About this Site

     I thought it was important to tell people why this webpage was written and what I want to accomplish with this webpage.  The main thing I want to do is to help people, not belittle them, not talk down to them, not to make false claims that losing weight is just taking a pill or trying a wonder diet, because it isn't that, it isn't any of those things.

     Helping people, that's the first thing this site wants to do, we want to help you by offering you a place where you can look up information and communicate with people that are on a diet now or have been on a diet and lost weight.  Helping you with unbiased information, we're not here to sell miracles, we're here to give you information.  Too many web pages, too many diet companies, want to get rich off of selling dreams.  We're not about that, we never will be about that.  The diet industry makes billions a year, yet as a population we're getting fatter.  You have to ask yourself, if we're spending all this money for results and not getting any, then maybe we're throwing our money away.

     Belittling people, I think anyone that's been overweight has felt this feeling like they don't belong and the media, the movies, the magazine, they all portrait this false sense of what "average" people look like.  Those thin supermodels are in the minority, not the majority, yet overweight people are often made to feel less about themselves because they're overweight.  You should never feel less, because you weigh more.  We have to break that cycle of thought, because, even though I would love for everyone that reads this site to get thin and healthy, if you don't, I won't think less of you as a person and you shouldn't think less of you either. 

     Another thing that you won't see on this site, is false promises, I make no promises that dieting is easy, in fact, it's damn hard, and I won't lie to you and say that there is a miracle out there that will make you thin overnight, because it doesn't exist.  I would rather have you enter with your eyes wide open, then to pump you up with all false claims that diet companies give you.  It's hard to lose weight and for some of us it will be the hardest thing we've ever tried to do.  You first know that it's tough, but get worked up for the challenge.  False promise only make you feel good for a little time, truth about how difficult it is might not get you enthused, but it will make you think of a strategy for making your dieting dreams a reality.

     I want this site to be supportive and a community...it won't just be the author of this webpage that makes the community, it will be all of you that makes it a community, I've just put forth the tools to make this happen.  Join the newsletter, join the message boards, and let's make this a great webpage together!