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

eat more....ur body is in starvation mode....ur not starving if your a fat *kitten*

^ That exactly!

:laugh: I have over 6 million calories stored up, and people are telling me about "starvation mode".

Most of the recipes on the Hungry Girl website. She just combines all the fat free and sugar free items she could find at the grocery store.

HAA it's kinda true...

One of my best friends at work does this thing every few months where he skips breakfast, eats a smartones/lean cuisine for lunch, a bag of salad mix for dinner (literally just the lettuce and carrots and onion. no dressing or protein or anything added), and nothing after 7 p.m. He does this for a couple weeks, loses 15-20 lbs, goes to whatever event he was losing the weight for, and gains it all back within a month. I've given up trying to tell him otherwise and just laugh at him.

BF announced on saturday that he's going to start taking hydroxycut because his boss is taking it and is losing "so much weight!"
Me: 'Oh yeah? What is he eating?'
Bf: 'Whatever he wants'
Me: 'How much of it?'
Bf: 'I don't know'
Me: 'Is he working out?'
Bf: 'Yeah he's in the gym all the time.'

smh

I look back on this and find it kind of hilarious, even though I am still somehow bitter 35-ish years after the fact...

My parents have food issues that they handed down to me and my sisters. They used to say this ALL THE TIME: "If it tastes good, it's bad for you. If it tastes bad, it's good for you."

I _hated_ McDonald's vanilla milkshakes and loved the chocolate ones. Trying to be "healthy" I would always order the vanilla milkshakes because they tasted bad and therefore had to be good for me.

Sooo many milkshakes I could have actually enjoyed, and instead, I choked down the icky ones.

To eat only 800 calories a day to lose weight. Yes, it worked I lost 30 pounds in four months. Then found MFP and realized I was supposed to be eating a minimum of 1200 to lose weight healthily it took me a long time to get my metabolism back on track.

"My sister is doing Metabolife and it's working so well. It's ALL NATURAL! She's become a sales rep..."

Yeah, Um. Un-inspected random "traditional chinese herbs," ephedra -- and enough illegal speed out of illicit overseas factories to make your heart explode? SIgn me the heck up.

Ephedra is awesome stuff! Don't dis the herbal stimulants!

"don't worry about calories if you're eating healthy"

while I partly agree with this, I have to say, I had been eating a totally clean high protein diet loaded with veggies, healthy fats and whole grains, however before I started paying attention to calories and portion control I still continued to gain weight. Everything in moderation...

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Eat the Canadian food guide's recommendations to be healthy and the correct weight.
They teach this to kids in school - mandatory...

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/food-guide-aliment/order-commander/eating_well_bien_manger-eng.php

Weird so many people have diabetes...

I think the WORST diet and Nutrition advice is assuming that since something works for you that it will work for everyone.

^^ So this!
ETA: Don't eat after 7 (or 9) pm. Yet no one would ever tell me what that means to an uber-night owl like myself who often doesn't go to bed till 3 am or later. I'd be starving most of the evening if I followed that advice.

My in-laws did Atkins once years ago and were pissed that hub and I refused to eat the bacon they'd just fried in a ton of butter. After all, the way they'd interpreted the diet, it was "healthy." :noway: Hub's dad had already had multiple bypasses by that point too. :grumble:

I've been told by doctors that "walking isn't good enough" for exercise. Considering at my heaviest I wasn't doing any form of exercise and spent the majority of my day sitting, I figured that getting off my *kitten* and moving in any form was better than the idea of doing "it has to be cardio," so I never did anything. (The idea of aerobics terrified me and there was no way I could run for more than a minute w/o getting winded.) Plus, I have a dear friend who's lost 150 lbs so far simply by walking an hour a day and reducing her calories. So this past winter, I disregarded the doctor and started walking for an hour or two in my house at a fast pace. I dropped a pant's size and kept it off. NOW I do cardio (low-impact and general aerobics) for an hour a day, 5 days a week, but I had to work up to it both mentally and physically.

Sorry this got long.

'eat it, I'm pretty sure it's gluten free'

All of the lies!

Lots of "magic hour" advice, like no fruit past 2 pm or no food at all after 6 pm.

"Shakes and smoothies and juicing all are much better for you than actual food"

"Never eat breakfast, lunch, dinner...just eat MINI MEALS!" I actually think one of my healthy-eating strengths my entire life has been 3 relatively equal meals a day - no skipped meals and no snacks. While 6-8 mini meals might work for some people, I'd find it difficult to balance and I believe I am fine with my spaced out breakfast, lunch and dinner!

"It's perfectly healthy to eat only bacon, cheese, and eggs long-term as your diet" (same person complained about her halitosis and other new health problems since beginning said diet)

"Eat anything you want while you're breastfeeding, McDonald's, ice cream, etc...it helps your breast milk. So don't worry about healthy food until you have weaned the baby"

Slimfast...My doctor put me on this when I was 11 years old just because it worked for him :noway: I drank it for three days and I was violently ill. I remember my dad taking me to the hospital because I wouldn't stop vomiting. They couldn't believe that a doctor had put me on that crap at that age! This was back in 1991 when Slimfast was all the hype.

Anything revolving around having to eat at certain times like not eating past 7 or that breakfast is a necessity. I have done fairly well breaking these rules

I tried Slimfast 3-4 times in my life (as an older teen and adult though...I can't believe your doc recommended that to an 11 year old, wtf). It made me feel very nauseated and crave chicken. No idea why LOL

While I agree on the whole with the paleo-fad, isn't that kinda what most of us are doing?

*My* Meal Plan for Tomorrow:
Breakfast: Oatmeal & berries, coffee
Snack: Fresh fruit
Lunch: Salad with chicken
Dinner: Free-range pork chop, asparagus & mushrooms
Snack: fruit & greek yogurt


Sample menu from paleo-site:

Breakfast: Omega-3 or free ranging eggs scrambled in olive oil with chopped parsley. Grapefruit, or any fresh fruit in season, herbal tea
Snack: Sliced lean beef, fresh apricots or seasonal fruit
Lunch: Caesar salad with chicken (olive oil and lemon dressing), herbal tea
Snack: Apple slices, raw walnuts
Dinner: Tomato and avocado slices; grilled skinless turkey breast; steamed broccoli, carrots, and artichoke; bowl of fresh blueberries, raisins, and almonds;

Nope, I eat plenty of grains, beans, legumes and dairy. No need to cut out anything unless you're intolerant.

Fat Flush diet. It was a bogus VLC "detox" diet. You were allowed to eat as many veggies as you wanted, only 2 fruits a day in smoothie form with a vegan protein powder, no cheese/milk, couldn't have certain spices or condiments, the only other snack you could eat was omega-3 eggs, had to include flax oil or seeds with each meal, no sugar, only organic products whenever possible, only 1 meal a day with 1 lean protein, had to drink "cranwater" all day (100% cranberry juice mixed in water) the only exercise you could engage in was walking and "bouncing" for 15 minutes (yep...shaking yourself encourages your lymph nodes to clean themselves or some ****)...I can go on. I lasted less than a day. It was terrible.

Special K diet.

Slim Fast diet.

Etc...

Everyone else hit 'em on the head.