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Title: Weight Loss and Maintenance
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Moderator:ASICS::LESLIE
Created:Mon Jul 09 1990
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:933
Total number of notes:9931

913.0. "Would you take a "miracle pill"?" by CNTROL::JENNISON (Crown Him with many crowns) Mon Apr 08 1996 21:34

    
    
    	If you could take a pill to lose the weight that you need to
    	lose, would you ?
    
    	Why, or why not ?
    
    	Would your feelings be the same or different if you knew
    	that the only way to maintain your new weight would be
    	to take the pill for life ?
    
    	Karen
    
    	
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913.1ABSOLUTELY!!!POWDML::GKELLYTue Apr 09 1996 14:5126
    Of course!!!
    
    With all the time and money I've spent on different programs, if there
    actually was a "miracle" pill that I could take and I'd wake up and be
    at an ideal weight...in a second I would do it!! 
    
    I can't imagine anyone saying they wouldn't...
    
    Anyone who knows the pain of being fat or overweight...and the loss
    of self-esteem that you go through...just everything one experiences
    when they are heavy...well, just knowing what I've gone through, there
    is no way I'd say no to a miracle pill?? 
    
    Although, what I'm doing now is I guess for me, the next best thing.
    (Equinox...hi Karen)...I guess there is a sense of pride and
    accomplishment when you work hard and begin to succeed at something.
    
    BUT, I would DEFINITELY take the miracle pill if there was one!! 
    
    You holding out on us, Karen??  ;)
    
    I want to discover one!! Imagine being RICH AND THIN at the same
    time??!!!  HEAVEN!!!  
    
    O.K...back to reality...  :)  it's not that bad.... 
                                                       
913.2YES!!!BSS::MARAFINEDare to Dream...Tue Apr 09 1996 20:0613
    In a HEARTBEAT.  Why not?  We take pills for just about everything
    else... if you don't think for one second somebody could get FILTHY
    RICH inventing something like this, then who wouldn't want to?  Of
    course, that would change history a bit.  Not to mention putting
    the entire diet industry out of business!  Would I be willing take 
    it for life?  You bet.  Oh, to eat to your heart's content and never
    have to worry about being fat again... that alone would be a miracle!
    
    =) Leslie
    
    
    
    
913.3Me too!IMTDEV::KELLYTue Apr 09 1996 22:377
    I agree also!  I'm popping pills for headaches/allergies so why not
    pop one that will boost my self-esteem?  The only pill I wouldn't
    pop is one that really isn't good for my health (makes your heart
    race, moody, etc). and yes I have even take them for the sake of
    losing weight in the past!).
    
    -Nancy
913.4YESUSCTR1::OSHAUGHNESSYLet LIFE be your GOALWed Apr 10 1996 15:377
    
    
    	YOU BET... an easy way out of course.  But reality in life is 
    	that nothing comes easy or without a trade off...
    
                                  
    	L
913.5give me the pillWOTVAX::NEARYMwigan_ladWed Aug 21 1996 15:2822
    Hey there
    
    Ask a guy with no hair if he would take a pill to grow it what would he
    say.
    
    Ask a guy if he could take a pill to make him more atractive to the
    girls what would he say.
    
    Ask anyone and everyone has a hungup if a pill could cure it would
    they.
    
    
    the answer will always be yes, but there is a price to pay, in-fact
    we have a tele program this side of the pond, and about 10 maybe 12
    years ago they had invented some stuff that would desolve fat in the
    body, it was being developed for cattle so they would always be lean
    but nothing more became of it, the thing is it worked so there must of
    been side affects, lets face it if you could take this and you never
    had to worry about the pounds could you imagen how much more food the
    world would consume, maybe that's why there was no more heard about it.
    
    Mike.