Most annoying "advice" anyone has given you?
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Ask em how the feel about dairyCaporegiem 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"
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chelsy0587 wrote: »"You're pregnant?? Oh well now you are eating for two, have an extra plate!"
"You know they say counting calories is the WORST way to lose weight."
My BF, even though I love him very much... as never once in his life had to ever think about the amount he eats let alone losing weight. After a year of counting calories and seeing me lose 66lbs he's stopped giving me advice... but every now and then he will want me to read some stupid article about how counting calories does nothing for losing weight... What more do I have to do to prove that wrong, and what do I have to do to get you to stop reading that crap??
My BF is the same way. I love him to the moon and back, and I know he means well, but please, take your own advice before you start giving me some!0 -
amusedmonkey wrote: »Any advice that makes diet more complicated than it should be. Cutting out food groups/reducing certain macros, meal timing, fasted vs fuel cardio, breakfast, number of meals, very particular macro distributions, clean eating, most plans that have a name, magic potions and concoctions...etc. Even if there is merit in anything that makes it more complicated, it's not worth the effort of stressing myself out to achieve 100% of my potential weight loss per week when I'm comfortably happy to achieve 99% without spending most of my energy on that 1%.
Love this. So love this. Thank you.0 -
Tomk652015 wrote: »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.
Oh creatine=steriods in any of their minds.0 -
CooCooPuff wrote: »
...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"
I hate it when someone answers for me, thinking they know me better than I know myself. I didn't get to be this age by not knowing what's good for me.1 -
No matter what diet or exercise plan I'm on, people HAVE to disagree. Low carb? Unhealthy, they say. Calorie counting? Doesn't work, they say. High fat? The devil, they say. Lifting heavy? You'll be she-hulk, they tell me!
But even though they always disagree with my diet especially, they turn around and make weird suggestions like only eat one color of food a day. Sigh.1 -
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As soon as someone prefaces a remark with "You need ...." I immediately tune them out. Who knows what I need better than myself?1
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Portion Control. When I tell friends that I have a food scale, they just smile condescendingly and suggest using body parts for portion control. Meat the size of your palm. Potatoes the size of your fist. Etc.
I just can't help myself. I go into laser death stare mode. That. Doesn't. Work. For. Me. I need the food scale because if my portion control depended on hand size, I would try to cheat the system. My 6'6" boyfriend has hands the size of a dinner plate. Maybe I can use his hands for portion size... ok, see? 30 seconds later and I've already planned this out lol.0 -
What I hate is when I used to ask people for help and support, they thought that entitled them to tell me how much, when, and what kind of food I could eat? I have since learned to stop asking.0
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I have a few peeves, since I work with an official member of the food police. She always has a few pearls of diet and health wisdom on hand.
1. "The bone broth diet is great. And it is from an expert." Personally, if you want to drink that, have at it. Me? Not so much. I'd rather drink my Diet Coke.
2. Diet soda- this substance has made me the recipient of several emails with links to how bad it is for me. I don't have reactions to aspartame, and since the studies are inconclusive, I'm gonna go ahead and drink my poison.
3. "You really need to cleanse your body. Just a few horse pills a day and you'll feel great." I'm sure it would make me lose weight because my wallet would be that much lighter.
4. "Red meat & pork is pretty bad for you. You should only eat chicken, turkey & fish."
5. We went to a lunch and learn about fitness. They served gourmet grilled cheese (on hearty bread) and tomato soup. I had to sit through the "I can't believe they are serving completely unhealthy food here." Huh?
There are many more examples, as she buys into whatever fad is chic. One day I'll hear how I should try leeching to cleanse toxins. There is proven science from the middle ages, right?0 -
PlantBasedKnight wrote: »@Nage3000 no they do not. fat makes you fat. the fat you eat is the fat you wear. do the research mate!
Um no not true at all. Tell that to all the low bf% bodybuilders who eat high protein high fat1 -
HappyCampr1 wrote: »CooCooPuff wrote: »
Yep. Unfortunately, the quickest way to get me to eat something unplanned is to tell me I shouldn't be eating it. I will totally eat whatever it is and readjust my entire day around that, just because I hate for people to think I can't eat whatever.
Preach it, sista!0 -
PlantBasedKnight wrote: »@Nage3000 no they do not. fat makes you fat. the fat you eat is the fat you wear. do the research mate!
@PlantBasedKnight So what you're saying is that I can eat 10,000 calories a day with no fat and not gain a pound?! That is like the most amazing thing I have ever heard! *runs off to stuff face* (/sarcasm)1 -
"You should go to The Biggest Losers if you are that serious about weight loss"1
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I'm getting pretty worn out by all the people who see/hear/notice my weight loss attempts or that I'm working out and immediately want to try to sell me the latest and greatest diet/wrap/supplement. I'm sorry, I don't believe in any of that. If it works for you, great. However that's pretty rare and I'm not wasting my money on something that is highly unlikely to do anything for me.0
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Worst advice: HUR DUR BUY THIS MLM PRODUCT U WILL MAGICALLY B SUPER THIN. um no. Only my wallet will be thin. Byebye trying to sell me useless, potentially dangerous junk!1
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Portion Control. When I tell friends that I have a food scale, they just smile condescendingly and suggest using body parts for portion control. Meat the size of your palm. Potatoes the size of your fist. Etc.
I just can't help myself. I go into laser death stare mode. That. Doesn't. Work. For. Me. I need the food scale because if my portion control depended on hand size, I would try to cheat the system. My 6'6" boyfriend has hands the size of a dinner plate. Maybe I can use his hands for portion size... ok, see? 30 seconds later and I've already planned this out lol.
Or the one about eating as much protein as the size of a deck of card. I have learned the skill of portion control, and according to blood tests I am getting enough of all my vitamin and minerals ect., I am trying to bulk, I need the extra protein.0 -
At this point any advice is unwarranted and annoying to me. I know exactly what works for me in losing weight, as evidenced by my weight loss. Keep ALL your crap advice to yourself.
My brother is bad. He is so annoyed if I don't do an hour of cardio, fasted, every day, as in his mind, that's the only way to lose weight. I have asked him if it hurts still being stuck in the 80s, and suggested he read New Rules of Lifting. I find it funny that he gives advice when he is at least 50 lbs overweight and goes to the gym a lot, yet I never see any changes. I'm going to give him advice: step away from the bag of potato chips!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.
I work in a major health care system (lots of hospitals & medical research). The things you will hear about weight loss from MDs, RNs, PhDs, i.e. people who should know woo when they hear it, makes me want to cry.
It also makes me want to shake people who think the stupid advice must be correct because it came from their doc - who must be the end-all-be-all when it comes to nutrition.0 -
No matter what diet or exercise plan I'm on, people HAVE to disagree. Low carb? Unhealthy, they say. Calorie counting? Doesn't work, they say. High fat? The devil, they say. Lifting heavy? You'll be she-hulk, they tell me!
But even though they always disagree with my diet especially, they turn around and make weird suggestions like only eat one color of food a day. Sigh.
My favorite is the people who do this, and then in the next breath ask me for advice on how they can lose weight like I did (because obviously it wasn't whatever plan they'd just been arguing with me about). I'm pretty sure some are convinced that I'm lying about the 'secret' of my success and am a big meanie.0 -
I have a coworker that tells me I shouldn't eat any carbs. Drives me nuts. I'm 5'11" and 207, I'm usually in the 195-210 range depending on what I'm training for. And eating 30% carbs keeps me in that range. I adjust the % based on the training I am doing, but I always have carbs in the mix.
Pretty much any fad diet that people preach to me drives me crazy. Eat healthy and balanced, not only will you get to your goal, but you'll be able to continue eating like that forever. People make life harder than it needs to be.0 -
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Forgot to mention this one: that if i don't switch things up every few months, one's body will get used to the routine, and one will stop loosing weight, no matter how much or little one is eating.0
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You need to eat at 1000 calories to lose weight.0
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Where do I start... possibly the person who told my mother it was just puppy fat and I would grow out of it... I am now 421
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"Eat more protein" as a general annoyance
Or more specifically my sweet husband who is 5'10" 160 lbs with 6 pack abs at age 36 and who has never struggled with his weight has advised "when I was in the high school wrestling team we would just not eat to cut weight and that always worked." Good lord to be a skinny 15 year old high school boy. I'm a 42 year old woman. I can't just "not eat". I'm not trying to trim off a half pound for a pre-match weigh in.2 -
People who say 'Wow, you've lost loads of weight, how did you do it', but the minute I say changing up my diet, eating nutritionally and moving more they lose interest because I haven't told them some 'magic formula' of eating mushrooms that a virgin mermaid has urinated on. Hmm, thanks, rant over!0
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