I may have sounded a bit heartless in my post on this matter a few weeks ago. As someone who has spent most of my adult life fighting the battle of the buldge; I understand the fustration of people who try hard and the scale just will not move. FWIW, I have been on both sides of this issue. I have been ripped and turned around to see a fat slob in the mirror. It creeps up on you when you aren't looking. In the past 7 months, I have droppedd 60 pounds. And no way is my race run on this. If someone came up with a safe, side effect free pill that will really cause your body to drop fat, I will be the first in line with check book in hand. I just just do not believe Allei is it.
With that said, this looks like another "drug dejure" for the ill informed masses. Yes, there are people that can not lose weight, no matter what they do. If this is the case, then there is an underlying medical issue that most doctors blow off. Health insurance carriers do not want to deal with the obesity problem, it will simply cost too much. Cheaper and easier to let the person blow up like a ballon, have a couple heart attacks and die.
And of course, there are people that have no self control. I beleive this to be the majority. Think of the fat man with the equally fat wife and the four or five huge kids eating like hogs at the all you can eat rib place. I use to feel sorry for really huge people. Not that much anymore. I have simply seen too much. My wife, who is 5'4" and is about 125 works her ass off to keep herself at that size. We were at a Chinese buffet and was she literally knocked down on the floor and trampled by four 300+ women because Michele got between them and a new batch of deep fried shrimp. Yeah, I almost went to jail that night.
I have seen way to many successes in the gym by really big people that committed to change to believe it can not be done. Last year a 19 yo girl came into the gym, she was so fat, she went to a trucking company to get an accurate weight on her. She could not walk the length of the gym. But by shear guts and hard work, she lost 100 pounds in just over a year. She will never be small, but she now has a figure, and can out distance most of the people I know.
Yes there are people who have endocin system issues. These people deserve all the help and support we can give them. But IMHO, too many people are just sitting back refusing to change their life style waiting for someone to do it for them.
The drug companies feed on this. If the US Health Department, the AMA, and big pharma was serious about dealing with the obesity epidemic in this country, they would be screaming from the mountain tops what to do. They won't. There is just too much money to be made: prescription and OTC fat drugs, surgery, gizmos and gadgets. Then there is the down stream money to be made from heart bypass operations, chlorestorol drugs and so on. Follow the money trail.
Someone here mentioned his wife has a thyroid issue. God bless her. She is not nor anyone like her is included in this rant. She deserves all the support anyone can give her.
I guess this issue is too big to really take on here. Yet I can not help but believe that Allei or what ever that thing is called is just more junk for the masses too lazy to wake up and get moving.
