Topic: Weight Loss
IDEA: If you could speak to your past or future self—literally—what would you say? How would you feel if your future self had made changes you'd only dreamed of making?…
Now that Sir Charles Barkley isn't fat anymore, he's got way more time to dress in drag. Barkley put on a halter dress and wig for Weight Watchers' upcoming "Lose…
While American viewers are being subjected to Charles Barkley in Weight Watchers commercials, the French are getting something even weirder—an artful yet off-putting campaign from Fred & Farid featuring colorful,…
"Let your new life begin" is one promise made in ads for 1-800-GET-THIN, a marketer of lap-band weight-loss surgery. Tragically, five California residents recently died following such procedures at 1-800-GET-THIN…
These days, every diet program worth its weight in frozen meals has to have at least one big-name celebrity willing to prance around in something tight to show off their…
Like all lard-ass Americans, I dream of being in better shape. Those ubiquitous "Tricks of a Tiny Belly" banner ads gave me hope. If it's on the Internet, it must…
After seeing gains in membership among men, Weight Watchers is making a concerted effort to reach the obese bro-dude in your life. But where Nutrisystem and Jenny Craig have spokesmen…
"Hubby is coming back ... I must look fit and pretty." Thus begins this riotous print ad for a weight-loss tablet from India, decried by Jezebel as "one of the…
Since I live right next to a major university and work at a lesser-but-growing university, I'm pretty much blind to tear-off advertising fliers. But I probably wouldn't be if people…
Before-and-after photos are a staple of weight-loss advertising. Now, a health clinic in Estonia has taken it a step further, hiring look-alike "Before" and "After" models—one significantly slimmer than the…
