boglin: (Default)
boglin ([personal profile] boglin) wrote2008-06-16 08:27 am

Be skinny for summer!

Read the advert title on Facebook.

The pink patch will help you lose that stubborn stone and be your skinniest. Try it free!

Or, perhaps...now stop me if I'm being too controversial here...but just *perhaps*...if there's only that 'stubborn stone' between you and being 'skinny' you could actually not worry about it and stick with the normal, healthy body of a woman rather than the celebrity endorsed emaciated form of a pre-pubescent girl.

Just a thought.

[identity profile] november-girl.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 09:18 am (UTC)(link)
I hear what you're saying, but personally when I'm actually trying to lose weight "that subborn stone" is the first one, not the last one i.e. if I'm trying to get from 12 stone to 10 stone, the stubborn bit is getting from 12 stone to 11 stone rather than 11 stone to 10 stone.

As you know, I appreciate the voluptuous female and broader male, but quite frankly there are a LOT of people around who could do with losing quite a bit of weight (and should add that I include myself in that, just so I don't sound too hypocritical).

[identity profile] november-girl.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 09:19 am (UTC)(link)
Wearing a patch sounds bloody stupid though!

[identity profile] boglin.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 09:50 am (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't classify 10 stone as skinny though, unless you're talking about someone who is over 6'. i've got nothing against people losing weight if it is a healthy thing to do - I just object to a product marketing itself as a way to lose the last stone to being skiny.

[identity profile] boglin.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
And I am, of course, using skinny as a pejorative term there!