Supplements

As I've mentioned a couple times, I've been working out and trying to get healthier. This has been going on for a while, but before the past month, I was working mostly on muscle mass and strength. I was doing lots of varied pushups, sits ups, intense stretches, squats, etc. I was gaining muscle in quite satisfactory ways. I wasn't losing too much weight though. I knew I should've been doing more cardio, but at that time, I really hated it. I got extremely weak shin bones, so jogging and such isn't something I can really do.

So as I'm sitting watching TV one day, I see a commercial for a product called RipFire. It was a workout supplement that is supposed to boost workouts and thus boost weight loss to an extent. I'm usually kind of skeptical, but it gave a lot of home video footage of people talking about how it gave a boost to help them lose that quick extra 10-15 pounds in two weeks. It gave a free two week trial, and I thought that if they're giving two weeks free and people lose about ten pounds on it in two weeks, the worst that could happen is that it doesn't work... Right?

So I order, and it wasn't too bad. Just talked to a friendly guy who assured me of all the details and took care of all things that I asked. Everything was good. Then he transferred me to a contest to win 10,000 dollars. Alright, whatever.

I start talking to her, and I'm getting tired at this point. She just keeps going on and on about how she thinks I'm 'lucky' and how there's definitely a chance I'll win. I don't really care, but I try to remain polite. She asks name, I give it to her. Email, I give her my junk mail address. Then she asked for my credit card number.

"Woah, woah, Uhm...what do you need?"

"I need a credit card number, but don't worry. It'll be completely safe"

"....yeah, no. I'm going to have to pass on that"

"Oh, that's a shame. I really think you would've won. You sure? Alright, well, thanks for talking and before I go I'm going to transfer you over to a contest that you can win a free cruise in the Bahamas! Kthnxbai!"

"Ahh!!! Waitwaitwait"-click-"....Fuck."

So I wait, and while I didn't hang up (I just don't like hanging up on people, I feel it's insanely rude), I was quite frustrated and impatient at this point. A woman has picked up after a couple minutes giving me the same bit. The luckiness, wondering who'd I'd take. I finally get a word in edgewise and I make up some bull shit excuse about how I'm scared of going on boats cause cousins almost drowned me once by throwing me off of a boat. her sweet tone turns to pissed and she hangs up on me! As peeved as I was, I was more relieved to get off the phone with her.

And so I wait...

and wait....

waiting...

Then finally I get my packaged two weeks later. A week late, but I was just happy to get it. Though I ended up getting a whole bottle of the RipFire supplement. Then I look on the bottle and find that it has no ingredients listing. It pretty much just said, 'ey, take a couple of these before a workout. Good luck yo'.

This seemed fishy, but I look online for things about it. Apparently, it's pretty much a scam. If you use more than the recommended amount, they bill you for it. If you don't send it back in, they charge you fifty dollars for it. If you don't specifically say that you would no longer like to get supplements and MAKE them take you off the list, they will charge you fifty dollars, plus ANOTHER fifty dollars for the shipments they make after that.

But it gets better.

As I look around for reasons why they don't have an ingredients listing, I find something quite startling. I find out that it can have a few effects. Nausea. Okay, acceptable. It's a foreign thing going into your body, I can understand that. Headaches. Okay, that's usually another thing that links up with nausea. Male impotency. Okay, acce-wait, what?! Yeah, male impotency. Call me crazy, but I don't feel like having such an affliction this early in the game.

Then, I read that it can cause breast growth in men.  Just men. Which, I don't know, but to me, that seems like taking a couple steps backward. I'm trying to lose the man tits I got, not make them larger. It seemed really counter productive. So you can better believe I sent that shit back.

Moral of the story, you shouldn't order shit you see off TV ever if you want to have kids in the future and you're a man who doesn't like having tits attached to your body.