I think it’s time — past time in my case! — to get serious about losing the weight put on over the holidays, how about you? Ah, who am I kidding? I’ve been fat all my life, and I probably won’t change radically at this point.
Does that sound pessimistic? Cynical? I suppose it is to some extent. In reality, if I just cut back a bit on those late-night snacks and got up and outside to walk regularly every day, I could probably lose much of the excess baggage.
I got started on all this when I was doing some research online about a “diet pill” called Ephedrasil hardcore. It caught my attention because it was such an odd name. That particular product, from the review I read, is supposedly pretty new and the reviewer had little information about it.
All that started me thinking about the various diet pills, nutritional supplements, and odd programs I’ve tried from time to time to lose weight. Once, I had a doctor (this was in the late 1960s) tell me I absolutely had to get the weight off. He gave me a rigid but “doable” diet, along with a prescription for some tiny purple diet pills. I was to take one of these little pills each day at noon.
Wow, what a great diet plan. I felt incredible. I’d never felt so energetic and alert. I was really tearing up the course work at school and constantly felt vigorous and active. Then I discovered those tiny pills were amphetamines of some sort.
Since the Bible school I was attending frowned on such drugs, whether prescribed or not, I quietly flushed the pills. The diet itself went away a month or two later.
But, hey, seems to me it’s time to get serious about losing the holiday weight for now. I guess.