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  • Posts: 1,236 Member
    arditarose wrote: »
    My boss says that during the week of the full moon, or right before it-you can eat all you want and not gain weight. I just smile and nod.

    Ha Ha Ha!!! Effects of Full Moon!
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    seric2000 wrote: »
    I have a coworker who refuses to eat meat. I told her it was nice that she was a vegetarian.
    She said "no, I'm not a vegetarian. I just don't eat anything with muscles because I read that muscle weighs so much more than fat and I don't want to ingest all that heavy meat muscle". (shovels in the macaroni and cheese)
    Go ahead...be flabbergasted.

    :o
  • Posts: 508 Member
    There is a bakery here in town that has a giant wand hanging from their ceiling with a sign that says "Wave your pastry under the wand and it will magically remove the calories." This makes about as much sense as many of the supposed "scientific" thoughts that are spouted about food/nutrition/weight loss. I find as much on these forums as I do anywhere else.
  • Posts: 1,535 Member
    Seriously this thread should be in the Fun & Games cuz its SO HILARIOUS! What planet are these people from lol.
    And yea....I had a friend who was eating picky stuff for "blood type" and the diet failed her. She was a little more than shocked to see I weighed less than her eating... well...just eating!

    I am so IN for astrology dieting why hasn't Dr. Oz come up with this yet?
  • Posts: 237 Member
    giusa wrote: »
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    :o

    ^ flabbergasm
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    I just always get annoyed when I tell people I'm just eating a deficit and try to introduce them to MFP, and they say "yeah you're on a diet". NO I'M NOT its not a diet, it's just eating less! I don't see what's confusing about it lol. why does everything health-related have to be called a "diet".
  • Posts: 8,029 Member
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    Oh, how had I never looked into the blood type diet. It's like the next best thing to a zodiac diet (up for this, btw).
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    So hilarious.

    I'm a type B too. Yeah... goat... I'll get right on that.

  • Posts: 3,705 Member
    arditarose wrote: »
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    Wow. That's special.

    Apparently eating only rice, pasta, bread and cheese is not very healthy. Oh and she also hated whole wheat stuff and brown rice.
  • Posts: 8,029 Member
    seric2000 wrote: »
    I have a coworker who refuses to eat meat. I told her it was nice that she was a vegetarian.
    She said "no, I'm not a vegetarian. I just don't eat anything with muscles because I read that muscle weighs so much more than fat and I don't want to ingest all that heavy meat muscle". (shovels in the macaroni and cheese)
    Go ahead...be flabbergasted.

    This wins.

    This also wins every "muscle weighs more than fat" thread ever.

  • Posts: 15,267 Member
    currently at my office there are people who don't eat carbs, who think that starvation mode is a myth, think it's hard for me to lose weight because I lift heavy, who have had surgical interventions...

    All the while any celebration has cake, the other part of the office gets chips, treats, cotton candy and the list goes on...and on and on...

    I work in a ticking time bomb....

    I just sit in my office and try not to interact too much....
  • Posts: 15,573 Member
    mamapeach910 wrote: »
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    This wins.

    This also wins every "muscle weighs more than fat" thread ever.

    Agree. lol.
  • Posts: 1,771 Member
    I'm in for the zodiac diet because I'm a Gemini and I think it will mean two lunches for me
  • Posts: 27,732 Member
    Our office secretary comes into my office every day to get a piece of chocolate. The chocolate is to reward herself for resisting a diet coke. Not that there's anything wrong with chocolate (I regularly eat it myself), but it seems odd to me to reward oneself for avoiding a calorie free option by having something with calories.

    I just shrug and sip my diet coke.
  • Posts: 1,771 Member
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics wrote: »
    Our office secretary comes into my office every day to get a piece of chocolate. The chocolate is to reward herself for resisting a diet coke. Not that there's anything wrong with chocolate (I regularly eat it myself), but it seems odd to me to reward oneself for avoiding a calorie free option by having something with calories.

    I just shrug and sip my diet coke.

    Is that why she's avoiding diet coke, because of her diet? I cut it out because it bloats me so much (way worse than normal people IMO).
  • Posts: 27,732 Member
    barbecuesauce wrote: »
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    Is that why she's avoiding diet coke, because of her diet? I cut it out because it bloats me so much (way worse than normal people IMO).

    Yes, because of her diet.
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    ILiftHeavyAcrylics wrote: »
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    Yes, because of her diet.

    Oh dear
  • Posts: 25,763 Member
    seric2000 wrote: »
    I have a coworker who refuses to eat meat. I told her it was nice that she was a vegetarian.
    She said "no, I'm not a vegetarian. I just don't eat anything with muscles because I read that muscle weighs so much more than fat and I don't want to ingest all that heavy meat muscle". (shovels in the macaroni and cheese)
    Go ahead...be flabbergasted.

    No. Way.
  • Posts: 5,789 Member
    edited April 2015
    The facebook friend of mine who sells plexus and does his own testimonials. Pretty much every one of his posts is the derp.

    Especially the ones about "how much better I feel now that I have premium nutrition in my diet", I'm like, you gave us the plexus shakes and cleanses.....I didn't know.....good for you.....good for you.
  • Posts: 355 Member
    seric2000 wrote: »
    I have a coworker who refuses to eat meat. I told her it was nice that she was a vegetarian.
    She said "no, I'm not a vegetarian. I just don't eat anything with muscles because I read that muscle weighs so much more than fat and I don't want to ingest all that heavy meat muscle". (shovels in the macaroni and cheese)
    Go ahead...be flabbergasted.

    I am so hoping this is not real. I just, I can't even...

  • Posts: 4,590 Member
    Oh jeeze, what's plexus? Another shady-azz ripoff MLM? IDK, we have people here at this place who always claim to be on some diet or other but weigh at least twice what would be healthy, and I mean literally. There's always someone really large debating the fine points of a celebrity diet with another really large person in the break room... I don't say anything. ever. I just drink my coffee and keep my snark inside my head.
  • Posts: 27,732 Member
    gothchiq wrote: »
    Oh jeeze, what's plexus? Another shady-azz ripoff MLM? IDK, we have people here at this place who always claim to be on some diet or other but weigh at least twice what would be healthy, and I mean literally. There's always someone really large debating the fine points of a celebrity diet with another really large person in the break room... I don't say anything. ever. I just drink my coffee and keep my snark inside my head.

    Yep that about covers it. It's super spammy.

    I have a Facebook friend who sells it and when she first started posting about it I messaged her to let her know that her account had been hacked. Whoops.
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    KnM0107 wrote: »
    I am so hoping this is not real. I just, I can't even...

    She's is real...real insane. We work in a hospital, by the way.
  • Posts: 2,132 Member
    seric2000 wrote: »
    I have a coworker who refuses to eat meat. I told her it was nice that she was a vegetarian.
    She said "no, I'm not a vegetarian. I just don't eat anything with muscles because I read that muscle weighs so much more than fat and I don't want to ingest all that heavy meat muscle". (shovels in the macaroni and cheese)
    Go ahead...be flabbergasted.

    This is a gem!!!!!
  • Posts: 8,578 Member
    JPW1990 wrote: »
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    I think this is my favorite

    Mine, too! That's all kinds of speshul!

  • Posts: 6,212 Member
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics wrote: »
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    Yep that about covers it. It's super spammy.

    I have a Facebook friend who sells it and when she first started posting about it I messaged her to let her know that her account had been hacked. Whoops.

    I've done that before too...but intentionally :)
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    smelius22 wrote: »
    I just always get annoyed when I tell people I'm just eating a deficit and try to introduce them to MFP, and they say "yeah you're on a diet". NO I'M NOT its not a diet, it's just eating less! I don't see what's confusing about it lol. why does everything health-related have to be called a "diet".

    Maybe if you're getting the question a lot, rather than say you're eating less you could say that you've quit overeating.
  • Posts: 27,732 Member
    asflatasapancake wrote: »
    Can someone explain to me the weird "don't eat past 9pm" thing? I've heard that a few times and I'm feeling search engine lazy right now.

    Since you're not moving your metabolism shuts down and you store everything as fat.

    Or something.
  • Posts: 15,573 Member
    asflatasapancake wrote: »
    Can someone explain to me the weird "don't eat past 9pm" thing? I've heard that a few times and I'm feeling search engine lazy right now.

    I had a pretty drunken/intense discussion with my friend about this, and she went home and emailed me these studies at like 3 am. I didn't get too into them, but you might find something fun in there.

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25707276
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25711020
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25665169
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25707277
  • Posts: 27,732 Member
    ceoverturf wrote: »
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    I've done that before too...but intentionally :)

    :laugh:

    No it really was an accident.
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