What's the biggest weight-loss lie you've ever heard?

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  • fr33sia12
    fr33sia12 Posts: 1,258 Member
    That losing 2lb a week is unhealty
  • Merkavar
    Merkavar Posts: 3,082 Member
    That eating frozen mint peas will cause your body to burn calories heating itself up.
  • VividVegan
    VividVegan Posts: 200 Member
    edited May 2016
    "Exercise is not needed to lose body fat"
    If that were the case then I wouldn't have became skinny-fat while doing CICO on a sedentary activity level. Fortunately, I leaned out after lifting weights, yoga, and daily walks. And now my calorie allowance is greater as well.
  • hiyomi
    hiyomi Posts: 906 Member
    dragon_girl26 wrote: »
    *Obesity is genetic; it runs in the family.
    *Cutting out sugar is the only way to lose weight!
    *Any cleanse or diet that "kickstarts" or "jumpstarts" weight loss

    I actually think obesity does have a genetic link. It doesn't mean you have to be fat because of it, or can't do anything about it, but I'm almost 100% certain that genetics is linked with obesity.
  • CaloriesInCaloriesOut4Life
    CaloriesInCaloriesOut4Life Posts: 1 Member
    It's funny how some of these things on here like "5 to 6 meals a day" and "X processed food is bad for you" is actually not bad for me as it's how I control my food addiction (as eating only 3 meals a day makes me hungrier mentally trying to wait till the next time and then I over eat at the next meal as well as eating more fruits and vegetables and lean meat than McDonald DOES GENERALLY help to curb my cravings even though I still eat McDonalds sometimes and lose fine) Ultimately my aim is to control my food addiction how ever I can so that I eat less than I exercise/move in general... as my username implies.

    Stupid rules that I have heard that don't work for me:

    -Eat 3 Square Meals a Day and minimal snacking (Nope 5 to 6 small meals controls my out of control snacking/food addiction MUCH better)
    -Low Carb (no it's about calories in the end!)
    -Eat crap and just move more to burn it off (works to an extent but unfortunately eating crap makes me feel lazier or it would work like it does for skinnier folks who only have 10 pounds to lose)
    -Count calories in your head and eyeball measurements (Ah NO... I ALWAYS eat more than I think)
    -Genetics makes you fat (I think it makes you want to be lazy and eat more than skinny people in general but that's no excuse.. you can fight genetics with nutritional science and increasing activity level!!!)
    -Denying yourself anything on a "diet" (Yeah sure just ignore your cravings instead of working them into your calories ... ah not like that won't blow up in your face and cause overeating some random time)
    -Goal Weight means you can eat anything you want and be lazy again (Nope sorry not how it works!)


  • beautifulwarrior18
    beautifulwarrior18 Posts: 914 Member
    aliceband21 wrote: »
    There's loads flying about. I'll start us off: 'if you eat it in the dark it doesn't count'!

    Fats are bad. Followed closely by Carbs are bad.
  • Merkavar
    Merkavar Posts: 3,082 Member
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    Just saw this.
  • misskarne
    misskarne Posts: 1,765 Member
    "I'm addicted to food so I can't lose weight". Food's not cocaine, guys.

    "You have to cut carbs to lose weight!" Nope.

    "You have to exercise like a fiend to lose weight!" Try again.
  • megomerrett
    megomerrett Posts: 442 Member
    Celebrities saying they've lost loads of post baby weight saying they've been "chasing after" their kid.

    Or my old flat mate "forgetting to eat" when stressed or the "heartbreak diet".

    Kids, stress and heartbreak - I'll stuff my face through all of them!
  • stevencloser
    stevencloser Posts: 8,911 Member
    FeedMeFish wrote: »
    "Exercise is not needed to lose body fat"
    If that were the case then I wouldn't have became skinny-fat while doing CICO on a sedentary activity level. Fortunately, I leaned out after lifting weights, yoga, and daily walks. And now my calorie allowance is greater as well.

    That's not a lie. You have lost fat, not an ideal ratio of fat:lbm, but you've lost fat.
  • perkymommy
    perkymommy Posts: 1,642 Member

    The whole hype surrounding "starvation mode" :D

    If you don't eat you won't lose weight. I don't know about anyone else but I don't see a whole lot of fat homeless people. Just sayin.

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    fr33sia12 wrote: »
    You can only eat boring food when on a diet.

    I get that a lot and nothing I eat I find boring.

    I agree! I'm told all the time I must eat like a rabbit. Nope. I eat most of the same things I ate while overweight and some stuff I don't want anymore. I just weigh and measure it.
  • drpsamin
    drpsamin Posts: 265 Member
    Breast feeding makes ya skinny
  • dragon_girl26
    dragon_girl26 Posts: 2,187 Member
    edited May 2016
    hiyomi wrote: »
    dragon_girl26 wrote: »
    *Obesity is genetic; it runs in the family.
    *Cutting out sugar is the only way to lose weight!
    *Any cleanse or diet that "kickstarts" or "jumpstarts" weight loss

    I actually think obesity does have a genetic link. It doesn't mean you have to be fat because of it, or can't do anything about it, but I'm almost 100% certain that genetics is linked with obesity.

    To me it was always an excuse because I would hear things like "we all inherited your grandpa's physique", so I never bothered trying to lose weight because I figured I was doomed.
    Using MFP taught me that it wasn't his physique we inherited. What we "inherited" was his lifestyle of eating too much and not exercising. Once I figured that out, i stopped being obese. It's way too easy to fall into that trap.
  • dragon_girl26
    dragon_girl26 Posts: 2,187 Member
    fr33sia12 wrote: »
    That losing 2lb a week is unhealty

    Depending on how much you have to lose, it could be.

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