My neighbour Christie is upset with me! She is an avid reader of this blog (thanks Christie!) and feels I am sending out the wrong message by advising people to use pharmaceuticals to achieve their weight loss. First of all people, I am not giving anybody any advice, right? And if pharmaceuticals help us to become more healthy, more confident, more fit, my question is 'why not'?
Christie honey, Sue and Latisha and I are not just jumping the pharmaceutical route. God knows we have lived in the Zone, Atkinned ourselves to high cholesterol, and South Beached ourselves to empty wallets. I have tried the cabbage soup diet, the grapefruit diet, the Hollywood miracle detox diet. I have been good friends with Jenny Craig, cleansed my colon and popped Acai berry pills all day long. Now, if after all this, I still cannot get my weight under control, can you blame me for getting a little help? A boost? And since you have been following my blog, you do know that we are all making lifestyle changes as well (except for Ms. Latisha!).
All we are doing is getting a little help from the pros.
I envy all the gorgeous spokespersons and models in the fitness and diet ads. They have the glossiest hair, the whitest teeth and the latest designer duds. They look so beautiful and fit and tanned while they ski down scenic slopes, or hike on magnificent mountain trails, or swim in bright blue oceans or tan on pristine white beaches. While I would so love to do that, by the time I deal with my job, my family, the children's homework, their laundry, the cooking, the dirty dishes, 'dating my husband' (as all the marriage advisors say I must!), and visiting my parents and friends, I am too pooped to do anything but flop on the sofa, remote in hand. (Unless my husband has beat me to it, in which case I do not even have the energy to try and wrestle it from him).
So my question to Christie is this: Is it too awful for an ordinary, working wife and mother to look to pharmaceuticals to jumpstart her weight loss? I honestly think not.
What say you?
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Marcie, your friend Christie needs a reality check ! There is just so much that a girl can do, by way of eating healthy, avoiding all her favorite foods and killing herself trying to work out -- when she would actually kill to collapse in front of the TV. Of course you need a little boost -- and what is wrong with taking a bit of help from Sibutramine or Orlistat? These are tried and trusted meds, and they just give you that teeny bit of encouragement that you need, to get you doing and prove to yourself that you CAN do it. Who decides, anyway, that all pharmaceutical help is bad? Wouldnt you take an aspirin if you had a headache ? Why not take some Meridia if it helps to you to become slim and healthy ?
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