Reasons NOT To Diet Without all that cream cheese, ice cream and butter your bones will get weak. 95 percent of dieters never lose weight anyway. Cherry pie cures backaches and headaches. Your boss keeps leaving chocolate chip cookies on your desk as a hint, because you're so crabby when you diet. Your cat doesn't care if you are fat or thin. do you really want to look like Joan Rivers? Your mother is fat. Your grandmother is fat. Your brother & sister are fat. Do you really think you can beat those odds? They say you are what you eat. Do you really want to be a bowl of bran flakes with skim milk? You'll gain it all back, plus at least 20 more pounds. Your mother won't look hurt anymore when you refuse her coconut cream pie. Dieting brings out your wrinkles. When your feeling sad you need a piece of chocolate cake. Raw carrots just don't cut it. Your husband loves you just the way you are.