What's the best and worst advice you've been given??

bigmamma3
bigmamma3 Posts: 134
edited September 26 in Health and Weight Loss
about losing weight and being healthy?

My best = don't give up
worst= my mum told me to skip meals as that's how she did it! personally I could not do that and thefact she's always aneamic (sp?) shows its not healthy.

Replies

  • nienhulm
    nienhulm Posts: 7 Member
    The best: Don't keep crappy food in your house. If its not there, you can't eat it.
    The worst: Eat a tapeworm. (seriously)

    3876897.png
    Created by MyFitnessPal.com - Free Weight Loss Tools
  • Purple_Orchid_87
    Purple_Orchid_87 Posts: 517 Member
    Best = never focus on the big loss, break it down into manageable realisitic chunks
    - from my GP who is also female and overweight hence why I feel I can talk to her about my weight problems

    Worst = solid food makes you fat - liquid food makes you thin
    - this came from a pro eating disorders website - yes, I actually considered trying to 'become' annorexic a few years back
  • bigmamma3
    bigmamma3 Posts: 134
    The best: Don't keep crappy food in your house. If its not there, you can't eat it.
    The worst: Eat a tapeworm. (seriously)
    lol yuck!! my cat had them they dont look very appertising
  • AlwaysWanderer
    AlwaysWanderer Posts: 641 Member
    Best : get active and start doing strengh training
    Worst: dont eat for a week (so I lose those remaining 7lbs)
  • Purple_Orchid_87
    Purple_Orchid_87 Posts: 517 Member
    The best: Don't keep crappy food in your house. If its not there, you can't eat it.
    The worst: Eat a tapeworm. (seriously)

    Aye, if you dont buy it you cant eat it - that works
    i too head that a tape worm would be good as it digests food for you - but i dont fancy a 19metre long worm in my gut
  • bunnysone
    bunnysone Posts: 486 Member
    Best advice? slow down and relax.

    Worst advice? slow down and relax.

    Anybody who is a friend of mine on MFP here will understand lol!
  • yoghurtand
    yoghurtand Posts: 119
    Best: Run every day.

    Worst: Keep your net calories 1000 below your maintenance. I still can't shake this one.
  • bigmamma3
    bigmamma3 Posts: 134
    Best = never focus on the big loss, break it down into manageable realisitic chunks
    - from my GP who is also female and overweight hence why I feel I can talk to her about my weight problems

    Worst = solid food makes you fat - liquid food makes you thin
    - this came from a pro eating disorders website - yes, I actually considered trying to 'become' annorexic a few years back

    been therewhen I was younger I used to wish I had an eating disorder. looking back I can't believe I thought like that
  • Natalie43
    Natalie43 Posts: 122 Member
    best - take one day at a time.
    worst - don't do anything you don't need to lose any weight!
  • CassieLEO
    CassieLEO Posts: 757 Member
    Best- "Just walk, get moving, doesnt matter what you do as long as you are active you will lose weight" (My grabdmother years ago)

    Worst- "Just go throw it up, you will feel better!" (this was from the men I work with at work!)
  • parisianskies002
    parisianskies002 Posts: 88
    Best:
    Running is the best cardio work out (and boy wasn't he right!)

    Worse:
    Go on a liquid diet
    l tried that and it made me feel SO ill.
  • debbiequack
    debbiequack Posts: 275 Member
    Best: one day at a time, etc.
    worst: okay, this is complicated, but I think most personal trainers have done me more harm than good by pushing me so much that I never wanted to go back. This is a common "worst", I think. I have lost 20 pounds over the last 2 years all by myself with no one telling me "walking three times a week won't get you results!". In fact, walking led to boxing which led to running which led to Insanity :) but it took awhile.

    Best,

    Debbie
  • bigmamma56
    bigmamma56 Posts: 41
    Best advice: Lose 10% of my body weight to reduce my chance of getting diabetes by 50%..

    Worse advice: A personal trainer once said about food.... only eat it if it comes out of the ground, grows on a tree or runs, flies or swims.....needless to say this meant no carbs and it made me feel ill.
  • MooseWizard
    MooseWizard Posts: 295 Member
    Best advice: "You should check out this website I've been using called MyFitnessPal..." (Thanks, mceleste11!)

    Worst advice: "You should try the ______ diet! It worked for me; ___ years ago, I lost ___ pounds. Though due to ________ I have gained it back."

    I have heard almost the exact same bad advice from four or five different people, and only the details were different. This unsolicited advice was offered after I've already lost considerable weight using MFP.
  • ItsCasey
    ItsCasey Posts: 4,021 Member
    Best: keep a food log (this has been the single most important factor in my weight loss ... well, other than not giving up)

    Worst: My mom told me to eat less than 1000 calories a day because that's how she lost 50 lbs in 5 months. I did it for about 3 weeks until I had so little energy I could barely stand up at the end of the day. Then I did a bunch of research (and found MFP) and realized why that was a terrible idea.
  • bunnysone
    bunnysone Posts: 486 Member
    Best advice: Lose 10% of my body weight to reduce my chance of getting diabetes by 50%..

    Worse advice: A personal trainer once said about food.... only eat it if it comes out of the ground, grows on a tree or runs, flies or swims.....needless to say this meant no carbs and it made me feel ill.

    ?? fruit and especially vegetables are very carb rich? as are grain based products?
  • joaniegray
    joaniegray Posts: 88 Member
    Best: Avoid processed food.

    Worst: Weigh in once a week (this just doesn't work for me, may be someone else's best advise but really hurts me).

    Great question, I've enjoyed reading the replies.
  • tammyquinnlmt
    tammyquinnlmt Posts: 680 Member
    My best: Track everything

    worst: the ice cream diet will make you drop 10 pounds a week! (It didn't and it was horrible)
  • mommybgood
    mommybgood Posts: 19
    Best: Track everything that goes into your mouth, you eat more than you think you do.

    Worst: Just push yourself away from the table.
  • bigmamma3
    bigmamma3 Posts: 134
    My best: Track everything

    worst: the ice cream diet will make you drop 10 pounds a week! (It didn't and it was horrible)
    ice cream diet sounds like heaven id be the size of a cow though!!
  • casey12105
    casey12105 Posts: 293
    Best: Never force yourself to eat something you absolutely hate.

    Worst: If you throw up before 20 mins after you eat you don't get any of the calories.
  • rosey808
    rosey808 Posts: 92 Member
    Best: Don't turn to food for comfort, food is fuel. Turn to your family and friends for comfort

    Worst: Drink X shake every day, when you feel faint, have a small cube of cheese.
  • jend114
    jend114 Posts: 1,058 Member
    Best: Don't turn to food for comfort, food is fuel. Turn to your family and friends for comfort

    great one!
  • liagarden
    liagarden Posts: 54
    To the tapeworm people: tapeworms can kill you! They can migrate into your muscle, or brain, and live there for years. Pieces break off. They eat all your nutrition. Literally suck the life right out of you.
    They are rare in this country. Why would you even consider living with a deathly parasite, like some poverty-stricken third-world person? We all just eat too much and are not active enough. That's why we're fat. (well, some people really do have thyroid problems--I know I do. I have enlarged thyroid, due to having X-ray therapy to burn out excess tissue after tonsilectomy when I was 6 years old. That's what they did in the '50s! Thought X-rays were the cure-all for everything!) So, I have hypothyroidism, constant fatigue, weight gain and a slew of other symptoms. At least I've only gained 39 lbs in the last 28 years, but I used to be so skinny. At least I don't have thyroid cancer (yet) from that--many who had the x-ray therapy wind up with thyroid cancer. Trying to get back down to about 126, with the help of this site.
  • liagarden
    liagarden Posts: 54
    Not true. Vegetables are your best food source.

    "Eat food; not too much. Mostly plants." Michael Pollan

    Just look them up And it's the only way to get the direct benefits of photosynthesis, the energy from the sun.

    Fruits are a different matter. Pick low-glycemic fruits. Eat smaller portions daily. A big fruit salad for breakfast will spike your insulin, just like a candy bar! For quick weight loss, just in the beginning, cut way down on fruit and all processed carbs.

    I was (an almost total) vegetarian for 7 years. Never got sick, stayed skinny (then I had a kid--LOL) My, how your life changes!!
  • shreddingit
    shreddingit Posts: 1,133 Member
    worst!= dont drink milk :noway: i buy organic
    BEST!= eat oatmeal for breakfast :love:
  • liagarden
    liagarden Posts: 54
    Vegetables and whole grains (like millet, amaranth, bulgar wheat, which is what tabouli is made with, brown rice, amaranth, & quinoa) have good carbohydrates. In fact, the grains have lots of them. i think millet has the highest. Deilcious the way i prepare it: sautee chopped onion in a little olive oil, add the grain before that browns too much, let it cook a little, then add water or chicken broth, cover and cook until done--about 20 min. Serve with some fresh steamed spinach, with ground sesame seeds on it, or any other veggie. You'll have lots of carbs--and some protein. I used to put frozen peas & carrots, too. Lots more carbs there.
  • bzmommy34
    bzmommy34 Posts: 229 Member
    bump
  • Sidesteal
    Sidesteal Posts: 5,510 Member
    Any diet that suggests the elimination of any food or entire food group without consideration of the individual's intolerances or medical conditions is probably the stupidest thing I've ever heard. For example, the assertion that white = bad and brown = good without considering the context of the entire diet.
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    Best: if you screw up, acknowledge it and move on
    Worst: never eat "X"
This discussion has been closed.

Categories