Exercise LIES

[4EverGrounded]

*bookmarks that page for when I'm having a downer day about my weight*

[bethanie]

As I've recently increased my formal exercise time (to approx 5 hrs a week for the past 5 wks, which was up from 2 hrs a week for the 5 months before that, which was up from nothing besides casual running about), I've become more and more aware of all the commercials on TV and articles in magazines promising perfect abs and a beautiful body and tons of weight loss in like 4-6 wks. I'm also becoming more and more frustrated watching them. There is NO WAY that 50 y/o woman lost 17 lbs in 5 wks using a bowflex 20 minutes 3 times a week (unless perhaps she also stopped eating). And I really don't believe if you do the pilates ab exercises featured in prevention magazine you'll have a beautiful midsection in 4 wks. Yet these advertisements just anger me, like other people are getting away with something easy and getting rewarded and I'm working really hard and not getting anything. Am I the only one who gets irritated by these things? I think there needs to be way more truth in advertising.


LOL, i don't find them annoying because I don't watch them. When the tv begins to have the power to 'annoy' me, I turn it off. I think there would be more truth in advertising if people would stop believing in lies.

B

[Ilikequorn]

Don't take diet pills. I used to take a bottle a day, and they can make you so sick...

I think its disgusting how they advertise these in cosmopolitan. They are praying on people who are insecure about their bodies.

This angers me very much grrr...

[Mikhail Capone]

ads = ads

also known as: bull****

I suggest just muting the TV and doing something else..