Does This Blog Make Me Look Fat?

Following my usual late evening routine, I fell asleep the other night on my couch in front of the TV. Stirring a couple of hours later, I was rudely and abruptly forced into reality by an obnoxious infomercial about the latest weight loss/exercise DVD...a new fad much like the forgotten Plates, Tai Bo and Jazzersise.

Much too tired to actually get up and go to bed, I watched through the fog as people professed the miracle that is "Turbo Jam". Apparently you can burn up to 1000 calories an hour with this program "and lose up to 10 lbs and 10 inches a week in as little as 20 minutes a day!" Wow. "For only 3 equal payments of $19.95, you can have the body you've always wanted." Sure.

I watched a while longer, the before and after pictures of the program's success stories...the horrible, obese, disgusting before pictures and the beautiful, trim and fit after pictures. Jenny lost 65lbs and 10 inches from her waste. She went from a size 12 to a size 3.

Say that again? That horrid looking woman in the before picture was a size 12? BULLSHIT. I'm a size 12!

Now I was fully awake and fully pissed off. Size 12 is not fat, nor is being a size 12 cause for concern. Marilyn Monroe peaked at a size 16 in the 1950's. Due to changes in sizing standards over the years, that would be about a size 12 today...keep in mind, she was only 5' 5" tall...

Anyone trying to tell me being a size 12 warrants a strict (and expensive) exercise program to shed unwanted pounds can suck my ass.

'Nuff said.