Feeding tube diet: Would you do it?
Lanell Fagan was never someone who could be called fat, but the 46-year-old Singer Island woman wanted to lose about 20 pounds. She said the excess weight was causing health problems.
"After so many failed attempts at dieting and going away to different centers -- 'sprinkle this, eat at this time,' -- I couldn't do it."
That's when a friend told Fagan about a Miami doctor named Oliver DiPietro, who told Fagan he could help her quickly lose the weight with something called the K-E diet. It stands for ketogenic nutrition, and it's simple. It lasts 10 days and for that time, you don't eat. You get everything through a feeding tube.
"You feel nothing," Fagan said. "Honestly."
The feeding tube is hooked up to a bag which supplies a constant drip of protein and fat. It's 800 calories per day with zero carbohydrates.
"Your hunger and appetite go away completely so patients are absolutely not hungry at all for the whole 10 days," DiPietro said.
Fagan said that's the truth.
"On the third day, I woke as if nothing had happened, no tube, no nothing," she said. "And I felt so sharp, so on. My energy was through the roof."
Fagan lost 14 pounds in the 10 days and said she's never felt better. But not everybody is enamored with the K-E diet.
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