It’s 11:30 AM. You’ve been up since 5 o’clock and the hunger meter is on high. “What to eat?” you think to yourself.

You pore over the menu for the deli downstairs but nothing you can allow yourself looks that good. Sure, you could go out for fast food but there’s a meeting coming up and you don’t really want to move your car and then have to find a new parking spot when you return.

So you decide not to go out. That leaves eating in.

You look at your choices, wishing you’d had the foresight to bring something from home. There’s the vending machine in the break room, filled with plastic-wrapped, rubber-textured sandwiches, bagels, muffins and Danish. Ugh, you keep spinning the carousels, hoping that by some miracle, there will be a vegetable snack plate or something half-way decent. You narrow down your choices to a cup of noodle soup or a chicken breast sandwich.

Now you have another choice: eat something to take the edge off or power through the minutes of temptation until you are sitting in your meeting and eating is out of the question. After an hour of dreary, repetitive discussions, your hunger may have calmed down.
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There are literally hundreds of diets available to suit everyone’s taste: Atkins, Zone, South Beach, low carb, low fat, liquid mixes, vegetarian, all protein. Millions of us are on these different diets. So why are we still fat?

We spend billions of dollars a year on diet pills, medical weight loss programs, gym memberships, and support groups. We read food labels avidly to determine the number of carbs, fats, and calories contained in something we know we’d be better off without. We count up our daily points and salivate at the thought of the desserts we’re allowed on our latest regimen.

The key is our relationship with food. There is just so much of it available: fast food outlets clog our streets, television commercials and 24 hour cooking channels whet our appetites, super chefs tempt us to labor long hours in the kitchen to create our own culinary masterpieces. The different diets all have one enormous component in common -they continue this infatuation with food. What can I eat? How many carbs? How many calories? What is allowed? How can it be made to taste as good as possible?
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The struggle for losing weight is difficult for many reasons:
1) People love to eat, and losing weight means cutting back on a pleasurable activity.
2) The process is slow, and we are impatient.
3) That long time period can lead to failure.

It’s no surprise, then, that many people turn to diet pills and appetite suppressants to help the weight loss process. We are looking for:
1) Elimination of hunger pangs,
2) Speedy weight loss,
3) A skinny body.

Many diet pills and supplements line drug store shelves and are hawked on TV infomercials. Celebrity endorsers and ordinary people alike show off their thin physiques, all as a result of that little pill they rely on.
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