Is there some chronic disease, that you could deliberately infect yourself with, to help you lose weight?

There use to be a pill they offered by mail order a hundred and twenty years ago.
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.It was a tapeworm egg, guaranteed weight loss or they would send you another one.

Yeah. A tapeworm would work. You could pick that up by eating uncooked insects. But it’s a LOT worse than just weight loss.

You could try to get imprisoned in America. Inmates routinely are malnourished, and typically lose weight. All there is to do, is work out…

If you go the tapeworm route then make sure that you use the right species of tapeworm in which the tapeworm treats you like the definitive host and not the intermediate host.

For example stay clear of Echinococcis species. You will become the intermediate host. Tapeworm eggs hatch into larvae that will migrate from your gut into your blood stream and eventually create large cysts (Hydatid cysts) throughout your body including your brain. You’ll likely lose weight but also suffer unimaginable agony.

Be sure you are not constipated; that hinders weight loss.

Decide that you need to control absolutely everything in your life and the world around you and develop obsessive compulsive disorders to the point where you stop eating. (anorexia nervosa). Visit websites of fellow ‘sufferers’ to compare notes and pictures to glorify the disorder. It’s the most deadly of mental illnesses, so I absolutely do not recommend it. You may lose weight, but you will add a horrible new meaning to the phrase, ‘Dying to be thin.’

Have a terrible break up.

^^^^ Yep. That’ll do it. Lots of stress in other areas will do it too.