There are many diets and diet pills on the market today. All of them claim to be the “miracle cure” to weight loss, but many of them do not give the results that you expect. A friend of mine recently started using Alli and has seen great results. He has lost about 60 pounds total, so far and he plans to lose about 20 more. He has tried a wide variety of different diets and diet programs such as Herbalife and Weight Watchers, but none of them have worked even half as well as this. I really hope he can get down to the weight he was shooting for.

I remember when I was in middle school and about twelve years old. I began getting pimples on my face. I also had them on my arms and other areas on my body, too. I wasn’t sure what to do about it, so I went to the school nurse one day to ask her. She explained the process of how a simple pimple can turn into severe acne. She also showed me pictures. I couldn’t believe it could get that bad. I researched it on the internet and in other books and resources. I did not want to end up having to get, or buy, lots of acne treatments, so I bought some cheaper cream and it kept most of it under control. Some people can’t afford it and it keeps getting worse. A dermatologist is a skin specialist who people see for acne treatments if it gets worse. I’m so happy I purchased, and started using, the cream when I did.

I often work very long hours on my job. This week I am working fourteen hours a day. My usual schedule at work was eight hours a day. After I got off work, I would always go home for approximately an hour or so to relax. I would then go to the gym to work out. It helped my body stay in shape and also was very relaxing to me. After working longer hours this week, I also found out that I will be working these hours quite often. I couldn’t figure out how I was going to fit the workout at the gym into my schedule daily, with these hours at my job. I finally decided to purchase a treadmill and other equipment for my home. It has really been handy. None of the equipment was as expensive as I thought it would be. It’s also been great being able to work out at my own pace and time. I even walk on my treadmill longer. Now, I’m thinking about adding more equipment to the pieces I have now.

A friend of mine still suffers from acne pretty bad. He’s in his early 30’s and his face breaks out in pimples all of the time. I keep telling him to try Acnexus, it’s about the best acne treatment that I’ve seen. He’s kind of hard headed and thinks that if he just takes 2 showers a day that the acne will just go away on it’s own, although it hasen’t happened yet.

There are so many teenagers today that are drinking and doing drugs every day. If they don’t drink every day, they seem to be doing it every weekend. This leads to them doing it during the week days as well, many times. A lot of parents have to go to work and are unable to monitor their children as well as the few parents that don’t work. It is so sad that children start drinking at a much earlier age now than they used to. If they continue, as they get older, many of them often end up being admitted to alcohol rehab to quit drinking. It’s a shame it is this way with so many of the teenagers today.

There has become so many people struggling with obesity in the world today. Many people try a variety of diets and keep continuing to fail trying to lose weight. For so many people that aren’t successful with diets, they start taking weight loss pills and succeed. There are many to choose from. Some are sold over the counter at stores and others are by prescriptions obtained by your doctor. You hear many good outcomes about them. Sometimes people try many ways to lose weight before trying weight loss pills, before trying them. After the weight they lose taking these pills, they often wish they had tried them before any other weight loss plan. They would have already lost all the weight they had their goal set for.

About three months ago I began dieting and I was looking for a healthier alternative to butter and margarine. I started browsing through the butter selection at my local grocery store and those bottles of liquid spray butters caught my attention. Initially I just assumed that they were very high in fat, cholesterol and calories, but after checking them out (“Parkay” and “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter” to be specific) both products claimed to be fat free, calorie free and cholesterol free. Could this be true?, I thought to myself. Surely if they are indeed fat free and have no calories, they won’t compare to the taste that you get out of regular solid butter and margarine. I decided that I would give them a try, as both brands were on sale for a dollar per bottle.

The next day I was hungry for a little mid-day snack, so I decided to fix a can of green beans. Normally, I would just eat the green beans plain, to keep the calories to a minimal amount. I decided that today I would try putting a little liquid butter spray on the green beans to give them a little flavor for a change. I gave the bottle a few pumps and lightly coated the bowl of green beans with the butter spray. After taking the first bite, I loved it. I had finally found the perfect fat free topping to transform the taste of my dull, plain diet foods.

After trying the butter spray for that first time, I was hooked. I was using the stuff on nearly everything that I fixed, and I was using quite a bit more than just a few pumps. You can’t even imagine the taste of green beans smothered in butter if you haven’t tried it. Every time I fixed green beans, I was actually removing the spray cap and pouring the liquid butter over the green beans, coating the entire bowl with a thick layer of buttery goodness.

This went on for about two months. I was using the butter at least two or three times a week, and not in moderation. My main snack since starting the diet was always green beans. Green beans contain about 60 calories per can, making it the perfect snack. You can eat about as many as you want and still lose weight. I was very content eating green beans with my new-found, great-tasting fat free addition. Until about 3 weeks ago.

I had a doctors appointment on March 12th. The appointment was just to get some blood work ordered, to check my cholesterol and that sort of thing. While I was talking to my doctor, I mentioned that I had been using the great tasting butter spray and how it’s fat free and contains no calories. My doctor was very quick to tell me that he has seen several patients fall for this “fat free” butter spray scam. He began to inform me that a regular size bottle of the spray butter actually contains around 90 grams of fat and that it was anything but low in calories. He told me that the serving size listed on the bottle was about one spray worth of the butter, which might indeed contain no fat or calories, due to the minuscule amount of the butter that you’re actually using in 1 spray. This is why the product is so misleading. People look at the nutritional facts of the butter sprays and see that everything has a value of zero. Zero fat, zero calories, zero cholesterol, zero everything.

Everyone assumes that it truly is a fat free alternative to using butter and margarine, when in fact, it’s just as bad or even worse, considering that people really over use it and think that it’s going to help with weight loss. I’m just glad that I stopped using it when I did. I probably consumed around four to five bottles of it over the span of 2 months time. Someone’s health could really be affected by not knowing that it’s just as bad as eating regular butter or margarine. I personally recommended it to several friends and members of my family after I tried it.

I don’t believe that they should be allowed to advertise these products as containing zero fat and zero calories. They say very bold right on the front of the bottle, “0 Calories”. This would be like a beer company marketing their product as being safe to constantly over-indulge in, without having to worry about the adverse health affects associated with it. It would be no different than a cigarette company telling people that their cigarette is safer than other cigarettes, because they only expect you to take one puff, rather than smoking the entire cigarette.

I hope this will reach a few people who have been duped into using these so-called fat free butter sprays. If you know someone who uses products like these, thinking they contain zero fat or calories, please be sure that they actually research the products before using them. I am sure that other companies try and get by with the same kind of trickery.

If you know of another product that is advertised as being healthy or fat free, don’t hesitate to post a comment and let me know about it. I will check it out if I am able to and write something about it.

My cousin has fought drug addiction most of his adult life. He has entered into 10 day and 30 day programs. After leaving them, he was back to doing the same drugs in a matter of only a few days. It finally took 2 family members signing a paper to have him admitted long term. The family explained to them about all the other centers he had gone to for drug rehabilitation and the outcome. He finally was able to kick his habit and even get a job after being in treatment for over 9 months.

There has been a lot of controversy surrounding bodybuilding supplements. The media has really publicized the dangers of it. There has been trouble with professional athletes taking them. According to their contract with the team they play for, it is not allowed. There has also been reports that bodybuilding supplements have been linked to deaths. I would not trust them. People should read more about the dangers of taking them, before doing so.

Lately all I’ve been hearing about from friends I grew up with is who has been in and out of drug rehabilitation centers. It seems like every time I run into an old friend we start talking about so and so who just went to rehab, or whats his face that just got out of rehab. It’s pretty bad when almost every friend I had growing up has either been to rehab or they need to go to rehab.