Can we start a mythbusting thread?

LondonEliza

Myth: you MUST drink at least 8 glasses of water a day to lose weight.

Truth: No one really knows where that number came from.

Tsk!

LondonEliza

Myth: Baby fat

Fact: You're 32 d*mnit

Ahem ... I think at 32, the baby fat may come from the fact you had one (or 2) not that you are one.

SideSteel

Myth: You have to "eat more to weigh less"

Fact: Most of us are here because we got fat eating too much and "EMWL" is often (but not always, settle down) a tag line for justifying crappy food. Please, 5' females, stop letting 6'2, 210 pound male body builders tell you how much to eat and then start a thread a month later on why you aren't loosing. DERP.

While I agree with your premise about people eating too much, I think singling out bodybuilders is a bit rude.

kristen6022

Myth: Muscle weights more than fat, so when you start working out (lifting or cardio) you might gain muscle weight...
Fact: 1 day of "working out" will NOT put on 2-3lbs of muscle. In anyone...period.

It's water weight, muscle are used to being a couch potato and they are retaining water. Unless you went over your calories by 7000 in one day. In which, BRAVO! :noway:

SideSteel

Myth: Baby fat

Fact: You're 32 d*mnit

^ ROFL!

trophywife24

Myth: You have to "eat more to weigh less"

Fact: Most of us are here because we got fat eating too much and "EMWL" is often (but not always, settle down) a tag line for justifying crappy food. Please, 5' females, stop letting 6'2, 210 pound male body builders tell you how much to eat and then start a thread a month later on why you aren't loosing. DERP.

While I agree with your premise about people eating too much, I think singling out bodybuilders is a bit rude.

Oooh wasn't trying to single them out, just saying that you can't really let someone who can't relate to your body tell you what's best for you. I've never actually seen a body builder tell someone who wasn't a body builder how to eat. I was just being "funny". I love body builders............... *mouth breathing*

kristen6022

Myth: Weighing yourself everyday will make the weight come off faster...

Fact: Seriously?

Yanicka1

Myth : carbs are evil

Truth : carbs are yummy

Barbellerella

Myth: Women will get bulky by lifting heavy weights.

Truth: :noway:

OspreyVista

Bump

T1mH

myth: You don’t have to count calories

Fact: calories in < calories out = weight loss

DontStopB_Leakin

Myth: "I have big bones"

Fact: Lolwut? Wide frame, sure. Big bones....I'm thinking nay.

drmerc

myth: You don’t have to count calories

Fact: calories in < calories out = weight loss

technically you you don't have to count calories to lose weight

Chief_Rocka

Myth: Clean foods

Fact: You have to consider the context of the person's entire diet.

T1mH

myth: You don’t have to count calories

Fact: calories in < calories out = weight loss

technically you you don't have to count calories to lose weight

The fact remains calories in < calories out = weight loss, if your paying attention to your food intake and purposefully keeping it below your energy expenditure then you are "technically" counting calories whether you are putting a number to them or not.

cbrrabbit25

Myth: You have to "eat more to weigh less"

Fact: Most of us are here because we got fat eating too much and "EMWL" is often (but not always, settle down) a tag line for justifying crappy food. Please, 5' females, stop letting 6'2, 210 pound male body builders tell you how much to eat and then start a thread a month later on why you aren't loosing. DERP.

While I agree with your premise about people eating too much, I think singling out bodybuilders is a bit rude.

I am a 5' tall female and what they body builders tell me works more often than not actually :-)

psuLemon

Diet pills help... not the calorie deficit and exericse that you do alone with it.


myth: The only weight you lose in in your wallet.



Dr. Oz sells and pushes only real and scientifically proven products

Myth... you are kidding me right?

drmerc

myth: You don’t have to count calories

Fact: calories in < calories out = weight loss

technically you you don't have to count calories to lose weight

The fact remains calories in < calories out = weight loss, if your paying attention to your food intake and purposefully keeping it below your energy expenditure then you are "technically" counting calories whether you are putting a number to them or not.

So if I eat less for any reason, i'm "counting calories"?
Seems legit good job

terrabit

Myth: situps/crunches will shrink your tummy
Fact: You cannot target fat zones ... fat just comes off wherever its genetically programmed to. Reduce your overall bodyfat.

Myth: "Toning"
Fact: There's no such thing... only fat reduction and muscle-building. Do both, and you will look "toned".

Myth: "Diets"
Fact: There are no "diets"... only YOUR diet. Permanently change that and you will look the way you want.

SideSteel

Guys and gals, all these myths are actually true. YOu can try and deny them but I know they're true because this trainer at my gym can bench 400 and he said they are true.

Also I did some research on this and I have a graph here that explains things;