Weight Loss & Fitness Pet Peeves

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I was thinking about this earlier as I was reflecting on a conversation yesterday I was having with my father and my body recomp progress. I figured everyone else probably has them too. So what are your biggest weight loss and/or fitness pet peeves?

1. People that ask me for weight loss advice and don't take it. I've lost around 130 pounds (mostly with MFP), and get asked quite a bit for weight loss advice from other people that hear about my weight loss or saw what I used to look like before my weight loss. I explain about the Mediterranean Diet and how I counted calories and started exercising, daily if I could. That it ultimately came down to calories in vs calories out. Eat healthier, eat less, exercise more - you will loose weight. I can't tell you how many times I've gotten blank stares followed by, "well, I think I'm just going to cut carbs, drink shakes, take a pill, etc."

2. People that think I or they can target fat loss. This was the conversation I was having the other day. I was complaining, because yet again, I was looking at having to go out and buy another bra because through all the working out, I keep loosing fat from my boobs instead of my arms or belly like I want to. I always get suggested, "Maybe you should do some crunches". Firstly, I already do crunches, and then secondly I have to explain how you don't get to pick and choose where the fat comes off, its all genetic. They invariably disagree and say its always worked for them or that that is what they've always heard so it must be right. I have to bite my tongue when I hear conversations at work or while I'm out someplace about someone complaining on how they're belly is not flat or how they don't like their butt and how they're going to do crunches or squats to fix it.