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

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  • 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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