Is everyone in America a diet expert? Then why are we all FAT?

Have you ever told someone you are on a diet?  What is their customary response?  "Oh I've been on the _______ diet it's amazing."  "My mom lost eight million pounds on the ______ diet." " You should try the ____ diet my sister's cousin's step niece lost four thousand pounds and never even exercised."  Over the last forty three years I have heard of literally three million kinds of diets.  The cabbage soup diet, the egg and rice diet, the Adkins diet, the South Beach diet, the heart attack patent's diet, the Special k diet.  Those are just a few I have become familiar with in the last decade.  There are millions of others.  They all have one common bond.  They profess to help you lose weight fast without feeling hungry or deprived.  LIARS!!  I have been on millions of diets.  I think my mom had me on a diet while I was still in the womb and one thing I can tell you for sure is..........You are always hungry and you will always feel DEPRIVED. 
Then there are the ones that tell you, you don't have to exercise.  The weight will magically fall right off your big fat ass while you sleep.  You know in your mind there is no way in hell this could possibly be true but your heart wants so desperately to believe it that you give it a try.   And in the process you lose hundreds of dollars, clumps of hair and possibly some self respect from trying it.  The only thing you don't lose is weight. 
There is one thing for sure.  As Americans we are the most educated diet experts in the world and yet we are the fattest Country in the world.  We are obsessed.  I don't care if you are fat or skinny, you know about a diet, someone in your family has been on a diet or you yourself have been on a diet.
We LOVE to share about it.  It's almost like the birth bond.  Have you ever noticed that women who have experienced childbirth can't wait to share it with everyone in the freakin world?  All they have to do is see a pregnant person in the mall, go to a baby shower or meet someone newly engaged and they start blabbing all over the place about their 752 hours of labor. " It is the most beautiful experience in the world" they say. As if trying to convince the poor sap whose about to do it that it isn't the most single most terrifying and horrific experience they are ever going to have in their lifetime. 
You know why?  They want to convince someone else that it is not so bad after all and that it is justified in the end.
Let me give you the 411....IT IS THAT BAD!
But like a diet, once it's over it was all worth it. Right?  You have this adorable new life changing thing that makes the pain disappear and seem almost like it was enjoyable. (baby/smokin hot bod, both adorable and both life changing)  So in good faith you go around trying to "coach" or "mentor" someone else on the benefits.   We do it out of love for mankind and we do it to reaffirm that it was a good choice for us in the long run. 
The problem is.... that like the children that we birthed, diets go through the teenage years. You all know what I am talking about.  It's all good and sweet in the beginning and then the ugly starts to come out.  One piece of cake turns to one qusadilla and one pound turns into ten and then the sweet smokin bod you worked so hard and put so much of your time and energy into becomes a huge monstrous fat ass once again.  You thought you did everything right.  You thought you made all the best choices but only to find out that it was out of your control all along.  Just like teenagers. 
Does that mean you should never have kids or never diet?  No of course not... but you better know the truth.  They both consume your life, They are both a hell of a lot of work, they both make you do things you never thought was possible and they both suck late at night. 
If someone tells you they are on a diet what should your response be?   GREAT JOB.. GOOD LUCK.. WAY TO GO  That's enough!
Till Tomorrow
Teresa