“New Diet Drug Touches Off Feeding Frenzy”
Snipped from LATimes.com.
For anyone who wants to make billions of dollars, your best bet is to market a diet drug. People go crazy for the stuff. I came across this article and was intrigued by the hysterical pursusit of the perfect weight loss drug. It was reported in the article that no sooner than the Santa Monica Walgreen’s put their new weight loss product, Alli, on the shelf, that it was gone in four hours. And, mind you, this was at $60 a pop. People couldn’t grab it fast enough. With a myriad of side effects, guess what was the only question asked about the drug?
“Will it work?” That’s all these diet crazy consumers are thinking about. The store’s pharmacy manager was struck by the fact that they were unfazed by the drug maker’s warnings. He said this was the only question they asked. This, of course, is in the city where thinness is worshipped and pursued with a vengeance.
But this is the thing that really made me laugh outloud — the drug evidently works by blocking the absorption of about 25% of fat in your diet. Since the side effects are nasty and really would be better avoided, the drug maker’s literature advises that in order to minimize the side effects, you should reduce your fat and calorie intake. Isn’t that hysterical?! If the people who bought the diet drug would reduce their fat and calories to begin with, they wouldn’t need the damn pills.
Here is a portion of the article.
The latest diet pill is being rolled out across the country this week by manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline. The company’s website, myalli.com, and literature offer the potential for greater weight loss than dieting alone if you do everything right and a warning of extraordinarily unpleasant and embarrassing side effects if you don’t.
In a theoretical 3,000 calorie-a-day diet with about 100 grams of fat, the drug would eliminate about 225 calories.
But it can also result in what the manufacturer describes as loose stools and gas with an oily discharge. “It’s probably a smart idea to wear dark pants, and bring a change of clothes with you to work,” the drug’s official website says.
Wear dark pants?! Holy hell, that’s disgusting! I would rather be obese than have to constantly change my pants due to an oily discharge… If you would like to read the full article click the image below.
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Instead of wearing dark pants, how about these people buy and insert a butt plug?
Ha ha ha ha! You had me laughing out load over here. Good one.
A Carrot or Stick Weight-loss Plan. My old weight-reduction plan is like this weight-loss plan I read about this past week. Similar. Except theirs is an all “carrots” motivator, no “stick.” And there’s reward money. Their study found that people will lose weight for money. At least $7, too, I guess. //A kind of exchange rate of English body pounds for U.S. dollars// Pay as you lose. You pay yourself for weight lost on any kind of diet or just pay yourself when you lose weight when you cut back on your food intake. The study was aimed at your employer paying you to lose weight! No weight-loss drug with this plan.
The study was first published in the September issue of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Lead author: Eric A. Finkelstein. Co-authors: Laura Linnan and Deborah Tate. U. of N.C. The study: 200 overweight employees of schools in N.C. were divided into 3 groups. The no-money group individuals lost 2 pounds; the other two groups, given $7 and $14 lost respectively, 3 pounds, 5 pounds after 3 months.
That would be what I call the “all carrot of a stick and carrot diet.” To do this to yourself, you’ll probably need to find someone willing to foot the bill, willing to pay you while you cut the grocery bill and lose weight.
Okay. Here’s my stick-or-carrot weight-reduction plan. There’s no weird drug involved like the one Unum describes in her above article. Buy a bunch of 4×6 blank index cards. 1) Make a separate pile, enter cards with a desc of something you want. Like, baby wants a new pair of shoes. Or a trip to the beach. If possible, also glue or tape a cutout advert illustration of that and affix to that card. Make up many of these I-want-good-stuff cards.
2) Make up a separate stack of I-hate-to-do cards. Like, clean out bottom of my closet and vacuum or mop the bottom floor of closet. Find an advert illustration of a closet. Make up more I-hate cards. Now you have two separate piles of cards. Add additional cards whenever you want.
3) Now once a month if you lose at least 2 pounds, shut your eyes and, at random, pick a carrot reward card from first pile. However, if you gain 2 or more pounds, pick at random a card from the chore “stick” cards from second pile. No matter what, you must take the card you selected and do the card NOW!
I don’t guarantee that my Carrot-or-Stick weight plus or minus scheme will work. It didn’t work for me. O fat is me!
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