Dumbest thing you've heard about nutrition and exercise recently

thankyou4thevenom
thankyou4thevenom Posts: 1,581 Member
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So we've all heard some howlers. What's the one you've heard most recently that made your brain hurt?

This morning I stumbled across a thread on a different forum. Op had posted a screenshot of someone stating that smoothies are pure sugar. That the action of making a smoothie turns everything (vitamins and fibre) into sugar and nothing else. They were agreeing with it and even those objecting where saying they must have been talking about juicing. I mean really?
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  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,207 Member
    A friends girlfriend told me that alcohol will make you gain weight, unless you get so wildly trashed that you "body goes into freak out mode and totally goes into burn off mode, and ends up burning all your calories for the day". Her 'proof'? Being a kilo lighter the day after a huge binge. She refused to consider it was just huge dehydration.
  • belleamore1234
    belleamore1234 Posts: 105 Member
    That you can eat whatever you want as long as you are in calorie deficit and still be healthy, so I said if I ate 1200 calories worth of snickers and that's all I ate all day I would be healthy because I am in deficit - the answer was yes!
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,207 Member
    belleamore1234 wrote: »
    That you can eat whatever you want as long as you are in calorie deficit and still be healthy, so I said if I ate 1200 calories worth of snickers and that's all I ate all day I would be healthy because I am in deficit - the answer was yes!

    Were they confusing 'being healthy' with 'losing weight'? Because you could eat 1200 cals of snickers a day (and nothing else) and still lose weight... I can't imagine anyone saying you'd be healthy, however.
  • belleamore1234
    belleamore1234 Posts: 105 Member
    you wouldn't lose weight eating five snickers a day due to the fat and sugar content alone! The calories are irrelavent in this instance you would also be extremely hungry which would have an impact on your metabolism why do people live and die by this calorie deficit rule its insane
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,207 Member
    edited June 2015
    Um, no - if you were eating 1200 calories a day, you'd lose weight, no matter what you were eating. You'd be wildly nutritionally deprived after a bit but you'd lose weight. Sorry, but science says you're wrong.
  • darrensurrey
    darrensurrey Posts: 3,942 Member
    http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/
  • spenrey
    spenrey Posts: 34 Member
    thread title and debate about the science of calorie deficit - lol
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  • belleamore1234
    belleamore1234 Posts: 105 Member
    I think I would rather eat my greens than get hopped on artificial ingredients, sugar and fat just so that I can 'keep my treats' health should take presidence and all I ever read is oh I had candy today but I am in deficit, I had cookies today but I am in deficit people obviously don't care too much about what they put inside thier bodies
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,207 Member
    You must be a blast at parties. I'll keep my 55lb loss and the delicious square of dark chocolate I just ate, thanks.
  • belleamore1234
    belleamore1234 Posts: 105 Member
    No offence but I have never had 55lbs to lose, ever!
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,207 Member
    Again, blast at parties. You're a real peach.
  • belleamore1234
    belleamore1234 Posts: 105 Member
    I'm a realist, gorging on treats is what gets people into this situation in the first place I will take my health and fitness over a peice of chocolate anyday!
  • wizzybeth
    wizzybeth Posts: 3,578 Member
    belleamore1234 wrote: »
    you wouldn't lose weight eating five snickers a day due to the fat and sugar content alone! The calories are irrelavent in this instance you would also be extremely hungry which would have an impact on your metabolism why do people live and die by this calorie deficit rule its insane

    Can I nominate this ^ post for the thread?

    For the record, I have never seen anyone who believes in CICO state that anyone does, or should, eat only candy every day. And if you have seen a post that does support that, kindly link it here.


  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,207 Member
    How many calories does being a judgmental, high horse riding 'realist' burn?
  • belleamore1234
    belleamore1234 Posts: 105 Member
    Not everyone here is on a weight loss journey, some people use the app as a tool (like me) to keep track being on a diet on and off for 18 years sounds like maybe using your own advice hasn't worked for you I'm not judgemental because I place health over eating unhealthy things. I could drop dead tomorrow but I would rather take my chances at living longer and healthier by being mindful about what i put into my body, being kind to myself is what I consider 'a treat' by treating it well and giving it what it needs over mindless indulgences
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,207 Member
    edited June 2015
    No, not judgmental at all. Judgmental would be taking veiled digs at someone for having to lose 55lbs, then reading their profile to have a go at them... oh wait.

    You're right. I want to be just like you.
  • kgeyser
    kgeyser Posts: 22,505 Member
    Not everyone is on a weight loss journey, but everyone has to abide by community guidelines:

    4. Show Respect to All Groups and Individuals

    No derogatory references to sex, gender, age, weight, body-type, disability, ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation, or endorsement of violence against any person or group, even if couched in humor, will be permitted. This includes expressing stereotypes about any group or community.

    That includes derogatory comments about weight, or stereotypes about people who are overweight.
  • belleamore1234
    belleamore1234 Posts: 105 Member
    You wanted to take a swipe at me with your weight loss/chocolate comment I never said anything about you personally until yur snidy attempt at sarcasm so don't dish it out it you can't take it!
  • belleamore1234
    belleamore1234 Posts: 105 Member
    edited June 2015
    Its fascinating that when people take swipes at slimmer people nobody says a word! lol
  • belleamore1234
    belleamore1234 Posts: 105 Member
    I will donate it to somebody who needs it more than me :)
  • kgeyser
    kgeyser Posts: 22,505 Member
    belleamore1234 wrote: »
    Its fascinating that when people take swipes at slimmer people nobody says a word! lol

    Actually, we do. I've given out warnings for it. Now, if we could all please move on, contribute constructively to the OP or move on without posting so I don't have to hand out any more warnings, that'd be great.
  • Bruceapple
    Bruceapple Posts: 2,027 Member
    You can burn 75 calories an hour arguing.
  • wizzybeth
    wizzybeth Posts: 3,578 Member
    edited June 2015
    belleamore1234 wrote: »
    Its fascinating that when people take swipes at slimmer people nobody says a word! lol

    Has nothing to do with whether you are slim or not, darlin'.
  • brianpperkins
    brianpperkins Posts: 6,124 Member
    belleamore1234 wrote: »
    you wouldn't lose weight eating five snickers a day due to the fat and sugar content alone! The calories are irrelavent in this instance you would also be extremely hungry which would have an impact on your metabolism why do people live and die by this calorie deficit rule its insane

    The part in bold is one of the least accurate statements I've seen in a while.
  • Virkati
    Virkati Posts: 679 Member
    When I hear, "Muscle weighs more than fat". Really?!? If we're discussing density, that's different, but if we're talking simply about which one weighs more....uuuuuugghhh!!!! 16 ounces of chocolate weighs EXACTLY THE SAME as 16 ounces of chicken breast.

    When I hear muscle weighs more, I swear I start to twitch!
  • wizzybeth
    wizzybeth Posts: 3,578 Member
    edited June 2015
    Virkati wrote: »
    When I hear, "Muscle weighs more than fat". Really?!? If we're discussing density, that's different, but if we're talking simply about which one weighs more....uuuuuugghhh!!!! 16 ounces of chocolate weighs EXACTLY THE SAME as 16 ounces of chicken breast.

    When I hear muscle weighs more, I swear I start to twitch!

    Or how about "If you're not losing weight, you might be gaining muscle," (usually because they're walking 3x a week or something similar)

  • rushfive
    rushfive Posts: 603 Member
    My brain really hurt on:
    I could not lose weight eating 1200cal (or some low amount) but I could when I increased it to 3000 calories.
    What????
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    belleamore1234 wrote: »
    Not everyone here is on a weight loss journey, some people use the app as a tool (like me) to keep track being on a diet on and off for 18 years sounds like maybe using your own advice hasn't worked for you I'm not judgemental because I place health over eating unhealthy things. I could drop dead tomorrow but I would rather take my chances at living longer and healthier by being mindful about what i put into my body, being kind to myself is what I consider 'a treat' by treating it well and giving it what it needs over mindless indulgences

    There's more to good health than just the types of food you eat.

    Anyway... On topic...

    I am prepping for a bodybuilding show. A colleague was asking about my diet, and said I must be avoiding bread because it was fattening. She was insistent that it did, and kept telling me so even when I said that no one food made you fat.
  • darrensurrey
    darrensurrey Posts: 3,942 Member
    *reads through replies* Hangry detector bouncing off the redline here. :D

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