“Make sure you eat a WHOLE avocado then your body will start burning fat!” and other silly things!
EllieElla2015
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So I just got off the phone with my dad, catching up about our days and so on. I told him I just got back from the gym and he goes “listen, if you want to lose weight, all you need to do is eat a whole avocado a day and it’ll just burn fat. Then you can eat whatever you want”. There’s no changing him so I didn’t get to the whole “the average avocado is 150 grams and approx 250-300 calories” thing since he (and nobody else in my family lol) believe in calorie counting.
I just figured I’d ask what other silly things you’ve heard regarding weight loss! In a completely light-hearted way. Other things said in my family include:
“calories in oatmeal don’t count because of the fiber!”
“Chicken doesn’t have the kind of calories that make you fat- it’s pure protein!”
“Alcohol makes your body cling on to fat”
I just figured I’d ask what other silly things you’ve heard regarding weight loss! In a completely light-hearted way. Other things said in my family include:
“calories in oatmeal don’t count because of the fiber!”
“Chicken doesn’t have the kind of calories that make you fat- it’s pure protein!”
“Alcohol makes your body cling on to fat”
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Macro science dictates that onion rings + fries cancels out when mixed with the protein of a double cheeseburger with the dairy and the bun and the carbs and all together they cancel out so my body gets all the nutrients and therefore wont hold fat. And obviously a full fat pop because diet pop causes cancer. But my small side salad with light dressing will keep me fat because macro science. Macro *kitten* science.16
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Diet soda will make me gain weight.
Don't eat at night or your body stores it as fat.
Eating smaller meals helps you burn fat faster by upping your metabolism.
If you toast bread it reduces the calories because it burns them off.
I need to do situps to lose belly fat.
ACV
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A friend told me once the calories don't count if no one sees you eating them. I laughed. She got mad. She wasn't joking.
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Don't eat after 6 pm.
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
Sauces don't have any calories.
My favorite:. Diet soda causes weight gain.18 -
corinasue1143 wrote: »A friend told me once the calories don't count if no one sees you eating them. I laughed. She got mad. She wasn't joking.
This made me chuckle. When i binge it’s always in secret. I never would have gotten fat if this were the case!
How can people be so silly!!!8 -
I can personally vouch for the avocado diet not working.
My mother-in-law used to say that she could eat all the jelly bellys she wanted since they had no fat grams. That was back in the day when fat was the demon, instead of carbs.9 -
corinasue1143 wrote: »A friend told me once the calories don't count if no one sees you eating them. I laughed. She got mad. She wasn't joking.
Was fighting the desire to burst out laughing.2 -
I had someone tell me the same thing about protein actually.. that it doesn't count.. lol
And agreeing with Gem on the binge eating.. a ton of my eating was done secretly.. no one ever saw me eating most of what i would eat. Yet some how the weight still went on.. lol
I have had a lot of people wonder how i was ever able to lose weight since i don't like fruit. Apparently fruit is the foundation for weight loss.
I was told that it would be okay to eat an entire frozen pizza as long as it's got veggies on it cause it's better.
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JaydedMiss wrote: »Macro science dictates that onion rings + fries cancels out when mixed with the protein of a double cheeseburger with the dairy and the bun and the carbs and all together they cancel out so my body gets all the nutrients and therefore wont hold fat. And obviously a full fat pop because diet pop causes cancer. But my small side salad with light dressing will keep me fat because macro science. Macro *kitten* science.
What poem is that from? Is that James Joyce?
Beautiful! (applause)10 -
Veganism is the only way to lose weight.
Counting calories isn't sustainable.
Exercise isn't good for your body, unless it's yoga.1 -
Bananas are the worst thing to eat if you're trying to lose weight...11
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The worst are people who publish books, or have YouTube channels, or consider themselves knowledgeable so people actually believe them. A well known you tuber with a book who is supposed to be a nutritionist said "you shouldn't eat late at night as your body doesn't digest the food and it sits in your stomach rotting" like your digestion knows what time of day it is.10
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Eat an apple and drink a glass of warm water with a teaspoon of vinegar in it every night before bed. It causes a chemical reaction that neutralizes all the fat you ate that day and you'll never gain a pound!!
(I had a friend who swore by this and to be fair she was as thin as a rail....until you looked closer and realized her entire diet was basically cigarettes and coffee)9 -
"you'll never lose weight if you drink Coke Zero"
(lost 63lb, drank Coke Zero every day)11 -
TavistockToad wrote: »Bananas are the worst thing to eat if you're trying to lose weight...
I was once told that eating bananas would make me gain weight, not lose weight. Nothing to do with CICO, but because they are pure sugar (no other nutritional value) and it's sugar that makes you fat.0 -
"You can eat whatever you want. You'll burn it off anyway."
-My Dad has high hopes for my lifting gains.6 -
TavistockToad wrote: »Bananas are the worst thing to eat if you're trying to lose weight...
I used to be told this all the time!0 -
MaddMaestro wrote: »"You can eat whatever you want. You'll burn it off anyway."
-My Dad has high hopes for my lifting gains.
People say this to me because I'm a long distance runner... sadly it's just not true!4 -
moosmum1972 wrote: »corinasue1143 wrote: »A friend told me once the calories don't count if no one sees you eating them. I laughed. She got mad. She wasn't joking.
Other people's food doesn't have calories....
This is true. Fries I steal off my hubbie's plate don't count.....
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EllieElla2015 wrote: »So I just got off the phone with my dad, catching up about our days and so on. I told him I just got back from the gym and he goes “listen, if you want to lose weight, all you need to do is eat a whole avocado a day and it’ll just burn fat. Then you can eat whatever you want”. There’s no changing him so I didn’t get to the whole “the average avocado is 150 grams and approx 250-300 calories” thing since he (and nobody else in my family lol) believe in calorie counting.
I just figured I’d ask what other silly things you’ve heard regarding weight loss! In a completely light-hearted way. Other things said in my family include:
“calories in oatmeal don’t count because of the fiber!”
“Chicken doesn’t have the kind of calories that make you fat- it’s pure protein!”
“Alcohol makes your body cling on to fat”
...does "the whole avocado" mean you have to eat the pit too? Is that what we've all been doing wrong?23 -
Y'all ever heard of the Apple only diet? Eat as many apples as you want & you'll lose weight.
Ugh that also reminds me of the master cleanse. *shudders*4 -
My mother got the Beverly Hills Diet book from the library and I read it. I don't think I even believed it then, it was so silly, but I wanted to try it (I was around 12 and not overweight but wanted to be a little thinner, and I loved the idea of just eating unlimited fruit). My mother didn't let me (in that she wouldn't buy the fruits needed for the program) except she let me get grapefruit (which it turned out I hated). Here's an explanation (dealing with the updated and slightly less stupid but still really stupid version of the diet) from https://www.diet.com/g/beverly-hills-diet:
"The Beverly Hills diet...is based on the idea that it is not what a person eats, or even how much food is eaten that causes a person to gain weight [but]...the combinations in which foods are eaten and the order in which they are eaten causes weight gain.... [E]ating foods in the wrong order can stop some foods from being digested, and it is the undigested foods that cause fat build-up....
....[F]ruit must be eaten alone and must be eaten before anything else is consumed during the day [and]...each type of fruit must be eaten alone.... f a dieter eats an orange, the dieter must wait at least one full hour before eating another type of fruit, such as a pear. If the dieter eats a different type of food, such as a protein, the dieter must wait until the next day to eat fruit again.
...[P]rotein and carbohydrates cannot be eaten together....[O]n the first day of the diet, dieters are instructed to eat pineapple, corn on the cob, and a salad made of lettuce, tomatoes, and onions with Mazel dressing. (Mazel dressing is a recipe included in the book, and shows up frequently throughout the 35-day diet.) This means that dieters may eat as much pineapple as desired in the morning, but once they beginning eating corn on the cob they cannot go back and eat more pineapple. Once the salad is eaten, both corn on the cob and pineapple are no longer allowed. Dieters are instructed to wait between changing foods to ensure proper digestion.
Some days on the diet only one type of food is permitted during the entire day. Day three of the diet allows the dieter only to consume grapes. On other days the dieter is only allowed to eat watermelon. Although these rules are extremely restrictive, they are not as restrictive as the rules set out in the original Beverly Hills diet. On that diet, dieters were only allowed to eat fruit for the first 10 days of the diet. No animal protein was allowed at all until the 19th day...."11 -
Related to that, the idea that it's NOT digesting food (or not "processing" food properly) that causes you to gain weight seems to be really common.
And another one from the '80s is that my friend's mom insisted that we should not eat cheese (no cheese at all!) because it caused fat gain that went right to the butt (and this was of course very bad, because '80s).0 -
Well, diet soda doesn't cause weight gain but for me, it's definitely a gateway drug. If I have a soda I'm going to burp which makes room for more food. It also gives me a sweets craving almost instantly. Like I said, gateway drug. But, the not eating after 7p, low carb, and skipping breakfast is bohonkey. I had a doctor's appointment on Tuesday and it was a place I haven't been to in almost a decade so my last weight they had was 310lbs. When they logged my weight at 169, they congratulated me and then the doctor proceeded to tell me to cut out carbs. I'm like bruh, I lost 141lbs and didn't cut a single carb, I think I got this.38
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Carbs are the enemy
There's no such thing as good fat and bad fat, all fat is bad
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Y'all ever heard of the Apple only diet? Eat as many apples as you want & you'll lose weight.
Ugh that also reminds me of the master cleanse. *shudders*
Someone in my office is on the apple diet. She also puts these special drops on her tongue and holds it there for a specific period of time. I think they're some kind of combination of vitamins and they're supposed to help with the weight loss.
She literally brings in a whole bag of apples and eats them all day. When I asked her if all those apples upset her stomach she said yes, but she goes to the bathroom and then all the weight just starts dropping off.
Ummmmm..................3 -
Food doesn’t have calories when you have PMS.
For the record, if any science ever backs this up I will be first on board26 -
Putting oil and butter in your coffee to lose weight. Um why not just create a calorie deficit?
I also have a friend who is obsessed with south beach. the initial water loss thrills her and eventually she stalls and falls off, gaining more weight with each attempt.3 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »Related to that, the idea that it's NOT digesting food (or not "processing" food properly) that causes you to gain weight seems to be really common.
And another one from the '80s is that my friend's mom insisted that we should not eat cheese (no cheese at all!) because it caused fat gain that went right to the butt (and this was of course very bad, because '80s).
What, you don't have little cheeseburger bits in your hips?1
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