Sick of weight loss commercials

Eat this Marie Osmond!! I went out for breakfast and lunch today because its auction day and we go about half an hour away to get to this dealers only auction for BF's dad. Needless to say we got a 25 box of munchkins for the three of us and then went to KFC for the buffet for lunch....Ohh yea 3 plates at the buffet. Now I probably wont want dinner later because Im stuffed to copacity and could take a nap right now...LOL..But either way if my house blew up tonight Id die happy because I had those masher taters and that yummy fried chicken!! Plus I still got some doughnuts for a snack later! Yummmmyyyyy in my tummmmyyyyy

Originally Posted by valanhb

OMG the creamy cocoa skinned people have the most beautiful complexion ever, IMO! (I really hope I haven't offended anyone with that description...don't really know how else to describe it, but I really do think the mulatto (as Natalie said) people's skin is absolutely gorgeous.)

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I agree - look at Halle Berry. I think she is one of the most beautiful women around!

Speaking of weight loss - I noticed one of my class mates had lost a lot of weight and she was looking a little pale (even though she is Chinese) and so I asked her if she had lost weight..she had 14 kg in 8 weeks! (that makes it about 30 pounds. Too much in a short time. So I asked her how she did it....she brought out a bottle of chinese herbal pills....and said that they were illegal in China and so she orders them online...

They have got to be illegal for some reason! That much is too fast, too soon.

I had a good talk with my friend today about weight loss and emotional eating...she has been seeing an hypnotist about this and she said it is all a matter of visualisation, and the things she said made a lot of sense to me so I will be asking her more questions the next time I see her!

^ I think I'd be afraid to touch any pills that were illegal in China.

If she's so pale, I wonder if it's causing diarrhea or blocking her from absorbing vitamins and minerals somehow? Scary.

Originally Posted by strange_wings

^ I think I'd be afraid to touch any pills that were illegal in China.

If she's so pale, I wonder if it's causing diarrhea or blocking her from absorbing vitamins and minerals somehow? Scary.

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That is what I wonder. I asked her if she felt funny ie heart beating fast - she said no...but I am not so sure.

Originally Posted by Kiwideus

That is what I wonder. I asked her if she felt funny ie heart beating fast - she said no...but I am not so sure.

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Some people can have arrhythmias and not feel them. I don't know how - I certainly notice.

And this sort of leads back into the main topic at hand. Be careful what you try. Gimmick diets, pushing yourself too much with exercise, not eating enough calories, and not getting all the nutrients you need can make you very ill. That they try to sell all these "loose weight quick" pills as being safe is scary.
There are actually class action lawsuits here against several of those diet pills that were/are heavily advertised. I wish these weren't allowed on tv at all.

Originally Posted by Kiwideus

Speaking of weight loss - I noticed one of my class mates had lost a lot of weight and she was looking a little pale (even though she is Chinese) and so I asked her if she had lost weight..she had 14 kg in 8 weeks!

(that makes it about 30 pounds. Too much in a short time. So I asked her how she did it....she brought out a bottle of chinese herbal pills....and said that they were illegal in China and so she orders them online...

They have got to be illegal for some reason! That much is too fast, too soon.

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Okay, someone help me out here....I'm having a hard time wrapping my feeble mind around this one! Your class mate is buying illegal diet meds from China...the country that knowingly puts poison in pet foods and baby formula, to turn a profit. Does this woman have a death wish??!!?? Someone needs to stage an intervention. I just hope she lives to tell the tale.

Originally Posted by Pookie-poo

Okay, someone help me out here....I'm having a hard time wrapping my feeble mind around this one! Your class mate is buying illegal diet meds from China...the country that knowingly puts poison in pet foods and baby formula, to turn a profit. Does this woman have a death wish??!!?? Someone needs to stage an intervention. I just hope she lives to tell the tale.

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She is from China - I have voiced my concern to her that if it is illegal IN China, then it must have something wrong with it. I will see her on Wednesday night and tell her again what I feel.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not the skinniest girl on the block(not even close lol), but American's are overweight. It's just healthier to not be obese.. but there is a point where it gets ridiculous.

I hate when people tell me, "Oh you shoudl try these pills..." I'm always like, how about you just put out more than you intake?

People don't realize that fad diets and stupid crap like nutrisystem (which is nasty tasting!) doesn't work. Once you lose the weight, you start eating regular food and boom! you blow up again.

I want to lose weight but I want to keep my curves. I am not into the heroin chic european model look.. ugh...

Marilyn Monroe in today's standards would have been fat, it's sickening as this woman was gorgeous! And definitely not fat!

I was listening to this radio show where the hosts are all guys and they were talking about how gay men dominate the fashion industry and they just want their clothes to look beautiful so they don't want models to have any curves because then people would be distracted by it and would only see the person and less so the outfit. But all of the guys on the show agreed that they don't find women as skinny as models as attractive as women who have curves. And according to my observations too, men are not the ones who like skinny women it is usually girls who judge themselves too harshly and try too hard to be like models they see..The good thing is not all actresses are skinny, I think it is changing slowly, looking at Raven, America Ferrera, Jennifer Hudson, etc...

Originally Posted by tiberius709

Marilyn Monroe in today's standards would have been fat, it's sickening as this woman was gorgeous! And definitely not fat!

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This is actually a myth - at her largest she was around 140lbs, but she averaged around 22-23 (size 0-2) inches in the waist. If you were to take a dress in today's size 14-16 back in time (which some claim), it would have wrapped around her several times.

What people fail to realize, unless they've been having to keep track of clothing sizes for a while, is that everything has been drastically resized. Example: my mother typically wore size 8 back in the 80s, she's anywhere from a 0 to a 4 now. She's not lost massive amounts of weight, she's always weighed in her 120s and had around a 26" waist. (I'm exactly like her but have longer legs which affects pants sizing sometimes)

Even 140lbs would be considered within average for someone with Monroes hip size by today's standards, and due to the ratio between bust, waist, and hips she'd still be considered to have a "perfect" figure.
If you watch a lot of movies from the '30s and '40s a lot of the actresses then were tiny, too. So nothing has changed as far as that's concerned.

140 is plus sized unless she is 6 ft tall...So yea she was fat for today's standards. Have you seen some of the pin up girls?? They are definitely big if you compare them to America's Next Top Model...
And yea, a size 14 for today's sizing is not just plus sized, that's nearing obese and Marilyn Monroe was definitely not obese she was just curvy.

Originally Posted by ut0pia

140 is plus sized...So yea she was fat for today's standards. Have you seen some of the pin up girls?? They are definitely big if you compare them to America's Next Top Model...

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Umm... boobs have weight. That was were a lot of her's came from, not her waist - she'd be something like an D or E now. At her time of death she was 117lbs. And yes, pinups tend to weigh more than models - professional models tend to, well not have that much on top. Works for clothing but it's not the ratio that most guys find attractive.

Well she was at a healthy weight there is no doubt about that... Beyonce and Lady Gaga are curvy as well

Her higher weight still put her at the lower end of a healthy weight. I measure at 37-26-32 (no butt! ) and don't look as skinny, yet I'm actually underweight.

Weight really isn't as important as how it's distributed. I'm sure we have some members here that are 140lbs+ and are DDs... that's a lot of weight that is not around the waist. Yet they may be mislead into believing that they're heavy. Those that have those curves, or at least some semblance of a butt, be glad and proud of them. You're normal.

Personally I think the issue of weightloss is something that desperately needs to be adressed in this country. We are now the fattest country in the world. Children need to be made aware of how important a healthy diet and excersise are, as well as adults. Now obviously most of these diet commercials you see aren't healthy or realistic. And put an emphasis on beauty not health. I think instead we need to start promoting healthy lifestyles. I was in walmart on day and there was a girl probably around 12 or 13 years old holding a box of cupcakes, she was asking her mom if they were healthy or not. That just astounded me that someone her age would not know that. It occured to me there are probably a lot more children who make unhealthy diet choices simply because they have no idea if what they are eatting is healthy or not. I think this is something we need to start teaching in schools. Not dieting, just making healthier choices.

What I find ironic about them is the small print at the bottom of the screen:

"Results not typical!"

In other words most people who use the plan tend to not do as well. Probably because they have to pay for their own food, and make an effort to go out to meetings or only get counseled on the telephone vs in person like the celebrities. OH and let's not forget the personal trainers which are being paid for either by the diet company or from the money the celebrity is being paid by the diet company.

Busy Mom's and those who work long hours or shift work do not have time to venture out 3 times per week to get weighed or attend meetings or spend 5 hours per day working out in their own personal gym.

I wish these diet companies would take an average person, not a celebrity, on as their spokesperson. Someone with a life that isn't as flexible or rich as a celebrity.

Addressing the issue of over weight children and teens. It isn't the food, it's the inactivity! When I was a kid, we were NEVER inside. Always running, climbing trees, riding bikes. Now, kids come home, plop in front of a computer or tv. Drive around and see just how many kids you see outside. It's sad. My husband and I met at a horse farm. He baled hay all summer long. Lifting them up on the tractors then again into the loft. You can't find kids to do that anymore. Now around here, farmers leave their hay in the field wraped in plastic. Few teens today would do the work we did. It is a change in society, sadly.