Friday, 13 November 2009
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Don't Be Fooled By "Before and After" Weight Loss Photos!
Companies use all sorts of techniques to get you to buy their fitness and weight loss products. One of the most popular ways to sell you something is by showing a “before and after” picture of someone who has used the fitness equipment, weight loss pill, exercise video – you name it. Let’s face it, those pictures can be pretty amazing. Take a minute and watch this short video on the truth behind “before and after” photos you see in exercise magazines or with weight loss products. Are they for real?
Most of the time, the people in the before and after pictures are fitness models who have spent a few months slacking off prior to getting their “before” pictures taken. When a muscle is trained, detrained and retrained, there is a faster change in muscle size.
There are so many different techniques you can use to alter the models bodies, and as mentioned in the video, sometimes the Before and After photos are taken in the same day. So….don’t believe everything you see!
What do you think about Before and After pictures? Have people become so overwhelmed with their looks that they've forgotten the importance of just being healthy?
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Comments (35)
I've never trust those because they always look photoshopped.
Like those diet pills or workout before and after - the person's arms are always away from their body (unnaturally far) in the after. To me it looks like they take the before then photoshopped it to look like a smaller person.
They end up looking like their arms are parentheses around their body.
p.s. I just saw the video - and hahahahahaha I was right!
I think its a bummer, and I agree that people are very overwhelmed with the pressure to look "normal" even it it means they sacrifice their health.
Okay, I'm not that shocked actually. Photoshop is so overused nowadays that anyone's picture, whether professional or belonging to some average joe on myspace, is something hard to believe!
Sad thing is that the customers are aware that it's too good to be true yet risk it and buy it anyway. =/
yeah, a lot of times people forget that photoshop exists :x or just good lighting.
LOL
There's an ad with before/after pictures on this page!hahaha.
I like it when it's obvious the before and after shots aren't even the same person and by like, I mean absolutely hate it. Making people hate their bodies to the point they're willing to try dangerous products is such a lucrative business and it's a damn shame.
Some companies do reverse photoshopping. The "AFTER" is actually them, but they make them look fat or blubbery. It's MUCH easier to to make a person fat with photoshop than thin and toned.
i love before and after pictures how sometimes the before person's face looks different than the after person's face . the pills or workout or whatever they're doing must give new faces !
You don't even have to know it's photoshopped. When someone looks fifty pounds lighter and the note on the bottom says "*Average weight loss of 2.3 pounds in 30 days" then it's pretty obvious.
that is some great graphic work!! masters! but other than selling lies. can't be helped. in the end though does the product really work?
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I've always thought that they look Photoshopped.
I don't trust anything on TV.
um.....DUH! you're quick.
One I saw a before and after advertisement where the before woman was white and the after woman was black. That was obviously not the same person.
i never trusted.. thanks for the proof. im right!
thats also the reason why i loveandhate magazines.
i already knew that. haha this just confirms it. ;D
awesome. I knew it! I've also wondered if sometimes the "before and after" pictures were perhaps swapped- a good picture of the person from a few years back when they were at their best, and the "before" picture really having been taken after they slacked off for a few years.
I thinks it's HILARIOUS!!! The first thing that always pops into my mind is "ohhh I get it! It's a weight loss system AND a self tanner!"
My God, people will do anything to sell their product.
I knew these things were a scam, and now I know that I was right all along!
You can't trust anything on TV nowadays....
i think a good principle is just to distrust advertisements generally.
Oh, I never believe those anyway. Usually they are really fake looking, even the best of them. If they aren't, I figure even if the photos were real, it wasn't from that particular diet pill or whatever is being advertised.
@girl_lost_in_the_dark@xanga - rofl
Never trusted those were real, but it was fun to see behind the scenes!
wow lol.
I love it when they do before and after beauty and makeup shots. They tend to do simple things like tell the model not to smile in the before and then have tnem smile in the after. Smiling people tend to be more attractive. Or they have the model's hair in a ponytail in the before and then out and amazing in the after. You cant trust what you see anymore.