Quote: Smashed_StrawberryQuote: Lemony_ZesterThat diet/ weight-watching adverts only seem to use women. And skinny women too, unless the men are commenting on the women. f*ck off giving us complexes, stupid advertising market!
Right on.
Weight-Watchers.
I`m sure they`ve helped an awful lot of people, which is fantastic, but I`ve never understood the logic behind getting people to count points. Loosing weight can be hard enough for some people, without the added stress of looking through a booklet to find out how many points each item of food on your dinner plate is worth.
My mum, who doesn`t even look fat, seems to spend 10 minutes before each meal working out ridiculous b*ll*cks like, how many grams of feta cheese she`s `allowed` to have on a salad. I mean, if you`re eating a balanced diet and exercising, you really don`t need to impose such strict measures on yourself. She also thinks that because she`s got a points quota, she can have next to nothing during the day, eat crisps and biscuits at night and at the end of the week, as if by magic, she`ll be a couple pounds lighter.
Surely, they should be preaching that all you need to do is eat well balanced meals, drink plenty of water and exercise. A lot of people seem to believe that they don`t need to exercise and all they have to do is eat 20 or so points a day and in a matter of months they`ll have a body like the tart off the advert.
And the adverts themselves, aye. They definitely don`t help. The image-related pressure on people today, both women and men, is ridiculous. Even I`ve felt almost inadequate at times for not having a body like an underwear model, dark hair, or perfect shiny white teeth.