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ROTFL !!!
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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There's no reasoning with them, Christian, as you well know. Once they get a silly (wrong) idea wedged between their ears, there's no shifting it. You can't win this one. You can, however, raise the limits on her life insurance...
Good luck!
Will Rogers never met me.
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Why not make her read them reviews?
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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d@nish wrote: Why not make her read them reviews?
When did you become British? 
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread 
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I was wondering the same when I read the post.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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I can knock you up a bottle of snake-oil, if you like.
What gets me about dieting is that the facts (or rather "fact", because there's only really one) are very simple:
-- If you ingest more of certain substances than you use, your body will store some of the excess.
And that's it. That's all the science that you need.
This bollocks about hormones is downright dangerous.
In ten years, when they find that women who took the treatment were thirty times more likely to die of (insert horrible disease here), or at very least suffer from psychological "disturbances" (which is a typical outcome of futzing with hormone levels), your wife will be glad she didn't do it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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There is simply one thing that causes weight gain, consuming more than you burn - end of story. To lose weight you must do the opposite, burn more than you consume.
Reducing intake only works to a limit, the metabolism is very clever and will slow down when consumption lowers. This result in needing to increase the burn, which means your wife needs to exercise more. Are there any things she does currently that could be made more physical? For examples walking or cycling rather than driving on local errands.
Any weight loss program will fail completely without a life style change. If she smokes, your wife needs to quit before starting [she'll gain weight but become healthier from that]. The program needs to reduce intake and increase burn, join a gym, start cycling, swimming or even working in the garden. What ever she does it must be sustained [in excess of 30 minutes], aerobic [burning fat as well as glucose], regular [at least 5 days a week] and motivated. It is generally that last requirement that is lost as it is easy to fail to see the results until three or four weeks have passed.
Mrs Wife is trying to lose a few kilos for Christmas. The motivation she needed was a new dress, she found a lovely dress - in what she thought was her size - and was horrified that she couldn't quite get into it. The dress was brought and she is to wear it on Christmas Day - come Hell or high water - so she is trying hard. Already she can get in, so the next stage is to be able to breath with it on.
I don't help too much by cooking suck marvellous food.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Not true, I am sorry. I cut out sugar, did no exercise, and lost 18 kg. If you don't give your body the excess, it can't maintain weight. If you exercise, you get hungry, so you need to exercise AND starve yourself to lose weight that way
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Yeah well here my tupence:
1. Focus on your daughter, and try to induce her with some sound skepticism. I fear your wife might have inoculated herself against your rhetoric.
2. I tried to google the psychology of weight loss. Dunno but there might be something there for you. This whole thing seems to me like a psychological problem...
Good Luck
Life is too shor
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It's clearly a scam. You need to really press the point that it's a scam, and if she wants to get fit and healthy there are much better ways to deploy that huge sum of money.
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First of all, tell her right away, that she is not even looking overweight...everyday 
And without even reading any reviews, it's a bad idea. female mind body is already complicated than male, do not mess with the hormones even if it costs $1.50.
Losing weight is difficult task, even if it is simple math calculation. (and she talking about the most lazy method available, she cant lose weight by just sitting around not eating)
Also before you ask her to try myfitnesspal.com (it tracks your daily intake), calculate the daily calories required using BMR (I can send you the excel sheet if you want), and then subtract 300 from it (should not fall below 1500, otherwise it is not healthy), that is the number of calories to intake each day, and then she will lose 1-2 pounds per week (anything 'magical' than this, is harmful for the body).
Christian Graus wrote: and put you on a starvation diet
Why don't you start cooking for a month or so...
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Comment, but less cynical.
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Christian Graus wrote: they inject you with hormones and put you on a starvation diet.
Given she knows they will be altering her body with artificial hormones, putting her on an unhealthy diet tells me there is nothing logical you can say to dissuade her desission.
Scary world we live in, takes a life time to put weight on, but no one things about how long it's going to take to remove that.
Edit,
The one thing that I have heard works well is when both people get involved in fitness and participate in eating better.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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