A gloomy fact in American society remains that thousands of people search for the intangible dream of being thin. On any given day, one finds neighbors, friends, and relatives on some sort of diet. Dieters assume various disguises, but the noteworthy ones transpire, the "bandwagoneer," the "promise maker” and the "lethal loser."
People want to lose weight quickly and effortlessly; therefore, any fad diet promising overnight results attract the "bandwagoneer." People try the grapefruit diet or the watermelon diet, but they decide their stomach cannot possibly deal with all of that fruit. The next day the television advertises a new wonder pill that allows the user to lose up to ten pounds in one week, and the "bandwagoneer" answers the "call." Although the magic pill does not produce the desired weight loss, the dieter never gives up optimism for a new "wagon" to hitch onto. Once again, this dieter, lured by advertisements of instant spot reduction—liposuction befalls the hitch. The dieter crosses over the safety line into a danger zone of unknown procedures, performed by unqualified physicians or shady “therapists.”. Some dieters lose their lives in the hunt for a beautiful body. The stomach staple, another dieting tool that dieters try, yields a large weight loss, but the dieter endangers his or her health due to excess loss of body fluids. Still, the "bandwagoneer," always listens for the newest cure on the dieting market.
A family wedding or a special dance, a logical reason for a person to decide to take off a few, unwanted pounds; however, decisions made in haste remain hard to keep, and the "promise maker” soon fails in his or her attempt. Their the dieter with only fifteen pounds to lose, and, as each year flies by, they decide dieting remains harder than eating what they want to, and much less fun! They promise to lose the extra weight for their ten-year class reunion, but their weight-loss pledge fails. Some women become