Ear stapling for weight loss is all the rage here.

[Maddy McCall]

People of ALL AGES, all backgrounds, are going to a little clinic in Collins, Mississippi, to get their ears stapled.

Here's a photo of a stapled ear:



Can you say OUCH!

My best friend's parents both went for stapling--and they are in the late 60s and 70s. Her dad now has a nasty infection in his cartilage and had to get the staples removed. Her mom seems to be eating less--but I wonder.

I went to get my hair cut today, and there was a lady in the chair when I got there, talking about having her ears stapled. Ok. She said that her weight is fluctuating and she can't tell if it's doing any good yet.

All through this, I'm thinking WHAT THE FUCK!?

It seems to me that most people who lose weight while their ears are stapled would have lost it anyway--that having their ears stapled is just one step in the grand decision to lose weight. Or maybe it just hurts like hell to chew. :shrug:

If people have their ears stapled and DON'T lose weight, it isn't because the nurse stapled their ear in the wrong place (off of the "pressure point," which is what people who don't lose weight say, then they go back to get another staple in each ear, and they have to pay AGAIN.). It's because they haven't changed the way they eat, and because they are sedentary.

What a ridiculous fad. I do my own version of Adkins when I put on extra poundage, and I have little trouble taking it off...Indeed, I'm doing it right now. I'll be where I want to be, weight-wise, by the end of May. (I put on weight doing my academic work--found myself sitting on the couch, reading 18 hours a day, eating Cheez-Its and drinking Mountain Dews as if there were no tomorrow. Now that I'm through with that part of my work, I put the snacks and soda down, and I have time to cook nutritious meals. I'm back outdoors, exercising, hustling here and there. So my lifestyle is back to where it was--and my waistline will be soon, too.)

What I won't do is go pay someone $60 to staple my ears--it just seems like acupuncture gone awry. (And I do believe that acupuncture works, if the person doing it is trained to do it.) What we have here in Mississippi is a woman who hasn't been trained to do any kind of acupuncture, who is injecting staples in people's ears, making loads of money to do it (news stories have shown people lined up outside her clinic, waiting in line to be stapled).

I guess I just don't get it. If anyone can give me a reason to see this differently, I'll certainly listen.