Things I had to unlearn about losing weight

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  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    edited June 2015
    double post. :p
  • HaibaneReki
    HaibaneReki Posts: 373 Member
    snickerscharlie wrote: »
    ... The Haribo Sugarfree Gummy Bear Cleanse™ because delicious.

    B)

    brilliant! :D
  • Wiseandcurious
    Wiseandcurious Posts: 730 Member
    kygirl8282 wrote: »
    This is fantastic. As a forum lurker, I've noticed your posts/comments are always well thought out and informative.
    ....
    I've learned more in a month of mfp than I ever knew in years prior, and it's due to posts like this. Thank you!

    My feelings exactly. Will be directing people to that post, adding to favourites.
  • bpetrosky
    bpetrosky Posts: 3,911 Member
    Thanks @mamapeach910, @orphia, @rabbitjb, and @ILiftHeavyAcrylics!

    You guys deserve a lot of the credit for trying to bring sanity to the disinformation out there. I'm in y'all's debt.
  • madhatter2013
    madhatter2013 Posts: 1,547 Member
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  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
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  • YolliB2014
    YolliB2014 Posts: 104 Member
    This is fantastic!!! I would also agree that it should be made available to all new comers. When I started here 45 days ago, I started with the hope that I would never again have to diet or follow some gimmicky notion or fear some fat conspiracy theory. Because I have a chronic illness, I have to lose my weight without causing my body any added stress and it's posts like this one that give me hope and inspire me because this IS sound, healthy weight loss advice. So a big Thank You to you!!!!
  • whmscll
    whmscll Posts: 2,255 Member
    shell1005 wrote: »
    Great post! I give it the highest of fives.

    The biggest thing I had to learn is that I didn't have to constantly keep my body in a state of confusion....in order to keep my metabolism running. My body is a lot smarter than I gave her credit for previously.

    Yes. I was taught this years ago by Weight Watchers and totally bought into it until coming to MFP a few weeks ago. But I'm steadily losing about a pound a week simply by eating at a deficit. I struggled to lose all those other times. This time it is almost easy.
  • benzieboxx
    benzieboxx Posts: 253 Member
    This is great. I wish there was a way to make every new MFP user read this before they start asking questions about the things you addressed. Wishful thinking.
  • Monklady123
    Monklady123 Posts: 512 Member
    snickerscharlie wrote: »
    shell1005 wrote: »
    snickerscharlie wrote: »
    Well done, sir! <3

    Add in something about cleanses being bogus and you've got the holy grail. :)

    But THE TOXINS....how am I supposed to get rid of the evil toxins that are making me fat???? ;)

    The only two cleanses that are proven to be beneficial are The Peeps Master Cleanse™ and The Haribo Sugarfree Gummy Bear Cleanse™ because delicious.

    B)

    Are those gummy bears the ones with the hysterical reviews on Amazon? I think I'll have to search there later "just for giggles" as my kids would say. lol

    (thankfully I don't like gummy bears so I'm safe...)
  • jaga13
    jaga13 Posts: 1,149 Member
    Well said OP! I've heard these things for years, and have always doubted each and every one of these myths because it just doesn't sound right to me. But it's hard to argue this with people who think they know "the truth"
  • msphae30
    msphae30 Posts: 1 Member
    Very informative! B)
  • alleolala
    alleolala Posts: 19 Member
    Thanks!

    You know, looking at it all written out like that - it makes a lot of common sense. How is it that some of these ridiculous things seem sensible at the time?! Especially the 'unlimited healthy food' one... I've definitely fallen afoul of that in the past!
  • Losingthedamnweight
    Losingthedamnweight Posts: 536 Member
    That there are "good" and "bad" foods and that if you eat the bad, you instantly plump up and gain 20 lbs after eating that 1 cookie! It's funny now that I look back on it, while right now I eat whatever I want and lose it
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    bpetrosky wrote: »
    Thanks @mamapeach910, @orphia, @rabbitjb, and @ILiftHeavyAcrylics!

    You guys deserve a lot of the credit for trying to bring sanity to the disinformation out there. I'm in y'all's debt.

    :blush:

  • FullofTrixie
    FullofTrixie Posts: 41 Member
    There needs to be a like button
    This is great
  • bpetrosky
    bpetrosky Posts: 3,911 Member
    Wiseandcurious wrote: »
    Just looking at the recent forum threads, I would probably add "My endomorph body type/ Ayurvedic type/ blood group/ star sign/ whatever determines what I should do to lose weight." That family of myths seems to be perennial. :/

    Thankfully, I never bought into that group of myths. I think I read the blood type diet at one time and I just couldn't grok it. A bunch of the others were just truthy enough for me to believe in when I had a trainer telling me how it all worked for him or reading some doctor's book.
  • Orphia
    Orphia Posts: 7,097 Member
    Bump, since this is good info.
  • Tubbs216
    Tubbs216 Posts: 6,597 Member
    Great!
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  • Ninkyou
    Ninkyou Posts: 6,666 Member
    Excellent post and quite simply wrote. Good job. :)
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    bpetrosky wrote: »
    errollm wrote: »
    This needs to be stickied/be a pop up add when you download the app/ put in every "health" magazine, blog and pintrest, put under childrens pillows, handed out to people on the street, and dropped from airplanes leafleting major cities!!!!

    Excellent post!!!

    Awww shucks!

    I am late to the party, but I will second the sticky. This pretty much covers most of the derp on the forums.
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    bpetrosky wrote: »
    Wiseandcurious wrote: »
    Just looking at the recent forum threads, I would probably add "My endomorph body type/ Ayurvedic type/ blood group/ star sign/ whatever determines what I should do to lose weight." That family of myths seems to be perennial. :/

    Thankfully, I never bought into that group of myths. I think I read the blood type diet at one time and I just couldn't grok it. A bunch of the others were just truthy enough for me to believe in when I had a trainer telling me how it all worked for him or reading some doctor's book.

    Ok now I doubly heart you for the Stranger in a Strange Land reference. You're good people, OP.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
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  • atypicalsmith
    atypicalsmith Posts: 2,742 Member
    FullofTrixie wrote: »
    There needs to be a like button
    This is great

    Like!
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    STICKY
  • markiend
    markiend Posts: 461 Member
    good post, would have added " clean " in there somewhere though
  • Agathokakological
    Agathokakological Posts: 136 Member
    Love this!!
  • jkal1979
    jkal1979 Posts: 1,896 Member
    This is definitely sticky-worthy!

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  • PatriciaGentileschi
    PatriciaGentileschi Posts: 27 Member
    Thank you for directing me to this post!It makes sense! I will stick that in my mobile to have on me...to remind myself why am I am doing this and doing it RIGHT!

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