I read today where the FDA is close to approving a new obesity medication. Yet another drug to cure all ills. It’s enough to make you sick.

Why not come up with a new way to decrease stress or to have a work schedule that didn’t force you to eat in your car?

Or–here’s one–take a vacation. Is obesity as big a problem in European countries that give their employees six weeks paid vacation a year?

Is food addiction a problem when people get enough sleep, some fun exercise, and enough time to do what they need to do during the day?

Why isn’t there enough time to go to the bathroom more than once or twice in an eight-hour period? Is the work you do at your office so important that you can’t take time out for a 30-minute lunch.

Is food addiction the problem it is because there is simply no way to combat the stress and the health problems, including obesity, that it causes?

Somewhere down the road, food addicts fat and not-so-fat must decide if they want to be healthy or not, happy and energetic or barely able to get through the day without overdoses of caffeine and diet soda.

If drugs really were meant to heal, the body would heal. People would heal. After the healing occurs, why do you still need to take the drugs for the rest of your life.

Experts can call obesity a disease but it is really an out of control lifestyle so filled with stress that no comfort can be found and no boundaries exist. It causes diseases like diabetes which can be “cured” when the pounds drop off and a healthier lifestyle is maintained.

No more pills, please! Let’s let some relaxation back into life, some enjoyment, some connection with the Universe, so we can see our value. We are not what we eat. We are who we are.

Who do you want to be today?