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Jenny Craig commercial--- ugh --
It just make me sick. Two perky gals trying to encourage us all to find the lean healthy body within. They were giving such helpful hints as to vacuum or garden and burn 30-something calories! Or to walk your kids all the way to school....
I don't know-- maybe I'm overly sensitive, but come on girls! They are talking to us like anyone who is over weight is completely sedentary.
Now, I realize that this is where some people start. But I've learned from this board and others that some very active and physically fit people are still over weight. And we all know that super thin person who would drive across the street, rather than walk... so I think these ladies were being very simplistic and I thought insulting to most people.
I ask you - who doesn't vacuum, or have to clean their own house? Who doesn't have to walk a little bit to get to work, or climb up and down stairs?
We are not just sitting on our asses eating chocolate and watching tv, and to me, commercials like that just reinforce that stereotype. Like, if that poor fat girl would just get up and do something, then she wouldn't be so fat!
Grrrrr-- I'm just so sick of seeing all these 'easy answers' which are nothing helpful at all, except for someone's bank account.
We all know it's not easy, it's not simple, and to have some perky barbie telling me to just vacuum and all my problems will be over is insulting to my intelligence, and to my lifestyle.
I know that isn't really what they mean, but it almost sounded that way. I guess I would have to buy all their food too!