Korean Couple’s Five-Month Body Transformations Will Blow Your Mind
A Korean couple are taking Instagram by storm with their phenomenal body transformation photographs. In a short span of five months, they have gone from ‘somewhat chubby’ to super-lean workout machines! Song Jin Yoo and Shin Ji Hoo been exercising together at the gym for the past five months – spending three hours a day on aerobic […]
Women in Hong Kong Are Trying to Lose Weight by Staring at the Sun
Sun gazing is a bizarre new weight-loss trend in China – it has women staring directly at the sun, hoping to magically melt away the excess pounds! The therapy, believed to be of European origin, suggests that looking at the sun will provide you with enough solar energy to substitute for calories from real food. […]
Controversial Weight Loss Device Lets You Eat Like a Pig Then Pumps Your Stomach
Cashing in on people’s desperation to lose weight is a new device that’s pretty much the medical equivalent of bulimia. Its main function is to pump out the contents of a user’s stomach, right after a heavy meal. The makers of ‘AspireAssist’ claim to have already helped hundreds of patients in the US shed copious […]
Dubai Is So Rich It Pays People Two Grams of Gold for Every Kilo of Body Weight They Lose
A weight loss contest held in Dubai this summer promised to pay all its participants two grams of gold for every kilogram of body weight lost. The initiative was dubbed ‘Your Child in Gold’ and followed last year’s ‘Your Weight in Gold’ contest organized by the Dubai Municipality. Over 7,500 winners were declared this year, […]
Eating This Wild Herb Can Allegedly Stave Off Hunger and Thirst for Several Days
A centuries-old slimming remedy is all set to make a comeback after evidence of its use was discovered in old manuscripts during an archaeological dig. The heath pea is a long-forgotten fern-like wild Scottish plant with purple flowers that can apparently suppress hunger and thirst for weeks. Entrepreneurs are now interested in re-introducing the wonder-herb to […]
Indian Man Claims He Can Help People Lose Weight with Ultrasounds He Emits from His Vocal Cords
A lot of people want to lose weight quite badly, but is there anyone desperate enough to try this Indian man’s weird technique? Jigar Shah, from the city of Ahmedabad, claims that he can induce weight loss in a person just by using his vocal cords to emit ultrasounds. He also says that he’s helped […]
Science Teacher Eats Only McDonald’s Fast Food for 90 Days, Loses 37 Pounds
Now this is what I call a dream diet. John Cisna, a school teacher from Iowa, ate only at McDonald’s for three whole months and managed to lose 37 pounds (16 kilograms)! He even made a short documentary on his experiences. John’s project was inspired by the 2004 documentary film, Supersize Me. It featured an […]
Guy Goes from Average to Ripped in Just Six Weeks
It took Spencer Matthews only six weeks to transform himself from a lumpy, regular guy to a Men’s Health model. The phenomenal transformation wasn’t easy at all. His secrets – kangaroo diets and grueling workouts. “I’ve just managed to get to be a Men’s Health model in six weeks and I can’t believe I’ve done it,” […]
The Cotton Ball Diet – A Dangerous Weight-Loss Trend
I thought the Tapeworm diet was as bad as weight loss fads could get, but I was mistaken. Desperate dieters keep coming up with new, innovative methods to shed pounds. The latest trend is to eat cotton balls soaked in orange juice, lemonade or smoothies. It’s all over the internet. Chat rooms, YouTube videos and […]
Sport Scientist Loses 24 Pounds in 24 Hours, Proves Rapid Weight Loss Is Possible
Ross Edgeley may become everyone’s new best friend after he recently demonstrated that gaining weight doesn’t have everything to do with fat. The 28-year-old sport scientist and writer did an experiment to prove that “your nutrition and self esteem shouldn’t be governed by the weighing scales if you’re on a diet. So many people are slaves […]
Morbidly Obese Man Loses 115 Kilograms, Becomes Professional Fitness Trainer
By working out and kicking his drinking habit, 31-year-old Mike Waudby, a former morbidly obese man from Kingston upon Hull, England, lost a staggering 18st – about 115kg, in just 18 months Excited about his accomplishment and determined to maintain his new physique Mike weighed 33st (209kg) has become a professional fitness trainer. Mike’s weight problems started […]
Stink Yourself Slim – The Disgusting Fragrance That Will Keep You Away from Food
Like most people concerned about their eating habits and trying to lose weight, Alex Fontaine, an award-winning businesswoman, had tried virtually every diet ever invented. From hypnotherapy, acupuncture to “a flotation tank with whale music – which was lovely, but still didn’t do the trick,” you name it, she had tried them all, but with […]
Japan’s Long Breath Diet – A Breath of Fresh Air in the Weight-Loss Business
What would you say if I told you losing those extra pounds is as easy as taking a nice long breath and exhaling for just 2 minutes a day? Only it’s not me who is saying it, it’s Miki Ryosuke, a Japanese actor turned dieting guru and inventor of the famous Long Breath Diet. Miki Ryosuke […]
46-Year-Old Korean Mom Proves Weight Loss and Fitness Really Do Turn Back the Clock
It’s hard to believe the woman in the photo below is actually 46-year-old and a mother of two. Jung Da Yeon is known as momjjang ajumma in her native land of South Korea which means “mom with a striking figure”, and it’s easy to see why. But Jung Da Yeon didn’t always look like this. In 2003, after going […]
Patch Sewn onto the Tongue Makes Solid Food Intolerable for Dieters
How far would you go to lose weight? In Venezuela, beauty-conscious women who don’t have the willpower to go on a diet have plastic patches the size of a postage stamp sewn onto their tongues, which makes the consumption of solid foods extremely painful. The so-called “Miracle Patch” weight loss method was invented in 2009, by Nikolas […]