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I know! I wish companies would just keep it real and come out and be legit about not being totally honest.
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Oh my god! I used to spend hours a day at lowcarbfriends forums and I 'knew' that woman! I knew her name was Heidi Diaz way back then, in 2003 or so. I also figured she was a fraud. She would post a link to her Fitday food journal which had supposedly everything she ate the year she supposedly lost 187 lbs. I doubted her so I flipped through it once. No one named Heidi refers to themselves in their food log as their screen name "Kimmer", if you ask me, so I figured it was a prop she made as part of the scam. And her 'after' photo was just too pretty and young to match her before one. I didn't know she started a diet company or any of that but it doesn't surprise me. She had a rabid following at LCF back then. Her way of eating was extreme and unhealthy. Wow, nutty! I can't believe those P.I. pics of her. Thanks for posting that! She kept up that charade for years.
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I never buy anything based on the testimonials. I know some are real but the majority I feel are manufactured.
I've also heard how the fitness models will also pooch out their stomachs for the before and then the after is how they truly are. There's a pill advertised in a magazine where the before and after are clearly two different women. Jay even made fun of it on his "headlines" and they had the audacity to add "as seen on the Jay Leno show" to it. They've removed it but still try to sell this claiming both pictures are the same woman.
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07-04-10, 06:37 AM | |
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http://www.beachbody.com/product/suc...006/linda_l.do
Well...I was a Beachbody success story. No one tampered with my photos. My before and after pictures were legit - taken by my husband before and after P90X. I didn't tan or anything. Beachbody asked me to film myself doing P90X plus other activities that may have been helped by doing P90X like running, gardening, martial arts, etc. I know at least one other person who was in the P90X infomercial with me whose results and photos were also completely legit. Beachbody may have changed their tactics since then. I was chosen almost 6 years ago after meeting Tony at a Tony camp in Miami. This was before Beachbody and P90X became so incredibly huge. It seems that Beachbody infomcercials have become much more stylized since then. I will say that in defense of true before pictures, when you feel crummy about how you look, you won't be dressing in nice workout clothes or posing prettily for the camera - you're too embarassed. When you've had success and look better, you're more willing to flex and pose for the camera.
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