What is the WORST food and nutrition advice....

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  • beets_yum
    beets_yum Posts: 36
    Don't eat any sugar. In fruits, veggies or anything. Cut it all out. Eat as much fat as you want but avoid carbs. Sugar and carbs are the devil and you won't be able to lose weigh eating them.

    Agree that some carbs (from veggies and some fruit) are necessary for health. But how is avoiding sugar a diet myth? It's a pretty good idea for everyone. Can you lose weight without cutting out sugar? Of course! But the less sugar you eat the better your health.

    Worst diet advice: fat makes you fat.
  • tlaurenfitness
    tlaurenfitness Posts: 9
    Never eat peanut butter. :(
    I can have it in moderation, thank you very much.
  • ChocoMello
    ChocoMello Posts: 74 Member
    Try pill xyz..i mean it makes you pop pure fat at the most unfitting time but it has to work becourse it costs so much...
  • Viveyp21
    Viveyp21 Posts: 65 Member
    "Try HCG, I lost lots of weight." That person did lose a lot of weight and then promptly gained it back and more. I am fine eating my high protein, high fiber foods while working out an watching you eat 1/2 cup of cottage cheese and 1/4 of a tomato because you can only have 500 calories a day.

    omg i tried that with a co-worker! It was terrible!
  • WifeofPJ
    WifeofPJ Posts: 312
    I think the WORST diet and Nutrition advice is assuming that since something works for you that it will work for everyone. The realization is that everyone's body is different. I have to cut simple carbs and sugar in order to loose weight, because my body doesn't process carbs correctly. But other's might do just fine with carbs some people have to cut dairy to loose weight our body's process things differently and the worst diet advice are theo nes that assume because they are successful on a diet you will be too.
  • Pumpkinguy13
    Pumpkinguy13 Posts: 7 Member
    Eat six meals a day. Possibly the most destructive advice the diet industry could possibly give to busy individuals.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    "Eat breakfast."

    I'm happy with my one meal a day.

    ^

    ^ this
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    eat six small meals a day to stroke your metabolic fire = BS

    or - if you do not eat six small meals a day you will go into starvation mode = this sounds like nails scraping across black board...shivering...
  • LeenBess
    LeenBess Posts: 12
    Fruits are free at weight watchers....eat as many as you would like.
  • _noob_
    _noob_ Posts: 3,306 Member
    Wheat, dairy and legumes are foods NO ONE should eat
  • tekwriter
    tekwriter Posts: 923 Member
    My favorite is "Go ahead and eat it, everyone needs a break now and then" (to include all other variations, just one won't hurt, etc)usually from a friend or coworker that is not successful at losing weight.
  • DebbieLyn63
    DebbieLyn63 Posts: 2,654 Member


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  • d4ley1
    d4ley1 Posts: 73
    lard dippen in sugar then frozen
  • verptwerp
    verptwerp Posts: 3,659 Member
    Absolutely anything that has the word "cleanse" in it :laugh:
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member


    ?

    kind of confused...OP asked for worst nutrition advice not your opinion on them...
  • Dragon67
    Dragon67 Posts: 123 Member
    You can eat as much as you like of X_Y_Z product on this plan as it is completely FREE ... but really we advise you eat until to feel full............. !!:indifferent:
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    My husband's entire family did HCG and tried to get me to go on it with them.
  • rduhlir
    rduhlir Posts: 3,550 Member
    ~You need to cut out X/Y/Z in order to lose weight.~ Wrong...been eating it all and still losing and healthy.
    ~I eat less than 500 calories a day, every day and am healthy.~ Sorry, but if your intention is to look like Ghaundi then yes, I would say you are on track. But unless you are doing a 5/2 fast or are doing it as per doctor supervision then...EAT!
    ~"Well on Biggest Loser they did this...."~ There is a reason why someone walked off the show, that's all I am saying.
  • VenusEnvy
    VenusEnvy Posts: 92 Member
    Adkins. I admit I tried this, not to lose weight, but since my DH wanted to try it. I was disgusted and was majorly craving a bran muffin, as if it was triple chocolate cake, by day 2. I didn't stay on it since all that fat intake disgusted me.

    Second to that was, "Take Stacker 2 -- it is all natural and healthy way to drop a few pounds". I didn't try that one. I have an arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death didn't sound appealing.
  • sunsnstatheart
    sunsnstatheart Posts: 2,544 Member
    carbs make you fat and fruit has too much sugar
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    "In order to be elite, you have to eat clean"
  • rduhlir
    rduhlir Posts: 3,550 Member
    Second to that was, "Take Stacker 2 -- it is all natural and healthy way to drop a few pounds". I didn't try that one. I have an arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death didn't sound appealing.

    OMG...I tried those one time because someone recommended taking them for energy on a drive home one time. WORST thing I ever did. I couldn't even get a fork full of eggs into my mouth my hand was shaking so much.
  • _SABOTEUR_
    _SABOTEUR_ Posts: 6,833 Member
    I remember when detoxing was big business (they've relaunched it as cleansing now) and they claimed the reason you felt so aweful from doing it is because during the first few weeks your fat cells would explode and release all the E numbers your body had stored. Then the detox would help you body remove them from your system.

    I pretty sure that was the one Carol Vorderman promoted.
  • _noob_
    _noob_ Posts: 3,306 Member
    "In order to be elite, you have to eat clean"

    Yeah along those lines the smaller meals, nutrient timing, and any thinking of xyz supplement really matters have been some of my most frustrating
  • etoiles_argentees
    etoiles_argentees Posts: 2,827 Member
    eat six small meals a day to stroke your metabolic fire = BS

    or - if you do not eat six small meals a day you will go into starvation mode = this sounds like nails scraping across black board...shivering...

    I don't think it really matters, I eat little meals all day. Never been overweight
  • Gallowmere1984
    Gallowmere1984 Posts: 6,626 Member
    "In order to be elite, you have to eat clean"

    My only problem with this statement being considered the worst advice is that most of the elite do eat clean. Granted, correlation does not equal causation, but it's hard to argue with the top 5% when it comes to advice on how to be one of the top 5%. Now granted, this may only apply to strength training, because I know exactly nothing about how elite runners and the like feed themselves, nor do I honestly care.
  • xaMErica
    xaMErica Posts: 284 Member
    'Raspberry Ketones' -_-


    and 'It doesn't matter what you eat, as long as you exercise'. -_-
  • _SABOTEUR_
    _SABOTEUR_ Posts: 6,833 Member
    'Raspberry Ketones' -_-

    But I love their music. :laugh:
  • ChristinaR720
    ChristinaR720 Posts: 1,186
    Eat shirataki noodles, 40-calorie tortillas, some banana chocolate crappola in a cup, etc. because they are all great substitutes for the real thing... :sick:

    No, thank you!! I'll stick to eating real pasta, tortillas, desserts, etc. in moderation!
  • geekyjock76
    geekyjock76 Posts: 2,720 Member
    Eating like a bird and avoiding fats, carbs and proteins.

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