GTFO MY TV.

I am so sick of commercials on weight loss. Especially when they advertise that you can lose tons of weight doing absolutely nothing.

Lose weight without exercise!
Lose weight eating everything you love!
Lose weight while sitting on your ass!
Lose weight while you nap!
All you need is the Fat Killer Magic Pill and 12 weeks of meals, yours with only 42 easy payments of $35.95!

Usually the commercials show some before and after photos with people testifying to the magic that is _______. But the thing is, you don’t know what the hell you’re looking at in the first place. The person is so far away from your television, you can’t make out if it’s really them in the picture (which is the intent, obviously). Plus, I’ve seen the magic of Photoshop, so I’m a huge skeptic when it comes to the magic transformations these people go through. Not only that, you don’t know if these people are paid fitness models or just random people found in some gym. Then they have the lovely fine print at the bottom (illegible, of course) telling you that “Results vary,” and “Results not typical.” Well what the hell?

It’s not the fact that people actually buy into this bullshit that pisses me off. What pisses me off is that Americans nowadays would do anything but actually put forth some effort to achieve a healthier lifestyle. They want everything super fast, super easy, no actual work involved, but amazing results all the same. God forbid they actually get off their lazy asses and take a walk around their neighborhood or try a gym. God forbid they actually eat healthy instead of stalking their nearest fast food restaurant. No, they literally want to have their cake and eat it too. “I want that 900 calorie chocolate mousse cake and a slim waist.” Not only is that mindset stupid and ignorant, it’s also fucking irritating to have to watch commercial after commercial feeding me the same crap.

Thank god most of these pills and diets don’t work. I can’t even blame the diet industry for taking advantage of these people. You don’t want to work for what you want? You want things easy, quick, and with magical results? Fine by me. Get jipped for all you’re worth; you deserve it. Just gtfo my television.


Those commericials and the ones advertising to basically sue anyone for anything, “I am not an attorney, but I play one on tv” shit. GET A JOB fuckers

Posted by on January 26, 2008

I totally agree. You can’t just take a pill and hope it will all go away. You have to work for what you want.

Posted by Kristina on January 26, 2008

It seems like there are pills for so many things these days. If people actually believe that weight can be lost without them doing anything, welll then....

Posted by Raina on January 26, 2008

I hate those commercials, but I figure if someone is stupid enough to believe them then they deserve to lose their money.

Posted by Becky on January 27, 2008

I think they’re hillarious! I don’t see how people could fall for them. When I was in America I saw one which began with “Lose weight by eating more and exercising less!” - dear god.

Posted by Paddy on January 27, 2008

Most of the “before and after pictures” they take some fitness person, take a picture for the “after” result, and then they just make them fatter, paler and make them pose in a more uncomfortable position and voila, they’ve got the before picture…

so it’s actually the other way around

Posted by Helen on January 27, 2008

I think only people who had thyroid or other hormonal disfunction can lose weight out of blue, because that’s what happened to me (from 78 to 64 kilos within a couple of months, without changing any habits) and it was so weird that my friends were joking about parasites and similar politically incorrect stuff.

As for America being obsessed with weight...well, I’m an European so I see it from a completely different point of view, BUT the other day I did the attraction test on Tickle and I was surprised by the result. I have a normal BMI of around 23 and they told me that I’m outside of the healthy range and that I might live shorter, they were babbling about how USA is obsessed with slenderness and then, in the next paragraph, they almost put some sort of a disclaimer in the “losing weight can be dangerous” manner. Either way, it was weird.

Posted by Iva on January 28, 2008

Get the fuck up off the couch, put down the Twinkie and get fucking jogging, asshole!

Sound like a good commercial?

Posted by Holly on January 28, 2008

Have you seen the ad for The Bean? It’ll make you lean. *snickers*

Posted by Rhiannon on January 28, 2008

In my experience, the only bloody thing that makes you loose weight and getting healthier is a better diet and at least two workouts a week! Of course it takes time to get the wanted result, but the result remains the same if you don’t fall back on bad habits. I hate these commercials too, it makes me wonder how the people who fall for those ads feels when they wasted tons of money once again, but probably gained 5 lbs.

Posted by Sigrun on January 29, 2008