What terms/phrases wind you up about losing weight?

martinemarbella

I'm sure this won't go down too well but my personal bete noire is 'my journey'. Makes me cringe!

Chadxx

Diet and cheat

tinkerbellang83

Cheat Day, Detox and Cleanse

tiffaninghs

when ppl lose a ton of weight and say they arent where they want to be..shutup and be proud of urself

missh1967

Low carb/keto

Mycophilia

That humans aren't governed by the laws of thermodynamics.

amusedmonkey

None. Although there are terms I don't like using personally (cheat, journey...etc), I'm pretty laid back about what others want to use and I can usually tell from context what they mean without feeling annoyed.

At times there are terms that I'm just burned out on discussing so I just stay out of these threads for a while (clean eating, sugar, calorie is a calorie...etc).

These don't wind me up, but they just make me roll my eyes sometimes: short weight loss slogans like "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels", "no pain no gain", "sweat is your fat crying"...etc. I just don't care for slogans and motivational quotes/fitspiration much. There are only a few quotes out there than don't cause me to go "yeah yeah.. Next" in my mind.

kommodevaran

Way too many. Trying to lose weight (and loose weight, even), intermittent fasting. Not so much journeys, as tracks, horses and wagons (even bandwagons). The last X pounds, healthy food is expensive, healthy recipes, cheating, confusing CICO with calorie counting, motivation, willpower, foods to make you feel full, healthy snacks. I'm not full of hate, but I'm bitter and enthusiastic - because believing in these kinds of myths and confusion made it impossible for me to reach my goals, and exposing them to daylight made it virtually effortless. I don't want others to go through the same as me, but I can't do anything to stop a person who has made up their mind, and that makes me frustrated. I usually burn out after a few years, so I hope I some day can just roll my eyes

mazdauk

All the above, but more than anything, when people say "I wish I could lose weight" - or "How do you stay slim when you're always eating". When I explain HOW I lose weight and keep it off (eat less, move more, tracking everything I eat) the excuses start coming "I don't have time, I'm not technological, I had measles when I was 3....) (But not the last one often!0

beerfoamy

since I have been on these boards I seem to get irrationally angry when people say they are 'being good' or they go on about 'bad foods' haha

Ironandwine69

kommodevaran wrote: »

Way too many. Trying to lose weight (and loose weight, even), intermittent fasting. Not so much journeys, as tracks, horses and wagons (even bandwagons). The last X pounds, healthy food is expensive, healthy recipes, cheating, confusing CICO with calorie counting, motivation, willpower, foods to make you feel full, healthy snacks. I'm not full of hate, but I'm bitter and enthusiastic - because believing in these kinds of myths and confusion made it impossible for me to reach my goals, and exposing them to daylight made it virtually effortless. I don't want others to go through the same as me, but I can't do anything to stop a person who has made up their mind, and that makes me frustrated. I usually burn out after a few years, so I hope I some day can just roll my eyes

How is IF a myth?

Alatariel75

"Every body's different".

Nope. No, not really at all.

TavistockToad

"nothing tastes as good as skinny feels".... :huh: :noway:

Alatariel75

TavistockToad wrote: »

"nothing tastes as good as skinny feels".... :huh: :noway:

Oh, I really hate that one too.

amtyrell

Toned
As in "I want to look toned for bikini season"
Ugh tone is music you want to look more muscular or stronger.

kommodevaran

Ironandwine69 wrote: »

kommodevaran wrote: »

Way too many. Trying to lose weight (and loose weight, even), intermittent fasting. Not so much journeys, as tracks, horses and wagons (even bandwagons). The last X pounds, healthy food is expensive, healthy recipes, cheating, confusing CICO with calorie counting, motivation, willpower, foods to make you feel full, healthy snacks. I'm not full of hate, but I'm bitter and enthusiastic - because believing in these kinds of myths and confusion made it impossible for me to reach my goals, and exposing them to daylight made it virtually effortless. I don't want others to go through the same as me, but I can't do anything to stop a person who has made up their mind, and that makes me frustrated. I usually burn out after a few years, so I hope I some day can just roll my eyes

How is IF a myth?

IF is confusion, and the confusion is mythical. IF just not eating all the time, which can be good for adherance for those who prefer it. But lots of people are already not eating all the time, and thriving, without calling it IF. IF is sourrounded with ideas that you burn more fat by not eating, that it makes you live longer, that it is "skipping breakfast", but just skipping breakfast won't have the same effect (you have to call it IF), that certain foods and drinks magically breaks your fast, or not, and that it has any special meaning, which it has not, and that you have to eat a certain number of meals, which you don't.

Silentpadna

"You're gaining muscle" when in a deficit - especially in the time frame of about a week or a few weeks. Ugh.

"How do I 'kick-start' my 'diet'?"

"Clean food", "clean calories"

"I do HIIT 5x per week AND I lift weights, AND I eat 1200 calories AND I don't eat my exercise calories back AND I can't lose any weight".

duddysdad

"I eat 800 calories a day and I am gaining weight. I must be in starvation mode." or "Don't eat below 1200 calories or your body will hold on to everything you eat and gain weight."

MichelleWithMoxie

kommodevaran wrote: »

Ironandwine69 wrote: »

kommodevaran wrote: »

Way too many. Trying to lose weight (and loose weight, even), intermittent fasting. Not so much journeys, as tracks, horses and wagons (even bandwagons). The last X pounds, healthy food is expensive, healthy recipes, cheating, confusing CICO with calorie counting, motivation, willpower, foods to make you feel full, healthy snacks. I'm not full of hate, but I'm bitter and enthusiastic - because believing in these kinds of myths and confusion made it impossible for me to reach my goals, and exposing them to daylight made it virtually effortless. I don't want others to go through the same as me, but I can't do anything to stop a person who has made up their mind, and that makes me frustrated. I usually burn out after a few years, so I hope I some day can just roll my eyes

How is IF a myth?

IF is confusion, and the confusion is mythical. IF just not eating all the time, which can be good for adherance for those who prefer it. But lots of people are already not eating all the time, and thriving, without calling it IF. IF is sourrounded with ideas that you burn more fat by not eating, that it makes you live longer, that it is "skipping breakfast", but just skipping breakfast won't have the same effect (you have to call it IF), that certain foods and drinks magically breaks your fast, or not, and that it has any special meaning, which it has not, and that you have to eat a certain number of meals, which you don't.

I use IF, but not for any of the crap you listed above. It works well with my day and I like having a lot of calories in a shorter period of time. It's not magic. You can gain weight using IF the same as you can not using it; if you eat more calories during any time frame than you are burning, you will gain. I also don't have any magic foods that I "break fast" with. And no, you don't have to eat any certain number of meals, you can eat all calories in one meal, in 3 meals, in 8 meals. It matters not as long as the calories add up and keep you in the green.

zombiehandbanana

Thin people lecturing me about my health and how I need to lose weight so I can look good like them while they literally are smoking cigarettes. Not really a phrase so much as a habit or something.

goldenday

"Bad food" -you don't have to cut out anything, just keep under your calorie goal for the day and you're all good.