggered, which burns body fat due to the lack of carbohydrates. The fat is burned but the muscle and water in the body remain untouched.

Dieters who want to achieve the best results aren't supposed to eat anything for a period of 10 days and also have to carry around the bag of nutritious fluid everywhere they go....*frowns face....wahala!

4. Imaginary Gastric Band

Fancy having a restrictive band placed around the stomach through surgery and that gives the sensation of a full stomach after eating smaller portions of food...

But no, there actually wouldn't be any gastric bands, patients are only made to believe that they have an "imaginary"  gastric band through hypnosis.

A gastric band (the LAP-Band) is a restrictive band placed around the patient's stomach that gives the sensation of a full stomach after eating smaller portions of food, thus letting the patient eat less and lose weight without going hungry. But fitting the band requires surgery, with potential side effects – so here's a novel idea; making obese patients believe that they have an "imaginary" gastric band through hypnosis!
 
Marion Corns, 35, spent £780 on five imaginary gastric band  sessions with a therapist after her weight ballooned despite trying numerous diet aids. Afterwards Marion felt her stomach had tightened and she was full up on just a small portion of food.Now she is losing 3lbs a week and her dress size has plummeted from size 22 to 14 in four months.

5. Painful Tongue Patch
 
You only find it difficult to cut down on food when eating is interesting. There is a new medical procedure that will help you lose weight by making it painful to eat.

The medical procedure involves stitching a small piece of polyethylene mesh onto a patient's tongue, making it painful to ingest solid foods and forcing a low-calorie, liquid diet. "It is uncomfortable to eat solid foods, so people will all of a sudden remember, I am only to eat liquids."

Over 60 people have opted for the surgery, resulting in an average weight loss of 20 pounds (over the one-month period the postage-stamp-sized piece of fabric stays stitched on). "These are people who have been through every conceivable diet; they've tried everything and for some reason they just cannot stop eating," he said …

6. Bite Counter Gadget

Talk about mindless snacking, many people have actually eaten  too much food before they had time to think of their weight loss resolution. What then is the solution?

The Bite Counter is worn like a watch and tracks a pattern of wrist-roll motion to identify when the wearer has taken a bite of food. It was developed by researchers at Clemson University in South Carolina, who described it as a pedometer for eating.



If it makes noise and you're still desperate to take one more spoon, you might just consider eating with your left hand...hehehe!

7. Spending a Week at 8,700 Feet Altitude
 

Overweight, sedentary people who spent a week at an elevation of 8,700 feet lost weight while eating as much as they wanted and doing no exercise. A month after they came back down, they had kept two-thirds of those pounds off. 

They may have felt less hungry, in part, because levels of leptin, the satiety hormone, surged during the stay, while grehlin, the hunger hormone, remained unchanged. Their metabolic rate also spiked, meaning they burned more calories than they usually did. A high-altitude weight loss strategy could be viable, though studies have shown peoples' appetites bounce back after about six months at high elevation.

Alright, I only have God to thank that I am not in a position to desperately lose weight...otherwise, it'd surprise you that as ridiculous as these weight loss methods seem, some people will actually consider them gratefully!