This was on the front page of my MSN home page the other day. When I clicked to the link, the first thing on the list was the drug made by a large pharmaceutical company that blocks fat. The implication is that drugs are the answer to your problems.
Here’s what bothers me about that headline. A lot of people, actually 2/3′s of all American adults, are overweight and obese. Most Americans want to take the weight off. The problem is diets are fads. Fads come and go. Fads don’t change your behavior in the long run. As I say in my book, “Healthy Living with Diabetes: One Small Step at a Time”, I don’t believe in diets. Just look at the first three letters: D-I-E.
Do you want to learn how to diet (die) or live?? Who is in control of your life? Drugs or you?
The choice is yours. Diets are like rehab for people who abuse drugs and/or alcohol. You go into an artificial environment for 28 days to detox and get sober, then you go back to your same environment with the same liquor cabinet or with the same people offering to supply you with drugs, legal and illegal. You slip back into your old habits and bad choices.
I don’t believe that drugs are the answer to your problems. If you have diabetes, learning to get to a healthier weight is part of learning to be in control. If you want to “take the weight off”, then my commitment to you is that when you decide that fad diets are not the answer, make the Healthy Diabetes Coach program your answer. I’ll show you how to live. Not die. I’ll show you how to get to a healthier weight. Simply. NO MATTER WHAT!