Idiots

I was on Facebook the other day when I saw an ad for this miracle diet from Doctor Oz. The girls before and after pictures were familiar to me. I remembered seeing them on a power lifting blog. After a little searching I found the blog. It was about the girl’s success and achievements and all that, but the ad was using her pictures saying she was using a miracle fruit or pill that doesn't exist. This did not in any way surprise me. Though I was shocked at how much positive response there was in the comments. So many women were sucked into it and were talking about buying it. I just couldn't believe it. You could visibly see in the after photo how much more toned and muscular she was compared to her before photo where she had no muscle at all. I guess I was appalled because of that. This ad was claiming she just took a pill and magically became healthy and fit or ‘skinny’ when it tells you right in the girls blog how hard she worked for that. Also, the ad claimed she had lost thirty pounds when actually, she had gained weight from the new muscle mass. It makes me pity them to see how gullible they are. I've had my fair share of being sucked into whatever products, but they make those ads in particular embarrassingly obvious it’s a blatant lie. I've had body issue problems my whole life. I've always hated the extra fat on my body. I've yo-yo-ed with my weight through the years, but I've known there is no such thing as a ‘magic’ pill or ‘super-fruit’. I just wish that people would understand that, too. It takes hard work. Power lifting isn't an easy sport. I've had my days were I just want to quit because it’s unbelievably draining, even for someone who’s been doing it all there lives. Then the other side of the comments were shaming her for how she looked in the after photo. People—primarily women –said things like she looked better in the before photo and the after picture was photo shopped and she’s ugly or a slut. That really pissed me off. There is no excuse for body shaming and please, someone tell me, why people were throwing around the comment ‘slut’. Really?  One person couldn't find anything bad to say about the photos so they just decided ‘slut’ was an acceptable insult and other people grew on that? I’m just flabbergasted about the whole thing. People are so gullible and then so critical it makes my head spin. I hope no one I know falls for these marketing ploys; there stupid, heartless scams.