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Ear stapling for weight loss?!?!?!

VicDaring

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Mon Dieu.

So Vic's Chic was talking to a friend recently who said to her, "My friend Sandy is going to get her ear stapled Saturday. It's going to help her lose weight. I'm thinking about getting it done."

Vic's Chic, with her newly installed woo-alarm, says, "Wait a second. What?!"

The friend repeats that her friend is getting a staple put in her ear as a weight loss aid. She has no idea how or why this works but, again, she's considering getting it done herself.

Vic's Chic asks, "So what does it do? Cause such intense pain that you don't feel like eating and you lose weight?"

Friend doesn't know, doesn't care. Just thinks it's cool.

Anyone ever heard of this one? I assume it lives in the accupuncture neighborhood...


PS: I'm so proud of Vic's Chic. :)
 
Maybe she's getting her ear pulled and stapled over her mouth.

Just a thought.
 
> In the latest issue of Woman's World there is an incredible story about a
> woman who lost 100 lbs with the aid of an ear staple.
Source
If you can't believe Woman's World and acupuncture dot com, who can you believe??
 
Stomach stapling I understand, and seems like an extreme but successful technique. Ear stapling sounds like some sort of stock room accident.
 
My sister had this done 15 or 20 years ago to stop smoking. She smoked until just a few years ago. Perhaps it was a delayed effect.. hardy-har-har!
 
I understand the success rate is high if the quack remembers to staple the ear to a wall at least eight feet from the nearest fridge or kitchen cabinet.
 
Shouldn't that mean that people with multiple ear piercings are all skinny?

I have three holes in my right ear lobe and still, I could stand to lose 10 pounds.
 
Lisa Simpson said:
Shouldn't that mean that people with multiple ear piercings are all skinny?

I have three holes in my right ear lobe and still, I could stand to lose 10 pounds.
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You have to list more to the pierced side so the weight can seep out into the ether.
 
BillHoyt said:

Wasn't even easy to write.
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Actually, I even simplified it a little for the purposes of posting a thread.

The conversation was Vic's Chic and and Vic's Chic's brother's girlfriend. So "Sandy" is really Vic's Chic's brother's girlfriend's friend, Sandy.

But I figured that was a little much. :p
 
Actually, this one came up a few years ago in my (now) ex-wife's family. I was sitting to the side of the converstation and apparently got what they always discribed as "That Look" on my face. Very quickly they pointed out that this wasn't some kind of quack-job. They had gotten this advice from a Weight-loss Doctor who was Very Well Respected. As they explained it, it had nothing to do with acupuncture at all. The doctor would put in the staple and then, if you ever felt hungry (a rather likely thing, I would imagine), you would pull on the staple to distract yourself from the hunger. I wondered aloud if this wouldn't simply have the effect of leaving one hungry, but adding a sore ear to boot. The conversation then continued without me (after one or two of them muttered something about why they should even bother) during which the Great Success Stories of so-and-so's grand-niece's cousin's girlfriend, who had a staple put in two months ago and looks just great, now and so forth. They way they went on, it sounded as if every other female in the Northeast was sporting a staple in her ear; yet, I have never seen anyone who actually had one in.

Even so, it sounds to me as if a staple in one's ear would be, like, the ultimate punk accessory. Just the thing to go with that green and purple mo-hawk you've always wanted. That it has zero use as a weight loss tool would simply up its nihilism-factor. "Yeah. Dad had to pay hundreds for this staple. . . "
 
KAW143 said:
Actually, this one came up a few years ago in my (now) ex-wife's family. I was sitting to the side of the converstation and apparently got what they always discribed as "That Look" on my face. Very quickly they pointed out that this wasn't some kind of quack-job. They had gotten this advice from a Weight-loss Doctor who was Very Well Respected. As they explained it, it had nothing to do with acupuncture at all. The doctor would put in the staple and then, if you ever felt hungry (a rather likely thing, I would imagine), you would pull on the staple to distract yourself from the hunger. I wondered aloud if this wouldn't simply have the effect of leaving one hungry, but adding a sore ear to boot. The conversation then continued without me (after one or two of them muttered something about why they should even bother) during which the Great Success Stories of so-and-so's grand-niece's cousin's girlfriend, who had a staple put in two months ago and looks just great, now and so forth. They way they went on, it sounded as if every other female in the Northeast was sporting a staple in her ear; yet, I have never seen anyone who actually had one in.

Even so, it sounds to me as if a staple in one's ear would be, like, the ultimate punk accessory. Just the thing to go with that green and purple mo-hawk you've always wanted. That it has zero use as a weight loss tool would simply up its nihilism-factor. "Yeah. Dad had to pay hundreds for this staple. . . "
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Hi KAW143 and welcome!

The explanation you posted for ear stapling (?!??!??!!) reminds me of a superstition (or folk cure) for pain I learned as a child: apparently if a part of your body hurts you are supposed to pinch your ear - so by inducing tolerable pain in your ear you distract yourself from thinking e.g. of your toothache or knee pain.
 
Thank you, Tanja!

I have heard of pinching-the-ear-as-distraction thingy, as well -- a more extreme version of it was a kind of a perpetual punch-line in my family as I was growing up.
Me: "Man, I have a headache!"
Helpful Mom: "Want me to stomp on your foot?"
Me: "What good is that going to do?"
Helpful Mom: "Nothing, but with a broken foot you won't be worried about your headache, anymore. . . "

Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.

Actually, the explaination of ear stapling as it was given to me reminded my of a sure-fire stop-smoking plan: wear a rubber band on your wrist and snap yourself with it whenever you want a smoke. I understand the "theory" behind negative reinforcement; but, seriously, you are more likely to simply flay the skin off of your wrist using this method than you are to quit smoking. . . . Or am I just being cynical?
 
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