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Crazy Marketing Claims in Ads

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  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,229 Member
    edited March 8

    amen.!!!! We bought in an area about ten years ago. We’re in easy walking distance of everything except a grocery store- shops, restaurants, bars, bike path, gym, yoga, several parks. After the neighborhood built out and people finally noticed we were there, we became red hot - as did much of the rest of the town’s historical districts. We’re an easy commute to a major city.

    It’s trickled off, thankfully, but we were deluged with offers to buy, via text, email, snail mail, door hangers, people stopping us when we took the dog out, people knocking on the door, even neighbors soliciting via Facebook for friends who wanted in to the neighborhood .

    it reminded me of the traumatic period of β€œblockbusting” we went through when I was a young teen in the 70’s Literally all my friends and neighbors except for a couple abandoned ship within a twelve month period . Before internet, but the level of phone calls and door knocks was mega mega

    The ones I absolutely hate are the mailers where they’ve screen shotted the house via Google maps, and mail us RE or insurance offers. Getting a letter with a photo of your home is absolutely an invasion of privacy, and gives me the full body heebie jeebies. I tear them to shreds, they make me so angry.

    I know there’s a way to blur out your home on google maps, but jeez, why should I have to go down yet another unecessary rabbit hole?

  • AmunahSki
    AmunahSki Posts: 265 Member

    Have we had this one yet?

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    Is it me, or do these ladies look very AI generated?

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    I eat a fairly Mediterranean diet. I took the β€˜survey’ in the interests of research… from 75kg to 65kg (175lb to 143lb), and it gave me this:

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    Their β€˜no.diet diet’ predicts losing at an average rate of 1.25kg per week (2.75 lb).

    In contrast, my actual weight loss journey last year, and I can tell you it took me 231 days (33 weeks), losing at an average of 0.3kg a week (0.6 lb). I think that was pretty fast enough for someone of my height (164cm, or 5’4.5”)

    I’m not sure I could have lost it any faster, as I was on a net 1350 calories - anything less could have affected my health, I have no doubt.

    Please, don’t let them suck you into paying for this nonsense!

  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,432 Member

    Amunah - I lost about same as you and 10kg took me 10 months on 1460 net calories.

    would be crazy to expect that in 6 weeks.

  • Corina1143
    Corina1143 Posts: 4,547 Member
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    30 pounds a month. Make your own probiotic pumpkin seed drink. I'm in. I love πŸŽƒ seeds!

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,229 Member

    @AmunahSki my first thought was the gals looked just alike!

  • AmunahSki
    AmunahSki Posts: 265 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48523544#Comment_48523544

    Scarily alike… the same slightly smaller left eye, and not one freckle, beauty spot, blemish, scar or wrinkle between them… like they rolled off some freaky conveyor belt, all smooth and perfect…

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,229 Member
    edited March 12

    my absolute favorite skeezy ad so far:

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    you gotta admit. It certainly grabs your attention.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,229 Member
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    πŸ€”πŸ€£

  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 7,051 Member

    I want those anti-lazy drops! If my procrastination were that easy to cure...

  • angf0679
    angf0679 Posts: 1,270 Member

    @springlering62 I notice also how her chest seems to slowly disappear and a gap appears in her bra

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,973 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48527814#Comment_48527814

    I thought that last chest change was really weird, too. Also, the apparent carved valley at the top of the pelvic bone in the last image is . . . anatomically bizarre. Last "photo" has all sorts of anatomical oddities, though: Thin AF, but no ribs showing at all when totally stretched upward? I thought even AI was smarter than this sequence.

  • p8m6bwghh9
    p8m6bwghh9 Posts: 665 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48527828#Comment_48527828

    The lower half of the last β€œphoto” reminded me of a Barbie doll I had in the 60’sπŸ˜‚

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,973 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48527957#Comment_48527957

    LOL!

    I see your point, but I have to say, even 1960s Barbie seems to have more iliacus muscle above her pelvic bone than the woman in that "photo'!

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    Yes, I still have a Barbie from my youth. 🀣

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,229 Member

    as opposed to an ignorant weight loss formula? 🧐

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,229 Member
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  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 13,544 Member

    By drinking olive oil, is it supposed to ruin your appetite for eating anything after, and that's how you lose weight?

  • Corina1143
    Corina1143 Posts: 4,547 Member

    I wanna eat a teaspoon every night! Hope it's ice cream!

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,973 Member

    This is really just more of the same kind of nonsense, but I think not one I'd seen before or seen posted here (?). I suspect we'll be seeing more of this particular sort of thing, deprecating the GLP-1 drugs. That's because in the US at least one of the GLP-1 drugs, tirzepatide - the active ingredient in Zepbound and Mounjaro - can no longer be supplied by compounding pharmacies, but only by the mainstream drug manufacturers, which will increase prices dramatically for most people. The active ingredient in Wegovy and Ozempic, semaglutide, can no longer be supplied by compounding pharmacies starting in April/May this year. Betting the skeezy marketers will be pushing alternatives hare . . . probably ineffective/scammy ones.

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  • ythannah
    ythannah Posts: 4,389 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48525401#Comment_48525401

    I hope they didn't pay a lot of money for that lousy Photoshop.

    And I want to know what's going on with her pelvic bones in the right-most image. She looks like a mannequin with a removable leg. Never mind that flat chest is sure gonna sell the program to women everywhere.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,229 Member
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    is it wrong to be less interested in the secret oat slimming method, and more interested in why she has paw prints all over her body and lets her britches fall off in the kitchen?

  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,432 Member

    Ah but Ann - are you eating Quaker multigrain oats?? 🀩

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,229 Member

    I’m seeing variations of this ad as I doomscroll in my hotel room.

    Can’t help but wonder if Quaker is planting these things, lol.

  • Fursian
    Fursian Posts: 591 Member

    Maybe the secret is that we have to eat the oats raw from the bag? They look dry on the spoon in the picture. πŸ€”πŸ§

    It does look like the person has a skin texture, at least. Something we're increasingly not allowed to possess these days.

  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,193 Member

    https://youtu.be/pcc83uwK20c?si=Hb8uCJOaFInNlf9M

    A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer

    IDEA Fitness member

    Kickboxing Certified instructor

    Been in fitness for 40+ years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

  • angf0679
    angf0679 Posts: 1,270 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48541302#Comment_48541302

    If only

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