I'd like to talk to you all about gimmicks. I'm warning you, this is probably going to get a little soapboxy....
Anyway, I was driving the other day and I heard a commercial on the radio for a weight loss water. I shit you not....a water. Apparently, if you buy this magical water, you will be able to lose weight due to the amazingness of the ingredients it contains. Buzz words like "green coffee bean" and "acai berry" were all over this ad. Evidently, water with added ingredients makes you skinny. By the end of this commercial, I think I looked like this .......
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| I was going for angry but she looks a little evil. Cute, but evil.... |
I can't for the life of me understand why people fall for this stuff. A diet WATER?!?!? Come on, people. Do you want to know what can help you lose weight? Water! Nothing special. Nothing added. Plain ol' can-even-be-from-your-tap water.
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As a society we are inundated with advertisements like this. We are so image obsessed that people believe that they need to fit into a certain mold to be appreciated, desired, loved or taken seriously.
Ideal body image is another topic for another day. Regardless of what that ideal is to you, the problem is that we also tend to want instant gratification with as little work as possible. We are the advertising and development companies' wet dream. Weight loss cookies, bars, water, crackers, powder, pills, shakes...they saturate the market promising instant results with as little to no work as possible. How long until we realize that pumping these artificial chemicals into our bodies or paying for something that we can get at home DOSEN'T WORK??
Do you want to be at your ideal level of fitness? Do you want to feel as healthy and look as bangin' as possible? I have the magic formula for you and, if you're the first ten readers, I won't even charge you for it. (*wink*) Ready???
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Stepping down off my soapbox now....
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