{"id":262,"date":"2008-01-17T01:28:11","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T08:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sackrider.org\/category\/weightloss\/results-not-typical"},"modified":"2025-06-15T06:07:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T06:07:35","slug":"results-not-typical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/results-not-typical\/","title":{"rendered":"Results not typical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sackrider.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/resultnottypical.jpg\" title=\"Results not typical\" alt=\"Results not typical\" align=\"left\" \/>I just saw a commercial for one of the many weight loss systems available in the market today.  This one will ship the food right to your door and shows several &#8216;actual customers&#8217; talking about their 50, 60, even 100 lbs weight loss.  But there on the screen are those three little words &#8211; <em><strong>Results not typical<\/strong><\/em>.  My favorite was &#8216;Results atypical&#8217;.  Atypical?  My eight grade English teacher taught me that he was a theist &#8211; meaning he believed in a god, as opposed to an atheist which does not.  Atypical means not typical &#8211; very clever, but I digress.<\/p>\n<p>Results not typical.  What if you saw a car commercial with &#8216;actual customers&#8217; saying &#8220;This is a great car, very affordable, reliable, sporty, and fun to drive!&#8221; but the small print said &#8220;Results not typical&#8221;?  Would you buy that car?  It&#8217;s sad to think that while the rest of the world is starving, we are spending billions of dollars to take off the pounds &#8211; but its tragic to think that despite that the results are&#8230; not typical.  Television shows like &#8220;The Biggest Loser&#8221; tell us that you can lose 30 lbs in a week, while doctor&#8217;s tell us that anything over 2 lbs a week is unhealthy weight loss.<\/p>\n<p>My goal this year is to loose 50 lbs, considering that I am about 120 lbs overweight.  I pray that at the end of 2008, I can say &#8216;Results Not Typical&#8217;, but for the last several years I keep getting typical results&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw a commercial for one of the many weight loss systems available in the market today. This one will ship the food right to your door and shows several &#8216;actual customers&#8217; talking about their 50, 60, even 100 lbs weight loss. But there on the screen are those three little words &#8211; Results [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2789,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/2789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}