Consumerist
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videos
344 Now 224 lb Reader Featured On TV, In Newsweek
Reader Tyler Weeks, who started a blog to chronicle his journey from 344 pounds to his current weight of 224.6, was recently featured in Newsweek and on his local CBS news station for his weight reduction success story. Nice job! Here's the video. More » -
success stories
How I Lost 100.4 Pounds In 6 Months
Reader Tyler started 344pounds.com to document his weight loss journey. We've checked in with him before when he lost 32 and then 54.6 pounds. Now that he's hit the hundred-pound-loss mark, Tyler wrote this feature for us to share his methods.
On January 15th, I weighed 344.2 pounds. As of July 8th, I weigh 243.8 pounds. I've lost 100.4 pounds in the last 6 months by eating moderately (portion control) and exercising. I've gone from a 4XLT shirt and size 48 pants to wearing XL and size 38 pants. I no longer have high blood pressure, sleep apnea, or back problems. Here's how I did it. More »
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you must not be this tall
Sorry, You Are Too Tall For Weight Watchers!
This is kinda sad. JJ is 6'10" and wants to lose a little weight. Trouble is, 6'10" is too tall for Weight Watchers Online. More » -
weight watchers
Can't Cancel Weight Watchers Online Membership? Here's Help
Are you having trouble canceling your online Weight Watchers membership? If the normal online cancellation channels don't work, try this number. Remember, like all contact information provided on this site, it is to be used for good, not evil, and only when all other options don't work. More » -
internet marketing
Easy Weight Loss And Free Cash: A Dubious Product Online Marketing Empire Revealed
I started out looking at the advertising and affiliate practices of one company, CreditReport America, and learned that the company that owns this site apparently produces a solid majority of the ads on the Web that annoy me.
Meet Just THINK Media of Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada, and their online empire of dubious products. Magic weight loss tea, free government grants, acai and red wine pills, colon cleanser, free credit reports...if there are incessant ads for it everywhere on the Web, they probably sell it. More »
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Big Disappointments
Exercise Science Shocker: Regular Exercise And Diet Are The Best Ways To Lose Weight
Are you sitting down? Of course you are, that's why you were interested in a lose-weight-quick scheme to begin with. Well, bad news. Exercise physiologists took at look at several six-week weight loss programs and determined that no, those products don't work, and that if you want to stop looking like a "dumpling," it's going to take at least six months of actual effort. More » -
scams
Careful, Those Free Acai Products Might Come Attached To A Delicious Scam
The BBB is warning consumers about scams attached to the popular, yummy acai berry. Online ads claiming endorsements by Oprah and Rachel Ray are pitching acai-berry-themed weight loss products — and are generating thousands of complaints from angry consumers who say they've been scammed. More » -
NBC and General Mills are planning on launching a "Biggest Loser" line of food this fall. The idea of someone sitting at home watching that show while munching a "Biggest Loser" energy bar is deeply depressing. [Entertainment Marketing Letter]
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diet
100 Calorie Packs Makes You Fat
Smaller-sized 100-calorie snack packs are supposed to help with weight loss, but the problem is they don't work. In an experiment published in the Journal of Consumer Research, subjects were primed to think about their body shape and then given bags of potato chips and placed in front of a TV. The group that was given nine small bags ate much more than those given two large bags, 46.1 grams vs 23.5. What's going on? It appears that the smaller size tricks people into thinking they're eating less, so they feel fine about chowing down more. Consumers may merrily consume the innocently small packages of Little Pleasures at an even higher pace,” wrote the study's authors, “leading to over-consumption.”
Overindulgence in Small Packages [NYT]
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scams
Wu Yi Tea, The New Diet Scam
Doris wanted to start 2008 off on the right foot, so she made the resolution to lose weight. She ordered a free trail of Wu Yi Tea, "Hollywood's Hottest Diet", and decided well before her two weeks were up to cancel her order and stick to old fashioned eating right and exercise. That was in January. Four months later, Wu-Yi's parent company Living Lean in Las Vegas is giving Doris the run around about canceling her order. Oddly, Wu Yi has this to say about fad diets on their website, "all the diet formulas have been, at best, disappointing, at worst, outright frauds." Pot, this is kettle. You're black. Hear more from Doris, inside. More » -
exercise
10 Secrets About Personal Trainers
It's that time of year to pretend to care about your body for a few weeks before you give up in despair and realize it's your parents' fault for not having better genes. SmartMoney has published another one of their "10 Things" articles, this time about the common workout hobo, or as they prefer to be called, "personal trainers." More » -
nutrition
10 Popular Diets Ranked According To Healthiness
A new report in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association ranks ten diets according to nutritional quality and potential effects on heart health. The best of the ten is the Ornish diet, while the least healthy is the Atkins plan. Dieters, begin fighting. More » -
false advertising
FTC Asks For Diet Pill Spammer's Assets Frozen
OMG, HGH isn't raised by "Hoodia" pills promoted by spam? Still, the FTC ordered a restraining order and asset freeze. That's good. Only thousands of more spam-kings to go, two of which spring up every time you shut one down. [FTC] -
health
How Much Does It Cost To Lose 30 lbs?
Assuming you've already decided that the money-saving "eat less" method won't work for you: How much will it cost to lose 30 lbs? Bankrate checked out five diet programs and calculated the total cost based on losing the recommended healthy amount of weight per week: More » -
scams
How To Tell If A Diet Is A Sham
Jared points out his amusing list of the top 10 ways to tell if a weight loss program is a buncha snake oil. More » -
meghann marco
Special K Diet Is Bullshit
Alright, we've sent Guest Blogger Meg Marco's ass packing. But was that ass any less plump and spectacular after her two week Special K diet, in which she ate only one real meal and two bowls of Special K a day in order to drop a jean size? More » -
hp
HP Markets Girdling Camera to Rather Delusional Women
And with the proud forward march of technology comes one more reason not to trust that Match.com profile picture: the newest Hewlett-Packert cameras include an automatic "slimming" effect that can transform even the tubby, the amorphous, the morbidly obese into slender sylphs. More »
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