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Anyone ever try Ear Acupuncture w/ magnets?

Colombianchick29
Colombianchick29 Posts: 298 Member
I am trying this new technique my friend used. She lost 8 pounds in 2 weeks and 2 inches in 3 weeks. The DOC put's magnets in your ears just like acupunture. He also gives you this strict diet to follow. Well, I am supposed to go back today ( after 1 week). I FAILED at the diet. It said no fruites, only cooked veggies, no drinks w/ sugar only unsweetened, no yogurt or cereal....things I just could not follow! Just wanted to know if anyone else has tried it, and if they had any result without following the diet, and just eating healthy?

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  • FredDoyle
    FredDoyle Posts: 2,272 Member
    The magnets are a sure sign of pseudoscientific nonsense.
    The diet probably has you at a calorie deficit, in which case you will lose weight.
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    The magnets are a sure sign of pseudoscientific nonsense.
    The diet probably has you at a calorie deficit, in which case you will lose weight.

    This.

    If the diet doesn't work for you just find a way that gives you a calorie deficit that does.
  • YaGigi
    YaGigi Posts: 817 Member
    I'm a hard acupuncture fan. My doctor puts some gold needles in some spots to help me with some problems, not just weight loss but also migraines, stress and asthma.

    She also does acupuncture on my body to shape it in certain way. The areas she does that technique acupuncture loses weight more. And I usually have problems with losing weight in my thighs and around knees and that's where she focuses the most. I can totally see the results. I combine it with ozone therapy and massages.

    My family has been going to this doctor for long time, maybe 20 years or so. She's a good professional. Can not comment on other doctors.
  • FredDoyle
    FredDoyle Posts: 2,272 Member
    I'm a hard acupuncture fan. My doctor puts some gold needles in some spots to help me with some problems, not just weight loss but also migraines, stress and asthma.

    She also does acupuncture on my body to shape it in certain way. The areas she does that technique acupuncture loses weight more. And I usually have problems with losing weight in my thighs and around knees and that's where she focuses the most. I can totally see the results. I combine it with ozone therapy and massages.

    My family has been going to this doctor for long time, maybe 20 years or so. She's a good professional. Can not comment on other doctors.
    So you can spot reduce fat with acupuncture?
    That is an interesting claim...
  • Colombianchick29
    Colombianchick29 Posts: 298 Member
    Thanks everyone!!! I appreciate the comments! At $15 a week for weigh in and new magnets...which would be about $60 a week, I figure I'm better off joining the weight watchers p[rogram at work for $40 a month LOL
  • FredDoyle
    FredDoyle Posts: 2,272 Member
    Thanks everyone!!! I appreciate the comments! At $15 a week for weigh in and new magnets...which would be about $60 a week, I figure I'm better off joining the weight watchers p[rogram at work for $40 a month LOL
    Good choice!
    New magnets every week?! What a racket. I wonder what they claim demagnetizes them. Must be all the negative chi or something...oh wait. That doesn't exist.
  • sunsnstatheart
    sunsnstatheart Posts: 2,544 Member
    I tried juggling chainsaws while riding a unicycle once . . .
  • nickgarner6
    nickgarner6 Posts: 106 Member
    I tried juggling chainsaws while riding a unicycle once . . .

    That is for cutting not bulking I take it?
  • YaGigi
    YaGigi Posts: 817 Member
    I'm a hard acupuncture fan. My doctor puts some gold needles in some spots to help me with some problems, not just weight loss but also migraines, stress and asthma.

    She also does acupuncture on my body to shape it in certain way. The areas she does that technique acupuncture loses weight more. And I usually have problems with losing weight in my thighs and around knees and that's where she focuses the most. I can totally see the results. I combine it with ozone therapy and massages.

    My family has been going to this doctor for long time, maybe 20 years or so. She's a good professional. Can not comment on other doctors.
    So you can spot reduce fat with acupuncture?
    That is an interesting claim...

    You can get lots of things with acupuncture and solve many health problems. If its done right.
  • Colombianchick29
    Colombianchick29 Posts: 298 Member
    I tried juggling chainsaws while riding a unicycle once . . .

    LOL
  • FredDoyle
    FredDoyle Posts: 2,272 Member
    I'm a hard acupuncture fan. My doctor puts some gold needles in some spots to help me with some problems, not just weight loss but also migraines, stress and asthma.

    She also does acupuncture on my body to shape it in certain way. The areas she does that technique acupuncture loses weight more. And I usually have problems with losing weight in my thighs and around knees and that's where she focuses the most. I can totally see the results. I combine it with ozone therapy and massages.

    My family has been going to this doctor for long time, maybe 20 years or so. She's a good professional. Can not comment on other doctors.
    So you can spot reduce fat with acupuncture?
    That is an interesting claim...

    You can get lots of things with acupuncture and solve many health problems. If its done right.
    Another claim.
  • slkehl
    slkehl Posts: 3,801 Member
    So you can spot reduce fat with acupuncture?
    That is an interesting claim...

    You can get lots of things with acupuncture and solve many health problems. If its done right.

    Must be pure sorcery!
  • professorRAT
    professorRAT Posts: 690 Member
    I tried juggling chainsaws while riding a unicycle once . . .

    That is for cutting not bulking I take it?

    Ba dum bum. Well played. :drinker:
  • I'm currently doing the Nutreasy diet which consists of ear magnets and low carb eating. Within one month of dieting I've lost 13 pounds and 3 inches off my waist. My last weigh in I didn't lose any weight so the doctor advanced me to a different diet that is even more strict then the beginning. My body became adjusted to the way I was eating so I stopped losing weight. I hope I continue to lose weight.
  • I am a current user if these hollistic magnets. THEY WORK! I lost 30lbs the first month and then I hit plateau. Been 5 months and I've lost 45lbs. You have to follow the list they give you. Basically nothing but meats and veggies. Only hibiscus tea to drink w no sugar or diet sweetener. You can drink coffee but w no creamer (although I do put half and half in mine but only about 2tbs)
    Food can be fried and the more protein you eat the more you will lose. REALLY!! I go to a man in South Gate but he has a clinic in Anaheim and Santa Ana as well. $60 a month. Give it a try. If you follow, you will lose from 6-10 pounds in two weeks.
  • Is that with carlos
  • quirkytizzy
    quirkytizzy Posts: 4,052 Member
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    ........yeah, I got nothin.
  • ThePlight
    ThePlight Posts: 3,593 Member
    At first I thought you were asking about a new "piercing" method.
  • AlongCame_Molly
    AlongCame_Molly Posts: 2,835 Member
    Soooo...he gives you a strict diet to follow? Then what are the magnets for?

    Hack alert.
  • DanIsACyclingFool
    DanIsACyclingFool Posts: 417 Member
    :huh:

    oh, well. I can't save everyone. It does make me weep for the human race, though. :noway:
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