What is the weirdest weight loss advice you've ever had?
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I attended two weeks of slimming world with friends and we were told that we could eat unlimited pasta and should eat grapefruit every day. Unsurprisingly, most of the group was gaining weight instead of losing, which they were told was because they were eating the wrong type of brown bread. :huh:
I ate all the fruit, veg , potatos, pasta on slimming world and lost 3stone!! Just got bored if it in the end!
I lost almost 2st on slimming world a while back but I got annoyed that I could only eat certain brands of food off a list that were "Syn Free" when the exact same thing from a different supermarket was the same calories but was not "sun free" because it wasn't on the list.
We also got encouraged to eat as much and as often as we liked of the foods on another list - in the end my weight loss hit a standstill because I was gorging on homemade chips all day long with no portion control! I also got sick of eating dried packet food because it was Syn free.... MEH0 -
This isn't something I heard, but in my younger days when I wanted to drop 10-15 lbs, I'd switch to hard liquor and not drink beer. LOL! Work out? Uuhhhh, there's booze to consume and hijinks to be made!0
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The weirdest weight loss advice I get is every morning here on MFP when the spam hits. That **** is wack.
You mean I can't black magic my fat away along with my ex boyfriend and my money troubles?0 -
8. "You should take diuretics, I heard it helps jump start weight loss!" Because who doesn't want to shart themselves every time they blink?!
omg i can't stop laughing!!!!! lmao
i have tons myself.... ugh!
"do you know how many calories are in that americano?!"
you're eating that whole apple?!
yeah...
well, that's probably why you're fat
"you should eat avacado mashed with coconut oil with every meal."
"the trick is eat under 800 calories a day! it keeps you surprisingly full and energetic!"0 -
I've been told before to take plenty of laxatives to lose weight. I suppose technically it works short term :laugh:0
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I've been told before to take plenty of laxatives to lose weight. I suppose technically it works short term :laugh:
One five-pound bag of sugar-free gummy bears, coming up!0 -
Ugh. People who try and tell me that going gluten-free or vegan will magically make me lose weight.0
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I have actually been told by a dietitian, a physician, and a nurse practitioner that eating carbs within a certain amount of time before bed can impact fat burning. Their reasoning is that carbs are burnt off first for energy before fat. So if you do your workouts in the mornings, not eating carbs for dinner helps to burn more fat in that morning workout since your body has no carbs to burn off for energy. I read an article recently about research that supports this idea but I don't remember where. I'll look for it.
You're probably thinking of short-term studies, where they didn't measure actual body fat lost, they measured markers (signs) of fat burning during a very short period. Most long-term studies paint a different picture. This 6 month study found that carbs at night actually increased fat loss:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21475137
Exercising in a fasted state only burns more fat if the exercise is low intensity (easy) according to research. If the exercise is vigorous (like it usually is) your energy output will probably be lower, and you're more likely to burn muscle as fuel, through the process of gluconeogenesis (your doctor can confirm this). It's only a small amount of muscle burned, but it's still not a favorable state to be in.
A calorie deficit trumps everything else when it comes to long-term fat loss.0 -
I've been told before to take plenty of laxatives to lose weight. I suppose technically it works short term :laugh:
One five-pound bag of sugar-free gummy bears, coming up!
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30 bananas a day diet. So stupid.
I just read a blog about an "Egg Fast Diet" where you eat only eggs, cheese and butter for five days! I like eggs, cheese and butter but if that's all I get to eat for five days I may kill someone! Either with my aggressive attitude or some fatal gas! :noway:
Butter on top of cheese eggs doesn't sound that tasty. In fact, it might make me retch...0 -
Peanut butter burns your fat very quickly.... Oh.....,..
I wish this one was true!!!!0 -
Eating all the gummie bears that I want, because they are fat free.
No. Even. Kidding.
This lady also did the cabbage soup and grafefruit diets.
Maybe it would work if they were also sugar free. :sick:
If you go by some of the reviews on sugar-free gummie bears, I'm pretty sure they're essentially laxatives.
Yes they are. My son hates ice cream (Pretty sure he might be the only 5 year old on earth who hates ice cream.) so when we go to get ice cream, he gets a bag of candy. When he was 3 he ate 1/2 bag of sugar-free gummy bears. I didn't realize they were sugar free until about 1.5 hours later when I hear my husband screaming from the basement "OH MY GOD! HELP!" I go running down there because I think someone got hurt and there is poop everywhere. Poop on the walls, on the furniture, carpet. My poor child is frozen like a deer in headlights because he doesn't know what is happening. The weird thing is he was wearing a pull up and pants. The poop shot out with such force that it volcano erupted from his clothing. I swear this isn't even an exaggeration. It was insane. Then I saw the bag of gummy bears on the kitchen counter with the "sugar free" label. They went straight to the trash. lol Now we inspect his candy before he eats it. lol
I think that is the hardest I ever laughed at a post. Not cool since I'm at work
I actually formed a mental image of this which didn't help. My commander now thinks I am out of my mind.
If you really want a laugh (and ltos more of the same), read the Amazon reviews of sugar free gummy bears. Funniest. Thing. Ever.0 -
Another take on the magic meal timing thing, overheard yesterday at work: to lose weight you can't eat within 40 minutes of waking up. The person who said this said he read it Men's Health so it must be true.0
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Bumping, b/c funniest thread ever.0
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That celery is calorie-negative, because you burn more calories digesting it than it contains. I've heard similar things about chewing ice cubes too - your body burns more calories to warm the ice up, so the more ice you eat the more calories you burn.
Whilst I'm sure eating ice cubes does technically burn calories, the effect will be incredibly minimal and have no impact on weightloss at all.0 -
Another take on the magic meal timing thing, overheard yesterday at work: to lose weight you can't eat within 40 minutes of waking up. The person who said this said he read it Men's Health so it must be true.
Oh, so that's my problem, is it?
Well, I have news for Men's Health: in the battle between sleep and pretty much everything else, sleep ALWAYS wins.0 -
HCG diet.....0
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This isn't something I heard, but in my younger days when I wanted to drop 10-15 lbs, I'd switch to hard liquor and not drink beer. LOL! Work out? Uuhhhh, there's booze to consume and hijinks to be made!
Ha! Same (still do this. Oh vodka and diet coke after work instead of a pint... BECAUSE THE CALORIES THE CALORIES.
The hangover....the hangover. End up eating the calories back the next morning at Greggs anyways.)0 -
I was told by a supposedly genuine medical doctor at my HMO that men only need 1200 calories per day. So I should eat 1200 calories per day to maintain. Then if I want to lose weight, walk for 30 minutes a few times per week, which burns 400 calories.
Suffice it to say he was not my doctor any longer.0 -
I was recently told by a friend about the wish it away diet that you don't have to count calories and you magically lose weight. She is convinced that using visualization about how you want to look and feel is all you need to lose weight. Apparently she seen this on some talk show recently. I don't know. Of course she hasn't lost any weight yet, poor girl.
I try to talk sense into her but she just tells me counting calories and watching the portion sizes are "too hard" she will just keep at it. She finally stopped trying to press it on me so I don't really care. I put it out there my offer of help. If somebody doesn't want it, I cant do anything but sit back and shut up.0 -
Not advise given to me, but I have friends who won't eat things like avocados, peanuts/peanut butter, or other high-fat natural foods because apparently all fat is bad and fat makes you fat. Not calories.0
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Ah the power of magical thinking!
Someone once told me to write out what I wanted on a piece of paper then rip it up and throw it into the wind. If I really wanted it bad enough the "Universe" would then provide it to me.
I don't know but it just sounded like littering to me :laugh:0 -
these stupid body wraps and waist cinchers. I hate em! its everywhere and I wish they would just go away. its not the way to lose weight0
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accupunture on my ears + chicken stock and papaya juice for 2 weeks
oh and this: inyecting my body with CO2 (every inch or so, on EVERY BIT of my body) so fat would "turn to liquid".
Yeah, my mum and her obsession with my weight got me on both of those.0 -
A waiter the other night told me to not drink water for one hour before or after any meal. He said something about concentrating the digestive enzymes so your body digests the food more effectively. And, this advice was from a nutritionist he "knew while living in LA, where you know, nutrition is EVERYTHING". And also? this was Angelina Jolie's nutritionist, so you know it's good information.
I smiled as I sipped my water with lemon.
My coworker says the same thing! I always drink a water bottle during my meals so I don't overeat and that's what keeps me in line and she told me I might as well eat garbage because I'm drinking water at the same time and it will just flush everything right out of my system.
There IS an exception to this being BS. The only time this is solid advice is if you have a gastric surgery. You aren't supposed to drink anything for 30 minutes before or 30 minutes after. My fiancée's mother had the sleeve and she usually has to wait an hour or else she gets sick. But other than that? I have my 32 oz cup with me at all times! LOL0 -
I just spent like twenty minutes explaining to my coworker that since I calorie count, I log vegetables. She insists that the calories in veggies are so small it doesn't matter. I can understand where she is coming from. 30 calories of zucchinni doesn't sound like much. But when I on;y have 1700 calories in a day the veggies add up and overeating is overeating. She just doesn't get it.0
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Eating all the gummie bears that I want, because they are fat free.
No. Even. Kidding.
This lady also did the cabbage soup and grafefruit diets.
Maybe it would work if they were also sugar free. :sick:
If you go by some of the reviews on sugar-free gummie bears, I'm pretty sure they're essentially laxatives.
Yes they are. My son hates ice cream (Pretty sure he might be the only 5 year old on earth who hates ice cream.) so when we go to get ice cream, he gets a bag of candy. When he was 3 he ate 1/2 bag of sugar-free gummy bears. I didn't realize they were sugar free until about 1.5 hours later when I hear my husband screaming from the basement "OH MY GOD! HELP!" I go running down there because I think someone got hurt and there is poop everywhere. Poop on the walls, on the furniture, carpet. My poor child is frozen like a deer in headlights because he doesn't know what is happening. The weird thing is he was wearing a pull up and pants. The poop shot out with such force that it volcano erupted from his clothing. I swear this isn't even an exaggeration. It was insane. Then I saw the bag of gummy bears on the kitchen counter with the "sugar free" label. They went straight to the trash. lol Now we inspect his candy before he eats it. lol
Oh the poor little guy. I shouldn't be laughing as hard as I am when I think of his little face and how he must have looked!0 -
I can't remember which piercing I was getting, rook or conch, but I was asked several times if it was to lose weight. Apparently, it's supposed to make the weight just drop off? It hurt my ear whenever I would chew, so I suppose if someone were to abandon eating as a result, it could work? :laugh:
Whenever I visit my grandmother, who is well into her 70's, she tries to show me exercises. On my last visit, she was showing me how to do leg lifts all the while explaining that I should eat a strict diet of grapefruit. That one isn't really weird...it just makes me smile.
It's also suggested that I tan. Not only would it look better than being fat and pale,but it increases circulation. Also, the heat will cause me to sweat and burn more calories. I didn't have a response for that one.0 -
I have also heard the "don't combine fat and carbs" thing.
You can eat bread. You can eat butter. But as soon as you put the butter on the bread...BOOM. Fat.0 -
HerbaLife. ..I have friends who are" coaches" and always see them on FB talking about how good it is and all these people who have had good results. I'm just like what's going to happen when you go back to eating regularly. O, and they have a children's line smh0
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