Diet Review: The K-E Diet

So I thought it may be interesting to do a review every once in a while on a diet I have heard about and tried, or have been intrigued by, but cannot try do to financial or other restrictions.  I thought I would start about this fun diet called the K-E Diet.  If you haven't heard of it, you can check out the brochure here or go to the diet's website.  I strongly recommend both for some great reading and video.   
In short, the diet works by having a small feeding tube, about the size of spaghetti, inserted into your nose and down into your stomach.  You then go home, mix a solution of proteins and fats which are then fed to you over the course of 10 days.  You can drink water, but consume nothing else.  The beauty of this diet is that you won't feel hungry at all because you are constantly "eating" through the tube.  As the brochure says, "all you need to do in order to see the dramatic results in 10 days" is stick the tube up your nose and pay $1500 (don't worry, though, with food costing almost $20 a day, you are really only paying $1300 after you save $200 in food costs). 

The bizarre thing about this diet is that the brochure indicates that most patients lose one percent of their weight in 10 days.  One percent does not seem worth sticking a tube down your nose.  If you weigh 200 pounds, one percent is only 2 pounds.  There are other things you can do to lose two pounds that are not nearly as painful and can take from a few minutes to a day or two:  get a hair cut, don't eat for a day, drink water instead of Diet Coke, take the stairs instead of the elevator.

I've got to think this one percent claim is some kind of typo, as it claims you can lose between 20 and 30 pounds if you follow the diet perfectly (that seems more like 10 percent to me).  Either way, the diet promises that after the 10 days you will be "20 pounds lighter [and] will be in the perfect place to continue a more healthy relationship with your food."

Now, personally, I think that it is my "relationship" with food that is the problem in the first place.  What I need is not have a relationship with food.  I need to be in a position where I poke food in the eye when it comes knocking at my door, not inviting it in for ice cream and cake.  But then again, what do I know.  The people pictured in that brochure sure seem skinny and happy . . . .