Snake Oil Salesmen

The weight loss industry is probably one of the most lucrative markets in the United States.  We're so image conscious that we latch onto their products always in search of the miracle thing that will conform us from Average Joes or Janes to the images we see on magazines or on the movie screen.  And while some are good and give us good information, others are no more than Snake Oil Salesmen full of empty promises and endless pipe dreams.

Beware the media.  It's full of dangerous contradictions.

We have the fast food industry telling us how to get more for our dollar - just supersize it.  It's biggie this, monster that, the bigger the better.  Some food companies even have the audacity to claim that their food can be the source of happiness. 

Then in the very next commercial we have this weight loss program or that, telling us how we can lose weight quick, be happy, be better just by taking their pills or following their fad diets or programs.  Some even have the nerve to tell us we can eat all we want and still lose weight.  We don't even have to exercise.

It kinda makes me mad to be honest with you.  People are trying to make a buck out of playing on our emotions.  Losing weight is such a slow, agonizing process that it is so tempting to reach for that fix it quick scheme.  And people have died from those schemes, like Phen Fen and Ephedra.  Even gastric bypass surgery sometimes has it's severe complications. 

So as we maneuver our way through this obstacle course of media temptations, let's resolve to keep one goal in the forefront.  We are already people of value, it doesn't take a size 4 dress to prove it.  We are already happy, it doesn't take a super biggie monster hamburger with a side of greasy fries to do it.  We are worth being taken care of just the way we'd take care of our loved ones, and they deserve us to be healthy and happy no matter how long it takes us to get there.

Let's steer clear of the Snake Oil Salesmen.  

Exercise - Walked 1 mile

Dec. Calories spent 22,070 = projected 6.30lbs lost (5 actual lbs lost)