# Weird Ways to Lose Weight

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-ways-to-lose-weight/353045>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 17, 2006, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-ways-to-lose-weight/353045 "2006-04-17T19:17:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![No\_longer\_shall\_I\_lurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9e8a1a/32.png) [@No\_longer\_shall\_I\_lurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/No_longer_shall_I_lurk)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-ways-to-lose-weight/353045/41 "2006-04-19T00:32:38Z")

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Of course, the next step in my little plan is how we can combine these into an extreme regime of laziness. Obviously some steps conflict with others (I’m not sure heroin and aids mix all that well with giving blood or falling in love and then splitting up, but then again I’ve never done aids.)

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**Author:** ![Gladstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/90db22/32.png) [@Gladstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gladstone)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-ways-to-lose-weight/353045/42 "2006-04-19T00:46:54Z")

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Tape worm. Though, according to [this site](http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0415clay15.html), it could cause cysts in certain parts of your body and also cause you to develop ascites - or an accumulation of fluid in your abdominal cavity.

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**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-ways-to-lose-weight/353045/43 "2006-04-19T01:07:24Z")

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Use your way back machine and become a Japanese prison of war during WWII.  
You will get scary skinny fast.  
Side benefit, you will get over any picky eating concerns you have, since it is grubs or die.  
(I just read the book Ghost Soldiers about the survivors of the Battan Death March and how they were rescued. I have strong stomach, but I don’t know if I could have eaten some of the things they did to stay alive)(great book BTW)  
Combine your POW status with Malaria, and dysentery and you have hit the weight loss trifecta.

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