Your biggest pet peeves...
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pinggolfer96 wrote: »When people try and tell me that fat is good for you. Like yeah let me stop eating my veggie carbs, grains, and legumes to eat sausages, bacon, and eggs to be more healthy lol.
Fat is good for you....it's an essential macronutrient unlike carbohydrates. Of course keeps your fruits and veggies, but fats is essential to optimal hormone function, vitamin absorption...etc. doesn't mean you have to eat sausage , French fries, and heavy cream, but avocados, nut butters, eggs, olive oil...etc.
You're so much nicer than me. I was going to say something snarky, but I knew it wasn't worth it, lol. I've encountered one of his threads before.0 -
pinggolfer96 wrote: »When people try and tell me that fat is good for you. Like yeah let me stop eating my veggie carbs, grains, and legumes to eat sausages, bacon, and eggs to be more healthy lol.
Fat is good for you....it's an essential macronutrient unlike carbohydrates. Of course keeps your fruits and veggies, but fats is essential to optimal hormone function, vitamin absorption...etc. doesn't mean you have to eat sausage , French fries, and heavy cream, but avocados, nut butters, eggs, olive oil...etc.
"Carbs are unneeded" lol0 -
pinggolfer96 wrote: »When people try and tell me that fat is good for you. Like yeah let me stop eating my veggie carbs, grains, and legumes to eat sausages, bacon, and eggs to be more healthy lol.
Fat is good for you....it's an essential macronutrient unlike carbohydrates. Of course keeps your fruits and veggies, but fats is essential to optimal hormone function, vitamin absorption...etc. doesn't mean you have to eat sausage , French fries, and heavy cream, but avocados, nut butters, eggs, olive oil...etc.
"Carbs are unneeded" lol
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I don't see where I wrote that.....but okay0 -
pinggolfer96 wrote: »When people try and tell me that fat is good for you. Like yeah let me stop eating my veggie carbs, grains, and legumes to eat sausages, bacon, and eggs to be more healthy lol.
Fat is good for you....it's an essential macronutrient unlike carbohydrates. Of course keeps your fruits and veggies, but fats is essential to optimal hormone function, vitamin absorption...etc. doesn't mean you have to eat sausage , French fries, and heavy cream, but avocados, nut butters, eggs, olive oil...etc.
You're so much nicer than me. I was going to say something snarky, but I knew it wasn't worth it, lol. I've encountered one of his threads before.
Haha be my guest to comment as well lol:p0 -
pinggolfer96 wrote: »pinggolfer96 wrote: »When people try and tell me that fat is good for you. Like yeah let me stop eating my veggie carbs, grains, and legumes to eat sausages, bacon, and eggs to be more healthy lol.
Fat is good for you....it's an essential macronutrient unlike carbohydrates. Of course keeps your fruits and veggies, but fats is essential to optimal hormone function, vitamin absorption...etc. doesn't mean you have to eat sausage , French fries, and heavy cream, but avocados, nut butters, eggs, olive oil...etc.
"Carbs are unneeded" lol
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I don't see where I wrote that.....but okay
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It takes a lot for me to get peeved, which is why this is going to sound silly even to me. I absolutely hate it when someone takes food off of my plate even if I'm not eating it. I did not carefully calculate the calories for my calculations to be messed up. I will often just keep it for later or throw it away and consider it a margin of error buffer, but it still feels like I'm in control.0
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amusedmonkey wrote: »It takes a lot for me to get peeved, which is why this is going to sound silly even to me. I absolutely hate it when someone takes food off of my plate even if I'm not eating it. I did not carefully calculate the calories for my calculations to be messed up. I will often just keep it for later or throw it away and consider it a margin of error buffer, but it still feels like I'm in control.
OMG I know exactly what you're talking about! My dad or sister used to just grab my food without even asking and it was my biggest pet peeve!
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pinggolfer96 wrote: »pinggolfer96 wrote: »When people try and tell me that fat is good for you. Like yeah let me stop eating my veggie carbs, grains, and legumes to eat sausages, bacon, and eggs to be more healthy lol.
Fat is good for you....it's an essential macronutrient unlike carbohydrates. Of course keeps your fruits and veggies, but fats is essential to optimal hormone function, vitamin absorption...etc. doesn't mean you have to eat sausage , French fries, and heavy cream, but avocados, nut butters, eggs, olive oil...etc.
You're so much nicer than me. I was going to say something snarky, but I knew it wasn't worth it, lol. I've encountered one of his threads before.
Haha be my guest to comment as well lol:p
LOL. Nope.0 -
pinggolfer96 wrote: »pinggolfer96 wrote: »When people try and tell me that fat is good for you. Like yeah let me stop eating my veggie carbs, grains, and legumes to eat sausages, bacon, and eggs to be more healthy lol.
Fat is good for you....it's an essential macronutrient unlike carbohydrates. Of course keeps your fruits and veggies, but fats is essential to optimal hormone function, vitamin absorption...etc. doesn't mean you have to eat sausage , French fries, and heavy cream, but avocados, nut butters, eggs, olive oil...etc.
You're so much nicer than me. I was going to say something snarky, but I knew it wasn't worth it, lol. I've encountered one of his threads before.
Haha be my guest to comment as well lol:p
LOL. Nope.
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Oh and people who insist that they need to eat low carb to lose weight then keep binging on carbs... instead of, you know, finding something sustainable for them.0
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Lol ;p0 -
People who post things such as 'need help with motivation '. Only YOU can motivate youself - no one can do it for you!! I can try to encourage you - the rest is up to you!0
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I hate lazy people in general. No, I'm not going to find you "healthy recipes" when I know nothing about your calorie/nutrient needs, lifestyle, cooking skills, and personal preferences. I can't motivate you to lose weight (I feel like if you're relying on extrinsic instead of intrinsic motivation, you're setting yourself up for disappointment). I might be a big meanie, but I often roll my eyes if people say they're super busy and rely on meal replacement shakes for weight loss (because apparently packing breakfast/lunch/snacks or finding real food that meets your calorie goals is too time-consuming?).
Oh. I'm now starting to hate the markup for prepackaged single-serving stuff. Walmart is selling some chia seed puddings for $2.50-$3.00 each, when I could spend $7 on chia seeds (plus use ingredients I have around the kitchen) and make 42 of them. I also hate the insane markup for food at my university (the cost to eat at the dining hall is $11 for lunch and $13.45 for diner, and I often spend close to $8 for a tiny side salad and bottled soda at the student center. The prices are so crazy that I'm planning on bringing my lunch and snacks this semester).0 -
lol yes! Also, people who just post random things that are off topic...just to get their post count up I assume.0 -
pinggolfer96 wrote: »amusedmonkey wrote: »It takes a lot for me to get peeved, which is why this is going to sound silly even to me. I absolutely hate it when someone takes food off of my plate even if I'm not eating it. I did not carefully calculate the calories for my calculations to be messed up. I will often just keep it for later or throw it away and consider it a margin of error buffer, but it still feels like I'm in control.
OMG I know exactly what you're talking about! My dad or sister used to just grab my food without even asking and it was my biggest pet peeve!
I once stabbed a work colleague in the hand with my fork when he attempted to take a piece of scampi off my plate. Never ever try to get between me and my food.0 -
Unwanted advice! I keep getting lectures from people who for health sakes definitely need to lose some- about what I should be doing and how much I should lose before my wedding. Umm thanks didn't ask. I'm down 25, in the healthy range for my height and yet some how clearly need the advice from my overweight friends and family. Gah!0
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pinggolfer96 wrote: »When people try and tell me that fat is good for you. Like yeah let me stop eating my veggie carbs, grains, and legumes to eat sausages, bacon, and eggs to be more healthy lol.
Fat is good for you....it's an essential macronutrient unlike carbohydrates. Of course keeps your fruits and veggies, but fats is essential to optimal hormone function, vitamin absorption...etc. doesn't mean you have to eat sausage , French fries, and heavy cream, but avocados, nut butters, eggs, olive oil...etc.
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snowflake930 wrote: »My pet peeve about MFP is, for some reason, the people here who give advice to others, saying what they are doing is not sustainable.
Everything I have read says, over 80% of the people who lose weight (no matter how they lost it), gain it all back (some gain even more than they lost). Very few people keep it off for over 5 years.
So my question for the experts is, just what is sustainable?
My pet peeve is when people believe these horribly flawed statistics the way they are reported by the media. I am no expert, but who are the people reporting for these studies? What were they eating? How fast did they lose weight? Etc.
There are plenty of people here that skew that statistic. People here rightly point out that you can't live on juice or rice forever, or that you probably can't sustain some regimented plan written by a self proclaimed "fitness expert" who wrote a book to get his piece of a multi-million dollar industry. There is an abundance of very smart people here from whom I have garnered countless tips and great advice. They've been where I am!
You're still here, so something is motivating you to beat the "odds" that you think you're playing against. Good! Counting calories is merely an exercise on the way to understanding foods and the fuel they provide for your body. You're learning the calorie density and nutrition contained in the foods you eat so that YOU become an expert in what YOU need to keep your body healthy.
"Sustainable" is what you can continue forever; adjusted over time to account for any life changes. That is slightly different for everyone. Start where you are and eat at a deficit until you meet your goals. It takes time, determination, some failures along the way. Don't make it harder by deciding that you're fighting a losing battle. I choose to believe that in time this will become effortless; a non-issue. I can take charge and do the work or remain a statistic.
Best wishes to you!0 -
People who talk about cheating or cheat days. You're not cheating you're overindulging. Unless you have surgery to remove fat there is no cheating the system.0
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Right now it's the newbie clean eaters that have been cropping up.0
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When bros in the gym tell me I'm NOT going to gain fat lifting in a surplus. I'm like...just look at me, fool.0
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loose / lose (yes, you should set your weight free!)
cleanse (take a shower, wash your food; that's all the cleansing you need until your colonoscopy)
detox (if you're not in ICU, or drug rehab, you don't need to detox)
shakeology, herbalife, 21 day fix, etc.
starvation mode (in the "you're not eating enough, that's why you're not losing weight" way)
"I don't want to look bulky, so I won't lift weights"
"eating clean" (whatever that means... so many different definitions; for me, it's washing food before it's eaten)
CICO doesn't work for everyone (or any variation of the "I'm a special snowflake" chorus)
"get off my thread if you don't agree with me!" (and disagreeing means you're attacking them)
people who complain because they're fat & miserable, ask what I've done to lose weight, then don't change
thinking that observing the fact that someone is fat & unhealthy (& likely unhappy) is "fat-shaming"
telling me I'm too skinny, stop losing weight (I'm still considerably above a healthy weight)
"to lose weight, you have to stop eating [X]" (where [X] /= "more calories than you burn")
people who think that a website selling woo is an impartial / good source of information
"muscle weighs more than fat"
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Carrots are carbs. They have a lot of fiber, and quite a bit of sugar, which is why they're sweet.peaceout wrote:i hate when people try to tell me that carrots/tomatoes/avocados are carbs
They're good carbs, though.
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Neither my dietitian nor my weight doc (endocrinologist specializing in weight issues) had ever heard of thekami wrote:People telling others to not eat their exercise calories if they want to lose weight despite the fact that
they're using MFP for their numbers and should be adding them in.
concept of "eating back" exercise calories. They both told me to simply eat at the healthy calorie goal we'd
established, and that exercise was for health, weight loss is mostly eating less.
1 - most people underestimate what they eat
2 - most machines (including MFP) overestimate calories burned
For most people, most of the time, those errors pretty much cancel out.
If someone is losing weight too fast, or feels bad, or is hungry a lot, they can experiment with eating
a portion of what they think they burned that day.
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The essential macronutrients are: protein, fat, and carbohydrates.ping wrote:Fat is good for you... it's an essential macronutrient unlike carbohydrates
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Once in a while, LMGTFY comes in handy for being snarky without being really obvious.batonfan wrote:I hate lazy people in general. No, I'm not going to find you "healthy recipes"
If someone is asking "what are good recipes for people with kidney disease?" (or whatever makes them special),
often I'll just post the link to the National Kidney Foundation website (or whatever is applicable).
This should be Bing 101.0 -
Carrots are carbs. They have a lot of fiber, and quite a bit of sugar, which is why they're sweet.peaceout wrote:i hate when people try to tell me that carrots/tomatoes/avocados are carbs
They're good carbs, though.
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Neither my dietitian nor my weight doc (endocrinologist specializing in weight issues) had ever heard of thekami wrote:People telling others to not eat their exercise calories if they want to lose weight despite the fact that
they're using MFP for their numbers and should be adding them in.
concept of "eating back" exercise calories. They both told me to simply eat at the healthy calorie goal we'd
established, and that exercise was for health, weight loss is mostly eating less.
1 - most people underestimate what they eat
2 - most machines (including MFP) overestimate calories burned
For most people, most of the time, those errors pretty much cancel out.
If someone is losing weight too fast, or feels bad, or is hungry a lot, they can experiment with eating
a portion of what they think they burned that day.
.
The essential macronutrients are: protein, fat, and carbohydrates.ping wrote:Fat is good for you... it's an essential macronutrient unlike carbohydrates
.
Once in a while, LMGTFY comes in handy for being snarky without being really obvious.batonfan wrote:I hate lazy people in general. No, I'm not going to find you "healthy recipes"
If someone is asking "what are good recipes for people with kidney disease?" (or whatever makes them special),
often I'll just post the link to the National Kidney Foundation website (or whatever is applicable).
This should be Bing 101.
You doctors very likely took your exercise activity into account when they created your calorie goal. MFP does not. Exercise is for fitness and that's why it makes sense to add them in... To fuel your workouts. And I disagree that most people cancel it out with errant calculations. Maybe of they're only burning 100 to 200.
It doesn't matter what your doctor has or hasn't heard of. It's a method that works very well for people who take the time to do it. If I hadn't eaten mine, I would have been drastically undereating.
Eta: while I love my carbohydrates, they are not considered essential nutrients because the body can synthesize the from other compounds.0 -
People who post complaining about having a period every effing month despite the fact that a) most women between 12-50 have one and it gets old that you repeatedly feel the need to share details of your menstrual cycle with Internet strangers and b) there are many women on here that suffer with PCOS, menopause and other hormonal issues but they don't feel the need to play the 'poor old me, hormones control me' card.0
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Carrots are carbs. They have a lot of fiber, and quite a bit of sugar, which is why they're sweet.peaceout wrote:i hate when people try to tell me that carrots/tomatoes/avocados are carbs
They're good carbs, though.
.
Neither my dietitian nor my weight doc (endocrinologist specializing in weight issues) had ever heard of thekami wrote:People telling others to not eat their exercise calories if they want to lose weight despite the fact that
they're using MFP for their numbers and should be adding them in.
concept of "eating back" exercise calories. They both told me to simply eat at the healthy calorie goal we'd
established, and that exercise was for health, weight loss is mostly eating less.
1 - most people underestimate what they eat
2 - most machines (including MFP) overestimate calories burned
For most people, most of the time, those errors pretty much cancel out.
If someone is losing weight too fast, or feels bad, or is hungry a lot, they can experiment with eating
a portion of what they think they burned that day.
.
The essential macronutrients are: protein, fat, and carbohydrates.ping wrote:Fat is good for you... it's an essential macronutrient unlike carbohydrates
.
Once in a while, LMGTFY comes in handy for being snarky without being really obvious.batonfan wrote:I hate lazy people in general. No, I'm not going to find you "healthy recipes"
If someone is asking "what are good recipes for people with kidney disease?" (or whatever makes them special),
often I'll just post the link to the National Kidney Foundation website (or whatever is applicable).
This should be Bing 101.
Incorrect. Carbs are not essential to life. Only protein and fats. Carbs help with optimal energy levels but are not essential0 -
Pet peeve - people who call me clueless and say I have awful advice yet have lost 60+ pounds with my advice.0
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