What is the daftest weight related thing someone has ever said to you?
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Alatariel75 wrote: »I did once get told that I wouldn't be able to lose weight until after I had babies (the woman in question was constantly at me for not wanting kids) because "your body wants to have babies, so it's hanging onto the stores to grow and feed them".
This was a new one to me and possibly my favorite.
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youdoyou2016 wrote: »Some things that are stated on here pretty regularly:
1. You're not supposed to be hungry
2. You need to eat all your calories (even if you are not hungry)
If you're on here to lose weight, not ever being hungry and eating when you don't need to are sort of the roots of the problem, I'd suggest? (Do some people actually never experience hunger?)
I think some people confuse the feeling of not being full with hunger.5 -
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This thread is amazing. Hysterical. 3
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The one I love is diet soda will make you fat.
And I have to read all the weightless and diet articles on msn because they are so funny, "find out why diet soda makes you keep belly fat".3 -
My mom once told me I was too fat to ride my bike and that I better stop before I kill myself.
The kicker was I training for bike MS because of her, she has MS. Worst argument I ever had with her to date. I've participated in 19 MS Bike rides now.27 -
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."
Oh jee gahd.
Evening restrictions on food always make me think of Gremlins. That movie in the collective consciousness could explain why this view lingers.
I could see this technique helping *some* people from a strategic standpoint, but the idea that it's a biological necessity is quintessential daft.
There are sooo many ridiculous things said about weight loss, but probably the one that irks me most is that weight is almost all due to eating, not activity. It really depends on *why* that person is carrying extra weight. That is, it depends on which part of the CICO equilibrium they're really screwing up, so creating a poor balance.
Another thing I find daft is the idea that *big* changes are needed for weight loss and maintenance. The difference between being fit and fat can be small, like an excess 200 calories a day, for example. Creating the proper balance doesn't require dramatic change, just consistency.8 -
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Chunkahlunkah wrote: »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."
Oh jee gahd.
Evening restrictions on food always make me think of Gremlins. That movie in the collective consciousness could explain why this view lingers.
I could see this technique helping *some* people from a strategic standpoint, but the idea that it's a biological necessity is quintessential daft.
There are sooo many ridiculous things said about weight loss, but probably the one that irks me most is that weight is almost all due to eating, not activity. It really depends on *why* that person is carrying extra weight. That is, it depends on which part of the CICO equilibrium they're really screwing up, so creating a poor balance.
Another thing I find daft is the idea that *big* changes are needed for weight loss and maintenance. The difference between being fit and pudgy can be small, like an excess 200 calories a day, for example. Creating the proper balance doesn't require dramatic change, just consistency.
I find this to be true. People believe they need to uproot their life and run the other way, when the best and most sustainable thing to do is to work with the habits and preferences they already have and tweak them where needed to create change. I'm saying this and the difference between my highest maintenance and my goal weight is more than 1000 calories, so one would think I need big changes for that. Not true.9 -
I always laugh when I hear that "a pound of muscle weighs more than a pound of fat".7
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blabrecque_xo wrote: »Someone once told me that if I wanted to lose weight, all I needed to do was go to bed hungry every night. Where I come from, that sounds like an eating disorder.
I remember my own father telling me this when I was younger. No wonder I ended up overweight, I had developed such an unhealthy relationship to food and exercise. Food is not the enemy, it's really your best ally. Exercise is not a punishment, it's a gift for and from your body (and mind!).
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Maybe I missed this one, but how about the whole starvation mode thing? Or that the body holds onto fat. Or manufactures it at a low calorie number. (How does the body manufacture fat from nothing?)
I understsand doing everything right and when the scale doesn't move for several wks one starts wondering what is going on (that is, what is wrong). But there are a lot of replies to posts lately saying you have to eat more to lose weight after a 2 wk stall.
Ummm, no.3 -
@amusedmonkey "People believe they need to uproot their life and run the other way, when the best and most sustainable thing to do is to work with the habits and preferences they already have and tweak them where needed to create change."
Exactly! I believe some people thrive on doing a complete overhaul, and good for them, but it's not necessary and for so many not an effective method. I hear lots of people avoiding weight loss or thinking they'll fail at it because they view the cost of changing as too high, but they're overestimating the cost of a healthy weight.
For example, some overweight people will genuinely believe being a healthy weight requires eating only salads or "health" food. Meanwhile, their TDEE at that weight would allow for, say, 2000 calories. You can fit a daily diet that includes burgers, pizza, bacon etc at that level. The all or nothing view is daft to me bc it ignores the actual math. I guess it comes down to people being ignorant about TDEE, calories, and meal planning.6 -
Most people I've told about MFP just don't want to do the math.Chunkahlunkah wrote: »@amusedmonkey "People believe they need to uproot their life and run the other way, when the best and most sustainable thing to do is to work with the habits and preferences they already have and tweak them where needed to create change."
Exactly! I believe some people thrive on doing a complete overhaul, and good for them, but it's not necessary and for so many not an effective method. I hear lots of people avoiding weight loss or thinking they'll fail at it because they view the cost of changing as too high, but they're overestimating the cost of a healthy weight.
For example, some overweight people will genuinely believe being a healthy weight requires eating only salads or "health" food. Meanwhile, their TDEE at that weight would allow for, say, 2000 calories. You can fit a daily diet that includes burgers, pizza, bacon etc at that level. The all or nothing view is daft to me bc it ignores the actual math. I guess it comes down to people being ignorant about TDEE, calories, and meal planning.
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RollTideTri wrote: »elisa123gal wrote: »MFP posts seeking advice on the struggles of trying to eat 1200 or 1000 calories. "I feel so full I'm stuffed how can i get my daily calories in?" Just who do they think they're talking to?
Those are hilarious. If they were stuffed after eating 1200 calories a day they wouldn't be overweight and wouldn't have ever heard of this site.
I think about that ALLL THE TIME! If you have trouble eating that little, you wouldn't be overweight. Those are people who don't open up their diary and/or don't log anything correctly.4 -
need2belean wrote: »RollTideTri wrote: »elisa123gal wrote: »MFP posts seeking advice on the struggles of trying to eat 1200 or 1000 calories. "I feel so full I'm stuffed how can i get my daily calories in?" Just who do they think they're talking to?
Those are hilarious. If they were stuffed after eating 1200 calories a day they wouldn't be overweight and wouldn't have ever heard of this site.
I think about that ALLL THE TIME! If you have trouble eating that little, you wouldn't be overweight. Those are people who don't open up their diary and/or don't log anything correctly.
See, this one I can understand. Satiety, for some people, is strongly linked to *what* they eat, just as much or moreso than *how much* they eat. So if these people have changed their diet to the foods that sate them and limited/removed the ones that rev up their appetite, I find it totally believable that they're experiencing a genuine reduction in their appetite to a suppressing degree.
For example, I've leaned that when I eat a large amount of protein on an empty stomach, it kills my appetite for many hours. And by kills, I mean it makes even the thought of food unappealing and nearly gag-inducing. The feeling kicks in about 2 hours after eating, and my appetite doesn't return for about 8 or more hours. And this can happen on relatively few calories, like in the 300s. Some brief googling suggested I'm probably super sensitive to the hormone Peptide YY, but I'd be curious to learn more about this.
I think for some people, the suppressed appetite they experience is primarily psychologically motivated, but from my own experiences I have no doubt that foods themselves can have a dramatic impact on some people's appetite.
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Mary_Anastasia wrote: »My endocrinologist told me (at 245lbs) that my body would just not let me lose weight, she said sometimes our bodies decide what's best for us, and that as far as she could tell I was as healthy as a horse, and that I should just maintain my weight because my body decided it is comfortable where it is and that I would always be around that weight. She said even if I lost weight that my body would try to regain it until it was at what it considered the proper weight (around 245)
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I was about to make the comment that all adult humans are the only adult animals who drink milk. Obviously they've never raised Guinea pigs. Other adults in the cage with a nursing momma will often try to nurse, and usually the momma allows it.amusedmonkey wrote: »A person on the bus the other day: milk will make your calves fat because it's designed to grow calves.
Just when I thought the milk-calf argument couldn't get any sillier.
Why does a portion of the population have genetics that allow us to drink milk as adults then?
Also "if you just followed-insert fad diet here- all your health problems would be gone." Never mind that at the time I was at the bottom of the healthy BMI scale, I'd been underweight for most of my teens and 20's, and the conditions are genetic and congenital.
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Yeah, my parents would walk with us all over. Want ice cream? Okay let's take a walk to the ice cream place. Want to go to the playground, zoo, kiddie park? Let's walk.MontyMuttland wrote: »Them: You've lost so much weight! You must be in the gym every day.
Me: I've not set foot in a gym, I just walk a lot.
Them: I wish I could do that.
Me: You can, just go for a walk whenever and wherever you happen to be.
Them: I can't do that, I always have to look after my grand-daughter.
Me: What? Your grand-daughter doesn't have legs?
Them: She doesn't like to walk.
Me: Don't you have a buggy for her?
Them: She won't sit in it for long, she gets bored.
Me: ... (gives up)
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