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  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,951 Member
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    Dammit, they’re stalking my feed - and making assumptions.
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,951 Member
    edited January 19
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    Oooooh! I am all for panties that build your core! And tummy control, too?

    Win/Win!
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,097 Member
    springlering62 wrote: »
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    Oooooh! I am all for panties that build your core! And tummy control, too?

    Win/Win!

    Sure, because immobilizing parts by strapping them down is gonna make them stronger and better, right?

    With seriousness: I think there are some protocols now pursuing using compression garments to improve diastasis recti and possibly other abdominal trauma effects (post pregnancy or otherwise). I don't know that it's a proven thing (yet, anyway, but not sure), and I'm betting that ad isn't it.
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,951 Member
    Hmmmm. What gives it away. The bogus Chinese sounding name, or the fact that this one turned up on a recipe website.

    They are the worst (or best, if easily amused) for utterly sketchy weight loss ads. I wasn’t fast enough to screenshot the hot elderly woman with bodybuilder abs from chair yoga.
  • robertw486
    robertw486 Posts: 2,449 Member
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    I'm not sure why anyone would consider buying new clothes when it's not needed......


    My neighbor says the best thing to do is listen to celebrity doctors!
  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 6,950 Member
    robertw486 wrote: »
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    I'm not sure why anyone would consider buying new clothes when it's not needed......


    My neighbor says the best thing to do is listen to celebrity doctors!

    I'm really, really curious now about those vegetables that do more harm than good 😆
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,951 Member
    I’m putting it out there now that I had a third of a mini chocolate bar for breakfast. Can’t wait til I get the Chocolate Diet in my feed!!!!

    (I was trying to make some fast chocolate syrup, since I’m off the sugar free stuff. I didn’t work, but dang, I couldn’t let it go to waste, and I had the calories, so…….back to Old Me for a few precious, enjoyable bites. BTW, microwaved dark chocolate. Next level. That was rich!)
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,097 Member
    Lietchi wrote: »
    robertw486 wrote: »
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    I'm not sure why anyone would consider buying new clothes when it's not needed......


    My neighbor says the best thing to do is listen to celebrity doctors!

    I'm really, really curious now about those vegetables that do more harm than good 😆

    It's about antinutrients, probably. Those are things in food - mostly in veggies/fruits - that interfere with absorption of other nutrients or maybe provoke sensitivities. Examples: Lectins, phytates, oxalates, goitrogens, protease inhibitors, tannins, etc.

    They're a real thing, maybe a problem if overdoing some foods in near mono-diet contexts, but considered to be no big deal in a varied, balanced eating style. Some prep methods also reduce them. It's why it's important to boil dry kidney beans for at least 10 minutes, not just slow cook them - phytohaemagglutinin (PHA), a lectin, in that case.

    IME, they're way overblown as a major bad, dangerous thing in parts of the advocacy blogosphere for some of the eating styles that reduce fruit/veggie intake or seek to criticize plant- based styles.
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,951 Member
    edited January 20
    @AnnPT77 you win the internet today!


    I was doing bicep curls, focusing on anything besides my trainer hovering over me, and started laughing uncontrollably.

    “What?”, she asked.

    I pointed to the TV, running an ad for Special K. It showed a slightly overweight older woman who had a single bowl of Special K, which fueled her to go do three or four different intense workouts. Without breaking a sweat.

    She started laughing, too, and we agreed that was utter nonsense. But as she said, “somebody is going to see that and think it’s true!”

    I can remember believing that, in my younger days, Special K was some kind of awesome diet food but I wasn’t about to tell her that. Remember the ad where they put a tape measure around the “waist” of a box of Special K and it had an hourglass waist?
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 12,685 Member
    @AnnPT77 how did you get those photos of me? 🤣

    Seeing those miniscule "workouts" that are supposed to result in those gains reminds me of the commercials (product? insurance maybe?) where a guy goes into the gym, drops to the mat, performs a single pushup, then hits the showers and is applauded.
  • robertw486
    robertw486 Posts: 2,449 Member
    Lietchi wrote: »
    robertw486 wrote: »
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    I'm not sure why anyone would consider buying new clothes when it's not needed......


    My neighbor says the best thing to do is listen to celebrity doctors!

    I'm really, really curious now about those vegetables that do more harm than good 😆

    What is even more sad to me than these crazy claims in the ads is that there are people claiming to promote health that make claims of vegetables being the enemy. Or just about anything else for that matter. And in this day and age, people will fall for it.
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,951 Member
    The ones that get me are when they take a fruit or vegetable and do something awful to it so it looks like guts, and then photograph it closeup with a “this one thing” headline.

    I spend way more time than I should trying to figure out exactly what poor member of the plant kingdom they’ve gotten creative with this time.

    Some of them are so gross, it puts me right off that food for a while.
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 12,685 Member
    Or the ones which talk about how some deadly spider managed to hitch a ride inside of a fruit or canned good item, only to take a bite out of whoever was trying to eat the food. What the *beep*, man?
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,951 Member
    nossmf wrote: »
    Or the ones which talk about how some deadly spider managed to hitch a ride inside of a fruit or canned good item, only to take a bite out of whoever was trying to eat the food. What the *beep*, man?

    WTF for real? I haven’t seen those and it took me years just to get over the fear a tarantula was in the grocery store bananas.
  • robertw486
    robertw486 Posts: 2,449 Member
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    Another local lady, who was unhappy with her appearance when she weighed in at 350 lbs. She said she is still not thrilled with the loose skin, but for someone 85 years old I think she looks younger.
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,951 Member
    edited January 29
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    I could see my mom having fallen for this. She rented a belt-shaker machine back in the day.
  • COGypsy
    COGypsy Posts: 1,397 Member
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    I could see my mom having fallen for this. She rented a belt-shaker machine back in the day.

    My grandmother had one of those. It was the most popular toy in the house for me and my cousins!
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,601 Member
    springlering62 wrote: »
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    I could see my mom having fallen for this. She rented a belt-shaker machine back in the day.

    I'm still in a WW FB group, because it's local and handy for recipes and sales, and a lady posted asking how to log her 1 hour infra-red pod sessions because it burned 600 calories in that hour. sigh.
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,951 Member
    Alatariel75 wrote: »
    springlering62 wrote: »
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    I could see my mom having fallen for this. She rented a belt-shaker machine back in the day.

    I'm still in a WW FB group, because it's local and handy for recipes and sales, and a lady posted asking how to log her 1 hour infra-red pod sessions because it burned 600 calories in that hour. sigh.

    I am truly laughing out loud, loudly!!!!

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