drugs

Basic overview: I have taken drugs. All kinds of drugs. But before you think I'm a junkie with a needle hanging out of my veiny arm, let me rephrase. Diet drugs used to be my drug of choice in poor attempts to lost five stupid pounds. Really, why do we worry about five damn pounds when we have so many other things on our plates?
Because, like marijuana, five pounds are a gateway into something more dark and dangerous: obesity. And I worried that my weight gain would segue into more and more pounds. And I tried ephedra when it was legal. I thought I wanted to lose 10 pounds, but ended up losting 30 and ended up looking like a cracked-out skeleton with dark hair.
I was never a runner, but on ephedra I could run for miles on a treadmill just to get 'the shakes' out of my system. Apparently people dropped dead while taking ephedra, and in retrospect I can see why. I almost killed myself, and that is an admission I find to be both painful and illuminating. So now with a slightly smarter approach, I proceed with caution and will try the two most boring ways to lose weight: diet and exercise.