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  • Posts: 47
    You can thank my mother for these gems:
    If it's fat free or low fat you can eat all you want
    Since a potato is a vegetable it's perfectly okay to have it be the only vegetable in your diet
    Avocados & nuts are fattening and should be avoided at all costs
    Veggie omelets aren't good because of the cholesterol (mind you she had ordered a double-decker club sandwich with onion rings and a coke when she said that to me :grumble: )

    This sounds like my Mom. She is still on the fat-free/low fat diet that was common in the 90's. If something says lowfat or fat-free you can have as much as you want of it. She use to be obsessed with fat content in everything. She would not buy anything with more than 3g of total fat. Craziness!!! The scary part is, she still thinks this way no matter how much I explain fats to her.
  • Posts: 309 Member
    You must drink at least 8 glasses of plain water each day or you will become dehydrated. Caffeintated drinks do not count for hydration; in fact you have to drink extra plain water to account for them
  • Posts: 43 Member
    I'm amazed at all the bread crust myths! I was always told to eat all my crusts, because that is there all the nutrients are! The rest of the bread is just "fluff".
  • Posts: 305 Member
    gotta eat every 2-4 hours to keep that metabo fire burning but dont eat after 9 pm!:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • Posts: 7
    Toasting bread cuts some of the calories off.

    LOL My grandma swears by this. I have to keep telling her she's wrong. It probably shaves off what? 000.1 calorie.
    It's freaking toast.
  • Posts: 542 Member
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    Whew that made me laugh so hard... hahaha

    Technically a good calorie would be food. A bad calorie would be something that isn't food- like paint or hardwood flooring.

    That made me giggle!
  • Posts: 121
    there is no such thing as empty calories- all calories are the same


    and my all time fave

    "this metabolism stuff is just a myth"

    talk about nutritionally dense lol
  • Posts: 2,037 Member
    gotta eat every 2-4 hours to keep that metabo fire burning but dont eat after 9 pm!:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

    Arrrrggghhh! I recently reassessed my lifestyle to figure out why I was 40lbs lighter at 25 - I think the answer is:

    1) I was a newspaper reporter always on the go, chasing after stories and pounding the pavements
    2) I only ate when I was truly hungry and had time to grab something

    Now I'm in a management job, stuck behind a desk and can eat when I want. Now I eat my three meals a day with snacks inbetween. Now I'm fat and need to lose weight!

    I got fat because I ate more than I used to. I'm trying to retrain myself to only eat when hungry and not when we are told we should do. And if this means I won't stick to traditional meal times and want to have my dinner at 9pm rather than before 7pm then I will do!
  • Posts: 320 Member
    its healthier to eat standing up vs sitting.... well yes because i spill 90% more (on my shirt) standing up than i do sitting down. bahaha
  • Posts: 542 Member
    This is not as much a "myth" but something someone convinced themselves to make them feel better.

    My MIL is diabetic and the queen of southern style comfort foods.

    She once told me.. " Well you can eat the okra, its a vegetable. Yes, I know it's fried, but I did it in the deep fryer, and that cooks it so fast it doesn't have time to absorb any of the oil.."

    Yeaaaahhh... that makes sense, so what's dripping off of that paper towel you're putting them onto?
  • Posts: 320 Member
    oh and apparently i live under a rock what the hell is a negative calorie food? no doubt a mythical creature of sorts but I've never heard that term until this post
  • Posts: 530 Member

    Diet soda is just NASTY!!! What exactly IS the point of Diet soda anyways? So those people can eat a Big Mac, a Large Fry, and have a Diet Soda to make them feel better? LOL

    Nah, it doesn't make me feel better , I just don't like to waste calories on a drink when I can have a zero cal one.
  • Posts: 463 Member
    - Foods are healthy and unhealthy
    - Low sodium reduces water retention (it actually increases aldosterone)
    - Sodium is the devil
    - Saturated fat is bad
    - Red meat is bad
    - Gotta drink a ton of water

    Those are the biggest ones or me.
  • Posts: 542 Member
    oh and apparently i live under a rock what the hell is a negative calorie food? no doubt a mythical creature of sorts but I've never heard that term until this post

    I think they are supposed to be things that take more calories to digest than what they contain.. is that correct, anyone?

    I've never really thought much about it, but I thought I heard somone try to argue that once.
  • Posts: 5,343 Member
    Currently?

    "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, if you don't eat breakfast, your metabolism lowers and you store more of the food you eat as fat...so you HAVE to eat breakfast in order to 'jump start' (please, don't get me started on 'jump start'!) your metabolism!!"

    Seriously people?
  • Posts: 17,299 Member
    "Legumes are poisonous" Heard it on MFP from a Paleo fanatic.
  • Posts: 17,121 Member
    that its a good idea to reward good behavior with it as if you were a dog.

    misbehaving and fueling your body aren't related unless you WANT emotional eating issues.
  • Posts: 12,142 Member
    "Legumes are poisonous" Heard it on MFP from a Paleo fanatic.

    Some people have peanut allergies, if they eat them they could die. Peanuts are legumes therefore you can extrapolate to legumes are poisonous ;P
  • Posts: 2,923 Member
    no carbs at night.
  • Posts: 17,121 Member
    You must drink at least 8 glasses of plain water each day or you will become dehydrated. Caffeintated drinks do not count for hydration; in fact you have to drink extra plain water to account for them

    I live by this but i have serious body hydration issues what with being a mermaid and all. Oh wait I thought that said carbonated. No i dont compensate for caffeinated drinks. But I MUST drink 2-3 bottles of water a day or I faint within the next three days.
  • Posts: 12,142 Member
    no carbs at night.

    Say hi to the insulin fairy for me
  • Posts: 6
    Potatoes are bad
  • Posts: 17,121 Member
    Potatoes are bad

    i read this and instantly wanted vodka
  • Posts: 111 Member
    Today my housemate told Me that diet coke makes you gain weight. I don't drink diet coke but am now going to drink an entire carton of diet coke in aweek just to prove that I won't gain weight. She's buying them so how could I refuse. I love being right
  • Posts: 522 Member
    Carbs, salt, cholesterol, fat, and saturated fat are "the devil" always seems to be popular
    Green vegetables don't count as calories since they are so fibrous
    Eating animal products causes cardiovascular disease
    Eating around bedtime makes you fat
    Dietary fat makes you fat
    You don't have to count calories if you eat only "clean" foods
  • Posts: 25
    "Gluten free foods are much healthier" (coming from a friend who does not have celiac disease or a gluten intolerance).
  • Posts: 17,299 Member
    if you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding. how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

    I think you jest, but my mother actually lived by this rule, which was extremely unfortunate since she also has an unatural fear of undercooked meat so all her meat tasted like jerky. I hate jerky. But maybe that's why I was such a skinny child.
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    That's not a myth, its a fact because men naturally has more calorie burning muscles than women because of the male hormone testosterone which is also responsible for those fat releasing enzyme. In contrast, we women have more fat & our hormone estrogen favors more the fat storing enzyme.
    Unfortunately, that is true... but exercise DOES help raise T levels =]
  • Posts: 190
    Currently?

    "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, if you don't eat breakfast, your metabolism lowers and you store more of the food you eat as fat...so you HAVE to eat breakfast in order to 'jump start' (please, don't get me started on 'jump start'!) your metabolism!!"

    Seriously people?
    What? That's not true?!! (damn these myths!!)
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    I think they are supposed to be things that take more calories to digest than what they contain.. is that correct, anyone?

    I've never really thought much about it, but I thought I heard somone try to argue that once.
    That's the gist of it. And from what I've looked up (basically Snopes and the related links), it's technically true that celery is a "negative calorie" food in this sense, but the difference is negligible. For example, you might eat 6 calories worth of celery, and then it will take 6.5 calories to digest it. You are never going to notice that half a calorie, and you're never going to eat so much celery that it will accumulate to much at all.
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