Hampus Lager (you can't make this up), a 28-year-old in Sweden, decided to try the device when he just couldn't lose weight using other methods. "Because I had been trying so many years to lose, nothing had really worked even when I was working out hard and eating little food," he said.  Right, eating less totally didn't work, but pumping food out of the stomach did. Anything at all, except to actually eat less.