If people are taking diet pills it’s because they are desperate and they don’t really know what to do. They are looking for some help people. They don’t need rants thrown at them. I took diet pills for about a month in my twenties and learned that they didn’t work. Then I lost weight doing healthy things but went back to my old ways and gained. And then I found myself still looking at those diet pills again. Even when I knew better I was still looking because some of us get in that desperate state of wanting help.
Just because alot of us have lost weight in healthy ways doesn’t make us experts to start telling others how to do it. We probably have all made mistakes in the past and we had to learn things ourselves. Shit, some of the blogs on here are about how people (like our relatives) want to give us “helpful hints” about dieting and we don’t like the different ways they tell us so why should we be pushy to others when we don’t think they are doing something right. Our relatives or friends are right but we don’t like their delivery of their message or we aren’t in the right place in our lives to listen. And let’s not forget, we should always have a certain amount of grace when we are advising others.
Hell, let’s be honest here. I know that diet pills can be harmful to our health and I recommend them to no one. But I know that there are people on this site who have taken harder things than diet pills (yes, I mean drugs) and probably no one could tell them they were doing wrong. So why can’t we show a little compassion or grace to someone who might be taking diet pills. People learn on their own time and with their own experiences.
Or maybe someone may have a bad relationship and others see it and try to tell that person but that person says “Mind your own business”. They don’t see that their relationship is bad but everyone in the freaking world can see it. That person too will learn in their own time. (yes, I might just be talking about you)
I’m just saying, some people will learn on their own and in their own time.
And as far as this “clean eating” is concerned, I don’t think it’s for everyone. Eat clean all you want but then I’ve seen some people eat “clean” and not get enough protein or iron and blah blah blah. And if I could put my two cents in (which I will because it’s my blog) then I think “clean eating” is a bit of a fad diet. I’ve had friends brag that they were vegetarians but still have weight problems because they ate pasta all the dang time. Do whatever you want but let’s not all become experts ok?
Would I ever recommend diet pills to anyone? No. But I don’t want to sit and judge someones struggle because I know how hard it is. I can tell someone all day long that diet pills are bad but they might or might not listen. But if they see me doing it healthy or read my blogs about doing it in a healthy way then that might get them to want to do it more than just taking the pills.
I have done things right myself. Exercised, ate right and all that jazz and still gained my weight back because changing everything all the time in your life is hard. So telling someone they can take pills just to have it all the weight come back may be right but c’mon, we can do it “healthy” and still gain it all back too.
And if it’s an ad that everyone is ranting about then just skip the ad. Gee whiz just skip it. The person posting it is probably just trying to make money. Sure report them but then move on. It’s not the first ad and it won’t be the last.
We can judge someone else’s struggle with pills and whatever all we want but that’s because we might be having success right now. But in another year some of us could gain all our weight back from a pregnancy or a stressful time and there we are eyeing that bottle of diet pills or maybe even a weight loss surgery. We are all human and we all need compassion. If we were all perfect then we wouldn’t be on a weight loss site.
I like everyone on this site but I don’t care for the holier than thou thing. Now go on blog about it if you want. You know you will. But, don’t call me a hater. I’m not a hater. I’m just tired of the bullsh-t too. Only I see a different type of bullsh-t on this site.
Oh, and one more thing. I love how people like to criticize other peoples blogs by making negative comments on them and then they go off and write their own blog about the subject too and get everyone in an uproar and get all kinds of high fives but then they get all pissed off when someone write something negative on their blog and they want to delete away. It’s amusing.
If you don’t like me after this blog then I don’t care. I really don’t. I bet we can all find something in our lives that we are doing wrong in and no one in the whole wide world can convince us otherwise. But having a kind word or a pat on the back for the good things we do helps us keep going. I’m tired of the holier than thou bullsh-t. Yes, I’ll keep reading it and it’s for the same reason you read everyone else’s blog too or feel compelled to comment on someone else’s blog that you think they are doing wrong on. It’s because you can.
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