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[Obesity Discussion]

weight loss results- too good to be true! Common misleading claims.

Red Flag Bogus Claims

[wyoPBS]

Hey OD, I think you need to find a new link - the one in your thread starter is dead. I wanted to find out how many of your advertisers are on the list!

I know you need the ads to pay the bills, but man-oh-man some of these are doozies. I followed the one labeled "Lose 30 pounds in 30 days" (don't worry, I know better) and read a "blog" by "Jessica Williams and I live in Laramie, Wyoming" - wow, what a coincidence! That's where I live! Maybe she can come talk to the TOPS meeting and... hey, wait a minute. That *is* a big coincidence, and this is a very small town. So I used an anonymous surfing proxy which happens to be located in Houston to visit the site, and now Jessica says she's from Houston, Texas.

I'm just reminding folks, be very skeptical of any promises you read about weight loss. Remember that it takes a 3500 calorie difference between what you eat and what you burn to drop just one pound, so it would take that much every day for a month to drop 30 pounds that fast. Unless you're a super athlete AND starving yourself to death, it's highly unlikely you can even come close -- or you wouldn't be on this site in the first place.

[Obesity Discussion]

Originally Posted by wyoPBS

Hey OD, I think you need to find a new link - the one in your thread starter is dead. I wanted to find out how many of your advertisers are on the list!

I know you need the ads to pay the bills, but man-oh-man some of these are doozies. I followed the one labeled "Lose 30 pounds in 30 days" (don't worry, I know better) and read a "blog" by "Jessica Williams and I live in Laramie, Wyoming" - wow, what a coincidence! That's where I live! Maybe she can come talk to the TOPS meeting and... hey, wait a minute. That *is* a big coincidence, and this is a very small town. So I used an anonymous surfing proxy which happens to be located in Houston to visit the site, and now Jessica says she's from Houston, Texas.

I'm just reminding folks, be very skeptical of any promises you read about weight loss. Remember that it takes a 3500 calorie difference between what you eat and what you burn to drop just one pound, so it would take that much every day for a month to drop 30 pounds that fast. Unless you're a super athlete AND starving yourself to death, it's highly unlikely you can even come close -- or you wouldn't be on this site in the first place.

I couldn't find the info behind the original link, they must have taken it down or changed the website URL without a redirect.

I instead changed the thread up just a bit to give a little bit different info for the masses.