Satan's In The Advertising Business

It's that time year for me. Time to admit I have relapsed on my New Year's resolution. I tried to make world peace happen, really I did. Nah, I'm just kidding, I just want to lose some weight. I started out strong. I was eating a lot of fruit, cut back on the fried foods. I was faithfully doing 50-75 crunches a day along with push-ups, and trying to walk whenever the weather permitted.
I don't know what happened. Wait, yes I do. It started when I brought home a bag of Valentine's candy. Just to have around for the kiddos, right? Now I have never been a huge fan of sweets so I didn't think it would be a big deal. Till I ate that first piece. I would equate it to someone getting their first shot of heroin. No, I've never done heroin, but the way it's been described to me is the way I felt when I popped that first sweet in my mouth. I couldn't wait for the next one, or the next one, or the...well, you get the picture.
After getting my tattoo and taking pictures of it, I realized that I had alot more upper arm than I had thought. ALOT. So last nite I was googling "exercises that tone up the arms". Every site I went to had some good exercises, but I started noticing something. All of the advertisement banners were saying, "take this pill, eat whatever you want, forget about exercise". I even went to one that had an annoying pop-up of McDonald's newest skillet burrito. It came zooming across the page like the Goodyear blimp and I had to chase it around trying to hit the "close" button.
It was like satan himself was placing these advertisements. I mean, who really wants go give up fried chicken and walk 10 miles a day when you can just take this pill or drink that shake and the weight magically falls off? I am going to hop back up on my diet wagon and hope I can steer my course past the devil. I think the key to weight loss is healthy food, exercise and a little common sense. But just in case I'm wrong, all I have to do is google "weight loss" and it will take me to a zillion different sites selling that magic pill.