Between the Master Cleanse, the Atkins Diet, the South Beach Diet, and the Diet of Worms, women on the weight-loss warpath have their work cut out for them. I guess there’s nothing inherently wrong with dieting (although, as we’ve already mentioned, summer crash diets make no sense at all). But I don’t understand the never-ending diet - the crazy, “Oh, I can’t eat that” diet that limits fun and seems to become an unattainable goal instead of a helpful tool.

Again, I’m all for losing weight, but if you’ve been on one diet after another for more than a year, something’s got to give. Maybe the diets aren’t working because of all those cheat days. Or maybe the diets would be better supplemented by a jog to the gym instead of a trip to the drive-thru. Or maybe - just maybe! - you’d be better off making peace with what you look like instead of chasing some unrealistically low weight like a dog chasing its own tail.

The fact of the matter is that there are two types of people in this world: people who have bodies like Megan Fox and people who don’t. For those of us who don’t, we should try to be healthy, sure, but we shouldn’t torture ourselves with perpetual diets and lose-weight-quick schemes.