I’ve never taken a diet pill in my life. Never. The side effects? Are you kidding me? If I wanted to tweak and feel nauseous, I could definitely find harder stuff on the street that would be more effective. Besides that, I didn’t survive my hedonistic twenties just so I could develop a diet pill addiction in my thirties. No way, no thanks.
So when my mother told me that she’d started taking the diet pill Phentremine-AE, I ignored her. Yes, I was a little freaked out that my mother could be endangering her health - but she’d seen it on some daytime talk show, so there was no way I could talk her out of it.
When she gave me updates about how much weight she’d lost, how far she’d jogged, how she had her diet under control, I brushed her off. I figured that she was exagerating like usual. It wasn’t until I saw her over Mother’s Day that I saw how much weight she’d lost.
“What’s your secret?” I asked.
“I told you,” she said. “It’s that diet pill Phentremine-AE.”
That’s when it finally clicked. I checked out the website, and I was stunned by the list of ingredients: all natural, all herbal. Nothing from big, scary pharmaceutical companies. So I started taking the the pill, and lo and behold, I’m looking as slim as my mom these days.