Annals of Disturbing Polling Results

From the Nutrisystem Diet Index (TM) comes some truly frightening findings regarding Americans’ attitudes toward weight loss.  In national surveys,

  • over half of women said they’d rather give up sex for a summer than gain 10 pounds.
  • more people said they’d prefer to lose 10-20 lbs than get a promotion.
  • almost 3/4 of respondents reported that they would give up television, cell phone, or computer “for a  flat tummy this beach season.”

Really?  Really?  Like many people (women especially), I’m not 100% satisfied with my weight, but I think that would be true no matter how much I weighed.  And while I’ve occasionally made the effort to cut down on ice cream and/or work out more regularly, no way in hell I’d give up any of the above in order to slim down for “beach season.”  Jeez.