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So. What's the worst weight loss myth?

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  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    psuLemon wrote: »
    Haven't heard it in a while, but I always like:

    Humans aren't meant to eat meat. And that milk makes you fat because milk is for baby cows and baby cows get big.

    Ah, yes. That Skinny *kitten* book. Someone at work lent it to me to read. So much eye-rolling as I read that.

    Oh man, I remember that book. It was like an espresso of stupidity, so much concentrated woo.

    They spent pages railing against sugar and processed food and when you looked at their product recommendations in the back of the book, it was just organic and "natural" versions of . . . sweet processed food. Like substituting Newman-Os for Oreos.
  • VeryKatie
    VeryKatie Posts: 5,959 Member
    edited February 2017
    French_Peasant wrote: »
    Tacklewasher wrote: »
    French_Peasant wrote: »
    Almost exactly like following common sense, long-term weight/fitness control techniques instead of running from Cabbage Soup Diet to ACV Diet to whatever the woo of the day is.
    Got asked the other day if I was eating cabbage soup. "Oh God now" I quickly replied to a religious person. Ooops.

    Anyway, it was an awesome wicked thai soup I had made.

    "Dear Lord in Heaven, preserve us" may have been more appropriate. Or "Satan, begone!"

    I spent the weekend arguing diet woo with my beloved brother and his wife. Coincidentally, I am also now the proud owner of a Himalayan pink salt lamp and an essential oil diffuser since it was our (very late) Christmas get-together. :) So now my air is cleansed of its (bad) positive ions and diffused with the disease-preventing power of Thieve's Oil. Yay!

    Positive... ion... i.e. proton... i.e. in the nucleus of all atoms (matter)... which must also have neutrons and electrons else it may become unstable... ... I just... science... but...
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »
    Gallowmere1984 wrote: »
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    psuLemon wrote: »
    Haven't heard it in a while, but I always like:

    Humans aren't meant to eat meat. And that milk makes you fat because milk is for baby cows and baby cows get big.

    Ah, yes. That Skinny *kitten* book. Someone at work lent it to me to read. So much eye-rolling as I read that.

    I also liked their assertion that coffee would destroy your organs because of acidity.

    I'm doing my part to dissolve my organs right now.

    Thanks, Dunkin' Donuts Hazelnut K-Cups!

    Me, too! Coconut Mocha Donut Shop K-Cups, here!
  • Alyssa_Is_LosingIt
    Alyssa_Is_LosingIt Posts: 4,696 Member
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »
    Gallowmere1984 wrote: »
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    psuLemon wrote: »
    Haven't heard it in a while, but I always like:

    Humans aren't meant to eat meat. And that milk makes you fat because milk is for baby cows and baby cows get big.

    Ah, yes. That Skinny *kitten* book. Someone at work lent it to me to read. So much eye-rolling as I read that.

    I also liked their assertion that coffee would destroy your organs because of acidity.

    I'm doing my part to dissolve my organs right now.

    Thanks, Dunkin' Donuts Hazelnut K-Cups!

    Me, too! Coconut Mocha Donut Shop K-Cups, here!

    Those are my favorite. :love:
  • JennyRATL
    JennyRATL Posts: 199 Member
    I heart this thread.
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »
    Gallowmere1984 wrote: »
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    psuLemon wrote: »
    Haven't heard it in a while, but I always like:

    Humans aren't meant to eat meat. And that milk makes you fat because milk is for baby cows and baby cows get big.

    Ah, yes. That Skinny *kitten* book. Someone at work lent it to me to read. So much eye-rolling as I read that.

    I also liked their assertion that coffee would destroy your organs because of acidity.

    I'm doing my part to dissolve my organs right now.

    Thanks, Dunkin' Donuts Hazelnut K-Cups!

    Me, too! Coconut Mocha Donut Shop K-Cups, here!

    Those are my favorite. :love:

    Have you tried the Green Mountain brown sugar crumble donut?!? YUM!
  • Gallowmere1984
    Gallowmere1984 Posts: 6,626 Member
    NoxDineen wrote: »
    That early hominids ate like the paleo diet claims they did.

    Which Paleo diet? Even the various authors of the various aspects can't agree on what qualities as "paleo".
  • sumrdream
    sumrdream Posts: 25 Member
    Fat makes you fat. Fat does NOT make you fat! Look at eating paleo/primal low carb diet..... :)
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,422 MFP Moderator
    sumrdream wrote: »
    Fat makes you fat. Fat does NOT make you fat! Look at eating paleo/primal low carb diet..... :)

    Paleo and Primal aren't necessarily low carb... there are variants like that, but they didn't really start out that way. And I can guarantee you, that I can easily gain on those diets.. But I do agree that fat doesn't make you fat... calories do.
  • goldthistime
    goldthistime Posts: 3,214 Member
    ahoy_m8 wrote: »
    sumrdream wrote: »
    Fat makes you fat. Fat does NOT make you fat! Look at eating paleo/primal low carb diet..... :)

    Confession: I only read the first 5 pages but this^^ gets my vote for worst. Another confession: I came of age in the fat-makes-you-fat era, and it definitely messed me up for years. I had an all carb diet--avoided fat & protein like it was poison. And let me tell you, I gained.

    I've read, and maybe you have too, where some obesity researchers attribute our population-wide weight gain to that ridiculous fat-makes-you-fat nonsense and the corresponding dietary guidelines that gave rise to the explosion of no-fat-sugar-packed super palatable foods. Many of us were misguided. So this gets my vote for all time worst myth (despite the plethora of others that are super annoying--I'm looking at you, jump start juice cleanse).

    I agree. "Fat makes you fat" gets my vote too as the all time worst myth. I believed it longer than I care to admit.

  • nvmomketo
    nvmomketo Posts: 12,019 Member
    goldthistime wrote: »
    ahoy_m8 wrote: »
    sumrdream wrote: »
    Fat makes you fat. Fat does NOT make you fat! Look at eating paleo/primal low carb diet..... :)

    Confession: I only read the first 5 pages but this^^ gets my vote for worst. Another confession: I came of age in the fat-makes-you-fat era, and it definitely messed me up for years. I had an all carb diet--avoided fat & protein like it was poison. And let me tell you, I gained.

    I've read, and maybe you have too, where some obesity researchers attribute our population-wide weight gain to that ridiculous fat-makes-you-fat nonsense and the corresponding dietary guidelines that gave rise to the explosion of no-fat-sugar-packed super palatable foods. Many of us were misguided. So this gets my vote for all time worst myth (despite the plethora of others that are super annoying--I'm looking at you, jump start juice cleanse).

    I agree. "Fat makes you fat" gets my vote too as the all time worst myth. I believed it longer than I care to admit.

    Me too. Skim milk, no butter on toast or veggies. Just a bit of jam on my bagel instead of cream cheese - or light cream cheese.... really weird texture to that. Substituted apple sauce instead of butter in baking. Blah. I just slowly gained unless I was running 7 to 14 hours per week.
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