The Ghirardelli Chocolate ads on CC!!!
Um, so I'm trying to get back into a healthy lifestyle with a smart relationship with food, and the ad to the right of my screen says:
"Reward yourself for the little things you do"
...by eating chocolate?
Really???
Does anyone else see something wrong with this? Though I guess we can't control what ads the site chooses...
we can only control what we do.
Wow, this is frustrating.
What's so bad about a little chocolate now and then???
Nothing- and it would be fine if the ad said that.
Instead, they say "reward yourself for the little things...every day"
"getting the kids to school on time"
"getting all the errands done"
we shouldn't reward ourselves with food when we do our everyday tasks!
Nothing is wrong with a little chocolate on occasion.
Aren't the ads that appear on the page a result of things you've searched online? For instance, I'm house shopping so I keep seeing ads for low interest rates. I also buy a lot of high heels online so I keep getting ads for shoe sales.
Original Post by jstern1985:
Nothing- and it would be fine if the ad said that.
Instead, they say "reward yourself for the little things...every day"
"getting the kids to school on time"
"getting all the errands done"
we shouldn't reward ourselves with food when we do our everyday tasks!
Nothing is wrong with a little chocolate on occasion.
I eat chocolate every day, but I don't pig out on candy bars and cake. I put exactly 32 ghirardelli chocolate chips into my oatmeal each morning.
that sounds delicious. and totally reasonable.
i guess i just viewed the ad as promoting the "food as reward" phenomenon that i'm trying to escape, especially when it listed the daily tasks that deserve a (chocolate) reward.
but having chocolate as a part of your daily routine doesn't hurt, if you can do it in a manageable way, which it sounds like you do.
I would not be able to stand using CC if I didn't have an adblocker installed. I installed a new browser and logged into CC before adding the adblocker, I couldn't believe how distracting and annoying the ads were. Get an adblocker, your brain will thank you.
