These Myfitnesspal bloggers

NovusDies

100_PROOF_ wrote: »

I generally ignore click bait because it's mostly always woo. It's sad that some people don't realize that though.
I had one girl tell me that she was so hungry the night before that she didn't sleep and woke up with heartburn. I asked why she didn't eat something. She said she couldn't because anything she ate would've turned to fat because it was after 7pm. I asked where she got that bogus info and she showed me some click bait article. She really believed that if she ate at night that it turns to fat because she'd be laying down sleeping instead of up burning Calories. SMH!

Critical thinking is becoming a lost art. It's easier for people to gather information from blogs and Facebook than it is to do any actual research.

Yeah but how many of us have believed lies in the past? While I do think critical thinking is on a general decline it is hard to blame people for being taken in when so much money and effort is being poured into making it as believable as possible. If there were major profits to be made in people believing the world was flat there would be a lot of very convincing "evidence" out there and some of us, like it or not, might have gone through a phase of believing it ourselves.

Some people are lucky. They manage to achieve a calorie deficit believing in one or more of the magicks. Others, including some of the bloggers, probably deserve sympathy because they will fail again. Hopefully they will stay on the path to better health and eventually move in the right direction.

I think the biggest enemy of weight loss is the general lack of understanding of weight fluctuations. People weighing themselves each day getting frustrated by no losses or gains when they have done everything or most everything else right. It is the main reason I believed something more was needed in the past.

100_PROOF_

NovusDies wrote: »

100_PROOF_ wrote: »

I generally ignore click bait because it's mostly always woo. It's sad that some people don't realize that though.
I had one girl tell me that she was so hungry the night before that she didn't sleep and woke up with heartburn. I asked why she didn't eat something. She said she couldn't because anything she ate would've turned to fat because it was after 7pm. I asked where she got that bogus info and she showed me some click bait article. She really believed that if she ate at night that it turns to fat because she'd be laying down sleeping instead of up burning Calories. SMH!

Critical thinking is becoming a lost art. It's easier for people to gather information from blogs and Facebook than it is to do any actual research.

Yeah but how many of us have believed lies in the past? While I do think critical thinking is on a general decline it is hard to blame people for being taken in when so much money and effort is being poured into making it as believable as possible. If there were major profits to be made in people believing the world was flat there would be a lot of very convincing "evidence" out there and some of us, like it or not, might have gone through a phase of believing it ourselves.

Some people are lucky. They manage to achieve a calorie deficit believing in one or more of the magicks. Others, including some of the bloggers, probably deserve sympathy because they will fail again. Hopefully they will stay on the path to better health and eventually move in the right direction.

I think the biggest enemy of weight loss is the general lack of understanding of weight fluctuations. People weighing themselves each day getting frustrated by no losses or gains when they have done everything or most everything else right. It is the main reason I believed something more was needed in the past.

I know I definitely did at one time! I remember going to the doctor and asking to be switched from my birth control because I swore that it was making me fat. I now know that the excess calories are to blame but I didn't understand that then. I read a parenting forum that it was the birth control causing the weight gain so I really believed it. Luckily now I know how to vet sources a bit better.
I think we all have been tricked or fooled in some way at some point ( not just weight loss related) . That's one of the reasons I believe that calling out the woo is so important. It helps those that do not know better yet. It certainly helped me. People can be easily mislead If misinformation goes unchallenged , especially in this day and age of social media and other " fast" news.