Bad advice?
shaf238
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I overhear in my office people being given bad advice when starting their fitness journeys.
For example, someone was told to lose weight she had to cut out carbs. There was no medical reason for it. Just cut out carbs and the weight will all fall off
What's the worst advice you've received? Or heard about?
For example, someone was told to lose weight she had to cut out carbs. There was no medical reason for it. Just cut out carbs and the weight will all fall off
What's the worst advice you've received? Or heard about?
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That you *need* to take supplements.16
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That I have to drink at least 1/2 my weight in ounces of water each day. I honestly don't know if there is truth to this or not, I just know it's not going to happen.31
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Combo of "cut out this food group" (all sweets and/or carbs) or "you need to sign up for a gym then"
Also saw multiple co-workers in the past trying fad diets/cleanses. Never ended well for them, but they would be damned if they listened to me and my slow but steady approach.13 -
I just think life would be easier if we all talked less.
I spend most of my day trying to tune out these kinds of conversations.
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You cannot lose weight if you eat more than one serving of strawberries per day.
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Mods close this thread then...DoubleUbea wrote: »5 -
Nah, you will get different users posting interesting things.8
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Worst experience // advice going to a registered nurse dietitian an the lady not taking into account my exercise or how active i am.
The real sad part is how much damage she will due giving that type of advice to others.10 -
There was a hilarious discussion in the office a while ago, about a guy on a "fitness" diet prescribed by his "trainer" where breakfast consists of a smoothie every morning, containing a combination of fresh fruit and a boiled egg. His "trainer" had somehow convinced him there are some magical special properties in adding the boiled egg in the smoothie instead of just eating the egg separately or adding an uncooked egg in his smoothie.13
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I have been maintaining a healthy weight for @ 2 years now, and I regularly have overweight coworkers, family, and friends telling me I will end up gaining it back if I don't cut out "carbs and sugar" as much as possible. I'm also routinely scolded for drinking diet soda - "You know that just makes you more hungry, right?"
I went to one of those "painting parties" where everyone copies a painting, and sat with a very large woman who had just had gastric bypass surgery. She spent the whole night pontificating on the evils of sugar and how it's making us all fat and how I should really switch to low carb or else I would end up overweight like she did. Obviously she didn't know me, so didn't know my history
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I just got grief on how my diet needs to be more restrictive in not eating any sugar, soda, chocolates, bread, pizza. I've lost close to 50lbs and ive been in maintenance since Dec 17. I have done the CICO and works. So i can have anything as long as i have enough calories for it. However, i mention that I am going back to lose the last 10lbs and now everyone (family and friends) have to keep pointing out don't eat this and mocking me that I won't be losing the last 10lbs. I mean.... come one, Have I yet to prove myself once again????15
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To eat for my blood type.23
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I overhear in my office people being given bad advice when starting their fitness journeys.
For example, someone was told to lose weight she had to cut out carbs. There was no medical reason for it. Just cut out carbs and the weight will all fall off
What's the worst advice you've received? Or heard about?
My doctor actually told me this yesterday. "The only way you are going to lose weight is to cut out all carbs". Seriously. Yes, a medical doctor in the U.S.
All I could do is just look at her.21 -
I don't ever want to hear the words "starvation mode" ever again.34
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In my office, the general thought is that if a food is considered "healthy", you can eat as much of it as you want. I heard someone the other day advising a co-worker to snack on as many almonds as she wants and she won't gain weight because they are "healthy". Another woman was recommending those huge protein cookies as an alternative to a bag of chips to help lose weight. Protein aside....bag of chips was 120 calories and "healthy" cookie was 400 calories.32
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I heard this one today. I was buying some stuff at the corner store today and picked up a Snickers. The guy who works there has been watching me shrink, and we're friendly. He always asks me about weight loss stuff because he's obese. He asked me if it was my cheat day today. I said, no, I don't do cheat days. He said "If you eat candy on diet days you won't lose weight, and you absolutely should have cheat days or your metabolism will slow down. I want what's best for you, if you want to eat this candy bar it's best if you make today a cheat day".39
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This is going to sound silly, but the concept of cheat meals/days. I had no idea how easy it was for me to undo 6 days worth of deficit in one day. I'm fine with balancing my calories weekly so that I can splurge a bit on the weekends, but I HAVE to do the math, not just eat with abandon.34
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THIS.SuzySunshine99 wrote: »In my office, the general thought is that if a food is considered "healthy", you can eat as much of it as you want. I heard someone the other day advising a co-worker to snack on as many almonds as she wants and she won't gain weight because they are "healthy". Another woman was recommending those huge protein cookies as an alternative to a bag of chips to help lose weight. Protein aside....bag of chips was 120 calories and "healthy" cookie was 400 calories.4 -
Cutting carbs, going sugar 'free', sweatsuits and body wraps.4
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I have been maintaining a healthy weight for @ 2 years now, and I regularly have overweight coworkers, family, and friends telling me I will end up gaining it back if I don't cut out "carbs and sugar" as much as possible. I'm also routinely scolded for drinking diet soda - "You know that just makes you more hungry, right?"
I don't know @kimny72 ... sure you've successfully managed your weight for years, but maybe you're just 1 candy bar away from the precipice...
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leonadixon wrote: »I overhear in my office people being given bad advice when starting their fitness journeys.
For example, someone was told to lose weight she had to cut out carbs. There was no medical reason for it. Just cut out carbs and the weight will all fall off
What's the worst advice you've received? Or heard about?
My doctor actually told me this yesterday. "The only way you are going to lose weight is to cut out all carbs". Seriously. Yes, a medical doctor in the U.S.
All I could do is just look at her.
Doctors often fall back on this lazy suggestion with the assumption that, while the person likely won't comply, their efforts may at least reduce their overall calorie intake.7 -
@try2again, I told her I am using MFP, counting calories, weighing my food and staying in a calorie goal. She still insisted that is the only way. I felt like it was not just lazy, but that she really believes it!6
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I work with a woman who follows a keto plan but doesn't watch her overall caloric intake. She thinks fat is magic (gotta admit, I like it too), eating it has no dietary consequences, and tells me my salads are bad carbs but I need some kind of dressing-she recommends blue cheese-so I can "absorb the nutrients" from my evil-carb salad.
I know there's some nutritional truth there about fat and vitamin absorption but I don't like salad dressing generally and I am a pretty good cook who can make a well-composed salad that satisfies my calorie intake and macros and doesn't need dressing to be tasty. Leave me alone and let me eat my lunch!
This is the same lady who tells me the bubbles in my bottle of San Pellegrino will prevent me from losing weight, not that I have ever said word one to her about my weight loss.14 -
I have been maintaining a healthy weight for @ 2 years now, and I regularly have overweight coworkers, family, and friends telling me I will end up gaining it back if I don't cut out "carbs and sugar" as much as possible. I'm also routinely scolded for drinking diet soda - "You know that just makes you more hungry, right?"
I don't know @kimny72 ... sure you've successfully managed your weight for years, but maybe you're just 1 candy bar away from the precipice...
True, I'm probably accidental weight gain just waiting to happen. A carb away from disaster
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I work with a woman who follows a keto plan but doesn't watch her overall caloric intake. She thinks fat is magic (gotta admit, I like it too), eating it has no dietary consequences, and tells me my salads are bad carbs but I need some kind of dressing-she recommends blue cheese-so I can "absorb the nutrients" from my evil-carb salad.
I know there's some nutritional truth there about fat and vitamin absorption but I don't like salad dressing generally and I am a pretty good cook who can make a well-composed salad that satisfies my calorie intake and macros and doesn't need dressing to be tasty. Leave me alone and let me eat my lunch!
This is the same lady who tells me the bubbles in my bottle of San Pellegrino will prevent me from losing weight, not that I have ever said word one to her about my weight loss.
Oh those evil nasty bubbles - telling your body to hold the weight!!!
I have an office mate who will tell anybody and everybody that calories consumed after 6pm get magically doubled by the body... I just shake my head and walk away.9 -
SuzySunshine99 wrote: »In my office, the general thought is that if a food is considered "healthy", you can eat as much of it as you want. I heard someone the other day advising a co-worker to snack on as many almonds as she wants and she won't gain weight because they are "healthy". Another woman was recommending those huge protein cookies as an alternative to a bag of chips to help lose weight. Protein aside....bag of chips was 120 calories and "healthy" cookie was 400 calories.
The calorie counts on some of those high protein cookies/desserts are ridiculously high. Especially since they're not really sold as meal replacements or weight gain aides as far as I have seen.
Not really advice, just silly behavior, but someone insisting that dark meat and skin-on chicken breasts are so bad for you that you should only eat skinless chicken breasts when eating chicken. This person made no other attempts to reduce saturated fats in their diet so it never really made sense to me.
Also people who consider calorie counting disordered behavior while they eliminate entire food groups from their diet to try to lose weight.14 -
That my friend thought I should stop losing because she worried I was becoming anorexic (advice offered while I was eating 2000+ calories most days and at a BMI in the 20s, near goal weight).
From another person, that it was impossible "at our age" to lose weight without cutting carbs because "she read all the books last Winter and they all said so" (even as I sat there 50 pounds lighter, actually eating carbs ATM, and the speaker knew both of these things). SMH.13
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