The Instant Liquid Diet

dekePod Episode 010: I love this time of year. The crisp breeze on my back. The slight shiver. The smell of the new season.

It's nature's way of telling us to stock up. To fatten ourselves for the hard times ahead, when the ground is frozen and the crops are dead or bare. Only problem is, most of us don't have no stinkin' crops and the frozen foods aisle is as overflowing in December as it is in June. So every Holiday Season marks the introduction of a couple of new pounds that never seem to leave.

But what if this year was different? What if all photographic evidence pointed to a thinner you at the end of 2008? Let dekePod show you how. Here's the official marketing description:

Ah, the holiday season, a time of expansion. Great physical expansion. Fatty, high-calorie food is everywhere you turn. And so we grow. But not this year. In some distant future, when you review Thanksgiving 2008 in your photo album, you’ll look back on it as the first of many years that you actually lost weight. “Thank you dekePod,” you’ll say. Because in this episode, Deke teaches you how to transform fat into fit using the Liquify command. And with smooth, stretch mark-free results!

Still feeling a might peckish? Why not munch on a downloadable dekePod by consuming one of these tasty links:

• For a high-quality QuickTime movie, right-click here and choose Save Target or Download Link or the equivalent.
   
• For an M4V file that you can play on an iPod, right-click here and choose one of those same commands.
   
• Or you can subscribe to dekePod via RSS or iTunes.

You can also check out the page at my book publisher O'Reilly Media.

You'll have time to lose weight and firm up next year. But the time to make yourself look good "in post" is today. Learn to Liquify, smooth those rumply edges, rip yourself to steroidal shreds. Be that person who can look back from his or her dotage and say, "Look at me. I used to cut quite a figure." And they'll all pretend to believe you, too, cuz you'll be so damn old.