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    Fitness Misconceptions that drive you nuts?

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    • Posts: 2,244 Member
      All calories are the same!!
    • Posts: 465 Member
      +1 to "Running is bad for your knees".


      If I had a dollar for every time someone has said that to me, I'd be a rich woman.
    • Posts: 419 Member
      "I work out for an hour everyday and eat 1200 calories a day and I don't lose weight." A friend told me that once at the gym...she was on the elliptical going at a snails pace because she "doesnt like to sweat" and on the way out got cheetos and a juice from the vending machine....
      lolol!:laugh:
    • Posts: 3,515 Member
      That if you're eating at a deficit you will lose.

      Uhmmm...

      That's not a misconception.
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      Uhmmm...

      That's not a misconception.
      Agreed. If you're at a deficit, what exactly is being stored?
    • Posts: 35,719 Member
      The one that pisses me off the most is that people say if you are big you are unhealthy with a bunch of diseases and that only diet and exercise can help you lose weight. Or that there is no way a big person can be malnurished.

      :huh:
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      Agreed. If you're at a deficit, what exactly is being stored?

      There's no place for the conservation of energy in this conversation!
    • Posts: 3,687 Member
      If a women lifts weights she will get bulky like a man. Stick to cardio girlie
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      Agreed. If you're at a deficit, what exactly is being stored?

      Laughs, I knew this would get someone. Okay I'm 135 and 5'4. I've eaten at under 1300 cal for the last 3 months. Three weeks ago I stalled out. I lift heavy 5 days a week followed by 25-30 minutes of cardio. My BMR is 1325, my TDEE is 2061. I've lost nothing in 3 weeks. I'm either a very bad logger (NOT), yes I use a digital scale and I'm anal, or I'm NOT losing at a deficit!
      Yes I would LOVE advice/explanation.
      P.S. I raised my calories 1 week ago today to 1600, still exactly the same.
    • Posts: 77 Member
      that you have to work out like crazy 3 hours a day to lose weight.

      that exercise needs to be a chore.

      That lifting heavy makes you bulky (as a girl) and instead you should sit on those stupid thigh machines doing 200 reps at the lowest weight.....
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      LOL, now I am confused. Oh yes, wait, 1 lbs fat weighs a lot more than 1 lbs of muscle.

      Funny enough, this in itself is one of my biggest peeves. The "by volume" is implied. People aren't literally saying that 1 lb or muscle weighs more than 1 lb of fat. You're just nit picking the wording.
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      Laughs, I knew this would get someone. Okay I'm 135 and 5'4. I've eaten at under 1300 cal for the last 3 months. Three weeks ago I stalled out. I lift heavy 5 days a week followed by 25-30 minutes of cardio. My BMR is 1325, my TDEE is 2061. I've lost nothing in 3 weeks. I'm either a very bad logger (NOT), yes I use a digital scale and I'm anal, or I'm NOT losing at a deficit!
      Yes I would LOVE advice/explanation.
      P.S. I raised my calories 1 week ago today to 1600.
      you stalled for 3 weeks, not much of a plateau. easily could be an issue of water retention
      you could be using inaccurate calorie entries, or maybe you have some unknown thyroid issue, or maybe you arent logging as accurately as you think
      plus your 5 lbs from your goal weight, the pounds are going to creep off
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      As a 36 DD....I wish this were so freakin' true. Otherwise I'd be running no matter how sore I get, haha.

      My mom told me this one... and I ran, and I ran, and I ran... and I lost overall weight/body fat. So I guess it was a good thing, but nope, did not have the desired effect.
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      Laughs, I knew this would get someone. Okay I'm 135 and 5'4. I've eaten at under 1300 cal for the last 3 months. Three weeks ago I stalled out. I lift heavy 5 days a week followed by 25-30 minutes of cardio. My BMR is 1325, my TDEE is 2061. I've lost nothing in 3 weeks. I'm either a very bad logger (NOT), yes I use a digital scale and I'm anal, or I'm NOT losing at a deficit!
      Yes I would LOVE advice/explanation.
      P.S. I raised my calories 1 week ago today to 1600.

      Just changed your frequency/intensity/style of exercise? Likely it's water/glycogen masking fat loss (assuming energy in/out has been accurately factored)

      TDEE from calculators is an estimate based on average populations. You may have a higher or lower TDEE. You will not however, bend the laws of physics. If you are eating less than you burn you will, over a 2-4 week period, lose weight. If not, then your numbers are off somewhere.
    • Posts: 834 Member
      "A calorie is a calorie" different food effects the body in different ways people!
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      Running will wreck your knees........:noway: :noway:

      ^This^

      And hearing 80% of the people who ask me what I do for cardio, and I say run, and they say I can't do that I have bad knees. How the hell can 80% of the people I know have bad knees?? Ok, fair enough, maybe I attract bad knee people.

      I guess this is not a misconception, but a common excuse.
    • Posts: 2,067 Member
      "A calorie is a calorie" different food effects the body in different ways people!
      i agree with this but i think in most cases people say this referring specifically to weight loss, in which case where a calorie comes from really doesnt make any difference (but where the weight comes from will be effected)
    • Posts: 75 Member
      Skinny = Healthy.

      Grrrrrr...
    • Posts: 145 Member
      Lifting weights will make women bulkly...UGH!
    • Posts: 834 Member
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      i agree with this but i think in most cases people say this referring specifically to weight loss, in which case where a calorie comes from really doesnt make any difference (but where the weight comes from will be effected)

      However eating certain foods will make losing weight easier or more difficult. If you eat a ton of sugar you'll stay on the hypoglycemic roller coaster and chances are be tied to constant snacking and cravings. Eliminate or at least greatly reduce sugar and you can free yourself from this making eating a calorie deficit much easier...and making your mood, skin, digestion, etc better :love:
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      Funny enough, this in itself is one of my biggest peeves. The "by volume" is implied. People aren't literally saying that 1 lb or muscle weighs more than 1 lb of fat. You're just nit picking the wording.

      No shi..tell them.
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      However eating certain foods will make losing weight easier or more difficult. If you eat a ton of sugar you'll stay on the hypoglycemic roller coaster and chances are be tied to constant snacking and cravings. Eliminate or at least greatly reduce sugar and you can free yourself from this making eating a calorie deficit much easier...and making your mood, skin, digestion, etc better :love:

      That still isn't the argument in the context "a calorie is a calorie" is brought up.
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      However eating certain foods will make losing weight easier or more difficult. If you eat a ton of sugar you'll stay on the hypoglycemic roller coaster and chances are be tied to constant snacking and cravings. Eliminate or at least greatly reduce sugar and you can free yourself from this making eating a calorie deficit much easier...and making your mood, skin, digestion, etc better :love:
      100 % agree:drinker:
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      That still isn't the argument in the context "a calorie is a calorie" is brought up.

      I guess it's a reflection of looking at weight loss on it's own or in the context of the entire health of the individual...I suppose I'm using the more figurative meaning of this phrase.
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      ^This^

      And hearing 80% of the people who ask me what I do for cardio, and I say run, and they say I can't do that I have bad knees. How the hell can 80% of the people I know have bad knees?? Ok, fair enough, maybe I attract bad knee people.

      I guess this is not a misconception, but a common excuse.
      I do have a bad knee, but I'm working up to running,(walking and a little jogging). I don't see how running can be much worse than walking around on my knee with a hundred extra pounds on it.
    • Posts: 357 Member
      Muscle weighs more than fat

      This... (most often said by the 'experts' here too)

      a pound of muscle on a scale, a pound of fat on the scale... HELLO a pound is a pound! It will look different but it will make the scale perfectly balanced!
    • Posts: 423 Member
      "Drink a lot of water to stop feeling hungry."

      Yeah right. LOL
    • Posts: 323 Member
      What drives me nuts?

      - People who get pedantic about "muscle weighs more than fat." Every moron on the planet knows that 1 lb = 1 lb, and you know full well that they're trying to communicate the idea that "a given volume of muscle weighs more an equivalent volume of fat." If you're nitpicking because they didn't use the word "density," then you are trying way too hard to find fault.

      Amen brother.......
    • Posts: 1,013 Member
      "Drink a lot of water to stop feeling hungry."

      Yeah right. LOL

      So I drink the water, and then I'm hungry AND I have to pee. And people wonder why I'm biting their heads off. Sheesh.

      <wanders off muttering to get yogurt and fruit from the staff kitchen>
    • Posts: 110 Member
      When people refer to normal (ie not diet) coke as "full fat" ... its fat free but high in sugar!
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