Most annoying "advice" anyone has given you?
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I'm going to give you real advice- move everyday and eat less. I should be a billionaire because that is the secret, move more and eat less. I will strongly discourage any diet under 1500 calories.0
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She will also look at my meal and say stuff like, "Oh, I bet that would use more than half my daily points!" or "Wow, that is a big lunch you are having. My points would never allow that"
STFU
That's when you look at them a little smugly and say "Yeah. And I'm still losing weight."0 -
I'd lost fifty pounds and was told I shouldn't lose more because I was starting to look "sickly." At the time I was 5'2" (still am lol) and in the 190s. Um ...
It's not advice given to me, but quite a few people at work started a smoothie diet for the new year, to get rid of all those pesky toxins no one can seem to name. Sadly, I work in a hospital and this was organized by one of the anesthesiologists and a lot of my fellow nurses participated. Nothing wrong with a good smoothie, (although I haven't made one in about two years) but for three meals a day, I'm only drinking all my calories if my jaw was wired shut due to surgery or an accident. And I don't know what the ingredients were, but those things were some horribly unappealing colors.0 -
sairsyfairy wrote: »"You should treat yourself, you earned it" or " You should give yourself a break on counting calories for a bit, you don't want to over do it."
I have worked so hard for a reason, stop telling me to "treat myself" because I don't need to. I don't deprive myself of things I want. I eat them in moderation within my calories/macros.
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On that note, garcinia cambogia. I actually believed that and bought four bottles.
I did too! I'm no longer embarrassed to admit it... I saw the error in my ways! haha [/quote]
Glad you brought that one up. A super thin young person at Whole Foods tried to sell me that one....saying it worked for her and maybe it did but I needed to eat healthy and move more but it kinda stuck in my mind as an afterthought...wondering if it did help...sigh..0 -
I agree. Treating myself to more than a couple of bites of something sweet screws up my system from where I'm no longer desperate for sugars to where I'm badly craving them. I'm told ones who pressure you to eat badly when they know you're trying to lose weight are trying to sink you because they somehow beginning to feel threatened or like having you as an underdog.0
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It's not advice given to me, but quite a few people at work started a smoothie diet for the new year, to get rid of all those pesky toxins no one can seem to name. Sadly, I work in a hospital and this was organized by one of the anesthesiologists and a lot of my fellow nurses participated. Nothing wrong with a good smoothie, (although I haven't made one in about two years) but for three meals a day, I'm only drinking all my calories if my jaw was wired shut due to surgery or an accident. And I don't know what the ingredients were, but those things were some horribly unappealing colors.
Good smoothie is delicious.. but having only smoothies for every meal (no matter how good it is) probably end up with me throwing it to the wall..0 -
For me it is the no/lo carb. I am a to diabetic and after a couple of days on our end of those my sugar soars out of control.0
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MoreBean13 wrote: »I'm going to give you real advice- move everyday and eat less. I should be a billionaire because that is the secret, move more and eat less. I will strongly discourage any diet under 1500 calories.
For every single person on the planet?0 -
I heard this for the first time the other day,"Don't lift, it will give you small boobs."
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MarvelGrrl wrote: »I heard this for the first time the other day,"Don't lift, it will give you small boobs."
#startslifting#
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pootle1972 wrote: »MarvelGrrl wrote: »I heard this for the first time the other day,"Don't lift, it will give you small boobs."
#startslifting#
HA! Exactly. And if only. I've been lifting since 1996. Still not flat chested. Not even close. My breasts are still larger than I'd prefer!0 -
Basically all unsolicited advice, especially comments in a particular meal I'm eating.
Me: eating giant burger, which fit perfectly in my goals
Nosy Nellie: You shouldn't eat like a such a pig. You're going to get fat and heart disease.
Me: Uh, huh...nom nom nom
Next day,
Me: eating my lunch salad. Again, part of a well planned daily goal.
Same Nosy Nellie: Starving yourself isn't healthy. You should eat more.
Me: chomp chomp chomp, mmmhmm
Just a few more gems from this doll: precisely 8 glasses of water (and only water) for everyone, always; zero sodium for everyone (yes, zero, even athletes and summer construction workers). Clearly, an electrolyte imbalance is the epitome of health according to her.0 -
I got a few "advices" from people that I found annoying.
- "You can't lose weight by running on treadmill." I managed to lose and maintained my weight before using a treadmill, that is until my mother sold it to someone else -.- I've been gaining weight since then..
- "You look good and you shouldn't lose weight at all. You're not overweight, you're 'just curvy'." Yeah, of course weighting around 20 kg from the ideal weight isn't overweight.
- "You can't run because you have asthma and heart disease." I just want to smack each of those people with the nearest lamppost in the head and say "Now you can't go do things you want to do because your head are injured! I hope you catch some brain disease also so you won't be able to do anything at all until you die!" As violence as it is, those people are ticking me off and maybe one day I might actually do that if they won't stop.
- "You need to eat A, B, C and D to lose weight. Eating X, Y, and Z will only make you gain some weight." haha- no. I eat what I want. I know what I'm eating. I need to watch my food also since I have diseases, and ALL that they told me to eat are pretty much forbidden for me if I don't want to live in hospital with machines hooked up to my body. -.-
- Anything with detox are always annoying.0 -
"People who diet should just stop and learn to love them self as they are"
Said by a thin 18 year old, whos never really been fat in his life.
Im not a violent person, but that guy tests my patience.0 -
I get told regularly that bananas make you fat.....lol0
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The same people who used to tell me that i need to loose weight, now tell me I look like a toothpick. I am at the upper end of the healthy BMI scale. I have been checking with medical professionals on when to stop loosing.
Another piece of bad advice: chewing gum can cause constipation or indigestion.
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I've always gotten the whole "you don't need to lose weight" argument. I want to be comfortable, and I'm not at my current weight, nor at my lowest 170.
Also the whole "take supplements." I take a multivitamin gummy and B complex (for medical reasons) and sometimes probiotics if I can afford/remember too. No, I don't need a million other vitamins or weight loss boosters.0 -
lynnstrick01 wrote: »I hate any diet advice.. do this diet, try that diet, cut out this, don't eat that....
I know it is all well intended but the fact is that we all have to find our own way. We have to find something we as INDIVIDUALS can live with. Just because it worked for someone else doesn't mean it will for ME
That's the funny part. Most of the time people giving advice havn't had that advice work for them either.0 -
The whole... "you dont need to work out... theres nothing wrong with your figure...." well actually it helps with my mental health and not to mention.... have you ever seen me naked ?!?!?!0
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That your body "needs" about 500 calories a day more than you burn. Okay, I'm trying to lose weight, not gain it!0
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my MIL when I said I wanted to lose weight for my wedding (was at a healthier 168lbs) CW 190, SW 210) 'your obviously not happy with yourself if you want to change by losing weight' or 'susan at work has lost doing that 5:2 diet, try that' um no that doesn't work with my life or 'ive never had to diet so maybe you should just eat what I eat' - also on a side not I gained about 10lbs for the wedding thanks to her (making me stress eat)
'stop eating when you are full' - it takes ur tummy 20mins to tell ur brain your full my connect seems to be faulty as im not often full and when I was larger I would still have room for dessert
my mum if lovely and lost 5st 6 years ago by calorie counting and increased exercise, shes put on about 10-15lbs since then and seems to think a fad diet will help her shift the little excess again (over the last 1-2 years shes lost and gained like a yo-yo) she keeps sending me links to fads which wont work for me and joining classes and she loses, gets fed up with the restrictions and gains more?! sat her down last week and making her go back to mfp!
and lastly my hubby (who I love lots) will offer me something like nuts or a family size bag or crisps and says 'a few wont hurt the diet' a few wont its true but if I could stop at a few I wouldn't be fat in the first place1 -
Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »pootle1972 wrote: »MarvelGrrl wrote: »I heard this for the first time the other day,"Don't lift, it will give you small boobs."
#startslifting#
HA! Exactly. And if only. I've been lifting since 1996. Still not flat chested. Not even close. My breasts are still larger than I'd prefer!
"checks her profile" lmao sorry!0 -
The whole... "you dont need to work out... theres nothing wrong with your figure...." well actually it helps with my mental health and not to mention.... have you ever seen me naked ?!?!?!
i'm a dude and this girl at work tells me i shouldn't lose to much...your don't want to be frail looking lol. I almost but haven't said...well.... "you haven't seen me naked!" I'm like...trust me, at 165lbs I WON'T look like Steve Erkel0 -
"People who diet should just stop and learn to love them self as they are"
Said by a thin 18 year old, whos never really been fat in his life.
Im not a violent person, but that guy tests my patience.
That one gets me too. The whole "Fat is beautiful" trend going around. I get it. If you're happy with being a bigger person, go for it. Just don't insult those of us who are unhappy with our life choices and are trying to make better choices that can make us happy.
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People at work that don't do the slightest bit of exercise and have no sense of nutrition telling me that protein powder is "going to kill me"0
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Caporegiem wrote: »People at work that don't do the slightest bit of exercise and have no sense of nutrition telling me that protein powder is "going to kill me"
lol! Add creatine to that one.0 -
eat 6 meals a day
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