Worst advice given to you by a "professional"

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  • suziecue66
    suziecue66 Posts: 1,312 Member
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    I've had several trainers keep having me lift heavy weight on my bottom half or do tons of squats with weights even after me saying repeatedly, from my experience, that area will just get bigger. It's like they only know one formula and they expect it to work for everyone.

    I've had this problem.

    This not bad advice at all. You engage the largest muscles in your body when doing squats and burn more calories than working something like biceps. If you would eat in a deficit there is no way you would put on size.

    I agree. The reason why you're getting bulkier is because you're not doing anything to decrease your body fat percentage or even minimizing fat gains while building muscle underneath thick layers of fat so hence the illusion of getting "bulkier". Also as I've said before, when we gain muscle, we also gain some fat along with it & we cannot avoid that. Which is why there is such a thing as bulk (muscle building) & cut (fat loss) cycle because you cannot do two things at the same time unless you are
    1. morbidly obese
    2. totally new to weight lifting
    3. taking steroids

    It could be all the points you raised but I spoke to a PT who said that she had a number of women clients bulk quite easily in their legs and she noted most were 5ft 4" and under.
  • MashaSK
    MashaSK Posts: 142 Member
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    My dancing teacher adviced not to drink much water, never drink during exercising and 2 hours after. Now I know it's the worst and bad for skin
  • cramernh
    cramernh Posts: 3,335 Member
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    A Chinese Endocrinologist who thought he could bring his Chinese education and medicine with him to the states to practice.

    Telling me "eat nothing but low fat, low sugar products, eat plenty of rice as the main part of the meal" and kept referring to me as a "statistic" and not by my real name.

    The new Endocrinologist I have now (one who is from India), rolled her eyes at his documentation and told me "please tell me you ignored him!"... heheheheheheheh She is my new best friend and the reason why Ive dropped my first 63lbs!
  • DanTTX
    DanTTX Posts: 64 Member
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    Wants to read.
  • brewface811
    brewface811 Posts: 106
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    I had a doctor tell me I tonsillitis one time... my tonsils were taken out when I was 3.

    My gyn calls me fat every time I go into his office, the first time he did I was 110 pounds, 18 years old and 5'1''. He also tells me it is completely normal for me to get swelling in my ovaries and for me to get sharp pains in them (like someone stabbing me) every time I sneeze, cough or twist the wrong way. Obviously, I need a new gyn.
  • poledancing_ninja
    poledancing_ninja Posts: 271
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    It wasn't advice but my old PT asked me if I could look like any celebrity who would it be and I said Pink, she looked me up and down and said 'We can't get you to Pink....'
  • 81Katz
    81Katz Posts: 7,074 Member
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    A Dr. reeking of cigarette smoke telling me "I need to give up the cancer sticks".

    I know that IS his job to say stuff like that, dispense advice, etc. But wow, so hypocritical.

    I did quit smoking ... eventually ... not on his advice however. I did it with my own will and when I was ready.
  • CEHayes73
    CEHayes73 Posts: 221 Member
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    I had a car accident, and my knee hit the dash. The EMT who checked me out at the scene told me it was just bruised, and took the guy who had caused the accident off in the ambulance when all he had was a cut on his finger. After walking on it for a week, thinking I was a being a baby, I finally went to the hospital where it was x-rayed; I had a broken knee cap. When I finally saw an orthopedic specialist, he said that the only thing that kept me from doing permanent damage was the pain!
  • brewface811
    brewface811 Posts: 106
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    I went through the same things! I have really bad neck stiffness and it was causing me headaches. The doctors told me at 15 the main artery leading to my brain was closing and I'd have to get a stint put in because I wasn't getting enough blood to my brain causing head aches, well the neurologist disagreed and told me to stop eating a long list of food and take sleeping pills.

    I refused to take medicine. I just started going to a chiropractor about 7 months ago and rarely get headaches or neck pain. I swear it works for me, might be worth a shot! It treats the actual problems rather than treating the symptoms only.
    .all neck related.

    from the age of 14 to 18 i had really bad headaches almost like a migraine...went to so many doctors and specialist one telling me i had a brain tumor...another i need to eat less cheese.
    long story short it was my neck that was causing my headaches cos it was so strained and over worked...and i figured out the problem and treatment i needed ...not the doctors rrrgh

    two years ago my neck got really bad again and after a trip to a&e i was referred to a back specialist...turns out he was a knee specialist who was like ...i can't help you. then he referred me to a pain specialist who thought i was imagining my pain so put me on crazy pills...only for my neck and back pain to get worse...so i tell him this and he says i can't help you...i then get referred to a neurologist...who tells me i have body migraines .... puts me on more meds...they don't work...and guess what she said ...i can't help you.... idiots and sooo much wasted money!



    plus so many more but i won't bore everyone with them..

    i don't take any pills and manage my pain as i go, osteo, physio and good rest etc help and i figured all of this out myself
  • stylistchik
    stylistchik Posts: 1,436 Member
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    I don't know if it counts as a professional, but when I was 19 my cheerleading coach told me I needed to get rid of my "back fat." I was about 15% body fat. I still laugh about that one.
  • 0093
    0093 Posts: 12 Member
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    A trainer once told me that if I was not burning 500 calories in an excercise session it was a waste of time and to not bother exercising. Sure, I'll just stay in bed all day and not bother. Definitely not one of my better trainers.
  • DiannaMoorer
    DiannaMoorer Posts: 783 Member
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    When I was thirty eight weeks pregnant with a healthy pregnancy, I found out that my OB had written "CS" (short for c-section) on my chart in huge letters. She knew that I was planning a vaginal birth. When the nurse was taking my blood pressure, she looked in the chart and said "oh you're having a c-section?" When I said no and asked her why she asked, she closed the chart right away and changed the subject.


    This p-sses me off!! I hate doctors that do this. So, did you stand your ground and get your normal delivery?
  • hallie_b
    hallie_b Posts: 181
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    They do not teach nutrition in medical school. probably should just consult nutritionist is that is what you are looking for. Doctors just do their best to help....eat less, exercise more is the mantra we follow
    Yep. I asked my doc about weight related issues, he gave me a referral script to go see a specialist and told me to have the specialist call him if she wanted to run any diagnostic tests.
  • sarahrbraun
    sarahrbraun Posts: 2,261 Member
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    Needless to say the medical community is not as far advanced as they would like the public to think they are! If you can find a doctor that truly LISTENS to you they are worth more than gold!

    I agree! I go 45 minutes one direction to see my family doc. He has been my doc for 32 years. He once told me something to the effect of "kidney stone pain is usually one side or the other, not straight down the middle...But if you tell me you are in the worst pain since back labor, I am going to order tests." guess what? I had a kidney stone! The last time I was seen in his office, he walked in the exam room, gave me a hug and said "Hi sweetie, where have you been the last few years of my life?!"

    He has been known to give me a prescription for one of the kids, "just in case", with the instructions to hold onto it for a few days before I fill it--like when one of the kids looked like he was *getting* an ear infection, but wasn't quite there yet.
  • DiannaMoorer
    DiannaMoorer Posts: 783 Member
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    not diet related but....i was 28 weeks pregnant, and every single time i had anything to eat my body rejected it, it didnt matter what type of food it was nothing would stay inside me, two different doctors told me it was fine just to drink plenty of water and stay hydrated, my midwife told me it was because i was pregnant (had 3 kids before and never felt like that), i just plodded on forcing myself to eat small amounts only to be getting rid of it an hour later, at 35 weeks pregnant i begged a different doctor to check me over as honestly i thought i was dying, he did all sorts of blood tests and found out i was vitamin b12 deficient but i was that far gone with it that i had become in danger of my organs shutting down!!!!! turns out my body wasn't just not absorbing vitamin b12 but it was attacking it to get it out my body fast, and as a result i was starving, he prescribed daily high dose injections for 3 weeks, after the first few days i was able to eat without it coming straight back out, after 2 weeks i felt fine (was still funny with meat though it tasted "off" all the time) i had my baby in october, but didnt fully recover my appetite until she was 5 months old, for the rest of my life i have to have injections every 3 months, it makes me sick thinking about what could have happened if i had listened to the first 3 professionals


    WOW!
  • sarahrbraun
    sarahrbraun Posts: 2,261 Member
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    I went to the ER the day before my bachelorette party in intense pain. I was practically writhing. I knew I had a family history of kidney stones, and due to the intense localized pain, I figured that's what it was. Upon arrival the nurse informed me that I couldn't have any pain medication until I took a pregnancy test. I was NOT pregnant, I was on birth control. Yet they demanded I take a test. I couldn't pee, so instead of letting me drink water because I was VERY thirsty, the gave me an IV. I was finally able to pee and obviously the test came back negative. So finally after nearly 4 hours of excrutiating pain, They gave me morphine. At some point before the morphine my "Doctor" came in and said that I wasn't writhing and flailing enough for it to be a kidney stone and it was probably an infection. One CT scan later, it happened to be TWO kidney stones and I am just very tough. :) Still owe nearly $7,000 for that.


    Sounds familiar. Drove myself to the ER from work. back pain, urinary frequency/urgency. TONS of people told me it could be a kidney stone. ER did a urinalysis and told me "you can't have a kidney stone because you are not peeing blood. You must have strained your back. YOu need to go to your family doc to find out why you are having so much pain". Went to my family doc ( who I <3) and he ordered tests. Guess what? I had a totally blocked ureter! The urologist went in with a "basket" and grabbed it.
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,248 Member
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    Not weight loss related, but when I had raging bad TMJD and couldn't open my mouth more than 9mm without intense pain and my jaw making all kinds of horrible cracking noises, a tmj specialist oral surgeon told me, "That's just the way god made you."

    Dude... I'm an atheist. In my mind, god didn't make me. And I wasn't "made" this way two years ago, so fix my damn jaw already!

    My regular dentist got me all straightened out. And now I can open my mouth like a frickin' Pez dispenser. :happy:

    I'd be walking out of that office and not paying the bill. I don't go to the doctor for a sermon. Dang.

    How dare someone speak a common, innocuous phrase mentioning God in the presence of an ATHIEST. Grow up. You SHOULD be pissed that he was gonna let you stay that way, not offended at his choice of phrase.

    I'd think it was a lot more about 'not only is the guy incompetent, he appealed to religion because he was incompetent'.

    The condescending remark and incompetence is what pissed me off. The mentioning of the g-man when my religion (or lack of) was on my medical chart (which I thought was pretty strange... did they think my last rites would need to be read?!) just made it even more laughable.

    I mean, honestly... if I had been a religious person, the thought of god "making me" someone who could barely open my mouth wide enough to eat a McDonald's french fry would be enough to turn me atheist! :laugh:
  • jennblack23
    jennblack23 Posts: 27
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    when i was pregnant, i got a really bad cold and wasn't eating much, i lost 11 lbs in a week and i wanted to make sure that was ok , since i was pregnant, my doctor told me, it's ok, you could live off your fat for a few weeks..just what every pregnant woman wants to hear..lol
  • radioraven
    radioraven Posts: 89 Member
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    Pregnant with baby #2 - constant side ache. OBGYN said baby was kicking me and I didn't like it. After delivery, I never went back to him.
    Constant side ache returned with bleeding - New OBGYN changed my birth control.
    A YEAR Passes....sometimes it was ok, sometimes it was really bad.
    Pain couldn't be stopped, not even with narcotics, ended up fainting at work after a shooting pain spell literally knocked me out - OB GYN says possible endometriosis, underwent procedure to check it out....not that....referred to another specialist for my colon, underwent another procedure in 2 months time....

    I had an ulcer. Thats it. Prilosec regimen, and its gone. My daughter turns 4 next month.
  • DeniseB0711
    DeniseB0711 Posts: 294 Member
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    I slipped and fell on a patch of ice and landed wrong on my arm ( I heard a crunching sound). I went into the ER and had x-rays done, the Dr. told me I was fine and that I could go back to my normal routine. My normal routine at that time was milking and feeding cows, when I had to feed the cows I had to carry 4- 5 gallon pails of feed at a time 2 in each hand. I did this for week or so, all the while dealing with the pain in my arm. A week later the Dr. called my house and told me NOT to move my arm as there was a bad break in my elbow and that if I moved it wrong I could lose the use of my arm. I ended up having to see a specialist which resulted in a cast from my shoulder to my hand. Moral of the story, if the Dr tells you one thing and your body tells you another it is OK to get a 2nd opinion!

    We had a similar thing happen to my step daughter. She fell, had an x ray was told she had a "Sprain" to where an ace banaged for 7 days and keep it elevated. 7 days past took the banaged off, she complained of pain here and there. We sent her back home to her mom, a week later she calls us asking why a doctor is calling her about putting a cast on her daughter. Turns out her arm was actually broken.

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