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Have You Heard About This New Tongue-Patch Diet? | Lesley @ xoJane

I don’t know that I have to explain why I find this so distressing. I mean, I don’t want to get judgey, but if you’re resorting to what is essentially surgically-implanted chronic self-injury to lose weight, that signals a problem to me. This patch works because it causes you pain if you try to eat solid food, and something about that makes me really troubled.