The joys of office broscience - misguided food/nutrition advice
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mamapeach910 wrote: »I have a coworker who refuses to eat meat. I told her it was nice that she was a vegetarian.
She said "no, I'm not a vegetarian. I just don't eat anything with muscles because I read that muscle weighs so much more than fat and I don't want to ingest all that heavy meat muscle". (shovels in the macaroni and cheese)
Go ahead...be flabbergasted.
This wins.
This also wins every "muscle weighs more than fat" thread ever.
Agree. lol.0 -
I'm in for the zodiac diet because I'm a Gemini and I think it will mean two lunches for me0
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Our office secretary comes into my office every day to get a piece of chocolate. The chocolate is to reward herself for resisting a diet coke. Not that there's anything wrong with chocolate (I regularly eat it myself), but it seems odd to me to reward oneself for avoiding a calorie free option by having something with calories.
I just shrug and sip my diet coke.0 -
ILiftHeavyAcrylics wrote: »Our office secretary comes into my office every day to get a piece of chocolate. The chocolate is to reward herself for resisting a diet coke. Not that there's anything wrong with chocolate (I regularly eat it myself), but it seems odd to me to reward oneself for avoiding a calorie free option by having something with calories.
I just shrug and sip my diet coke.
Is that why she's avoiding diet coke, because of her diet? I cut it out because it bloats me so much (way worse than normal people IMO).
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barbecuesauce wrote: »ILiftHeavyAcrylics wrote: »Our office secretary comes into my office every day to get a piece of chocolate. The chocolate is to reward herself for resisting a diet coke. Not that there's anything wrong with chocolate (I regularly eat it myself), but it seems odd to me to reward oneself for avoiding a calorie free option by having something with calories.
I just shrug and sip my diet coke.
Is that why she's avoiding diet coke, because of her diet? I cut it out because it bloats me so much (way worse than normal people IMO).
Yes, because of her diet.0 -
ILiftHeavyAcrylics wrote: »barbecuesauce wrote: »ILiftHeavyAcrylics wrote: »Our office secretary comes into my office every day to get a piece of chocolate. The chocolate is to reward herself for resisting a diet coke. Not that there's anything wrong with chocolate (I regularly eat it myself), but it seems odd to me to reward oneself for avoiding a calorie free option by having something with calories.
I just shrug and sip my diet coke.
Is that why she's avoiding diet coke, because of her diet? I cut it out because it bloats me so much (way worse than normal people IMO).
Yes, because of her diet.
Oh dear0 -
I have a coworker who refuses to eat meat. I told her it was nice that she was a vegetarian.
She said "no, I'm not a vegetarian. I just don't eat anything with muscles because I read that muscle weighs so much more than fat and I don't want to ingest all that heavy meat muscle". (shovels in the macaroni and cheese)
Go ahead...be flabbergasted.
No. Way.0 -
The facebook friend of mine who sells plexus and does his own testimonials. Pretty much every one of his posts is the derp.
Especially the ones about "how much better I feel now that I have premium nutrition in my diet", I'm like, you gave us the plexus shakes and cleanses.....I didn't know.....good for you.....good for you.0 -
I have a coworker who refuses to eat meat. I told her it was nice that she was a vegetarian.
She said "no, I'm not a vegetarian. I just don't eat anything with muscles because I read that muscle weighs so much more than fat and I don't want to ingest all that heavy meat muscle". (shovels in the macaroni and cheese)
Go ahead...be flabbergasted.
I am so hoping this is not real. I just, I can't even...
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Oh jeeze, what's plexus? Another shady-azz ripoff MLM? IDK, we have people here at this place who always claim to be on some diet or other but weigh at least twice what would be healthy, and I mean literally. There's always someone really large debating the fine points of a celebrity diet with another really large person in the break room... I don't say anything. ever. I just drink my coffee and keep my snark inside my head.0
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Oh jeeze, what's plexus? Another shady-azz ripoff MLM? IDK, we have people here at this place who always claim to be on some diet or other but weigh at least twice what would be healthy, and I mean literally. There's always someone really large debating the fine points of a celebrity diet with another really large person in the break room... I don't say anything. ever. I just drink my coffee and keep my snark inside my head.
Yep that about covers it. It's super spammy.
I have a Facebook friend who sells it and when she first started posting about it I messaged her to let her know that her account had been hacked. Whoops.0 -
I have a coworker who refuses to eat meat. I told her it was nice that she was a vegetarian.
She said "no, I'm not a vegetarian. I just don't eat anything with muscles because I read that muscle weighs so much more than fat and I don't want to ingest all that heavy meat muscle". (shovels in the macaroni and cheese)
Go ahead...be flabbergasted.
This is a gem!!!!!0 -
I have a coworker who refuses to eat meat. I told her it was nice that she was a vegetarian.
She said "no, I'm not a vegetarian. I just don't eat anything with muscles because I read that muscle weighs so much more than fat and I don't want to ingest all that heavy meat muscle". (shovels in the macaroni and cheese)
Go ahead...be flabbergasted.
I think this is my favorite
Mine, too! That's all kinds of speshul!
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ILiftHeavyAcrylics wrote: »Oh jeeze, what's plexus? Another shady-azz ripoff MLM? IDK, we have people here at this place who always claim to be on some diet or other but weigh at least twice what would be healthy, and I mean literally. There's always someone really large debating the fine points of a celebrity diet with another really large person in the break room... I don't say anything. ever. I just drink my coffee and keep my snark inside my head.
Yep that about covers it. It's super spammy.
I have a Facebook friend who sells it and when she first started posting about it I messaged her to let her know that her account had been hacked. Whoops.
I've done that before too...but intentionally0 -
I just always get annoyed when I tell people I'm just eating a deficit and try to introduce them to MFP, and they say "yeah you're on a diet". NO I'M NOT its not a diet, it's just eating less! I don't see what's confusing about it lol. why does everything health-related have to be called a "diet".
Maybe if you're getting the question a lot, rather than say you're eating less you could say that you've quit overeating.0 -
asflatasapancake wrote: »Can someone explain to me the weird "don't eat past 9pm" thing? I've heard that a few times and I'm feeling search engine lazy right now.
Since you're not moving your metabolism shuts down and you store everything as fat.
Or something.0 -
asflatasapancake wrote: »Can someone explain to me the weird "don't eat past 9pm" thing? I've heard that a few times and I'm feeling search engine lazy right now.
I had a pretty drunken/intense discussion with my friend about this, and she went home and emailed me these studies at like 3 am. I didn't get too into them, but you might find something fun in there.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25707276
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25711020
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25665169
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25707277
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ceoverturf wrote: »ILiftHeavyAcrylics wrote: »Oh jeeze, what's plexus? Another shady-azz ripoff MLM? IDK, we have people here at this place who always claim to be on some diet or other but weigh at least twice what would be healthy, and I mean literally. There's always someone really large debating the fine points of a celebrity diet with another really large person in the break room... I don't say anything. ever. I just drink my coffee and keep my snark inside my head.
Yep that about covers it. It's super spammy.
I have a Facebook friend who sells it and when she first started posting about it I messaged her to let her know that her account had been hacked. Whoops.
I've done that before too...but intentionally
:laugh:
No it really was an accident.0
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