Monday, June 21, 2010

Wow. Water Pills.

If you haven't heard of Water Pills, they are a diuretic (makes you pee more) that is used to lose weight.. water weight. Apparently the idea is for losing weight in less than a week for events like weddings etc. And then you go back to being fat. Because when you stop taking the pills, you gain the water weight back very quickly.

The instructions say to drink extra water to stay hydrated while you use them. Except this doesn't even make sense; why would you drink water to replace the water you're trying to lose? Besides, aren't there easier weight loss quick fixes? I mean, I don't consider a danger of dehydration an easy fix. Because that's what ends up happening with most girls that take water pills- they double the dosage to make it work faster. The reason this is severely DUMB is that without a certain percentage of water in your body, you begin to experience dehydration symptoms- aka headaches, fatigue, muscle cramps, chills, nausea, etc.

Even anorexia makes more sense to me than going thru all of that unpleasantness. And that is just sad.