By Christiénne Miller

If you haven’t had your Monday dose of crazy pills yet, check out the weight loss tongue patch. This is especially funny to me considering that I just polished off my daughter’s tootsie roll bounty from Halloween, and it’s the same day Harlow Essex wrote a post about Chocolate Love.

Honestly, I heard this mentioned on the show The Doctors, and thought is was a hoax. Apparently, my thought was incorrect — it’s real.

Basically this so-called “innovation” in weight loss uses a plastic patch — a.k.a. the Miracle Patch — which is sewn onto your tongue. It makes eating solid food very painful, forcing the patient to adopt an all liquid diet. The patch is then removed, and the patient can (hopefully) resume eating more health foods.

A few months ago, I had emergency surgery to have my tonsils removed. I basically lived on ice water and the occasional protein shake. I was in a lot of pain and contend that the experience was far worse than recovering from child birth. I lost 20 pounds as a result, 15 of which came back. Why? because rapid weight loss doesn’t work for a number of physiological and medical reasons (i.e. we all carry a few pounds of waste material around with us at all time, adding 2 - 5 pounds to our normal body weight at any given time).

Please correct me if I’m wrong, but this tongue patch seems to promote the type of temporary weight loss that results in muscle loss and the gain of more unhealthy fat in the long run. Let’s also not forget out what effects the pain and/or discomfort caused by this device may do to your overall well being. Forcing your body into shock to lose weight doesn’t seem like a good idea to me, how about you?

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