I went on a successful weight loss journey from March to September of last year, from 174 to 150 pounds. Unfortunately I got complacent and now I'm back up to 156. So here I am again! My original goal was 140 and I obviously didn't even reach that but I was pretty happy at 150 so I'd like to get there again, at least. 140 might be too low for my frame (my face starts looking a little skeletor-like lol).
Anyway, my question is really, I'm wondering if anyone else noticed a shift in their social media advertising around the new year? I try to stay off instagram but around late December I noticed that all of a sudden 90% of the ads I saw were either for GLP-1s, some other weight loss program/app, or plastic surgeons. Like literally bombarded with before and after pictures. I tried blocking every account when they popped up but then I realized that's probably hurting, not helping, the algorithm cuz I was visiting the pages. It seems to have slowed down now and is kind of back to giving me more regular ads. But wow, that was intense, and wildly triggering!! I don't know if they targeted me because I'm just a 30-something year old woman? I hadn't been searching for weight loss related anything, anywhere, and I certainly have never looked into plastic surgery.
Anyone else get targeted for "body-changing" ads around the new year? And how did it make you feel? I obviously tried to ignore them but in general I was still feeling that "New Year New Me means your body is wrong and gross and terrible and you need to change it" thing I get every year so I feel like those ads somehow work even if I tell myself to ignore them.
Trying to come from a place of love, not hate, to get back down to my preferred weight. Sometimes I just struggle with the whole thing, though.
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