Do people actually believe these commercials???

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  • derekj222
    derekj222 Posts: 370 Member
    Wait??? You don't think sprinkling a powder on food with make you so much more fuller??? You fool,
    "Hi, I'm John from Alabama and I lost 12 pounds using Sensa, I'm proof that it works!"
  • fbmandy55
    fbmandy55 Posts: 5,263 Member
    Alan Hirsch (MD, FACP) is an American neurologist and psychiatrist and creator of the Sensa diet.

    Hirsch claims a peer-reviewed study by the Endocrine Society supports the claim that subjects lost over 30 pounds using Sensa (versus the control group that lost only two pounds). The Endocrine Society said it did not review the study and stated that it was "surprised and troubled by the promotional nature of his presentation” in 2008. None of the internal “studies” are confirmed by any respected body.

    Enough said.
  • myfitnessnmhoy
    myfitnessnmhoy Posts: 2,105 Member
    Well....my mom is taking Lipozene and has lost 12 lbs in 3 weeks. The only change she's made to her daily routine is drinking a full glass of water with her pill, where she wouldn't have before. So it must do something right.

    Lipozene is fiber in pill form. It helps fill you up, and is low in calories. You could accomplish the same thing by eating vegetables at a lower cost with less chance of side effects, and get some useful nutrients as a bonus.

    But, yeah, eating lots of non-caloric dietary fiber will help you feel more full and tend to eat less food. That's very true.

    I think the real key is that the "magic" contained in anything that works is generally readily available cheaper in a healthier form. Most of these pills use stimulants, appetite suppressants, or non-caloric fiber (or some combination thereof).

    Have a bunch of sticks of celery (non-caloric fiber) sprinkled liberally with cinnamon (appetite suppressant) and unsweetened tea or coffee (stimulant). You'll get full, stay full for a while, feel energetic, and get some potassium and iron, and it'll cost you next to nothing.
  • skullshank
    skullshank Posts: 4,323 Member
    Well....my mom is taking Lipozene and has lost 12 lbs in 3 weeks. The only change she's made to her daily routine is drinking a full glass of water with her pill, where she wouldn't have before. So it must do something right.

    and what happens when she stops taking it?


    spoiler alert: she gains it alllll back.
  • jcstanton
    jcstanton Posts: 1,849 Member
    I know. I think the same thing everytime I see ads for weight loss products. My rule of thumb is, "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."
  • funkyspunky872
    funkyspunky872 Posts: 866 Member
    Fad diets are fun.

    The latest one I heard about is the oatmeal diet. You eat nothing but oatmeal for 7 days. How fun!
    its almost as tasty as the cabbage soup diet :noway:

    Duuuude, oatmeal for a week? I could do that... As long as it was chocolate chip oatmeal with a glob of peanut butter on top.... Maybe a sliced banana.

    I'm so hungry.
  • megleo818
    megleo818 Posts: 595 Member
    This is just one more in a long, long list of huge money-making diet products proving my theory that people are stupid.
  • KittieLea
    KittieLea Posts: 1,156 Member
    Fad diets are fun.

    The latest one I heard about is the oatmeal diet. You eat nothing but oatmeal for 7 days. How fun!
    its almost as tasty as the cabbage soup diet :noway:

    Duuuude, oatmeal for a week? I could do that... As long as it was chocolate chip oatmeal with a glob of peanut butter on top.... Maybe a sliced banana.

    I'm so hungry.
    Let's try them!
  • Queen_Adrock
    Queen_Adrock Posts: 130 Member
    i always think if you buy something to sprinkle on your food to make you lose weight, it must make the food taste crappy so you don't want to eat it..

    I just figured it gave you explosive diarrhea and people lost a (literal) *kitten*-ton of water weight.
  • funkyspunky872
    funkyspunky872 Posts: 866 Member
    Fad diets are fun.

    The latest one I heard about is the oatmeal diet. You eat nothing but oatmeal for 7 days. How fun!
    its almost as tasty as the cabbage soup diet :noway:

    Duuuude, oatmeal for a week? I could do that... As long as it was chocolate chip oatmeal with a glob of peanut butter on top.... Maybe a sliced banana.

    I'm so hungry.
    Let's try them!

    It'd be so cheap too! ;)
  • aStrongerSteph
    aStrongerSteph Posts: 161 Member
    Now I'm sad :( are you saying I can't just Shake, Shake, Shake, Shake my sensa on cheesecake and lose weight??? There goes my November!
  • dakotababy
    dakotababy Posts: 2,407 Member
    Well....my mom is taking Lipozene and has lost 12 lbs in 3 weeks. The only change she's made to her daily routine is drinking a full glass of water with her pill, where she wouldn't have before. So it must do something right.

    A lipozene commercial was on yesterday night. I googled reviews. If you read the ingredients, you would know that it is pretty much a dose of fiber. Any other ingredients you can get a lot cheaper at places like walmart/target in the vitamin isle.
  • delilah47
    delilah47 Posts: 1,658
    The one that really gets under my skin is for Lycozine (sp?). It's a long commercial and they imply if you take it, it's better than liposuction. Come on, really?!

    Try pausing the commercial when they show the small print (on any of these commercials). Usually, it says something like: "After 6 months, the average weight loss was 1 pound". .. or something similar.

    Edit: If you take ANY diet aid and then follow a weight loss diet, of course you will lose weight!
  • kenazfehu
    kenazfehu Posts: 1,188 Member
    Sooooooooo.................. you're saying it doesn't work?

    haha
  • LoosingMyLast15
    LoosingMyLast15 Posts: 1,457 Member
    huh? what? i don't get it? what looks like fairy dust doesn't make you loose weight? i thought fairy dust fixed everything. it doesn't???? OMG! i will never ever ever look at this world the same ever never again. LMAO!
  • Hellbent_Heidi
    Hellbent_Heidi Posts: 3,669 Member
    I'm so hungry.
    so-hungry-could-eat-a.jpeg
  • RunsOnEspresso
    RunsOnEspresso Posts: 3,218 Member
    Fad diets are fun.

    The latest one I heard about is the oatmeal diet. You eat nothing but oatmeal for 7 days. How fun!
    its almost as tasty as the cabbage soup diet :noway:

    Duuuude, oatmeal for a week? I could do that... As long as it was chocolate chip oatmeal with a glob of peanut butter on top.... Maybe a sliced banana.

    I'm so hungry.

    Peanut butter on the oatmeal. I hadn't thought of that. I am so trying that tomorrow!
  • athryn
    athryn Posts: 59
    In the immortal words of P.T. Barnum:

    "There's a sucker born every minute"
  • KilikiMom
    KilikiMom Posts: 237 Member
    sadly there are people out there just that desperate and lazy to buy into the bull.....i sadly used to be one of them!!!!

    makes me want to yell at people who buy into "if there was a magic diet pill/drink/whatever...we'd all be thin!!!! think about it!!" cause seriously who would put so much effort into working out and eating right if you could just swallow a pill or get some magic fairy dust???
  • KilikiMom
    KilikiMom Posts: 237 Member
    I'm so hungry.
    so-hungry-could-eat-a.jpeg

    had i been drinking i'd have spewed it all over my screen cause that picture made me laugh!
  • funkyspunky872
    funkyspunky872 Posts: 866 Member
    Fad diets are fun.

    The latest one I heard about is the oatmeal diet. You eat nothing but oatmeal for 7 days. How fun!
    its almost as tasty as the cabbage soup diet :noway:

    Duuuude, oatmeal for a week? I could do that... As long as it was chocolate chip oatmeal with a glob of peanut butter on top.... Maybe a sliced banana.

    I'm so hungry.

    Peanut butter on the oatmeal. I hadn't thought of that. I am so trying that tomorrow!

    It is so delicious. Just went ahead and had a bowl a few minutes ago! :P And now I think I really am considering doing an all oatmeal diet. Not for the sake of weight loss, but to appease my taste buds. I'd be severely lacking in the veggies and protein department, but it might just be worth it. So good... so good, ugh.
  • TR0berts
    TR0berts Posts: 7,739 Member
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