Ageless Weight Loss Center

Have you ever seen the commercials for Ageless Weight Loss Center?  They promise extreme weight loss the healthy way.  I thought that this is something I would be looking for, so I made an appointment for a consultation.

Believe me when I say this:  Ageless Weight Loss Center is a corporation, driven by monetary gain.

Well, of course they are, right?  Everyone's out to make a profit, right?

I had my consultation and the "nurse" (who has no actual real medical credentials aside from the fact that she lost a lot of weight on "the program" herself) hooked me up to the super duper fat-o-meter (pet name compliments of me) to determine my body composition and basal metabolic rate.  Funny, I don't remember talking about the super duper fat-o-meter in any of my Wellness courses when we discussed ways to determine body fat rates and composition.

Anyway, the super duper fat-o-meter said the same thing that I've been saying all alone.  I'm fat, morbidly so, and my basal metabolic rate is actually quite high (2100 calories when my body isn't doing anything other than performing basic life functions) so aside from constantly stuffing my face there really isn't any reason for me to be so fat.  Thanks.

So then she takes me into this room to show me "the program", which is truly just a bunch of shakes and bars.  Gee, lady, if all it took to drop 100 lbs was shakes and bars, I would have done it already.  Seriously, though, does she really think I haven't already tried Slim Fast?  So she makes me a "shake", hands it to me to taste, and asks in a really perky voice, big stupid smile on her face, "Doesn't it takes amazing?  Hard to believe it's a diet, huh?"  The look on her face dropped when I responded with, "That has got to be the MOST disgusting thing I've ever put in my mouth.  That is absolutely awful."  To which she retorted with the all-famous challenging comment, "Well, maybe you're just not at a point yet where you are willing to make sacrifices for your health."  And I bit... hard...

So then she showed me how much shit-in-a-glass costs these days.  The entire cost of my intended program, with just 60 lbs of weight loss as my goal, was something to the tune of 3 grand.

Now I'm just pissed off that these people are taking advantage of desperate people in circumstances like this, luring them in with false hopes of getting to a weight they can be proud of and then emptying their pockets on a program that will, in all likelihood, result in regaining all weight lost and then some in the process.