by JC Campbell

Created on: February 16, 2008

As a serious weight-loss fanatic now weighing four hundred pounds, I can tell you for certain that the Special K diet simply does not work! I had a bowl of Special K this morning and when I weighed myself an hour later, I was still 400 pounds. In fact, I was a slim three hundred and fifty pounds before I started on this new wonder diet program.

The hype surrounding it really bugs me. When I'm sitting of an evening snacking on my chocolate, popcorn, chips and Coke, I feel so discouraged when I think of how religiously I followed the plan, eating a bowl of Special K every morning before my bacon, eggs, hash browns and french toast.

I've even tried Special K for lunch as I'm sitting at the McDonalds drive-thru waiting for my order. I still can't budge an inch of fat. Some diet! It makes me want to cry into my milkshake.

I have close friend Bertha, who has also tried the K diet without success. She is pretty slim though at only two hundred and eighty pounds. She only has to lose one hundred and sixty pounds to reach her target weight but the Special K diet is just not doing it for her.

Some have told us we must be doing something wrong and that's why the diet plan is not working. I discussed this with Bertha at the Golden Corral all-you-can-eat buffet the other day and we just couldn't figure out what we could possibly be doing wrong.
We both stuck rigidly to our daily bowl of Special K for a whole two weeks and it didn't make an ounce of difference.

Someone even had the audacity to tell us we didn't fully understand what the Special K diet actually is. What is there to understand? If it's a Special K diet, it must mean eating the stuff for breakfast every morning. What else?
Bertha tried two bowls for a few days and this actually had the opposite effect to the desired one. She put on ten pounds. That just shouldn't happen!

I can't understand why people are allowed to promote these wonder weight-loss solutions that clearly don't work. If it did work, I wouldn't be four hundred pounds.
It really is very disappointing to find we haven't lost weight as is promised using the Special K diet, especially as it's a cereal that tastes a bit bland. Still, I was determined to stick to the plan, even if it did mean adding a heap of sugar to my bowl of K and washing it down with a bowl of Fruit Loops to disguise the taste.

I feel the need to let other unsuspecting dieters know that the wild claims about the Special K diet is just plain hype. So much so that I've decided to stop eating the stuff for breakfast and will from now on, replace it with an extra helping of pancakes.

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