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4:11 p.m. - 03/09/02
machete clawed mace face...
so I was a little angry...it happens.

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to: ediets.com
bureau: general comments
re: my testimonial

Admittedly, I'm a bit wary of the whole diet crusade, but your ads popping up all over the web, even finding their way into my mailbox occasionally, finally got me to bite. I came to E-diets for the first time about a year ago, and after that, each morning I woke up to promises in my inbox. "Lose weight fast!" "Lose 9 pounds in 7 days!" "Change your life with E-Diets!" Was it true? Could these people really take some bare statistics about me: height, weight, etc and come up with a personalized plan for my self-betterment through weight loss? Could they really make me (me!) thin?

Sadly, I never got to discover the bliss your testimonials cheer about receiving. Not long after your ads roped me to the site, I was hospitalized because my eating disorder (bulimarexia) had advanced beyond the means of outpatient care. Is that the life change you were so desperate to offer me?

I spent THREE MONTHS in a treatment facility, and have been in ongoing medical care for over a year now. I know better than to blame a diet company for what I've been through, but if you people think you are faultless, you need to open your eyes. Yes, there are people in the world who need to lose weight, obesity is at an all-time high...neither of those realities are witnessed in your ads: flaunting tiny, tight-bodied women measuring their thighs, their abs, their self-worth. You are exploiting the sick (yes, ill) minds of people in a culture of which self-improvement is the basis for commercialism, in which one can never be good enough...not so long as there is something to sell.

So continue on your merry way. Support those trying to lose weight. Go on casting your eyes away from the "pro-ana" culture you are helping to foster, from all the recoveries you are making just that little bit harder, from the lives you are helping to destroy.

My roommate in the hospital died. You know how many ads that girl had memorized? You know how many promises she'd had? Programs like yours convinced her to lose weight; she ended up losing her life. And we *needed* her.

I hope with all my heart that when the time comes, the leeches of this company have gained enough power and money to buy back their souls. Or maybe you can just borrow them from the girls you help brainwash. Tell them their soul is what's tipping the scale.

If you think I'm sensitive about this issue, you're right. Let me ask: WHY AREN'T YOU? How many of us have to suffer before the price is too high? Before you admit it's blood money your investors are so desperate to hone in on?

I'll stop this letter, but I'm not stopping my fight. I care about people's lives, and I plan to better them. In a true way.

So thank you again, E-Diets, for helping to change my life so drastically. You have certainly made an impact on this customer.

Mary Lastname

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yeah, it happens, and it hits hard. I have an appt with Tammy today; you'll forgive me if I felt the need to lay the smack-down on ED.

they've even adopted his name...

fuckem

chord

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