Coincidence?

Isn't coincidence a weird thing? Or is it just good timing? Am I just in the right head space to notice what's in front of me? Either way, it seems weird. I'd said yesterday about definitely doing some form of exercise today, something sweaty, to burn calories, and watching telly later, I saw an ad for a free thirty day subscription to a website that has the video workouts for those crazy programmes like P90X and Insanity. Beachbody.com is a website with the workout videos streaming and with a community side to it. I've just looked it up and can't find anything about a free thirty days. I'll have to hope I see the ad again. Maybe there's a code to enter. Scratch that. I googled "beachbody 30 days free" and found it. Gotta love interweb searches! :-)

Another ad I saw, I'm not so proud of acting on. XLS Medical Max Strength is a tablet that restricts the calories absorbed from food into the body. The first version of this product worked solely on fat. This one is advertised as working on fat, carnival and protein. I think you eat healthily, exercise, drink water and take the tablets on top of that to increase the resulting weight loss. How does one know what the XLS is responsible for, and what would have been lost anyway?

Why am I even thinking about it? I've lost forty pounds in less than three months without extra help. Why am I even considering it? Because I'm impatiently, despite paying lip service to the idea of taking as long as it takes. It's bloody tough when you know you still have over five stone to go to hit your recommended BMI. Even though I might stop a little before then, I still have a long way to go. And I want to get there before I'm too old to enjoy it.

Anyway, debate about the wisdom of using these tablets, or the necessity of them aside, I said above that I'd acted on the ad. I did. I checked them out on Amazon, read some reviews, and bought a month's supply, to be delivered next week. It cost forty five pounds. A fool and their money...etc. Some of the reviews mentioned a reduced appetite. That would be great if it worked that way for me. I'd love to be a bit less hungry in the afternoons. They're on their way, too late to cancel, but I might still decide not to use them. I sort of feel like I'm letting myself down by even considering it. Sort of cheating. And I'm still losing well at the moment, so should I really try to fix what's not broken? Maybe I should hold them in reserve for a couple of stone, when things are bound to slow down or plateau. I really am an idiot!