{"id":6012,"date":"2012-04-21T06:42:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T04:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=6012"},"modified":"2015-02-16T09:02:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T14:02:51","slug":"nyt-bridal-hunger-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/nyt-bridal-hunger-games\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT: &#8220;Bridal Hunger Games&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=www-nc.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/15\/fashion\/weddings\/Losing-Weight-in-Time-for-the-Wedding.html&amp;REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sigh&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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\u2019s supervision, offered 800 calories a day while she went about her business, with a tube in her nose.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Something medical is indeed happening in the newest diet to reach the United States. Dr. Oliver R. Di Pietro has been offering what he calls a K-E diet at his modest clinic in Bay Harbor Islands, Fla., since last July.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI get a lot of brides,\u201d Dr. Di Pietro said. \u201cNervous eating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It uses a nasogastric tube (a tube that goes through the nose and down the esophagus into the stomach) to provide all nourishment, with no carbohydrates, for 10 days. Dr. Di Pietro said body weight is lost quickly through ketosis, the state in which the body burns fat rather than sugar. Patients at his office are monitored during the 10-day period for things like constipation, bad breath and dizziness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny extreme low-calorie diet is associated with side effects, kidney stones, dehydration, headaches,\u201d Dr. Aronne said, \u201cand if you lose muscle mass and water, what\u2019s the point of that?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have never, ever understood\u00a0why some women\u00a0long\u00a0for a &#8220;perfect&#8221; wedding; let alone why a crash diet should be considered a necessary prerequisite for one. After all,\u00a0their husbands-to-be\u00a0fell in love and proposed to them at their existing weights. Beyond that, the right dress, hairstyle and makeup can make <em>any<\/em> size woman look her best.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, I have nothing against people who want to lose surplus pounds and look their best for a special occasion (and hopefully, beyond). But this isn&#8217;t\u00a0a good\u00a0way to go about it. If I were a man, I&#8217;d seriously question the judgment of my wife-to-be, if she went on an extreme\u00a0pre-wedding diet like this. A wedding is supposed to be a celebration of love, not a high-stress, mega-expensive beauty pageant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigh&#8230; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,29],"tags":[446,624],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9691,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6012\/revisions\/9691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}