Weight loss humor
My pet what?! My pet fat
Do you want to lose
weight, but don’t have the willpower? Do you know how to
condition yourself to good eating habits? Have you ever
heard of My Pet Fat ™? If your answer was no, you should see
this website…www.mypetfat.com.
Sounds disgusting, doesn’t it?
Jay Jacobs, founder of My Pet Fat ™, has come up with a way
for you to lose weight by conditioning yourself to be
conscious of your thoughts before eating.
The gimmick with My Pet Fat ™ is that you carry a fake lump
of fat around with you to remind you that bad eating choices
end will up being carried on your butt and thighs instead of
in your hand. It’s disgusting…and maybe that is the nature
of its success. It’s a yellowy-red lump of some type of
plastic that looks like the inside of a pitted peach, or an
overdone fried egg. I mean, who wants to see what real fat
looks like?
He also offers a “set of thoughts” called “mind stretches”
that, combined with the pet fat, is the whole program.
Jacobs says the mind is the key to helping yourself lose
weight. He goes on, “For this reason we offer these
“perspectives” to break you out of your old thoughts and get
you to think differently about weight loss.”
He also says, “Try any of the mind stretches to get a new
way to think about your weight loss and health efforts. We
guarantee that you‘ll come away saying, ‘I never thought of
it like that before.’ And without even realizing it, you
will have adopted the mypetfat program.”
Sounds simple. But , personally, I really can’t see people
actually carrying their pet fat around with them to
restaurants or to work. Do they name their pets? Do people
really order these things? Jay Jacobs website says they do
(Well, not the naming of the pets, but you get my meaning.).
Now, when I was younger, I just put a picture up on the
refrigerator of myself at a thinner age. It inspired me to
make a conscious decision to eat healthy foods instead of
fatty ones. In fact, I still have a picture of myself twelve
years ago, PC (pre-chubby) on my computer right now, staring
back at me, asking me why I ate that Crazy Bread from Little
Ceasars last night instead of a nice salad. I looked good
twelve years ago, so having it up does inspire me to do
better. I want to look that good again. Plus, even though I
wasn’t a super model, I was much more pleasing to the eye
than a lump of fat.
Maybe My Pet Fat ™ does work on the principles of Jay
Jacobs, maybe it doesn’t. I guess that is up to the consumer
who buys it. But, all I can say is that if I had one of
those disgusting blobs of fake fat on my desk, I wouldn’t
even have an appetite. I would starve myself thin just
looking at it. And maybe that is the idea.
Dana Sieben
Dana is a writer of southern humor who has been published in
various web magazines and journals such as,
www.usadeepsouth.com, www.longstoryshort.us, and
www.asouthernjournal.com. She is a member of Southern
Humorists (www.southernhumorists.com) and the GonnaBeez
romance writing group. You can reach her at her blog,
www.southerngalgoesnorth.blogspot.com.
© 2005 Dana Sieben for
weightloss-articles.com
