I just have to vent today.
If I see one more ad that screams “Fat Melts Off” or “Weight FELL Off….” or…..”Losing weight was SO easy!” — I am going to vomit up my chocolate chip cookie dough.
I am here to tell you – there is NO easy way to lose weight. You already know this, don’t you?
Even if someone were to have that gastric bypass thing…..ummm, that’s major surgery and I think it’s probably not fun – so that’s not easy.
Counting calories is not easy. I don’t even have the math skills or time for that. Fuggedaboutit.
Hardcore workouts are not easy. My workouts consist of walking.
Eating nuts and berries is not easy. As a pre-diabetic, I can tell you….no one can live on just nuts and berries. Not even Grizzly Adams.
BILLIONS are spent each year on weight loss pills, potions, lotions, surgeries….
Now…..do I understand that excess weight is unhealthy? No duh. Yes….I do.
But an “easy” way to lose weight. It does not exist. Look at the contestants on “The Biggest Loser”!
I wouldn’t last 12 minutes with Jillian Michaels screaming at me. (She’s fit, gorgeous and scary as hell!) Those people are on stringent plans…..every bite is monitored…they work out for HOURS every day!!
So….my weight loss theory is that there is NO theory. There is no EASY way to lose weight. We’d all be thin, healthy super models if weight loss was easy and the route to it was always healthy.
Yes, people have medical conditions that make them gain weight and meds that make them gain weight. I don’t discount this. Of course not. That’s beyond my scope – and beyond what I am ranting about today. My beef is with the ads that make weight loss sound “magical”. I’d like to ram a unicorn horn up their booties.
Calories in and calories out people. I like Twinkies just as much as the next person….but if I eat them and proceed to sit on my ass all the time…..I will gain weight. ‘Nuff said.
