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Hi. Charlie here. Sorry about that. But as I scour the interwebs looking for news, stories, and things to write about, I can’t help but click on the occasional ad. Every time I look at one I’m reminded of my favorite Charlie Brown line ever: “I don’t mind your dishonesty half as much as I mind your opinion of me.” I have to ask myself, who buys this stuff? Because obviously someone is buying it, or they wouldn’t keep selling it.
Then I really start to think it through and I feel bad. I know exactly who buys this. The people who are fed up, or lost, or who have “tried everything” and are desperate for something—for anything—to work. The ads invariably give guarantees, but the only thing guaranteed is another failure.
I don’t have an answer or a funny joke, because I think this stuff is sad and there’s very little I can do about it, other than whine. I’m definitely good at that. Does anyone know anyone who’s purchased any miracle diet pills? Anyone tried it yourself? Any stories to tell? I’m sure some of these products have to work on some level, or they wouldn’t keep on selling their snake oil. All I know is I don’t know anyone.
How about you?
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on October 23, 2008 at 12:17 am
Hi Charlie~ A girl I used to work with started taking fen-phen. She lost weight, but started having heart problems. It scared the crap out of her because she had 2 small children. I don’t trust any kind of pill. And what about those…don’t know what they are exactly, but you swallow them with a glass of water and they expand in your stomach so you fill full. That doesn’t even sound right. I’d be afraid it’d expand to much and my stomach would burst. I guess I’m just to paranoid to take something to help me lose weight. I’d rather stay the way I am if I can’t do it just through diet and exercise. Which I have proven over and over and over I can. Once I stop procrastinating that is. (Is there a pill for that?) I also have to learn how to stop gaining it back.
on October 23, 2008 at 4:38 am
Oooh lettuce sandwiches. On white bread even. Sounds delish! haha.
on October 23, 2008 at 8:42 am
All your thoughts are so true!
on October 23, 2008 at 11:03 am
That’s just the thing. If you do anything, i.e., Atkins, Weight Watchers, the Zone, whatever it is, and you burn more calories by exercise and eat less, you are going to lose weight!
Whatever you stick with is your miracle diet!
Thanks for the post Charlie!
on October 23, 2008 at 11:27 am
Maybe that’s the pill we need, Vicki. Not to help us lose weight but to not gain it all back.
on October 23, 2008 at 9:42 pm
In my younger and dumber days every time I tried to lose some weight I’d go buy the latest and greates diet pill at GNC. Now I realize all I did is flush my money down the drain. Theres only one way to lose weight and thats with exercise and good food. The problem is that you can’t write a $30 book about that or put it in pill form.
on October 23, 2008 at 11:59 pm
The only pill I can confess to is red cider vinegar pill. I once had an evil baby sitter as a chubby pre-teen who would make me drink red cider vinegar shots straight up to help me lose weight. When I was a little older I thought, “Hey, you don’t even have to drink the vinegar anymore. Now you can take a pill with all the vinegar type stuff in it!”.
And yeah, it was a total waste of money.
on October 24, 2008 at 4:16 am
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on October 24, 2008 at 5:11 am
The “Green Dieter’s Tea” that is sold in health foods stores and Whole Foods is one of those miracle weight loss plans. It causes severe GI distress followed by . . . evacuation. Which, if you could stand to drink it every day (doubtful) might cause you to lose weight because none of your food would be absorbed.
But, the GI distress is very unpleasant.
on October 24, 2008 at 8:46 am
My girlfriend at work tried the “tea” you mentioned. She asked if I wanted some. However, she warned me to do it at home and be close to a bathroom! No thanks!
on October 28, 2008 at 12:37 am
Charlie, I am the typical, “I just know this will work this time” person. I have done the pills (Licopene, Hydrowhatever, Coral Calicum, Fastin, Atkins, BodyForLife) You name it I have drank it, eaten it, or taken it. Recently I checked into gastric bypass…. I am now on a healthy program, Weight Watchers, and have good role models, (son,daughter, bloggers like Roni) and I have seen great results….but my key is that this is NOT a gimmick, it is a way of life, one that I can stay with. and no I am not a spokesperson for WW lol. I enjoy your humor and if we cant chuckle at ourselves we are in deep dodo.
on October 29, 2008 at 5:02 am
Funny, but sad post. I remember ordering Richard Simmons Deal a Meal, how old am I, for those of you that have never heard of it! A group of us at work, also many moons ago, tried the cabbage soup diet. LOL talk about intestinal problems. The diet only lasted a day. The intestinal problems much longer! I think I ordered Chitosan pills. Anybody have a bridge they want to sell?
on October 29, 2008 at 6:21 am
Just the sound of “Cabbage Soup diet” gives me intestinal problems…
on November 25, 2008 at 12:05 am
I’ve never done pills, but I understand why people have. Everyone wants a quick fix, and the hope of one being there is very tempting.
Great post………………..:)