Okay, if you're like the vast majority of us, you've been on a diet, or at least plan to go on one.

That's kind of the story for a lot of us. I mean, who doesn't want to look and feel good about

this body we've been given? We're obsessed with effortless weight loss these days,

especially with the advent of several prescription injections that promise will lose as much as

21% of our body weight.

But here's the thing.

This hunger, to not be hungry, has gone on for thousands of years.

I'm Patty Steele, from arsenic to tapeworms to rubber underwear just for the perfect body.

That's next on the backstory.

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The backstory is back. Okay, I'm not pointing any fingers here except it myself. We all want to have the best body we can

achieve, and most of us find it to be an exhausting and often disappointing quest. Look, studies show

55% of Americans want to lose weight. Only 33% say they're pretty happy with where they are on the scale.

Over the course of history, there have been diets using tapeworms, arsenic, cigarettes,

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