Such small bodies...such large heads....
...
... I'LL TAKE TWO!

@carmen89:
Umm....What?

The question is, will people ever learn that the only way to get fit without weird/gross/awful/life-threatening side effects is to eat whole/healthy foods and exercise?

Short answer: No.

Long answer: Probably not.

The vagus nerve also affects how the heart responds to falling and rising blood pressure, e.g., straining at the stool causes a precipitous drop (I believe that's what killed Elvis). Blocking that natural failsafe could result in someone blowing an o-ring.

Seriously. I speak from experience after losing over 70lbs. Just get up and out. Eat less. It's truly not THAT hard. Go for a walk around the block. You can still listen to music/talk to people. If you can't carry on a conversation, you're walking too fast.

Figure out your body daily requirements for calories. Cut it by 500 calories. 500 calories a day x 7 days is 3500 calories, which = 1 lb of fat. 500 calories isn't that much. Besides, losing too much weight too fast is never healthy.

I hope NO ONE thinks using Star Jones would be good advertising for anything.

When i get out of work today, i'm going to the gym to lift, then after i leave, i'm going to run around campus for ~45 minutes. This allows me to eat all the junk food i want, and drink as much as i want on weekends and i don't even need an electronic device implanted in me to curb weight gain. Crazy how that works!

@carmen89: One question I had when I lost weight is how come your hat size and shoe size don't shrink, but everything else does.

@Dook_In_The_Urinal:
Hilarious! Do you think Keira Knightly has one of these?

Seems like they're taking the long way around with this implanting electrodes shit. Why not just tase them when they try to eat?

@carmen89: Yea, carmen, i didn't quite catch that. :-/

So all this device does is stop you from eating 500 calories a day?!?! That makes no sense. How can this tell the difference between a lb of carrots and a lb of chocolate? Just simply modifying your diet is easier and safer than implanting a pacemaker into your stomach. On the plus side, this thing SHOULD keep you away from the microwave at 7-11 or the Quik-e-Mart.

@Git Em SteveDave: Because only Homer Simpson has fat deposits covering his skull.

@Git Em SteveDave: I think because it's mostly skull? When I lose weight my shoe size shrinks....

@wolfenstein-3d: I want to small bodied, large headed freak shows!

haha I love it. Jared wants to stop eating Subway.

"Oooww! My duodenum!"

ELMM
"Eat Less, Move More." It's the only way to go.

(11 days, -8)

@carmen89: "I want to small bodied, large headed freak shows!"

You mean Craniodiaphyseal dysplasia?

I've gained 30lbs since I have been married. Can't I just get a divorce instead?

@bosskev: Congrats on the -8

@carmen89: I wonder if morbidly obese people can lose fat from everywhere in their whole body except from the neck up... hmmm... If so, you'll be in luck. If i get bored tonight, i might photoshop what that might look like... i just realized how much i love ellipses...

This would make a great target for hackers, you could remotely control someone elses eating patterns

@meatlocker: Your question sounds like the punchline to:
"Doctor! What do you mean I have to go on a diet?"
"Sir, you must lose 150 pounds of ugly fat!"

...and not to be charged as sexist, here it is flipped around...

"Doctor! What do you mean I have to go on a diet?"
"Madame, you must lose 200 pounds of ugly fat!"

@wolfenstein-3d: I need to see it!
I was watching iCarly wher ethey had the words fattest priest episode, that was hilarious!

@Gann: Thanks for the encouragement! I'm in it for the long haul. That -8 pounds is just the tip of the iceblob.

@wolfenstein-3d: My friend, I'm going to make an assumption. Now, in the immortal words of Samuel L. Jackson, "When you make an assumption, you make an ass of you and umption." Nonetheless, from your description I am assuming that you are still either in college or perhaps grad school and early, say, twenty-something. I state that with no rancor, no judgement, no values associated.

My only point is that those of us over a certain age, married, children, work, side-job, (and in my case, obligations levied by religious practice), just seem to have the DARN-Dest time making the kind of life-style changes that you talk about. It's entirely do-able, it's imminently desirable, the heart is really, really willing but the flesh is really, really weak and it only seems to get worse each year. We make excuses - no time, too tired, too much stress, all of which are BS, but there they are. In my case I blame the frickin' lack of a TIRE PUMP for my goram bicycle.

Relish your youth, my friend. For the rest of us, the only relish we often get is on our chilli dogs. (Yeah, that was weak and whiney.)

(Still, I for one will have no electronics on my nerves, thanks, and will continue to delude myself with "Soon, I'll be fit.")

discuss.

@ripfire4: Hey, what's porky pig's favorite month?

Jejune.

I worked with someone who had gastric bypass. Afterwards, her diet still consisted of Doritoes, mayonnaise-based salads, and Mountain Dew, just in smaller portions. She looked like a pasty deflated marshmallow.

I'm on a beer only diet... it works pretty good.

@ps61318: I'm 30, given birth, and work 8-10 hour weekdays. I have absolutely no problem staying thin. Is it just luck or genetics, or perhaps the fact that I limit the intake of food on my 'can't get exercise today' days.

I guess everybody is different so maybe I have it a bit lucky, but I have watched every single one of my overweight friends eat Gawd awful crap, go sit on the couch and them mumble 'it's just not fair, I don't know what i'm doing wrong'. I'm not trying to rip on the overweight, but I do feel like their are a hell of a lot of excuses going around.

I just and 2 eggs and toast with the nice fatty yolk dripping everywhere.

Yummmm.

But, if I was inclined to eat 2 eggs, toast, sausage, butter, cream cheese, bacon, and pancakes, orange juice all in one sitting at Dennys, like many people I know do, I'd be happy with this option!

@ps61318: Excellent job my friend. Very CSI-like (except i gave it away by saying campus). I do understand it's not that easy for most people. I just so happen to be fortunate enough to have the time/motivation/youngness to do said things. I will certainly appreciate it while it lasts. I do feel like, in a LOT of peoples cases, that people just don't try, yet still complain. If your diet consists of, as Aunt_Snowman said, doritoes, mayo, and pop, and then you don't do ANY exercize, then complain that you should get gastric bipass, then that's not cool.

anyways... see ya around giz! and happy posting to all

I can eat whatever I want, and it doesn't matter -- because only human blood keeps me alive.

It's recently been noticed that gastric bypass also reduces the severity of type 2 diabetes *even without any weight loss*. Anyone know if this would have a similar effect?

If I exercise any more, I'm going to have to quit my job. If I eat any less, I'm going to lose control of my blood sugar. And if I get told that my inability to lose weight is because I'm lazy and gluttonous again, I'm going to blow my stack.

@shamoononon: Agree 100%. There are a lot of excuses going around.

And like any other rationalization, logic takes a back seat. Or sits in the trunk. On the roof rack, if you have one, or strapped to the fender like a dead deer. Anywhere but in the driver's seat.

Why change my habits when a battery-operated electronic device can do it for me? Shocking your vegus nerve...when did that get fun?

Good Exercise/Diet is definitely a lifestyle change. I've lost 45 lbs. in 2 years and am able to keep it off, but I have to consistently exercise. My diet isn't the best (I actually need to eat MORE), the diet is always the hardest to stay consistent with :(

I don't blame overweight people, but I also don't buy into their excuse BS and justifications for why they are fat. If you're overweight and don't have a problem with it, then don't bring it up. If you are not happy with your weight, then eat right and exercise. I've seen some amazing transformations when people decide that they want to change their bodies...

Anna Nicole would have been the perfect shill for this.

@Nemesisesq: Well, if they want a really thin model, she still could be.

i find it absurd that people could want to do this INTENTIONALLY. it sounds like this device causes gastroparesis, a very unpleasant condition which i happen to have. sure, i lost 20 pounds in a month when it started until i figured out how to eat again. but i almost starved as my body adjusted.
it certainly won't improve the eating habits of anyone who gets this device implanted: i can never eat raw vegetables, fiber, nuts or any veggies from the cabbage family [like cauliflower and broccoli] again without risking having to have them surgically removed from my stomach