Sit and Swivel

I got sucked into watching Bridget Jones's Diary on TV this morning.  I loved the book, and the movie was quite all right as far as chick flicks go, but eventually I realized that the majority of the commercials on during this movie were for weight loss products.  Coincidence?  I think not.

I did learn about a new exercise product that promises a loss of four inches from your waist after 30 days of use.  For the life of me, I can't figure out this Red Exerciser thing.  Basically, you sit on the red disk, which looks a bit like the top of a bar stool suck on the base of a director's chair, and swivel from side to side.  Apparently, there's resistance in the swiveling mechanism, from whence you derive all of the slimming and toning benefits.  I did not rush to the phone with my credit card handy.  I sat on my fat ass and thought of a better way to get this same benefit.  Go to a bar.  Sit at the bar, on a bar stool that swivels.  Drink Diet Coke.  Smoke cigarettes.  Swivel on bar stool.  There you go -- the caffeine and nicotine will keep your metabolism revved up, you'll be swiveling, and you'll be fit and thin in no time.  For the single and flabby, the possibility of meeting a new paramour at the bar also exists.  Perhaps the entire bar could get into the act, and this could be a group exercise event, not unlike a spinning class.

I have to go.  I need to find myself a publisher for my new weight loss book.

Comments

[Christina]

I get a bit addicted to watching infomericals, but seem to have missed this one. I was hoping the site would have a video so I could see the amazing swiveling stool in action. It's amazing that people fall for this stuff at all. I think the bar stool method would be much more effective.

[Nancy]

I haven't seen this but when I was a little kid my parent's sold Amway and they had a thing called the twister. This sounds a lot like it. My parents never used it but I did, it was like my own Sit and Spin!

[Netter]

Would it work at my office desk? I don't smoke anymore, but I drink lots of Coke Zero. I'm going to start today and you can use me as a testimonial when I lose inches!