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Crazy Marketing Claims in Ads

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  • ythannah
    ythannah Posts: 4,393 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48564818#Comment_48564818

    I have the same leggings as the Buff Muff model. And there the resemblance ends.

    I'm also not motivated by the skeletal appearance of the 5-second coffee hack lady. Yikes.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,496 Member

    not an ad, but a real jaw dropper anyway. This is from BBC Science Focus Magazine.

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    I’ll leave the side effects to your imagination.

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 36,489 Member

    It's a video. I watched enough to see that she bends forward, flat back, and brings whatever that is she's holding between her hands up toward her head as she bends forward. Magic inch loss, fast! Or maybe she's been doing it literally continuously for the whole 4 weeks? (I didn't watch long enough to get those details.)

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  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 7,114 Member

    OK, this one is funny not so much for what is says, but for the image. Apparently fitting into clothes again = growing rather than getting slimmer? (look at the shoulders)

    I've heard of people growing a bit when losing weight (less compression on the spine) but not to this extent 😆

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  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,496 Member

    to me they all look the same, but with paper doll clothes changes and a growing camel toe.

    I’m relieved to know that cameltoe leggings are OK, because…….well, you know.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,496 Member

    and seriously? Happy mammoth is the company name? 🤨

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 14,036 Member

    I don't have any objection to Happy Mammoth, but if the implication behind Mammoth is big, a happy mammoth is therefore happy to be big, then why is somebody who is happy being big wanting to lose weight and thus become smaller?

  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 7,114 Member

    We may be overthinking the brand name - they focus on gut health and hormonal balance and seem to be part of a company called Happy Koala. Maybe they just like animals 😄

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,496 Member

    or maybe they just like irony?

  • Corina1143
    Corina1143 Posts: 4,765 Member

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    70 pounds in 40 days? Why is anyone overweight?

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 14,036 Member

    So is the grocery cart this magic machine? I use one every week, why haven't I lost 70 lbs in 40 days? Am I doing something wrong?

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,496 Member

    I sincerely hope there’s a special place in hell for some of these people who think it’s OK to prey on people for weight, romance, money and other Internet ploys.

  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 7,114 Member

    Oh my, no crazy claims here (no claims at all really, I'm presuming weight loss is the goal here) but the visuals 😯

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  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,496 Member
    edited April 24

    if not AI, beautifully sculpted.

    I was the 65+ shape when I started lol.

    Here’s one for you that makes zero sense Does she need to lose weight? Has she already lost weight using pink salt? Who gave “the hand” the right to wag a finger at her?

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    if that’s a real woman, I feel sorry they stole (obvs) and used her photo without permission.

    As for the Hollywood doc, surely he can afford a better dye job? Yeah, I’m hating. His picture appears in a lot of these scummy ads. And he always looks so angry.

    He either despises overweight people, or is angry they’re not buying his rando weight loss techniques.

  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 7,114 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48580582#Comment_48580582

    That's Dr. Now, known for the TV show My 600lb life and specialised in bariatric surgery.

    I suspect scammers are just using his face for credibility and he has nothing to do with the ads?

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 36,489 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48580582#Comment_48580582

    I fairly strongly suspect those are not his ads, but rather they're like the ones that feature other celebrities without their permission. That's Dr. Nowzaradan, a.k.a. "Dr. Now" from "My 600 Pound Life", a reality TV show. I've watched a few episodes out of curiosity. I'm seriously not overall a fan, but the ad is very out of sync with what he does. He's a surgeon who runs a weight-loss practice for people who are morbidly obese, multiple hundreds of pounds overweight, often confined to bed or nearly so.

    The routine is to put them on a very high protein 1200-calorie diet more or less to prove they can do it before he does bariatric surgery. Therapy is part of the process throughout, where merited, including counseling for enablers (the people who kept feeding them when they couldn't shop/prep food themselves). The high-protein/low calorie approach continues post-surgically, and activity/exercise is at minimum strongly encouraged when it becomes viable, may even be considered a requirement, not sure.

    If they manage to lose enough weight, he does surgery to remove loose skin and some amount of the subcutaneous fat that keeps it stretched out. It's honestly not the worst of the reality shows about weight loss, even.

    His personality is no-nonsense tough-guy, maybe even bullying. There's plenty to criticize, but in the small samples I've seen, not the slightest hint he's a "diet tricks" kind of guy, just a hardliner about low calories, high protein, increasing activity, taking accountability for decisions/consequences, getting the psychological side better, and surgery. Also, Houston, not Hollywood, and yes the dye job is unconvincing.

    Pink salt sounds way off his track. Finger-pointing, maybe not so much. I think it's another example of misappropriating and misrepresenting a celebrity.

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 14,036 Member

    @Lietchi think about those candles…they are literally melting the fat away! 😁

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,496 Member

    I’ve never seen the show. If “they” have misappropriated his image, which it seems they have, shame on them.

  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,461 Member

    Ive never seen the show - but I have seen excerpts on Facebook and Youtube - I agree with Ann - his focus is heavily on people being accountable and his message is all about eating less and not pretending you eat next to nothing and still cant lose weight (while there is a pizza box hidden under the bed)

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,496 Member

    oh my. A challenge I could use. 😧

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,496 Member
    edited April 26

    hahaha!!!! @Lietchi I’ve been wearing Leguano ballerinas - the absolute barefootest of barefoot shoes- almost exclusively, except at the gym, for over ten years. I have a basket of every color by the front door.

    Trust me. Barefoot shoes won’t make a dang bit of weight difference.

    I can sincerely say I’m an authority on that!

  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,979 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48585127#Comment_48585127

    Hahaa so cheeky! I thought you were going to say that they counted "cheeseburger, cheeseburger without pickles, cheeseburger without onions, cheeseburger without pickles and onions" etc etc all as different combos.

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 14,036 Member

    Those ARE different combos…

    And let me say how refreshing it is to have an ad discussed which is NOT about "lose weight quick and easy".

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 36,489 Member

    OK, so for some reason I went back to page 1 of this thread and browsed some of the oldies. New thoughts occurred. Such as:

    Why does this machine have fat and thin Vladimir Putin as the before and after?

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/47984678#Comment_47984678

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