Lose Weight NOW! (or in a year or so)

Let's get REAL for a moment. Americans are way to obsessed with numbers! Age and weight are the two that spring to mind. Credit score is another, but unlike age and weight, credit scores can be useful in the lower ranges.

I am 32 years old, 5 feet one inch tall, and weigh 177 lbs. That's right! And it's NOT a lie. And I feel good! When I was 19 years old and the thinnest I have ever been, getting ready to join the Air Force and dating guys who would tell me I could stand to gain a few pounds, I weighed (hold on to you hats) 140 pounds. Don't ask me how. I've tried all kinds of excuses. "I'm big boned?" "I have more muscle tone?" "I wear more than a C cup bra?" The truth of the matter is, that I don't believe any of that. I think everyone else is just LYING! Peer pressure can be a debilitating force.

I won't play along anymore. My numbers don't matter to me in the least. Yes, I go to the gym because it makes me feel great. And yes, I did weigh myself. How else would I know what my number was? I'm only slightly interested in losing weight, and not for weight sake but for jee-whiz - something substantial to grab onto. Also the treadmill won't tell me what my peak heart rate is unless I enter my age and weight. In the interest of accuracy, I stepped on the scale.

The truth is that my target weight is 150 pounds. That probably sounds ridiculous to anyone who believes the hype and that actresses who stand 5'11" tall, actually drop to 90 pounds for a role. For a ROLL yes, they would be starving, but 90 pounds should be what we, as a society, consider ridiculous. It's called, malnourished, not thin. It's the truth. We should be interested in TRUTH, shouldn't we?

Here's some more dirty truth. It is unhealthy to lose a LOT of weight in a little time. People have lost sight of what is reasonable when it comes to weight loss. If you stop allowing yourself to be duped by propaganda, if you put on your "bullshit filter," if you will, then all you will hear is that the only true weight loss system that works is diet and exercise AND that it is unreasonable to lose more than 2 pounds a month. No matter what the biggest loser is doing (other than promoting unhealthy weight loss).

BULLSHIT ALERT!! Please dawn FILTER....

<--- IT'S A COMPUTER IMAGE! If the people aren't real, neither is the weight loss.... PERIOD!

SERIOUSLY? This computer wasn't just faking weight loss, it was simulating weight loss in a zero gravity chamber.

Hey Sweet thang, you're not special. I can buy pants three sizes too big too. And I might if it meant making $15 per bottle for a bunch of herbal "diet" pills. Then again, I would have to transform WHO I am... into someone dishonest.

(Side note: Joking aside, if you want to change who you are, you need a psychologist, not a diet.)