Most annoying "advice" anyone has given you?
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Any advice at all. Everyone offers advice when I mention losing weight. Advice to do something different than I am doing. But wait . . . I have been steadily losing for 5 months - why do I need advice?0
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To eat breakfast because it will boost my metabolism. What? No. I hate breakfast. I despise breakfast. I don't want to eat breakfast. Not only that, there has been no research to show it does anything to your metabolism. So leave my breakfastlessness alone!
You and me both brother!
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The_WoIverine wrote: »The most annoying advice I've received in more than one occasion and from different people... Don't lose too much weight and gain too much muscle because girls don't like that.
Oh, excuse me, I forgot to mention I'm doing this for myself not for you, or anyone else. If a girl doesn't like it, I could care less. I know plenty of other girls who loves big muscles.
Big muscles are sexy ;-)0 -
The blood type diet, kid you not.0
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Whitezombiegirl wrote: »Big muscles are sexy ;-)
Thank you very appreciated!0 -
It's funny how everyone becomes an expert to your health.. haha
But a few of my top pieces I despise hearing:
1. you have to eat breakfast, if you don't you'll mess up your metabolism for the day and store more fat
2. Starvation mode - Eating only lunch and dinner means your body goes into starvation mode
3. heavy lifting will make you bulky
4. eating after a certain time makes your body store more fat
I've probably heard them all! I got into a verbal argument with a "certified" personal trainer that was arguing I'd be bulky with heavy lifting.. riightttt, I must hide the bulk well. This isn't really advice I've received, but someone actually said to me that I'm doing a really good job at keeping the weight off. Like what makes you think it's appropriate to comment on my weight?
People. Are. Insane.
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I am surprised i missed this one in one form or another, but i was told that sugar should be outlawed. This by a child psychologist. So the guy is treating teenagers with eating disorders.
I once offered someone a cookie and was asked if i was trying to make her fat.
That by drinking alcohol, it undoes all the gains I have made.0 -
Surprised nobody has mentioned how bad gluten is for you yet...0
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To take raspberry ketones - ugh if they worked NHS would give them away for free.0
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Most annoying advice:TheChrissyT wrote: »It won't matter how much weight you lose if you stay ugly on the inside. People see that eventually too. Maybe you should try some carbs, you seem grumpy.
I spend countless hours giving free advice on an individual basis... in real life. I genuinely like to help people. But I'm not a hand holder, I'm not a feel gooder, I won't rub your back after every set and tell you the iron is just being mean to you.
I'm not going to baby people that have been babied their entire lives. Grow up.
If you want my support, earn it through action, earn it through a mindset of success, and if you need help for it, ask. But thinking you can subtly insult me and not have a reaction.... well that's just annoying.
Says the guy who calls people on a forum trying to lose weight and doesn't agree with YOUR path "fat"... yeah, you're a real humanitarian.0 -
Most annoying advice - for a while I bought into the low-carb-is-the-one-true-way approach. I got better.0
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rankinsect wrote: »Most annoying advice - for a while I bought into the low-carb-is-the-one-true-way approach. I got better.
See, now THAT'S class.vinegar_husbands wrote: »Take mango pills.
Why...would you do that to a perfectly good mango.1 -
debrakgoogins wrote: »
Yeah, I guess certain things are "better" or "worse" depending on your blood type. I guess pork is bad for ALL blood types
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vinegar_husbands wrote: »Take mango pills.
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The most annoying advice I have ever heard is that eating at night makes you gain weight. I do not believe this at all. I eat around 8:30 pm because of my schedule and am leaner now than when I used to eat earlier in the evening!0
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I hate when people try to guilt-trip me into eating only organic food, especially when they are not educated in the facts.0
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In my case, the most annoying was also the dumbest. When I said I don't eat a lot of sweet treats, sugary treats, treats with added sugar, I was told that sugar was sugar (sure, okay). When I said my body and brain don't respond to an apple and a twinkie the same, despite similar calorie content (because, perhaps, because of fiber), I was told to eat a spoonful of metamucil with the twinkie.1
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erinsaarela wrote: »I have been on MFP for years. Succeeded in 2012-2014 (5'9" was 145 pounds) and then I got pregnant and let myself go, so here I am again (185 pounds, 9 months post-partum). Anyways, I have a guy friend who is in good shape and tells me "you know it's just as easy losing weight as it is putting it on." No, I'm sorry - that isn't the case for me. It's way easier for me to get fast food for lunch than to plan my meals ahead of time and weigh my food. I told him I've been under my calorie goals too which I was proud of myself for and he said "if you want to eat something, just eat it." Which is true in a sense, but it's still hard trying to ignore all my old favorites. I just feel like he doesn't understand. Ok, I'm done ranting
The guys I usually hear spouting things like that also get to eat 2-3 times more calories than I do (because of both their size and activity levels... and probably also what they do for a job - active job vs my desk job). So of course it's easy, when a 500 calorie cut per day means the loss of one burger of many instead of the equivalent of one of my 3 meals a day.1
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