Sorry I’ve been away from writing the last 2 weeks. There has been a whole lot going on in my life. The podcast has been a big focus, but I’ve also been adjusting to my SSRI’s being screwed with. I was supposed to ween myself off of them, which I did - but the withdrawal symptoms were horrible and I had to go back on them. That’s another story entirely, but onto my topic at the moment…

What is wrong with people?

I just don’t get it. I came across that review and several similar ones when I started playing around with appetite supressants. Turns out the Hydroxycut Gummies do work pretty well if you use them as directed. That is, you chew 2 of them about a half hour before you eat, and drink plenty of water.

I’m not entirely sure what I was expecting when I went to look at the reviews, but something in my head sorta snapped when I see someone write “I still had to do the work!”

I’ve always viewed an appetite suppressant as helping to take the edge of off restricting calories, not an end-all solution. This mentality that you can just take X or Y and not put in the work doesn’t compute, and I think it’s because I’ve already crossed the threshold of making the needed changes in my lifestyle to sustain my health. I’m just using this sort of thing to help the process along.

Part of becoming an adult was dealing with the difficult realization that just about everything in life worth doing is hard work. It’s not going to come easy. Just leaves me scratching my head as to how one goes through life expecting anything else. If magical pill-popping solutions worked, we wouldn’t have an obesity epidemic to begin with.

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