What is the daftest weight related thing someone has ever said to you?
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Sorry the above was off topic...didnt mean to hijack.
Daft diet advice: If you eat meat you will never lose weight. Only vegetarians/vegans can be thin.
I gained weight three times as a vegetarian and lost it three times as a vegetarian! My husband remains skinny as a rail although he eats meat a few times a week.
The daftest weight loss things I have heard from coworkers:
(1) Various cleanses they have tried (and been miserable on, and ultimately had no results from)
(2) That if you eat 2000 calories per day, but only do it from noon to 8PM, you will lose weight (this from someone about my height who would, I'm guessing based on my own experience last year, need to eat about 1500 calories w/o exercise to lose 0.5-1 pounds per week)
(3) That counting calories didn't work for this one gal because she tried once and had trouble even eating 1000 calories per day (I have seen what she has for lunch most days and would guesstimate her at a size 8 -- not overweight, but definitely not anorexic either -- so she is eating more than 1000 calories per day)
(4) Complete surprise (this was 15 years ago at a different workplace) that her office chair seemed smaller compared to her rear end size because she was eating chicken every day for lunch and "chicken is healthy" (it can be, but KFC is probably NOT the best DAILY lunch choice...)
And lately, my parents have started asking me about weight loss supplements. As well as about the claim that "your body only stores food as fat if it can't 'process" the food properly." (No, if your body is storing food as fat it's because your body is working exactly as it is supposed to and you are simply consuming too many calories, unless you have a medical condition diagnosed by your doctor.) At least my parents are willing to listen to me (PhD biochemist who has successfully lost weight) and my sister (personal trainer who lost weight each time after three pregnancies) and I don't think they're taking any weird supplements.
Sometimes you just can't talk sense into people. They see my results. I tell them how the results were achieved. They go back to doing the same things they always did.9 -
Anything said by a JuicePlus rep.16
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The daft thing that really bugs me is when people say to me "you're lucky".
(Funny enough the harder I try the luckier I get.)49 -
CafeRacer808 wrote: »"Sugar is as addictive as heroin."
pertsonally i find this very true .... but i have also heard
SUGAR DOESNT MAKE YOU FAT .
I think sugar can be addictive-like but I don't think it is wise to compare it to heroin. Too different.
Perhaps smoking? Or gambling or sex addictions as better comparisons? Not the same thing but a more reasonable comparison.6 -
That sugar makes you fat.
Or fat makes you fat.
Or protein is just for body builders
Or carbs are just for body builders.Sorry the above was off topic...didnt mean to hijack.
Daft diet advice: If you eat meat you will never lose weight. Only vegetarians/vegans can be thin.
:laugh:
<- Former obese vegetarian here!7 -
Sugar doesn't make you fat. That's very true. And it is NOT as addictive as heroin. Anyone that thinks this knows nothing of the struggles of true addiction.CafeRacer808 wrote: »"Sugar is as addictive as heroin."
pertsonally i find this very true .... but i have also heard
SUGAR DOESNT MAKE YOU FAT .
Excess calories makes you fat (the truth).
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CafeRacer808 wrote: »"Sugar is as addictive as heroin."
pertsonally i find this very true .... but i have also heard
SUGAR DOESNT MAKE YOU FAT .
Have you ever taken heroin? Have you ever spent time with people who are addicted and seen first hand what it does to them? Have you ever left your family, alienated your friends and committed a felony so you can get your sugar fix? Have you ever sold your car or your belongings so you can buy a cake?36 -
you can't lose weight after 35..or 40..or whatever age that person is!13
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CafeRacer808 wrote: »CafeRacer808 wrote: »"Sugar is as addictive as heroin."
pertsonally i find this very true .... but i have also heard
SUGAR DOESNT MAKE YOU FAT .
Have you ever taken heroin? Have you ever spent time with people who are addicted and seen first hand what it does to them? Have you ever left your family, alienated your friends and committed a felony so you can get your sugar fix? Have you ever sold your car or your belongings so you can buy a cake?
Exactly.11 -
I've had someone tell me that anything you eat within two hours after a bicycle ride don't count.3
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All those snacks of carrots and celery, be careful, you are going to gain weight.4
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after losing 70 pounds (on a high carb diet mind you) My grampa went on about "this internet girl" who sells this low carb diet plan online i should buy. Like...why? do i not seem to know what im doing?
Coming from a guy who everytime i see him reminds me how FAT i used to be. But yet trying to sell me on wack diet plans...12 -
Someone told me I should eat 6 servings of lettuce a day with nothing on it. Then when u lose weight u can add a little meat. He said his daughter lost 79 pounds. Technically he was telling me to starve myself. Some people. Sigh. Counting calories help me lose weight.13
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A friend's sister joined us for lunch one day. She has been obese and "on a diet" as long as I've known her, several years.
When she arrived, she proudly announced that she had given up french fries as part of her diet. Then she ordered onion rings with her burger...45 -
I was just told by a girl I workout with that i should start working out in long sleeves because I'll burn more calories that way.11
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Food combining - like don't eat bread after fruit, and other stuff so inane my brain immediately jettisoned it upon processing it.11
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If you eat salad with every meal you'll lose weight. Then they had some macaroni salad with dinner.22
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LiveLoveFitFab wrote: »
I'd tend to agree. Batman's stats, I believe are 6'2" and 210 lbs.7 -
This was said to me at a dance class by a stranger, "you have such a pretty face, you shouldn't eat after 6:00."21
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