Athletes hawking diet products/programs

[CatWoman]

why would they have more credibility than anyone else?



I see the Dolphins of the 80's are now gainfully employed.

[Debi]

1. Um, I just gotta say that I'm hanging in there with Dan and Don

Cuz that program and I have lost 28 lbs since September!!! :bounce: (But Dan and Don weren't the reason I bought into the program) It was my big ass!!!

[CatWoman]

2. ROFL

The only time I can lose weight in a totally healthy and spontaneous way is thru Weight Watchers :)

[Debi]

8. I lost weight on WW and then gained it back

NS is more rigid (and everything is right there for you) so I'm doing well. Getting off the program will be an adventure! Must husband jokes about what 'brown paper packaged' food I'll be having each night. Blah, Blah, Blah, Me and Dan Marino are doin just fine pork chop...x( pork chops???? Darn it, now I'm hungry!!!

[CatWoman]

9. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Pork chops..............................

[SoCalDem]

14. Pneumonia was the only effective "diet aid" that worked for me

:(

[Nia Zuri]

11. Day 2 for me. Already lost 2.5

But boy the food is nastay!!! Not sure if I'll be able to hang!

[Debi]

12. You'll find food you like

and then you can structure your order to what you want to eat. (Also, get on the message board and see if anyone wants to trade foods w/you - I found a wonderful lady in NC that traded me all my granola bars and that orange beef meal x( for all her scrambled eggs and white cheddar crisps) So no money lost and a new friend made.

Good luck to you and PM me if you need moral support. I can't wait 'til I hit my first goal and get to plan my second one :bounce:

[CatWoman]

13. I just have a problem with having to buy "special" food

doesn't that get expensive?

[Debi]

15. It seems expensive b/c you have to do it in one complete purchase

but you have to remember that you purchase an entire month of food and only add salads and fruit/veggies. (cutting down on the grocery store bill a WHOLE BUNCH). The ads say $10.00 a day (but there are discounts and 'points' that you can earn toward discounts so the cost goes down the longer you are on the program). But even at $10.00 a day + let's say $2.00 a day for 'add in' foods that comes out to $84.00 a week for food. What do you normally spend per week on groceries? :shrug:

I joke with my husband that if we every get snowed in I have enough 'survival' food for the family for at least a week (there is three of us). It's our built in emergency kit!

Not every program is for every person, but I can't complain about this one for me. It's working!

[SammyWinstonJack]

17. My husband bought it, thanks Marino

:evilgrin: He said it tasted and smelled like cat food and now most of it is still in the box in the spare bedroom. :rofl: What a waste of $300. Too bad we don't have any cats. :rofl: Not sure I would subject cats to that nasty foul "food". I think that might be animal abuse.

[CatWoman]

18. you could always send it to Streak

:)

:hi:

[SammyWinstonJack]

19. I couldn't do that to Streak!.

:-) :hi:

[Debi]

20. He could try to send it back for a refund or try to sell it on the message board

for NS. There are several items of the program that I like. I guess to each his own, mabye I should try some cat food? (would be cheaper...:P)

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. More credibility as opposed to whom?

Charles Atlas and Richard Simmons?

Probably not.

[CatWoman]

4. um. every day people?

or are you the type to go out and buy something just because Oprah tells you to?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. Nope.

In fact, I don't think I've ever been tempted to buy something I saw on a commercial. Ever. Even with celebrities.

[CatWoman]

7. yeah, right

I saw you at the opera :)

[dysfunctional press]

5. a lot of the before and after pictures that hawk crappy workout equipment-

use physical trainers and athletes who have had an injury, or a preganacy that has caused them to gain weight- take the before picture- and then the person works out to get back to the shape they were in before the injury, and that's the after picture.

[RB TexLa]

10. They don't have any more credibility, they have have more recognition

with the consumers to whom the company wants to sell. Same thing for movie stars and members of the Windsor family from England.

[Berry Cool]

16. I admit,

I love the guy who says "My wife tells me I'm not as disgusting to her as I used to be!"

[Blue_In_AK]

24. That one makes me laugh, too.

Still disgusting, just not AS disgusting. :rofl:

[flvegan]

21. *Results not typical

Sort of says it all.

"Credibility" has never been the best standard to choose spokespersons by. Marino hawks for CarMax around here, too.

[CatWoman]

22. I've always had a schoolgirl crush on Dan

:)

However, I wouldn't buy a used car from him, either

:)

[cmkramer]

23. Remember Shari Belafonte?

Harry's actress daughter. Anyway, for a while there, she was showing up in almost every commercial or informercial for diet, weight control or toning your body talking about how the product had worked for her. It got to the point where I was thinking, "Damn, girl, can't you stick to one regimen?"

Funny thing is, I don't recall her ever being fat - not even by Hollywood standards.