The joys of office broscience - misguided food/nutrition advice
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All man. That's the opposite of how the technique should work. Maybe you're the exception and not the rule.0
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Did you not know that if you break a biscuit in half, all the calories fall out?!
I overheard someone at work telling her friend this. I was convinced, obviously, that she knew it was a wind up. But I genuinely think she actually believed it. She wasn't the sharpest tool in the box I might add....0 -
DaveAkeman wrote: »When I smell food I crave food.
When I crave food I eat food.
When I eat food I gain weight.
Therefore, smelling food makes me gain weight.
Q.E.D.
**Slow Clap**
Great job, Man. You're my hero
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ihearthanson wrote: »Did you not know that if you break a biscuit in half, all the calories fall out?!
I overheard someone at work telling her friend this. I was convinced, obviously, that she knew it was a wind up. But I genuinely think she actually believed it. She wasn't the sharpest tool in the box I might add....
Wow. That's one I have actually never heard before. I may use it.
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ihearthanson wrote: »Did you not know that if you break a biscuit in half, all the calories fall out?!
I overheard someone at work telling her friend this. I was convinced, obviously, that she knew it was a wind up. But I genuinely think she actually believed it. She wasn't the sharpest tool in the box I might add....
This reminds me of a few entries I've seen in the database, where an incalculable thing is changed by a user and suddenly half of the calories are gone.
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As a kid my aunt told me weight doesn't come off after you it age 30. Which completely baffled my mind when a year later my grandma (aged 62 at the time) loss 65 pounds.
I was such a gullible kid.0 -
So, ok I haven't read much in the past few years, but, as long as I can remember, eating late was bad, and carbs (except slow) such as breads, potatoes and such were bad as they turned to sugar much faster than veggies or other things that had carbs in them. So, what is the easiest book to read to find out what all the dieting things I was told, are now not true.0
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In ye old times people did not feed according their blood type, we're unhealthier now that's why general population goes heavier. I think myths are scarce nowdays.0
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I am curious about that now. I know one guy who eats a spoon of peanut butter every night because he says the slow breakdown is better than eating a sugar laden nighttime snack.0
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So, ok I haven't read much in the past few years, but, as long as I can remember, eating late was bad, and carbs (except slow) such as breads, potatoes and such were bad as they turned to sugar much faster than veggies or other things that had carbs in them. So, what is the easiest book to read to find out what all the dieting things I was told, are now not true.
When you find the answer to this, let me know. There are SO many things I have absorbed over a lifetime that these days, I don't even know WHAT to believe.
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Examine.com is a pretty good site that looks at a lot of the dieting myths and other questions and analyzes the studies. It also provides citations.0
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Work colleague, she wants to slim up before her holiday...
She doesn't want to exercise
She cant eat fat, because she doesnt want to get fat
She cant eat carbs, because apparently they are bad
She cant eat protein, because she doesn't want to get muscles
I just let her get on with it......0 -
Work colleague, she wants to slim up before her holiday...
She doesn't want to exercise
She cant eat fat, because she doesnt want to get fat
She cant eat carbs, because apparently they are bad
She cant eat protein, because she doesn't want to get muscles
I just let her get on with it......
Is she one of those Venusions (I think that's how yoo spell it). The only eat sunlight and drink air.
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My coworkers are going on one of those MLM shake diets because they need to get to 130 lbs. to be a size 6. According to them 130 always equals a size 6 regardless of height, body shape, or composition.0
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It is such a maze out there when it comes to diet and fitness info. No wonder people struggle so badly with this. Oh my freeging God..... lol
Its like half the studies out there refute and claim to disprove the other half of the studies. Grains are bad, grains are good. Fat is bad, fat is good. Carbs are bad, carbs are good. Eat lots of protein, dont eat too much protein or you'll get kidney stones. Cardio causes fat retention and catabolism, cardio is the onyl way to really burn fat. High intesity cardio is good, High intensity cardio is too hard on your body/nervous system. High reps low weight is the best, Low reps high weight is better.
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icemaiden37 wrote: »
She should have sent them to my house. A hawk got my mom's chickens so no more fresh eggsAngInCanada wrote: »A lady I know won't buy any more fresh farm eggs from us because most of them are double yolkers. Double yolkers are bad because they have double the cholesterol and so they are bad eggs. She had to throw away half of the eggs last time. Seriously....that's what she told me.
Birds eat birds?????
Birds eat ANYTHING! Our chickens would fight over frogs, snails, mice - anything that was unfortunate enough to venture into their run.
The look on my cousin's girlfriend's face was priceless when I told her that chickens are NOT vegetarians, during a conversation about buying eggs. Never mind that "cage free" is not what you think...they aren't running around in the sunshine all day. Those houses are disgusting. I love it when I can get fresh eggs from yard chickens. DH is weirded out by the deep color of the yolk...that's a varied diet!
I get the "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" from DH. I don't understand the logic of eating when I'm not hungry because of a human construct we call "time".
My grandmother insists that my diet is wrong. I don't eat in the morning (most important), I eat a big dinner (should be the smallest meal of the day), I eat plenty of fat and protein and 3 times a day (I should have 5-6 small meals and very little fat/protein). I've still lost weight doing all the wrong things! This from a woman who eats sweets all day, almost exclusively. She's at a healthy weight, though, so her diet is better than mine
I side-step with the CICO equation but she ignores that part. 0 -
Work colleague, she wants to slim up before her holiday...
She doesn't want to exercise
She cant eat fat, because she doesnt want to get fat
She cant eat carbs, because apparently they are bad
She cant eat protein, because she doesn't want to get muscles
I just let her get on with it......
If she can't eat fat, carbs, or protein, then she ought to have no problem losing weight quickly!!!0 -
DaveAkeman wrote: »Work colleague, she wants to slim up before her holiday...
She doesn't want to exercise
She cant eat fat, because she doesnt want to get fat
She cant eat carbs, because apparently they are bad
She cant eat protein, because she doesn't want to get muscles
I just let her get on with it......
If she can't eat fat, carbs, or protein, then she ought to have no problem losing weight quickly!!!
She was at a 40oz bottle of Jack for maintenance, but now that she's trying to bulk up she's tossing a couple six packs of a low carb beer in with dinner.0
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