Once in a while I read some of my junk e-mails when they look interesting like the ones that say “buy phentermine“. They go on in the ad about how it’s a safe appetite suppressant, and with diet and exercise it will help you lose weight. Now I don’t know how true this is because I’ve never used it, but they had an ad for the over the counter diet pill that advertised to buy 3 bottles and get one free. That was a 120 day supply of 240 caplets. Now I did the math on this, and that means I would have to take two pills a day. Now I think it’s kind of funny when I read anything that tells me that you have to take a lot of pills to lose weight because I remember when I was a kid watching the cartoons. I am sure you know the ones that when they had to lose a little weight they would have a pill on their dish, and everyone else had food.
Why do so many companies have to be on the diet wagon?
Tags: ad, cartoon, diet, pills, weight loss
The one thing that I’ve noticed since I lost a lot of the weight that I needed to lose is that over the past few years how I still feel like I’m really big. When I told this to one of my friends, who is a little heavier than me, she told me that it’s not that I’m big, but how I carry my weight. I also thought what does she mean by that. She says, and I quote, in her case she is fat all over, and that’s why she looks thinner, where I’m all belly, and look heavier. Even though I diet, walk and do a little cardio I do need to fit in a good ab workout to help me get rid of the rest of the belly fat. The only reason that I believe anything she says is because she reads a lot of those diet books, and has been losing weight too. She also has given me good advice before. Who knows maybe she’s onto something. I guess the only way to find out is by trying it, even if it’s the one thing I so hate much.
When I go for my daily walks I run into a lot of people that ask me if walking is how I lost a lot of weight. I tell them that it helps, but that I had to change my eating habits too. You can always tell that it’s what they don’t want to hear. I lost weight by diet, and exercise. Just so you know… there is no quick weight loss. What I’ve learned over the past two years is that if you want something then you have to work at it. I also know that it’s not fun, but I will say I look and feel ten times better than I did two years ago. It also is a learning thing for me because I did slip out of my routine for a little while to take a break, and I found out how fast you can gain weight back if you don’t maintain, and keep up with how you do things. All I can say is that there is no quick fix once you lose what you want to lose, and if you stop working at it and go back to your old ways it will come back faster then it came off. Someone once told me that for things to change you must change. I’ve learned this is true whether or not I like it.
Tags: diet, exercise, habit, weight loss
