Dumbest comment I get told everyday about working out is...

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  • Kiwi_Made
    Kiwi_Made Posts: 101 Member
    I recoil in horror whenever I hear "detox" or "cleanse".
  • Souhaits
    Souhaits Posts: 12
    I have heard SO many of these comments/questions. I'm sure we can all relate :happy:

    One time, my ex-friend told me I was going to end up with an eating disorder? Just because I'm in a fast food restaurant and decide to not eat and wait until I get home or not eating any JUNK FOOD with you, doesn't mean I'm not going to eat anything at all.. She knew I was being healthier and exercising but I have no idea what goes through her mind sometimes :ohwell:
  • cincysweetheart
    cincysweetheart Posts: 892 Member
    "I look at all these people who go to the gym and I think 'why don't you get out and think about someone besides yourself for a change. Go mow some old lady's lawn. That'll burn calories.'" (That's from my sister) While I quite agree that lawn mowing burns calories and one doesn't need a gym to lose weight.... It completely burns me up that she judges us all as selfish, uncaring human beings because we chose to go to a gym. I get great pleasure in telling her all the people I see at the gym that I know she respects and knows are service-oriented people.
  • Linnaea27
    Linnaea27 Posts: 639 Member
    Diet related:

    "Is that allowed in your diet?" "Are you still losing weight?"

    Says the person next to me when I decide to eat something delicious (i.e. s'mores or chicken fajita nachos) that I have carefully worked into my day.

    It's not a diet, it's a lifestyle change and I refuse to cut out the things that I love (I tried that with the nachos, but it just isn't happening. They're my favorite.)

    Yes, I am still losing weight. Do you really think this ONE s'more is going to cause me to put all 42 pounds back on?!

    Goodness!

    Exactly what I was thinking...
    LIMITING not ELIMINATING...if I want a frikkin S'more, I'll have one...and like you said, it's a lifestyle CHANGE.
    Eliminating all of your favorite foods is only going to make you miserable...I'm learning how to balance the good AND the bad and it's working out GREAT!

    Dumbest 'exercise' comment..
    "That's not HIKING!"

    heard this on a few occasions...especially if I mention my 'pace', speed and/or mph

    I'm NOT walking on a treadmill, or along a paved road, or any 'flat, level surface' for that matter...
    I'm HIKING out in the desert boonies dodging creosote bushes and Joshua Trees, up and down over 'washes' and trekking over a terrain made up of large rocks and deep sand. My average 'pace' or speed is about 2.5mph but speed isn't everything..my focus is solely on intensity and duration....NOT speed.
    Call it what you want..
    I call it HIKING :tongue:

    Having wandered about in the desert backcountry some myself, I would say that what you're doing is CERTAINLY hiking! :happy:
  • Linnaea27
    Linnaea27 Posts: 639 Member
    I ate a donut recently because I felt that I deserved it after working so hard for so long. My mom came over while I was eating it and said, "you are eating donuts now? You aren't going to gain all your weight back right?" COME ON. I JUST WANT ONE @#$#@% DONUT WITHOUT FEELING GUILTY ABOUT IT.

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    :flowerforyou:

    I'm in the minority. I don't like donuts so that GIF makes me feel like this: :sick:

    BUT I went for a run today partially so I can eat fresh strawberry shortcakes for dessert. Yay. :)
  • BlueButterfly94
    BlueButterfly94 Posts: 303 Member
    Amen OP
  • Valrotha
    Valrotha Posts: 294 Member
    Tell me more about this donut....

    And a picture of said donut would be helpful in addition to the description, maybe a scratch and sniff .gif
  • SrJoben
    SrJoben Posts: 484 Member
    The only working out comment is: "Walking isn't exercise".

    Most of the comments are food related, usually from food racists. "Oh you eat bread/rice/pasta/cake/cookies?" Yeah. If I didn't there'd be quite a few dead bodies laying around TYVM. The difference now is that I don't eat the whole thing, despite how much I want to.

    Food racists is my new favorite term.
  • eslcity
    eslcity Posts: 323 Member
    Wow , donut porn.

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  • Belaklevaleva
    Belaklevaleva Posts: 8 Member
    Necro thread etc

    /12char
  • mariellefrench
    mariellefrench Posts: 9
    "don't overdo it" :grumble:

    omg...story of my frickin life
  • Bageeeta
    Bageeeta Posts: 1,259 Member
    If you lift weights your muscles will get bigger.. Some people are gullible...
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    "Oh walking? Walking is not an exercise. Everyone walks all the time" Said to me by a friend who thinks unless you run marathons or puke your insides out in the gym you aren't doing enough to lose weight.

    Tell that to my 500+ NET calorie burns per walk.
  • fatcity66
    fatcity66 Posts: 1,544 Member
    When people ask me what my secret is for getting so big and strong I want to lean in really close and whisper something crazy like, "I drink my morning urine" or "I always keep a banana in my *kitten*"

    AHAHAHAHAHA :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • fatcity66
    fatcity66 Posts: 1,544 Member
    The main thing that makes me crazy is food related, not exercise related. When we have birthday celebrations here (once a month) and we have cake, some of my coworkers will literally scrape the frosting off from my cake because I am "one a diet", according to them. I told them that I am fully aware of what I can and cannot eat and don't need them to a. police my food or b. make a big deal about it in front of all of the other employees. Seriously, I've lost the weight all by myself, I don't need anyone telling me what I can and cannot eat.

    I would shove that cake in their frigging faces. :explode:
  • Springfield1970
    Springfield1970 Posts: 1,945 Member
    I always just get comments from the other Mums about how short my shorts are or generally just comments about how fit I look or what I'm wearing, or just drawing attention constantly to my body.

    To be honest after a lifetime of no comments,(17 years in a relationship) I'm getting sick of it. I can tell it's not always from a healthy place, and I feel like I'm being judged. I'm also sick of their husbands flirting with me now that I'm single. It's very weird. Oh well, suppose I shouldn't complain, but it's amazing how much physical appearance can affect us.
  • Springfield1970
    Springfield1970 Posts: 1,945 Member
    Oh yes and when someone asks you how you got in shape and you tell them that you eat loads of carbs. I hate when the glazed over look comes, because they just can't accept that low carb isn't always the answer. You just know they're going, oh well, she's different, born with a fast metabolism.

    I mention how many years I low carbed for, and how unfit I was but they just think I'm making it up.
  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    I'm at the top range of what's considered overweight for my height, 30 lbs to go before I'm "normal," and more than one person has already asked me if I was at my goal weight. LOL no.


    OH and the people that ask me, "Should you be eating that on your diet?" LOL yes.


    Actually, that's why I don't really tell people I'm trying to lose weight, because I didn't want everyone and their grandma to feel like they have the right to give me unsolicited advice.

    OHOHOH and the dismissive, almost disbelieving look people give me when I tell them I lost 50 lbs eating what I wanted, just counting calories, while they're talking about how this or that food is "bad." Every. Single. Time.
  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    The main thing that makes me crazy is food related, not exercise related. When we have birthday celebrations here (once a month) and we have cake, some of my coworkers will literally scrape the frosting off from my cake because I am "one a diet", according to them. I told them that I am fully aware of what I can and cannot eat and don't need them to a. police my food or b. make a big deal about it in front of all of the other employees. Seriously, I've lost the weight all by myself, I don't need anyone telling me what I can and cannot eat.

    I would shove that cake in their frigging faces. :explode:

    +1 Dude, if anybody touched my cake, I would freakin' cut them! I love cake!
  • fatcity66
    fatcity66 Posts: 1,544 Member
    I agree I don't need a woman with muscles, all natural for me please!

    What exactly is "unnatural" about muscles?
    If women didn't have muscles, we'd just be gelatinous masses with bones floating in them.
  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    Necro thread etc

    /12char

    4 days does not a necro thread make.
  • HereWeGoAgain7
    HereWeGoAgain7 Posts: 163 Member
    Maybe not everyday, but fairly frequently:

    "your gym partner(s) are all men? so do you want to look like a man or do they want to look like a woman?"

    Really? its neither. It's just that right now our goals are running parallel to each other as far as lifting and increasing cardio endurance goes and it helps to have someone else there embracing the suck with you.
  • ilfaith
    ilfaith Posts: 16,769 Member
    From another thread, just this morning..."With a body like that, I am wondering why she's on MFP?"

    Sigh.
  • MelsAuntie
    MelsAuntie Posts: 2,833 Member
    Not everyday ( most days I don't leave the farm so I don't see that many people) but I get comments like " Take it easy, you're working too hard, I worry about you". Huh? If I don't, the horses and ducks don't get fed, stalls and duckhouse don't get cleaned, feed and hay doesn't get hauled, garden doesn't get weeded, etc. It's not as though I have a choice.
  • MelsAuntie
    MelsAuntie Posts: 2,833 Member
    The main thing that makes me crazy is food related, not exercise related. When we have birthday celebrations here (once a month) and we have cake, some of my coworkers will literally scrape the frosting off from my cake because I am "one a diet", according to them. I told them that I am fully aware of what I can and cannot eat and don't need them to a. police my food or b. make a big deal about it in front of all of the other employees. Seriously, I've lost the weight all by myself, I don't need anyone telling me what I can and cannot eat.

    I would shove that cake in their frigging faces. :explode:



    THIS^^^ All day long.
  • MelsAuntie
    MelsAuntie Posts: 2,833 Member
    I agree I don't need a woman with muscles, all natural for me please!
    [/quote





    Muscles are unnatural?]
  • missdibs1
    missdibs1 Posts: 1,092 Member
    Not really about working out but more diet related:

    "You gotta ask yourself about all those carbs" ~ my (overweight) dad as I reached for a hot dog bun on the Fourth.

    "Clearly, I'm doing it wrong, Dad"

    HAHA I had someone over weight take the bread basket away from me and tell me I had an eating disorder (as in I was eating the bread)
  • Andiebeanluvsu
    Andiebeanluvsu Posts: 105 Member
    My personal favorite:

    "Are you sure this is a sustainable way to lose weight? Do you really think you'll be able to keep up tracking calories and exercising FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE?"


    Um, yep. That's why it's called a lifestyle change.

    Also

    "You can't have (fill in anything "non-diet-y"), aren't you on a diet?!"
  • kristanvdub
    kristanvdub Posts: 50 Member
    My favorite is "If I was as skinny as you I'd eat anything I wanted."

    I'm so skinny because I don't eat whatever I want lol

    Another good one "You're so skinny what happens if you get sick?"

    I rarely get sick because I take care of myself...grrr
  • Tiki1978
    Tiki1978 Posts: 364
    "Run? was someone chasing you? Oh, why would you want to do that?"

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