Weight Loss Programs For Teenage Girls

Women…do these weight loss commercials annoy you too?

I just saw a commercial for a diet program or weight loss pill where this girl was walking in a bikini and said “I used to HATE my body” “I felt like a prisioner”, etc…and it really bothered me because the woman was completely normal looking in her “before” home video. My husband and I both looked at each other with the same look and I said “she looked good before, she looked healthy”

Is this the newest thing thats supposed to make women and girls hate their bodies even more? I mean, it’s one thing if there is an obese woman who really needs to lose weight for health reasons but what kind of message is it sending when they show a “before” picture of a healthy looking woman and depict her as fat and horrible”? Teenage girls look at that and say to themselves- if thats fat, then I must be really disgusting….

Is it just me or is this type of advertising really getting obnoxious?

Hell yeah they do!
I think the worst ones are the Metabolife ones, where they have the “unhealthy” chick on one side walking and then the supposedly the same but skinnier gal on the right talking about how much weight she’s lost.

Or the spotlight one, where a heavier gal is walking through the market and feels like everyone is staring at her in her underwear? That really gets me…and the Marie Osmond Nutri-System ones drive me nuts.
It’s like you can’t feel good about yourself, no matter what! Someone is always watching and judging you!

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