This Fitness Bloggers Before and After Photos Were Stolen to Promote a Diet Pill

Roni Noone, the writer behind Roni's Weigh, is well known in the weight-loss blogosphere. She started blogging while pregnant with her son—it was a way to keep friends and family updated on all of the exciting changes going on in her life—but she began focusing more and more on her efforts to drop weight post-pregnancy.

Roni was able to successfully lose about 70 pounds, and she posted before-and-after snapshots of herself on her blog to inspire her readers. Unfortunately, though, Roni says that a Web site selling Garcinia Cambogia diet supplements recently used her photos to advertise their product—even though they had absolutely nothing to do with her success in getting fit. Even worse, this is the second time that a site has used her images as a bogus testament to results the product can supposedly help you achieve. 

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"Once again, the whole thing is completely fake, right down to the made-up quotes and a graph that shows how I lost all the weight in just 30 days," Roni recently told ABC News. In fact, it took Roni a year to achieve the advertised results. (You can read more about Roni's experience having her images stolen here).

The Women's Health brand has also had its likeness stolen to promote these scams. Let us be clear: We are in no way supportive of these products. It's why we put out this warning about the diet pill's scam.

As Roni explains on her blog, the best way to lose extra weight is to make sustainable lifestyle changes, like preparing more of your own meals, filling up on more fruits and vegetables, and exercising regularly. If you really want more of the nitty-gritty on how real women have managed to drop a ton of weight, check out these legit success stories.

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