Silliest weight loss/fitness myth you've ever heard?
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lemonlionheart wrote: »MakePeasNotWar wrote: »I knew a guy who was convinced he could drink as much vodka as he wanted and not absorb any calories as long as he followed it with a glass of water.
My sister apparently read somewhere (and now believes) that tequila helps you lose weight... somehow...
By making you very very ill? 'Cause that would be my guess.0 -
Mavrick_RN wrote: »A Snickers bar eaten with Diet Coke cancel out the calories.
Broken cookies are less fattening due to calorie "leakage".
OK these are old jokes but just as stupid as "muscle weighs more than fat".
OK This made me really laugh! You are joking no one believes that!!! LOL!
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ACV and infused water = weight loss
Don't eat after 5PM
Turning vegetarian or vegan is the surefire way to lose weight
Carbs/sugar should be completely eliminated from your diet0 -
"Coffee will turn the fat in your body to muscle!" I'm all for more coffee but cmon0
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Dominicj569 wrote: »MommyL2015 wrote: »Dominicj569 wrote: »RaeBeeBaby wrote: »That muscle weighs more than fat. Grrrrrrr! Can't count the number of times I've read that on MFP threads.
Yeah, and cement weighs the same as cotton wool....
Depends. A pound of each weighs the same.
Unless I'm reading your comment oddly. Or are you saying a pound of cement doesn't weigh the same as a pound of cotton?
A bucket of cement is considerably heavier than a bucket of cotton wool, which is the point.
That a pound of anything weighs the same as a pound of anything else is not a useful piece of information and its certainly not worth the religious fanaticism its imbued with.
For a given volume, muscle is some 18% heavier than body fat.
I get what you're saying. The argument happens all the time, but it just sounds really, really stupid to hear someone say muscle weighs more than fat.0 -
My mom used to say that broken (insert cookies pretzels etc) didn't count towards calorie count because it was the calories that held them together. She later told me she was joking but as a child I believed it.0
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That eating late makes you fat and slows down your metabolism... People don't realize as long as your staying calorie defecit in your diet it doesn't matter what time of the day you eat
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Itworks products.0
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MommyL2015 wrote: »but it just sounds really, really stupid to hear someone say muscle weighs more than fat.
It doesn't because 'for a given volume' is always assumed. It is just common sense.
Well at least in science it is assumed. I'm a scientist and never heard anyone comparing the weight of things of different volumes as it would be pointless.
It's like comparing the weight of 5 apples to 1 banana. Or 1 bottle of water to 3 bottles of milk. Who cares which is heavier if the volumes are not the same. Lol.0 -
gebeziseva wrote: »MommyL2015 wrote: »but it just sounds really, really stupid to hear someone say muscle weighs more than fat.
It doesn't because 'for a given volume' is always assumed. It is just common sense.
Common sense is something many people lack. You can see this on several posts on this forum, people will write things like "I'm only eating 1000 calories per day but I haven't lost weight. I run for 20 minutes two to three times per week. I'm pretty sure I'm gaining muscle then, since muscle weighs more than fat, but how come the scale hasn't really moved in two months. What gives?"
At this point, anyone with common sense and basic knowledge of the human body has facepalmed several times over at the example above. However, for every five of us that know how wrong all of that is, there are about 50 who firmly believe all of it.0 -
Skipping <<insert meal time>> will slow down your metabolism.
Anything that encourages cutting out any foods, has silly rules and....
Counting calories doesn't work.
Oh, anything by most diet 'gurus' on FB, tumblr, twitter, instagram.
I've heard that carbs and protein, and carbs and fat shouldn't be combined. Those are the best combinations, though!ladyreva78 wrote: »Worst I heard came from my former nutritionist:
You shouldn't mix different types of protein (so I can't have a piece of chicken breast with a sprinkle of Parmesan on it, which is really yummy btw, because these count as two different. Same with yoghurt and milk. Not the same type of protein...) because your body can't metabolize it and all the excess will be stored as fat.
Same rule for carbs. Only one type of carb per meal. Meaning, I can't have strawberries and raspberries together. Supposedly these are different types of carbs...
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Detoxes and cleanses. They're scams.0
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Grandma--"Eating bread crusts will make your hair grow curly." When I was a little girl, mom had to by a lot of loaves of bread at the grocery store because someone who had stick-straight hair would rip into loaves in the bread section and just eat the crusts.
It was a while before Grandma got to visit again.
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gebeziseva wrote: »MommyL2015 wrote: »but it just sounds really, really stupid to hear someone say muscle weighs more than fat.
It doesn't because 'for a given volume' is always assumed. It is just common sense.
Well at least in science it is assumed. I'm a scientist and never heard anyone comparing the weight of things of different volumes as it would be pointless.
It's like comparing the weight of 5 apples to 1 banana. Or 1 bottle of water to 3 bottles of milk. Who cares which is heavier if the volumes are not the same. Lol.
It may be assumed in science, but given some of the posts we see on this board, I do not believe it is a safe assumption here.0 -
Folks, instead of arguing about whether the statement that "muscle weighs more than fat" is obviously true or obviously false, how about we all just agree to say this:
"Muscle is denser than fat."
However, it is true to say that an ounce of silver weighs more than an ounce of lead!0 -
Eating more than two bananas a week is bad for weight loss.
Eating carbs after 3pm/6pm/7pm/8pm will mean they're stored as fat.
Pasta is junk food.
Peanut butter is too much sugar (the peanut butter I get is basically just made up of peanuts).
Bread makes you fat.0 -
Folks, instead of arguing about whether the statement that "muscle weighs more than fat" is obviously true or obviously false, how about we all just agree to say this:
"Muscle is denser than fat."
However, it is true to say that an ounce of silver weighs more than an ounce of lead!
Ah, but it is only necessarily denser under the same conditions, too! Muscle on earth would not be as dense as fat inside a black hole.0 -
stevencloser wrote: »Folks, instead of arguing about whether the statement that "muscle weighs more than fat" is obviously true or obviously false, how about we all just agree to say this:
"Muscle is denser than fat."
However, it is true to say that an ounce of silver weighs more than an ounce of lead!
Ah, but it is only necessarily denser under the same conditions, too! Muscle on earth would not be as dense as fat inside a black hole.
This is relatively awesome!0 -
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stevencloser wrote: »Folks, instead of arguing about whether the statement that "muscle weighs more than fat" is obviously true or obviously false, how about we all just agree to say this:
"Muscle is denser than fat."
However, it is true to say that an ounce of silver weighs more than an ounce of lead!
Ah, but it is only necessarily denser under the same conditions, too! Muscle on earth would not be as dense as fat inside a black hole.
True, and you wouldn't even need to go inside a black hole. Fat at the bottom of the Mariana Trench would be denser than muscle at the surface.0 -
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tincanonastring wrote: »stevencloser wrote: »Folks, instead of arguing about whether the statement that "muscle weighs more than fat" is obviously true or obviously false, how about we all just agree to say this:
"Muscle is denser than fat."
However, it is true to say that an ounce of silver weighs more than an ounce of lead!
Ah, but it is only necessarily denser under the same conditions, too! Muscle on earth would not be as dense as fat inside a black hole.
This is relatively awesome!
I'm not sure if your wordplay was intentional or not, but this made me laugh way too hard.0 -
My grandma used to make us row a boat around the lake at the cottage when we were teenagers becasue it would give us a big bust, lol. Worked for my sister but not for me, lol0
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BoomstickChik wrote: »
The myth of improved health and weight loss.0 -
BoomstickChik wrote: »
Well-known doesn't mean not a myth. Nessie is well-know and (likely) a myth. The fact that the paleo diet says:
"The Paleo Diet is based upon everyday, modern foods that mimic the food groups of our pre-agricultural, hunter-gatherer ancestors. The following seven fundamental characteristics of hunter-gatherer diets will help to optimize your health, minimize your risk of chronic disease, and lose weight."
yet you can't eat:
Cereal grains
Legumes (including peanuts)
Dairy
Refined sugar
Potatoes
Processed foods (depends on definition of processed since cooking is a process)
Salt
There are a couple of ladies on MFP, Nony_Mouse for one, (not sure if they're still around lurking) that there field of study/job is paleolithic man and/or archeology.0 -
I've gotta say, this thread has a whole lot of judgment in it.
I think as long as someone isn't doing something that's actually harmful, we should be supportive of the efforts they're making. They'll tinker around and figure it out eventually. Maybe it's useful in these situations not to tell someone else how to lose weight, but instead relate your own experiences of how you lost weight and what worked best for you.
Also, it's pretty normal for people to conflate weight loss with fitness and health, or group it all in together. I know the board mantra is that a calorie is a calorie, but I think in the big scheme of things, thinking about fitness and longevity and wellness will make it easier to reach your goals.
A lot of these so called myths are myths, but they might work if they're targeted to someone's individual weaknesses.
For example, I know objectively that white rice isn't a killer to weight loss. But why do I avoid white rice? - because when it comes to white rice I'm a bottomless insatiable pit. Maybe there is something psychological about it, maybe it's a callback to my childhood. I mean I literally have a physical, biological reaction when I smell white rice that can only be compared to some sort of food boner. For that reason, I avoid it. I don't think it's inherently bad, but avoiding it is personally beneficial to me.
A lot of people have the same experience with carbs in general (so many of the people I know who are doing "low carb" are actually doing regular carb.) Or gluten in general. Or meat. Or processed foods. Or whatever.
And by the way, it's true that gluten isn't evil. But it isn't a necessary nutrient, either. People aren't doing any harm to themselves by replacing gluten with oats or almond flour or quinoa or whatever. I for one have never had something gluten free that wasn't also delicious and equally or more healthy than the gluten version. A good friend of mine cut out gluten and lost a ton of weight - probably because gluten rich products were a source of calories for her.0 -
My boss tells me that you can eat as much as you want just before a full moon and not get fat. lol. She cray.0
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augustremulous wrote: »I've gotta say, this thread has a whole lot of judgment in it.
I think as long as someone isn't doing something that's actually harmful, we should be supportive of the efforts they're making. They'll tinker around and figure it out eventually. Maybe it's useful in these situations not to tell someone else how to lose weight, but instead relate your own experiences of how you lost weight and what worked best for you.
Also, it's pretty normal for people to conflate weight loss with fitness and health, or group it all in together. I know the board mantra is that a calorie is a calorie, but I think in the big scheme of things, thinking about fitness and longevity and wellness will make it easier to reach your goals.
A lot of these so called myths are myths, but they might work if they're targeted to someone's individual weaknesses.
For example, I know objectively that white rice isn't a killer to weight loss. But why do I avoid white rice? - because when it comes to white rice I'm a bottomless insatiable pit. Maybe there is something psychological about it, maybe it's a callback to my childhood. I mean I literally have a physical, biological reaction when I smell white rice that can only be compared to some sort of food boner. For that reason, I avoid it. I don't think it's inherently bad, but avoiding it is personally beneficial to me.
A lot of people have the same experience with carbs in general (so many of the people I know who are doing "low carb" are actually doing regular carb.) Or gluten in general. Or meat. Or processed foods. Or whatever.
And by the way, it's true that gluten isn't evil. But it isn't a necessary nutrient, either. People aren't doing any harm to themselves by replacing gluten with oats or almond flour or quinoa or whatever. I for one have never had something gluten free that wasn't also delicious and equally or more healthy than the gluten version. A good friend of mine cut out gluten and lost a ton of weight - probably because gluten rich products were a source of calories for her.
Pseudoscience enabling? Interesting . . . People sure do hold fast to the woo woo0 -
Well @sunnybeaches105, let me ask you this: can you give me a good, scientific reason for why someone *should* be eating gluten? So many of the people who have a backlash against gluten have an argument that comes down to "it tastes good and lots of people do it and you won't stand out if you just agree to eat it."
That doesn't sounds like science to me.0 -
arditarose wrote: »My boss tells me that you can eat as much as you want just before a full moon and not get fat. lol. She cray.
and most likely a werewolf.0
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