Crazy Marketing Claims in Ads
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No screen capture to show, but came across an ad which was trying to use reverse psychology, trying to lure clicks by daring the reader to be radical:
"Never mix this skinny drink with water. It may burn fat too fast."
Along with the hyperlink statement was a mandatory picture of a young lady "before" and "after" photos showing a serious weight difference, and a picture showing ingredients…I can make out apple cider vinegar and Himalayan pink salt. Apparently having these without water is fine, but WITH water…
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That was my take on it, …Mediterranean ?
Though I assumed to lose the 25lbs in 14 days, it was a OMAD situation and that plate was really tiny…0 -
I did see plates like that in the Mediterranean when I was at places that catered to Americans.🙃🤣
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Very small plate. Maybe even a plate/meal made out of anti-matter. 25 pounds in 14 days = 6250 calorie daily deficit. 😆 Yeah, that'll happen . . . in fiction. 🤣
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Well, most of society does live in a fantasy world (in their own mind)…
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Saw an ad today for a new type of stretchy pants which supposedly not only pulls you in today to look thinner, but also can cause that extra loose skin following weight loss to magically tighten up within 4 weeks and become smooth across your new, thinner tummy.
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I need those pants. 😔
sometimes all the Lycra in the world does not suffice.Maybe it has a vitamin E infused waistband and mimics dry brushing as you walk.
Oh wait, I don’t want to be giving folks ideas.
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Honestly, I've wondered whether long-term and routine, near full time wear of mild compression garments might slightly help loose skin shrink.
My personal experience is that shrinkage has limits, but also that it takes lots of time and patience. For me, it seemed that my skin has shrunk slower or less completely in areas where gravity tended to help keep the skin stretched. If gravity is helping rolls/folds droop, does the anti-gravity effect of holding it in place help a little?
There is NO EVIDENCE that this does anything, AFAIK. For sure, I see no reason why something worn occasionally - like a pair of pants - would have any such effect.
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I wear leggings and jeggings about 90% of the time. They’re comfortable and I have a childish tendency to sit in a very unladylike manner, so they protect the public at large.😇 I usually sleep in old leggings, too.
Even right now I’m wearing a wrap skirt with bicycle shorts underneath.
So if “support” or corralling it all in has helped at all, it’s been minimal. There’s still a lot left hangin’ round.
The only thing that has helped has been continued exercise and diet.
It makes sense. Loose skin has no muscle, so gravity has its way with it. As soon as that Lycra is gone, it’s like a half loaded water balloon.
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Not weight related but this one made me lol over my breakfast.
Ladies, are you being absolutely besieged by ads for retiring artisan jewelers?
if you look closely, you can see this ring is held together by elastic.
😂😂😂😂😂
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In my case it's not retiring jewelers, but shops going out of business and supposedly selling their remaining stock at a discount (jewelry, t-shirts,...). Nothing like fake time pressure and 'unbeatable prices' to drum up sales!
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I remember a furniture store in my hometown which put up a "going out of business sale" sign in their window a month before I graduated.
Twenty years later, I'm visiting home for my high school reunion, wife and kids in tow. Same store, same spot in town, same sign in window.
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The “Wolfman” was famous here for that.
He was quite a character locally. His daughter carried on the tradition for years. “The Wolfman and Donna”.
Shows how effective it was. I bet every single person who lived here from the 70’s-2000 immediately pictures him in their heads.
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Omg. There’s a YouTube collection of the ads, and she’s still in business.
Nostalgia works!
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My daughter says she’s not getting the retiring/out of business but says she’s getting hammered with ads to sell her wedding “sets”.
Guess they figure millennials have quite the collection. 😂
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Oddly, no. Odd because I search quite a lot of jewelry-related stuff.
Also: My best guess would be that that's a bracelet, even if they say it's a ring. For some reason that utterly defies my understanding, bracelets on elastic are wildly popular with a somewhat large segment . . . maybe because they're easy to put on, without fiddly clasps? They always break, though. I hate them.
The enamalish flower beads are adjacent to nice, though, if used in different ways . . . or would be, if they weren't cheap crappy metal, which they probably are, and were actual glass enamel, which they almost certainly aren't.
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was researching to see if you can add collagen powder to baked goods and some site called “flabfix” came up. I couldn’t resist.
Sandwiched between an ad for borrowing money to boost your retirement savings (still scratching my head over that one!) and various cheesy looking workout routines, were ads for healthy foods like Hostess cupcakes, prosecco, Glory canned goods (if you’re from the South, you’ll know these are like the Hostess of blackeyed peas, etc) and more.
“Flab fix”?
They had some great scam ads, but they change in the blink of an eye. Too fast to screen shot. The content I read was questionable, with absolutes like you “must” take supplements.
My favorite was an ad with a minuscule guy doing pushups and lunges, while appearing to look down at other ads. Ad on ad. Points for creativity there. At least it was eye catching.
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I nearly had to spit my tea out 😂😂😂
Is this…weight loss for…Yetis?!1 -
Some women don't shave their legs during the winter months…no judgment, please… 😱😶😁
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My daughter bought a pair of neon pink fur leg warmers. She wore them to school with contrasting tights, layers of flounced petticoats, striped sweater, and colorful hair extensions she’d made of yarn and metallic thread.
It was a private school and she caught a lot of heat, even just changing in to it after school.
The year after she graduated, her art teacher asked to borrow her outfit. Come to find out, she won a school Halloween contest dressed as my daughter. Everyone immediately knew who she’d dressed as. My daughter thought it was a hoot.
That’s what that ad makes me think of!
If nothing else, the flamboyant color was a relief after going through her demi-goth phase, as we called it. But not to her face. We did know better than that.
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lol. I see you read my other post @nossmf
no judgement indeed. 😆2 -
Actually, I posted BEFORE I read your other post…
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The craze I'm seeing a lot, and cracks me up is the 'Pink Salt Diet.' Salt helps RETAIN WATER, so how's this supposed to help weight loss? And, quite honestly, all salt is sodium chloride - there's little benifit to the color of salt, or where it comes from!
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I seem to have hit a period of tasteful ads. Even when I went to my usual source for skeezy ads (Good Housekeeping, local TV station etc), all I found was ads for new roofs, plumbers, the occasional Ozempic versus Zepbound, and a bunch of ads for psoriasis meds.
So this is the best I ca present you with this week.This one pretty much covers all the bases.
This one, just because the thought of touching this hand (or vice versa) literally makes my skin crawl:
And this one, not because it’s skeezy, but because it’s a terrific and imaginative gaphic:
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still a dearth of funny weight loss ads.
But the wrinkled skin ones are getting right humorous. Check out this lady who has a wildly wrinkled, mal-fitting (is that a word?) left arm, while her other arm is smooth as a baby.
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first one looks like one of those support sleeves people wear who have had lymph nodes removed.
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Just wait until you see just one of her legs!
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Yep, chair yoga to create the Adonis physique… Goes quite well with the ads I've been seeing lately of a super-buff Oriental man proclaiming he got that way doing only 15 minutes of Tai Chi per day.
Apparently all I've ever learned about bodybuilding was wrong…
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17 day program? That would hurt my limited cognitive abilities...
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