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Crazy Marketing Claims in Ads
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What, no soda, how am I supposed to quench my thirst from my healthy walk?springlering62 wrote: »
Spotted at my new walking park. Really? 😲
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springlering62 wrote: »
Spotted at my new walking park. Really? 😲
While I fully agree with your overall reaction, I have to say that those Go Go Squeez applesauce pouches used to be one of my favorite shelf-stable gym bag snacks. Seventy calories, 13g sugars which is a Good Thing in that context (0g added sugar), and ingredients (in the Apple Apple flavor) just apples, apple puree concentrate, and lemon juice concentrate. 🤷
I'd still be eating them if I did group classes back to back anymore.0 -
springlering62 wrote: »
Spotted at my new walking park. Really? 😲
It’s relative.
The potato chips are baked.
Popcorn is popcorn, even when sprinkled with cheese.
Healthy? When compared to an apple or some plums?
No.
When compared to a full size Snickers Bar?
Yeah.
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You had to mention Snickers while I'm waiting for dinner to finish baking...4
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lol. There was a real range there, wasn’t there?
I passionately love me a Little Debbie as much as any redneck, but even I know Little Bites aren’t on the healthy list. (I realllly miss Swiss rolls and Oatmeal Pies😪 but would rather spend my LD calories elsewhere).
Sorta OT but checked out Desigual’s website this morning for the first time in many moons. The models are beyond waifs, and it’s obvious they’ve gone in and edited them even skinnier. Great, if your target market is 15 and severely underweight, but gives someone like me absolutely no clue how the clothes fit real female bodies.
Maybe there’s a reason they’ve lost so much market share and shut down so many stores? Just sayin’.
Shame. When I was obese, I longed to wear Desigual, but the only thing in the store that fit was a scarf. 🥹2 -
springlering62 wrote: »Sorta OT but checked out Desigual’s website this morning for the first time in many moons. The models are beyond waifs, and it’s obvious they’ve gone in and edited them even skinnier. Great, if your target market is 15 and severely underweight, but gives someone like me absolutely no clue how the clothes fit real female bodies.
Maybe there’s a reason they’ve lost so much market share and shut down so many stores? Just sayin’.
Shame. When I was obese, I longed to wear Desigual, but the only thing in the store that fit was a scarf. 🥹
Their sizing is 'ridiculous', very small sizes (makes sense, knowing it's a Spanish brand). I have a Desigual black winter coat (black embroidery on black fabric) but otherwise their range isn't appealing as it was when I couldn't fit in their largest sizes
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These are amusing. It’s like collecting crap, but without the shelf space. (I have a house-eating collection. I know all about this! 😂)
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springlering62 wrote: »These are amusing. It’s like collecting crap, but without the shelf space. (I have a house-eating collection. I know all about this! 😂)
Spiritual and aura blocks???
Hoo Boy.
The Newage (rhymes with sewage) is strong with this one!2 -
Ok, this isn’t “crazy” marketing but darned good marketing.
This is facing me on the door of the dermatologist’s exam room. I’m laughing at the mirror because good grief! So many things to worry about!
Probably a candidate for all of the above! 🤣🤣🤣4 -
springlering62 wrote: »Ok, this isn’t “crazy” marketing but darned good marketing.
This is facing me on the door of the dermatologist’s exam room. I’m laughing at the mirror because good grief! So many things to worry about!
Probably a candidate for all of the above! 🤣🤣🤣
😮😮 what a way to create insecurities!5 -
I feel like I’ve leveled up from lots of those to IDGAF.
Half the time I forget to even brush my hair. Mom would be horrified.2 -
Here’s a new one!
Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey monomyth archetypes can now advise you on how to eat.
And my reaction
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springlering62 wrote: »I feel like I’ve leveled up from lots of those to IDGAF.
Half the time I forget to even brush my hair. Mom would be horrified.
I saw something on IG and went “yep”. It basically said the older I get, the less I worry about what I look like when I leave the house.
Pretty sure in my 20s I wouldn’t have left the house without make up on. Now I really don’t care 🤣2 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6yG-9Kwpu4
While there is some evidence that it can help with lymphatic drainage, it's still marketed as a machine making it easier to lose weight with minimal exercise since it does it for you.
Lol, the only way I see it working is if you have motion sickness, just ate and then got on the thing and got sick, then tossed everything back up!
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LOL @MargaretYakoda's post of the "archetype IF" ad.
I figured I was off the hook, since "aging hippie flake" isn't on the archetype list.
But maybe that's better marketing than relying on somatotypes. Archetypes are now regarded as scientifically unfalsifiable, so presumably they'd be immune to science's debunking spells.
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Spells?
I see what you did there. 🤣
I think most of us would peg you as Wise Woman.
It just irritates the snot out of me that some GUY has partitioned females off as witches, casters of spells, tempting huntresses, Zenas, and ancient goddesses for weight loss purposes, and that we are equally - and PREDICTABLY- partitioned off as the young ones in the hot bodycon witchy wear, and the old ones in the libraries with candles and cowls.
Goddammit, i wanna be a Huntress!!!!!3 -
That's more than kind of you!springlering62 wrote: »Spells?
I see what you did there. 🤣
I think most of us would peg you as Wise Woman.
But I like being a "hedonistic aging hippie flake".
Not only do I have decades of practice (so I'm pretty good at it), but our IF is 8:16, or even 6:18: Eat at will anytime during waking hours.It just irritates the snot out of me that some GUY has partitioned females off as witches, casters of spells, tempting huntresses, Zenas, and ancient goddesses for weight loss purposes, and that we are equally - and PREDICTABLY- partitioned off as the young ones in the hot bodycon witchy wear, and the old ones in the libraries with candles and cowls.
Goddammit, i wanna be a Huntress!!!!!
It wouldn't work for me, as a vegetarian. Not the protein, but . . . veggies don't require much hunting, and I can easily eat them to excess. Right now it's "try to moderate fresh sweet corn on the cob" season.
Please feel free to be a huntress, and skip the 16:8 or 18:6 (since the text of "Huntress" conflicts with the title!), and moderate the "simple protein food" idea. (You still want those fritters, don't you?) :flowerforyou:0 -
I have some friends who forage mushrooms and they take it VERY seriously. I’d consider them to be hunters.1
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Oh my, they are bad :-)0
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Weight Loss Gummies ads that keep popping up when I'm playing games on my iPad:
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Wynterbourne wrote: »Weight Loss Gummies ads that keep popping up when I'm playing games on my iPad:
Lost 85 pounds in 30 days?!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣2 -
A girl has to have hope!2
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springlering62 wrote: »
1st picture
I have a solution for my hanging belly that doesn’t use ozempic or any other meds!
Hellllooooooo Spandex!
2nd picture.
Turmeric. That’s turmeric. Darling of the woo set for at least a decade.
It’s got some interesting in vitro journal articles, but in vivo not so much.
It tastes good though.
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It was an article, not an ad, but apparently the new thing is the Sardine Diet.
You can only have water coffee tea and canned sardines for (this was confusing) three or ten days.
I think the gist was it was ten days, but most couldn’t make it past three.
Just to make sure it wasn’t an Onion-type post, I googled it. It really is a thing.
I heard my dad’s voice in my head when I read it. “Stupid is alive and well, honey.”0 -
Another OT, but man, can I empathize…..
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Didn’t renew premium because of the latest glitch (blank pages on long threads), so now I’m getting ridiculous ads.
This gets all over me, especially CHEAT DAY.
Imagine how many people see this format and think this is promoted by MFP, and that cheat days are not only a real thing, but actively encouraged?
And for the record, I have popcorn almost every single day. Guess I’m a cheater, right?
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If I have pizza on a day other than Sunday, am I cheating on my cheat day?5
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springlering62 wrote: »Didn’t renew premium because of the latest glitch (blank pages on long threads), so now I’m getting ridiculous ads.
This gets all over me, especially CHEAT DAY.
Imagine how many people see this format and think this is promoted by MFP, and that cheat days are not only a real thing, but actively encouraged?
And for the record, I have popcorn almost every single day. Guess I’m a cheater, right?
Those 30-day exercise plan ads make me kind of crazy in general, in the first place. I can't read the tiny print on that one, but it doesn't look as bad as some. At least there's variety, but some repetition in the pattern. There are some 30-day (or whatever) plans advertised/promoted that are doing the same basic exercise (often planks or squats or something) every day for 30 days (or 6 of 7 days) at increasing time/counts. Moving more is generally more beneficial than moving less, but I don't think that's a path to fitness. I think it's silly.0
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