Don’t try this at home.
Are you seeing all of the latest hype about the “jello trick” ? It has replaced the “Pink salt trick” online and all over as the latest means of reducing one’s overabundance of avoirdupois (fat of one sort or another, in various locations) . If one just watches the pitch for these products, one might believe that deliverance is just around the corner. Throw out your old size XXL blue jeans, go out and get a shimmery, slinky wowzah of a dress or a bathing suit about the size of a bottle cap, maybe two of ‘em…you’ll be liberated forever!
Or not….
Notice that all of these wonders will come about amidst pictures of folks scooping up squares of gelatin like you would find in your very own refrigerator–red, green, doesn’t matter, you’ll be free!!! Except for one tiny little thing : hardly anybody has in their pantry any Japanese green tea extract, any burnt berberine or any turmeric with piperine to go with the gelatin (red or green, makes no difference). The pix that go with the schpiel always show folks cutting up pans of gelatin into tasty little squares, ready-to-eat. WRONG ! What they’re wishing to sell you is a pill/capsule of some sort with all of the relentlessly-tested ingredients, in precise combinations–which cannot be achieved by you doobies at home, silly. AND–how remarkable is this!–these pills/capsules just happen to cost the same as every other product of this ilk which is online. I’d like to know, who are the people who let AI transform their pictures from fat to skinny and/or back again. Wouldn’t catch me doing that unless my face got blurred out like they do for people in television crime shots.
And in another direction, entirely–Nipper seems to be gaining weight after her operation (Don’t we all?) and so is Rusty, who had to have his procedure postponed because he had a cold. Neither one of them will ever look at the carrier again without suspicion. The Porch Kitties are appreciating the heated accommodations out there, I think, since they’ve been curled up inside the boxes a good deal of the time.
At least we’re not in Finland, where, along with the rest of Europe, they’ve been having some pretty chilly temps: minus 37 degrees Centigrade–that’s minus 34.6 degrees Fahrenheit last time I checked, which I wouldn’t if I had to go outside to do it. That would require more “Sisu” –Finnish for “guts”–than I’ve got in this weather.
