I was in line at the grocery store the other day and this headline caught my eye: “The Female Fat Cure: Drop 85lbs by Christmas”. My heart skipped a beat. Really???!!!??? A cure for being fat? Could this finally be IT?
Isn’t it funny? I’ve been working in the weight loss feild for 12 years. I know a lot about nutrition, wellness, health, and most importantly, healthy approaches to weight loss. Shouldn’t headlines like this make me simply chuckle and move on? They should. But they don’t. I still get that rush – that glimmer of hope that MAYBE, I can eat crappy and still be at a healthy weight.
But it just isn’t so. Even this particular article is basically encouraging lots and lots of veggies and easy on everything else. They just led with a crazy hype-filled headline to get those of us with weight struggles to buy it.
Oh… did I mention I bought it? I told my self I was buying it for research for my new business: Wellness For WeightLoss – but that was only a half truth. I also wanted to find out if they’d uncovered the CURE. But, there was not one thing in that article that I didn’t already know.
I think we all know, really. We just need support, motivation and constant reminders.
