Most annoying "advice" anyone has given you?
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The most annoying for me is people telling me I shouldn't lift until I lose more weight, because any muscle I put on might keep the pounds from falling off. Makes me want to shake people because, even though I do have a lot of pounds to lose, my main goals right now are building strength and endurance for a job that requires both.
This usually stops when I tell them I'm a firefighter and will be training to be an EMT also, and my main priority is being able to lift people onto stretchers or drag/carry them out of buildings if need be, not to squeeze into a bikini sooner.2 -
Unsolicited advice - like a woman at the gym after I asked her a question about a particular program and she felt the need to tell me that "if I want to see results in a few months I need to do strength training and not just cardio" because she saw me that day on the treadmill. Like 1- nice thinly veiled fat shame 2- how does she know I don't alternate strength training with cardio? Or if I don't? Who the *kitten* cares, as long as it gets me to the gym! Or that one time this annoying co-worker who tried to push her religion on me also told me that I need to do an abs class to lose that belly weight...because spot training and fat shaming work.0
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i need to cleanse/detox
i need to not eat sugar/carbs/fat
I need to run as fast as i can in the beginning of my run
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- Whenever someone starts with "Doctor Oz said ..." I just start tuning out at that point.
- The when and why to drink water memes. Also the lemon or fruit water things. Water is good, fruit is good, but they don't have magical properties
- The whole alkaline thing ... having to raise the pH in your system by your foods. If the body was that sensitive to pH in what we ate, we'd never have survived to discover fire.
- I agree with the "women shouldn't lift" thing. Someone told me a woman's body was only designed to lift 35 pounds (and a man 50 or something). Say what?
As a Biologist - YES ON THE ALKALINE THING! Homeostasis is still taught in basic high school bio, right? Your stomach is acidic, so as soon as any alkaline food hits your stomach, well that's the end of that! CaCO3 will buffer your stomach acid a little bit if you're having acid reflux, but other than that any alkaline thing won't change your body chemistry. Unless you drink Drano.0 -
DelilahCat0212 wrote: »kristen6350 wrote: »In my opinion, it's much harder to lose weight than to put it on. But I love to eat. I love to eat whatever and how much I want. I love to not have to think about stopping because I might go over my allotted calories. It amazes me how some people have a hard time gaining. But it's all dependant on the person. If someone told me I had to eat 3,000 calories a day, I'd be in heaven. But if I want to stay at my current, maintenance weight I know I have to eat no more than 1,900 calories. Reality bites.
Worst advice: Hmmm, I've had lots. I think the one about having to eat very low carb to lose weight. I lost 50lbs by drinking beer, wine, eating ice cream and bread and kept it off for almost 4 years. But somehow people believe they are "special snowflakes" and science just doesn't work for them.
Worst advice for me? Moderation? I don't do low-carb because I'm a special snowflake, I do it because I'm insulin resistant. It gives me appetite control. Yeah, I lost lots of weight eating ice cream and bread when I did it that way, but I was ALWAYS HUNGRY. It never lasted. Now, I'm no longer hungry. Low carb works for us who are diabetic/prediabetic/insulin resistant.
This is why I always preface my "moderation" advice with "if you don't have a medical reason..." because I know there are many, many people who do have medical reasons for eating something or not eating something.
Back to the OP's question though, I don't really get any advice and I really haven't anywhere along my weight loss, and I'm glad. I get lots of people asking me how *I* lost weight, but nobody trying to "help" me.1 -
msharrington315 wrote: »"Don't get too skinny!" (after losing over 200 pounds)
Worst the in the world!
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I get annoyed with the gluten free evangelists. I should be thrilled because I have Celiac Disease but sorry going gluten free will not make you lose weight if you just replace regular cupcakes with gluten free ones.3
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Anything and everything related to organic/GMO/eating clean.0
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I've never had strong feelings about breakfast and whether to skip it, but since I've started counting calories here I notice I'm good and ready for at least something to eat as soon as I get up in the morning. If I were going to skip a meal, it probably would be lunch.--I dislike all advice that smacks of crazy science. I followed a link here the other day to an article about foods that were "rich in carbon." Sheesh.0
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I hate when people tell me I could stand to gain a few pounds and to put some meat on my bones (Because they like 'curvy' women) or try to tell me i should be happy with how i look and not worry about what i'm eating or exercise. I may not be way overweight or anything but I care about being healthy and getting In Shape, which is a lot more than just being skinny. I have some baby weight still ( 16 months after) and I'm actually 20-25Ibs over my pre-pregnancy weight, so yes i actually can stand to lose some weight! Especially now that the holidays are over and i definitely put on a few more pounds!0
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Running over 1 mile is simply unhealthy
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anything without thinking you have already tried. unsolicited advice is never appreciated.0
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It doesn't annoy me, but "I bet you can eat whatever you want" is the silliest assumption that people make. Since when did I want to eat anything but bread, cheese, and dessert, all day long?0
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...That disgusting 5k culture trying to ruin our children's future. XDPunkRockChris wrote: »Running over 1 mile is simply unhealthy
The only thing that's ever been annoying is the idea that to lose weight, I had to stop eating "bad foods". It go to the point to where if someone invited me somewhere, another person would answer for me, saying "No, CoocooPuffs can't eat there. She doesn't eat bad foods"
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Anything I eat after 7:00 P.M. turns straight to fat.For me that is 300 calories a day that turns straight to fat,1
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"Eat meat."
Pffffft. Because that magically solves every problem in the book.2 -
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"You don't need to lose weight, you look great."1
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The most annoying for me is people telling me I shouldn't lift until I lose more weight, because any muscle I put on might keep the pounds from falling off. Makes me want to shake people because, even though I do have a lot of pounds to lose, my main goals right now are building strength and endurance for a job that requires both.
This usually stops when I tell them I'm a firefighter and will be training to be an EMT also, and my main priority is being able to lift people onto stretchers or drag/carry them out of buildings if need be, not to squeeze into a bikini sooner.
Thank you for your dedication to doing your job well!0 -
Why do you not just eat less?0
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Any amount of claims from people who spend their days drinking alcohol and eating snack food that diet coke will make me fat. If that were true, I'd be fat by now.
Yes! You can have my diet coke (and diet mt dew) when you pry it from my cold dead hands.Anything and everything related to organic/GMO/eating clean.
Yes! Hand in hand with all the folks who think eating vegan will make them lose weight (i.e., my inlaws).
I keep the fact that I'm losing weight largely to myself. My one supportive friend I am really honest with and she knows I struggle with overeating and she never gives me stupid/crazy advice, she's just really supportive all the time, especially of my exercise (she is a PT) which I think is a good approach, because for me personally that's something I have more control over. My parents who mean well will say things like "why don't you just pack a lunch every day" and I have to explain it's all mental and not that I fail to plan. In fact I do pretty well restricting my calories during the day, and don't even feel hungry after whatever I've planned for lunch. It's dinners/desserts when I'm tired. It's not driving into fast food and going home and taking the time to make the dinner I planned instead of the easy/more delicious (to my addicted brain) option. It's not that I am just too stupid to figure out meal planning, sheesh.0 -
After publicly humiliating me about my weight in front of a room full of people someone went on to try and sell me alo vera gel insisting it will cure me1
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Just eat smaller portions.0
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I saw this and not much to contribute, but I would like to know who the "he" is.. Just a guy friend? It seems something may be there that you take to heart and that his guy friend is making you think a a lot about things that really may not matter in the scheme of things..
Most people either do not know or do not care and I see this as wanted comments. I don't think in your case it up to debate, not warranting a heated conversation that needs to move in a direction other than to say, "ok, I see your point of view".
Why try to explain anything to anyone other than yourself about why and what you are doing.
And if you gained it back, you know you can loose it, and if you don't want to gain it all, just don't eat it and make choices you know that will not end up on waistline.. This is not rocket science even to the guy friend who is fit and in shape.. he knows what is really going on, he is trying jerk some kind of chain for some reason..
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Carbs don't make you fat, take it from a fat guy @clobern80
Here are pretty pictures for those of you having a hard time with words:
Or maybe you just eat too much.
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After losing a significant amount of weight: "Don't gain it back!"
Um, thanks? I hadn't thought about that at all.
And then I gained it all back.0 -
Just eat X Y and Z
me: I cannot eat gluten
Then eat A B and C
me: I still cannot eat gluten
Then have some couscous
me: I cannot eat gluten!!!
Him: But it is couscous! (me: "facepalms)
But why do you not eat fish and chips?
Me: I cannot have gluten and I am trying to loose weight.
But it is fish?
Me: Yes, covered in a wheat batter!
Why do you not just peel off the batter and eat just the fish like I do?
Me: It will make me ill, I cannot have gluten, wheat is gluten-filled! Besides I am on a calorie controlled diet.
Just eat the chips then??
Me: I am trying to loose weight and the chips is fried with the fish so I cannot eat it.
But surely the oil fries off the gluten so you can eat it?
Me: "facepalms"
At this point I walked off.3 -
It's not so much the what but the who.....overweight and/or unfit so & so's preaching at you about what you should do according to them....1
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