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    Can we start a mythbusting thread?

    Posts: 15
    edited January 5 in Health and Weight Loss
    I'll start, and it'll work as an example;


    I've heard that eating carbs (or just eating at all) after 6pm should be avoided because when you're sleeping it's harder to break it down, but I've also heard that this isn't true. If it is true then it's a good tip I guess.

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      Myth: Drinking a lot of water flushes fat out.


      Dammit!!! :grumble:
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      That must be true, I've been flushing water down the toilet for years and the damm thing has not got any smaller :laugh: :tongue:
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      \m/ (<
      Registered trademark of Jackpotclown)
    • Posts: 18,771 Member
      I'll start, and it'll work as an example;


      I've heard that eating carbs (or just eating at all) after 6pm should be avoided because when you're sleeping it's harder to break it down, but I've also heard that this isn't true. If it is true then it's a good tip I guess.

      Yes, that is a myth. You can eat at any time.

      Myth: You can only absorb 25-30g of protein in a sitting.
      Truth: Only a moron would believe this.
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      Myth: You cant trust men

      Fact: I am a gynecologist
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      That ones just funny. If it were true I would be drinking my butt off....literally!
      Myth: Drinking a lot of water flushes fat out.
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      Myth: You'll gain 5 pounds of fat after having a single cheat day

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    • Posts: 296 Member
      Thank you for this one!!! I despise breakfast time. I am never hungry before lunch and get annoyed with people telling me I should be eating breakfast. :explode:
      Myth: Breakfast jump-starts your metabolism.
      Fact: It doesn't.



      \m/ (<
      Registered trademark of Jackpotclown)
    • Posts: 1,472 Member
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      Fact: I am a gynecologist


      LOL!!

      :laugh:
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      Tsk!
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      Myth: Baby fat

      Fact: You're 32 d*mnit

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    • Posts: 11,068 Member
      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.
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    • Posts: 11,068 Member
      Myth: Baby fat

      Fact: You're 32 d*mnit

      ^ ROFL!
    • Posts: 1,472 Member
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      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*
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