Oh, No, The Tongue Patch Diet

One of my favorite sayings is, “You can’t see the picture when you’re inside the frame.” It means that sometimes you need distance and objectivity to see yourself clearly and realistically. Nowhere is this more true than in an obsession with losing weight. Take “The Tongue Patch Diet,” which I learned about in a segment of 20/20. Silly-sounding, it’s truly horrifying. The segment followed two young women who had a doctor sew a rough plastic patch atop their tongues to make it painful and impossible to eat. Body mutilation, anyone? The back-story was that one woman wanted to fit into her skinny jeans and the other wanted to wear her bikini on vacation, but both loved eating high-sugar and –fat food which they swore they lacked the “will power” to give up. Hence this $2000 surgery! Long story short is that they each lost about 20 pounds and were over the moon. End of story for the camera. However, as we know, not end of story for the women who most likely regained their lost weight and then some.  The story distressed and made me angry because I hear a good deal of the same wrong-headed desperation these women expressed from clients and Food and Feelings message board members. Maybe you, too, are similarly desperate to shed pounds. If so, puh-lease step back and see how your obsession is not bettering, but rather, ruining your life. You could focus on positive things to make you happy. Instead you choose (yes, choose) an obsessio...
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