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"Desperate brides try feeding tube diet Under doctor's supervision, some take extreme measures to drop weight before the wedding By Linda Lee Jennifer Derrick's weight had crept to 159 pounds from 125, and she knew she would not fit into her grandmother’s wedding dress. “Women were smaller back then, and there was nothing to let out,” said Ms. Derrick, of Rockford, Ill. She took prescription pills, had vitamin B shots and made weekly $45 visits to a Medithin clinic in Janesville, Wis. When she married on March 18, she was back to 125 pounds; the gown, from 1938, fit perfectly. In March, Jessica Schnaider, 41, of Surfside, Fla., was preparing to shop for a wedding gown by spending eight days on a feeding tube. The diet, under a doctor’s supervision, offered 800 calories a day while she went about her business, with a tube in her nose. A 2007 Cornell University study by Lori Neighbors and Jeffery Sobal found that 70 percent of 272 engaged women said they wanted to lose weight, typically 20 pounds. So brides are increasingly going on crash diets, inspired by seeing celebrities like Sarah Jessica Parker or Gwyneth Paltrow, cowed by the prospect of wearing a revealing and expensive gown and knowing that wedding photos (if not the marriage) are forever."

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/47061726/#.T44AQr9SRXc

Just when you thought you'd heard it all..

4/17/2012 7:48:28 PM

if she can't keep her weight down before the wedding...

4/17/2012 7:52:35 PM

I am pretty sure some women would do almost literally anything if it helped them lose weight. This seems relatively tame.

[Edited on April 17, 2012 at 8:27 PM. Reason : except exercise and eating well]

4/17/2012 8:14:11 PM

you dont need an hr an a half for exercize. bitches be lazy.

4/17/2012 8:25:46 PM

can i get beer through those tubes??

4/17/2012 8:38:44 PM

our transition is near complete

4/17/2012 8:40:36 PM

i read this recently and the woman using it that is photographed is already rather slim. I'm concerned that those using this method of weight loss are those who already have issues with food and body image.

4/17/2012 8:49:11 PM

^lolol

4/17/2012 8:52:10 PM

So wait, you get your "food" from a tube in your nose, meanwhile you don't eat anything all day?

If I had the self control to eat literally nothing all day, I wouldn't need a tube, I'd just eat 800 calories instead of whatever they were eating to make them fat in the first place.

4/17/2012 8:53:32 PM

srsly

4/17/2012 8:59:58 PM

The diet fed through the NG tube is specially formulated to be high protein & no carbohydrates in order to send the body into ketosis, which is the same thing that Atkins does.

4/17/2012 9:08:48 PM