I know a woman who paid over $500 for a diet that brought her weight down from 175 to 150 and she felt good. She didn't stay that weight for all that long and now weighs 220. I offered her the Saquoyah diet for less than $5 and she said she was going back to the one she had tried before because a doctor weighed her on a scale and everything. She said it was very professional. At certain times she had a choice between eating 3 potato chips or 9 grapes. She had to buy a scale to weigh everything that came in bulk, like meat. Not that meat is all that bulky, because the Saquoyah diet allows 2 quarter pound burgers or one half pound cheese burger. It's just that this woman was not allowed to be off one ounce on any food, and the meat portions were downright skimpy.
The same woman in the above paragraph paid that same clinic for another diet too. I think she lost 5 pounds or so before putting it back on. She was too embarrassed to go back and face the Doctor on that occasion, but isn't it silly to put out over $1000 to weigh 45 pounds more than when you first went to an expert? But that is not her total expenses. She also bought many other aids to keep her in shape. A treadmill, $900. A matching set of dumbbells from 2 pounds to 30 pounds each, total cost over $120. A curling bar and weights to go on her weight bench, about $150. Over a dozen workout tapes, television for the workout room and a VCR to play the tapes on, another $900. This brings the grand total up and over $3000 just to weigh more now than when she started. In the meantime, I felt sorry for her and handed The Simplest Diet in the World to her for no cost at all. Later, I asked her how she liked it, and she said she read it and tossed it in the garbage. It wasn't as professional as the clinic she was going to. I did that when she was about $700 into her diet costs.
There is nothing wrong with spending a few bucks to experiment with something new. But many people buy training bicycles and watch them sit until they move them into a room where it can't get in the way. I know people who hold a lifetime membership to a workout gym and haven't went for over 10 years. In fact, the lady in the top paragraph is one of those persons I'm talking about. Oh, and another thing: We started dieting together 10 months ago. I've lost 14 pounds and she has gained 12 at our latest weighing. And now I promise to stop talking about her.
Going to a Doctor to get diet pills can be expensive if you do not have health insurance. But even if you do, the co-pay for the office visit will cost $10 if your lucky and the co-pay for the prescription will be another $5. And I imagine this will be a monthly cost, not counting the gas money for the car, and time to run to the Doctor's office until your weight is where it should be. I say save all that money for a trip to Las Vegas when you get to your desired weight. In the meantime, spend less than $5 and get started on something simple. Saquoyah's diet is called The Simplest Diet in the World.
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