Fitness myths you used to believe

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  • F00LofaT00K
    F00LofaT00K Posts: 688 Member
    If you follow a low carb diet, you can eat as much food as you want and get skinny. OR that certain foods are unhealthy and make you fat.
  • rayonrainbows
    rayonrainbows Posts: 423 Member
    detox with only fruits & veggies for a week before you start your diet to shrink your stomach -> decrease hunger
    (then i wondered why i almost never lasted until the "actual" "diet")
  • jennegan1
    jennegan1 Posts: 677 Member
    Got nothing to add. Heard of everything besides for the detoxing/juicing/cleanse diets til I joined this sight which I knew they are bull...my fav though you must eat a certain way to lose weight aka diet....I tried giving up some foods but decided it wasnt worth it..Also must eat breakfast in order to lose weight also
  • twhaley1990
    twhaley1990 Posts: 140 Member
    Toning.
  • tropicaltiger
    tropicaltiger Posts: 254
    my favorirites is-don't eat after 6pm my body will store the fat lol
  • jthomchin728
    jthomchin728 Posts: 5
    1,000,000 sit-ups a day will give you a six-pack.
    I didn't eat breakfast or lunch today, so I can pig out at dinner and lose weight!
    Lifting heavy will make you bulky/muscular/make you look like a man (I had a friend tell me that again as recently as this summer!).
    You can't eat ___ if you want to lose weight!
    You HAVE to eat ___ if you want to lose weight!

    "Negative Calorie foods"
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,990 Member
    Muscle weighs more than fat.

    A pound of muscle weighs the same as a pound of fat!
    Problem here is that muscle does weigh more than fat if equal volume is being measure. When comparing materials for density, one doesn't compare pound vs pound. It's volume vs volume.

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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,990 Member
    When I started in fitness I believed these due to everyone around me echoing them:

    Breaking up your meals to several increases your metabolism.
    Eating clean is the only way to get "ripped".
    Diet soda rots your insides.
    Cardio burns fat (even without calorie deficit).
    Lifting weights made one inflexible and slow.
    Eating after 7pm stopped one from losing weight

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    IDEA Fitness member
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  • jthomchin728
    jthomchin728 Posts: 5
    Toning.

    This.
  • Therealobi1
    Therealobi1 Posts: 3,262 Member
    stop eating after 7pm
    cut out bread and pasta
    heavy weights make woman bulky
    exercise as much as u like so u don't have to worry about diet
  • alisonlynn1976
    alisonlynn1976 Posts: 929 Member
    That there is large individual variation in metabolism. Barring some rare medical condition, there really isn't. I wasn't fat because of slow metabolism, I was fat because I ate too much and didn't exercise enough.
  • Phrick
    Phrick Posts: 2,765 Member
    that metabolism shuts down (or at the very least, significantly slows) at night. Therefore my night eating (which I often do in my sleep, finding the evidence in the morning) was going to prevent me from losing any weight at all because it was ALL storing as fat. So glad I got over that one.
  • pcastagner
    pcastagner Posts: 1,606 Member
    Muscle weighs more than fat.

    A pound of muscle weighs the same as a pound of fat!

    generally in colloquial english we say "weighs more" when we mean something is more dense in scientific terms.

    correcting someone on that is a great way to show you are smart enough to learn, but too lazy to teach
  • harphy
    harphy Posts: 290 Member
    Girls who lift heavy turn into Arnie Schwarzie!:laugh:
    Lots of crunches make flat belly.
    Potato and bread are bad!
    "Diet" food helps loosing weight.
    There must be a magic pill somewhere!
    Fitness is for nerds and phonies.
    You can't work out efficiently at home.
    Ton's of proteins give you sixpack.
    "This" food is good.
    "That" food is bad.


    Dear Lord.
  • WalkingAlong
    WalkingAlong Posts: 4,926 Member
    Muscle weighs more than fat.

    A pound of muscle weighs the same as a pound of fat!

    generally in colloquial english we say "weighs more" when we mean something is more dense in scientific terms.

    correcting someone on that is a great way to show you are smart enough to learn, but too lazy to teach

    It doesn't even make any sense unless the person says, 'A POUND of ___ weighs more than a POUND of ____. '

    A fitness myth I used to believe, thank to Bill Phillips of Body For Life: Work out fasted, first thing in the morning, because you burn many times more fat that way.

    Another one is that running is good for everyone.

    And that an hour of 'exercise' burns more calories than several hours of 'activity'.
  • kgeyser
    kgeyser Posts: 22,505 Member
    I remember someone telling me not to use the ab machines at the gym, because resistance training makes muscles bigger, and why would you want to make that area bigger? Ah, good times.
  • LongIsland27itl
    LongIsland27itl Posts: 365 Member
    The anabolic window
    Low carb for fat loss
    Starches are unhealthy
    Brown rice is healthier
    No carbs before bed
    No food before bed
    Eat more meals to keep metabolism up

    Lift light weight high reps when cutting
  • oedipa_maas
    oedipa_maas Posts: 577 Member
    That fat was the devil. I can't believe how many gross things I ate trying to avoid it (fat free cream cheese, I'm looking at you).
  • collingmommy
    collingmommy Posts: 456 Member
    Don't eat after six pm, only drink water, three meals a day with two peices of white bread every meal
  • bkjk997
    bkjk997 Posts: 106 Member
    Muscle weighs more than fat.

    A pound of muscle weighs the same as a pound of fat!

    I think this one is misleading. Yes, a pound is a pound is a pound. However, what is meant by it, and what people should be saying is, "Muscle takes up less space than fat, so the scale may go up, or not move, but you'll look and feel better if you have more muscle than fat."

    People are just lazy and so they say it incorrectly.
  • Dewymorning
    Dewymorning Posts: 762 Member
    Protein first thing in the morning "stokes your metabolic furnace." I still regularly include a protein shake in my breakfast, but that's partly habit and partly so I don't have to think about meeting and (hopefully) exceeding minimum protein goals.

    My ex used to try to make me eat at least 30 grams of protein with my breakfast everyday. I could never do it, seems the most protein I can manage to eat for breakfast is about 20 grams.

    Now I just eat according to what makes me feel great and be able to stay under my calorie goal for the day.
  • cakebatter07
    cakebatter07 Posts: 814 Member
    That you shouldn't eat after 7 p.m.

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