Unpopular opinions
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Here is mine: taking vitamins and supplements just makes expensive pee.2
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Most "food" in the US is poison. I use an app called Yuka to show me which foods have dangerous additives. All calories are NOT alike in quality or nutrition. Lastly I would risk is and say the US healthcare system and maybe the culture itself exacerbates health issues by making a profit off of food that is bad for you then you go to a doctor that doesn't address the root cause of illnesses many of them by digesting bad or fake food. It's a culture of greed and corruption at the root. It's really sad.
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Tell him to read the work of Vincent Felitti and Robert Anda. It will shock you into realising that fat people have nothing to be hated for0
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🥕 Steamed vegetables are great!!!
There I said it. 🍠
Steam me up Scotty! 🥦1 -
Weight and mental health are very closely linked.
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Fruits have mystical micronutrients that science doesn't have names for yet, and are Good For You in ways that can't be quantified
Coarse-ground brown mustard is anabolic (empirical)
It's okay to do non-optimal stuff to virtuous food to make it palatable. If few tbsp of panko bread crumbs makes the difference between eating 8 oz of chicken breast and NOT eating it, do it already
Fake sugar is mehhh probably fine
Indian spices are legit medicinal
Instead of milk, just buy heavy cream and dilute it if you want
Tofu good, edamame good, soy sauce okay; other forms of soy are bad for indefinable, intuitive reasons
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Had to move to Canada to learn that for fries, vinegar and black pepper (salt optional) is better than any color gooey dip. (White and brown malt vinegar bottles in better joints, or those anti-ecological plastic envelopes in FF franchises.)
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Salt is never optional. I love salt. I use plenty of salt. Around here, I think that's an unpopular opinion in itself.
Also, I like vinegar, so yeah, I like vinegar on fries. Yeah, ideally malt vinegar for that.
But I still like ketchup better. Ketchup also tends to be unpopular around here, seems like - evils of hidden sugar, blah blah blah. OK. So I get a good unsweetened brand, not so much because it's unsweetened, but when making unsweetened ketchup they're nearly forced to use better-tasting tomatoes. It's not unusual for me to eat a quarter to half a cup of ketchup on something, usually potatoes but not always.
And speaking of vinegar, I also like vinegar a lot. People here are often yuck to ACV, but I like it. The old-school-style drinks called "shrubs" made with ACV and fruit? Tasty. Cupboard is full of different kinds of vinegar . . . not flavored vinegars, but different types, like red wine, white wine, sherry, beer, coconut (sourced, not flavored), champagne, balsamic, white balsamic, rice wine . . . and more.
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Is my opinion more unpopular? I hate fries. I like potatoes baked, plain with a little salt. Or cold the next day, no salt, cottage cheese on top. Doesn't sound good at all, but I like it.
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Cold poatatoes are great. My Austrian parents served them with red beet borscht and sour cream - sadly haven't had it in years.
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I love borscht. Not Austrian borscht. Not russian borscht. German borscht. More like beef stew.
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As an alcoholic with 6 years of sobriety under my belt, I can tell you this with complete confidence.
There is zero difference between having one beer and feeling compelled to have five more, and eating one cookie and feeling compelled to eat five more.
The fix is exactly the same: don’t *kitten* with that *kitten*.
If you can eat a few bites of any food and stop without an internal struggle, that food is safe.
If, after a few bites, you feel an overwhelming urge to keep eating, it's time to start treating that food like an addictive drug.
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So timely. My daughter told me about some addictive cookies she was sure I would love. I bought a package (4 servings) this morning. I finished the whole sack in less than 3 hours. Yes, I want more. No, I will not buy more. I can't handle them.
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Admitting you can't handle them is the first step to abstinence 😁
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It's taken me a long time to really admit that I have a huge problem with sugar and once I start I can't stop til it's gone, even if I don't actually like what I'm eating, even if it is making me feel sick. It's just part of my make-up, so I have to abstain.
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The magic of intermittent fasting. Even if I only intermittently ate 3 hours a day I could gain weight. I could have yummy barbecue, lots of air fried waffle fries and of course a huge Sunday and cram all those calories and in 3 hours while I would be following my intermittent fasting plan I would be so sick for meeting so much in such a short time that it wouldn't be able to do anything else the rest of the day. I still believe in calories in calories out to lose weight and the best thing I've done is drop every scheme that I have tried and stick to counting calories and getting some kind of good exercising everyday (for the most part). Down 120 lb 23 for my goal :-) whoop whoop Good luck everybody
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You should be advised that a person can do both, count calories and intermittent fast. 😉
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MFP is not Google. The forums are populated by humans who want to support others - stop asking us one liner questions without more info, or expect us to solve your lack of motivation / not losing weight / not gaining weight issues with one post.
(Sorry - grumpy as I have covid)
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I’ve seen a lot of you don’t have to eat “bland” food while dieting on MFp lately… mostly vilifying chicken breast and broccoli…
My possibly unpopular opinion… simple chicken and broccoli can be great!
Cant fresh & quality meat and simple garden vegetable taste good without covering it up?Also- I’m quite grateful to be able to have meat and veggies on the table … which leads me to-
My 2nd possibly unpopular opinion - only in first world countries do people complain about having to eat a chicken breast and a vegetable.
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I don't need to coat everything in cheese, I actually quite often eat chicken, brocolli and rice, but it does have to be well seasoned… salt, pepper, garlic powder, curry powder, whatever the flavor profile I'm feeling. Is it bland? No. Because I season it. My unpopular opinion is most people think whole foods are bland because they refuse to use seasoning when they're cooking.
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Sure you can but for the most part, people do IF because they don't want to track calories…
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If we’re honest, most people do IF because they think it has magical weight loss properties, and quit within a week or two because they don’t lose weight.
How did I miss this comment? This is SO true!!!!
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Agree! In my unpopular opinion, it also is due to the defeatist attitude: "it's too hard, healthy food is too boring, etc." when in reality it just needs to be seasoned properly.
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