| Title: | Weight Loss and Maintenance | 
| Notice: | **PLEASE** enter notes in mixed case (CAPS ARE SHOUTING)! | 
| Moderator: | ASICS::LESLIE | 
| Created: | Mon Jul 09 1990 | 
| Last Modified: | Tue Jun 03 1997 | 
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Number of topics: | 933 | 
| Total number of notes: | 9931 | 
    I received a letter in the mail the day before yesterday from some
    DR. that claims that he has discovered a pill to speed up your
    metabolism by increasing your Thermogenisis (sp?).  It is guaranteed
    that if you do not lose all the weight you want to in one month
    that they'll refund your money ($39.95 for a month).  They also
    state that if you do lose all the weight you want to in the month
    that they'll send you another 30 day supply absouloutely free (I
    guess to take if you start putting weight on again).  The only thing
    it didn't state was if it stayed off if you continued to eat good,
    etc.  Anyone else get anything like this?  Any comments or questions?
    I don't have the letter with me at work today, but I'll bring it
    in tomorrow if anyone has any questions that I don't know the answer
    to today.  I've been seriously thinking about this, because I KNOW
    my metabolism is super slow.
    
    Virginia
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| 504.1 | LESLIE::LESLIE | Still on vacation until September 4 | Wed Aug 30 1989 13:35 | 5 | |
|     Sounds like 100% USDA certified garbage. If such a pill existed don't
    you think it'd be world famous within days?
    
    - ���
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| 504.2 | Hey you, I gotta deal for'ya | HSOMAI::CAMPBELLP | Wed Aug 30 1989 13:38 | 12 | |
|     There are no free lunches!  You didn't gain the weight overnight, you
    won't lose it overnight either.
    
    Please stay away from these "quick weight loss" schemes.  There have
    been some horrible results documented about them.  Some of these pills
    are nothing more than sugar/milk tablets....that's if you're lucky
    because some of them are deadly---they're contaminated with high levels
    of zinc, lead, and God only knows waht else.
    
    Let's lose it the old fashioned way----burn it!
    
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| 504.3 | there is a way | WORDS::BADGER | One Happy camper ;-) | Wed Aug 30 1989 20:17 | 6 | 
|     But you CAN speed up your metabolism rate.  EXERCISE!
    and, its FREE~!
    
    ed
    
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