What's your biggest weight loss / fitness pet peeve?

Weight-lifting know-it-alls never cease to amaze me. There are a few on this very thread!

I do HIIT workouts using nothing more than my bodyweight and the much maligned pink five-pound dumbbells. All those 'lame' 'girly' workouts have provided great results! I have muscle definition and am sooo much stronger than I used to be. My arms look great, my thighs look 20 years younger, and my butt looks good.

But there are those who still need to tell me that those pink five-pound dumbbells are doing me "no good."

I have a coworker who told me last month that she wants to lose weight, but she loves food too much. Really? I love food, too. It's just that eating less of it is what you need. I'm going to be enjoying cake all weekend (birthday plus baby shower), but I'm going to do the work to get there as well.

NoelFigart1 wrote: »

People who don't know lane ettiquette in a lap swimming situation.

My husband hates that too.. I hate lane etiquette on side walks. Teens have to stay side to side, or friends gossiping and here I'm exhausted trying to go hours and trying not to hurt myself but they can't let me pass on the sidewalk too. I had one older guy (with another) put up his hands and block me so I had to go into the grass.

belgerian wrote: »

People who say Bananas make you fat or this makes you fat or that makes you fat. I like bananas and you wont believe the number of people who say that is what makes you fat. My response is "no a calorie surplus is what causes weight gain not a specific food." They usually stand there look confused and walk away.

A co-workers husband helped make the current food pyramid I believe -last year.. he was one if not the person in charge and that is what she told me. I chop up bananas in my blender with other berries, chia seeds and she told me the bananas are fattening. It's a spin on a food fact that's for sure.

BFDeal wrote: »

Another one is inconsistent advice. On one thread you'll see Mr. Sixpack say how hard it is to get a 6 pack and how the body holds on to vital stores and how it takes crazy discipline to achieve such an amazing result. On another thread Mr. Sixpack will slam people who can't lose weight. "It's so easy! Just eat at a deficit you moron!!!" So which is it? Also, I'm convinced some of these really lean people are flat out lying about their deficits. They will swear up and down right and left you don't have to starve yourself. Yet for the life of me, at 226lbs eating 2200 calories a day my weight loss flat out stalled. Nothing. Zero. In public all I got was, "Uhhh you're not weighing your food (I do)" or "Take a diet break." One guy had the courage to email me with what's actually probably true. He said he had to slash his calories to like 1800 a day.

A lot of the plateau threads end up being tech support threads. The people who post don't give all the necessary information for the people that try to help, or they get frustrated or offended by the questions or suggestions. The first few replies are always 'let us see your journal' for process of elimination.

If you are weighing and logging every bite you eat, accurately tracking your exercise or ignoring those calories and not seeing results then you open a whole pandora's box of what else could be the problem. It just leads to more questions, how long have you been doing the same exercise, do you have any medical issues you are aware of that you did not mention.

I've seen people stick with trying to help, and others say see a doctor first or try this first and ask again if it doesn't work. Because when you only have a few sentences to go on it's hard to know what the person's specific issue is. It could be metabolism, but usually the problem is somethings way simpler like they don't log on weekends.

My biggest one is people feeling the need to "justify" their meals. Just because I tend to eat fairly healthy, doesn't mean I'm judging you. I couldn't give a rat's *kitten* what you're eating.

People who slam people cuz they can't eat as much and still accomplish the goals the have set.

BetterKimmer wrote: »

Ok, one more. The two camps of 'eat clean/eat healthy' and 'I eat whatever I want and still lose' arguing. If you want to eat a high volume of food to achieve feeling full while losing weight, eat clean/healthier or make better food choices. Or get hit with random hunger pangs that you cannot do anything about because you ate a cheese burger, pizza or chocolate bar and to eat anymore puts you beyond your calories allowance. Or eat more to squash the hunger and don't lose weight. So now your hungry and miserable or can't lose weight and miserable. Personally, I am a full and happy girl who eats a ton... and who eats treats... just in moderation. But good for those that don't seem to eat good and lose too. I just don't know how you got past the being hungry part.

FYI - some of us don't get 'random' hunger pangs because we ate a cheeseburger, pizza, or chocolate bar. That's how

You know what gives me constant hunger pangs? Salad, unless it's got blue cheese and meat on it. Fish. Unless it's in sushi - the rice seems to help.

Oh, and in the spirit of the thread: Kind of irritating that people assume that eating cheeseburgers, pizza and chocolate bars automatically means you'll be hungry and eating 'healthy' (whatever their definition is) will keep you full.

People who claim they can't eat healthy because they live with their parents who cook for them.