Most annoying "advice" anyone has given you?
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Anyone pushing a weight loss gimmick. If you have an acquaintance selling herbalife or something, it seems to be some kind of crime if you're fat and won't buy into it.
or if you are losing weight already and won't buy into it so they can use your success to further promote themselves/their "business". Ugh, no.
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I had a personal trainer once, who was very, very expensive (just an aside; it still hurts to think of the money I wasted). I had lost 96 lbs on my own through exercise and eating healthier and smaller portions. I hired him after I got stuck at 142 lbs for a couple of months (I wanted to lose another 20, I'm 5'3"). I trusted him and didn't know a ton about food at that point. Well, he told me I had stored up carbs from eating them for my whole life. He cut out my carbs completely. He worked me like crazy, and all I ate was the supplements he sold me and protein. After 2 months I lost zero weight, was miserable, ended up injured, stopped working out, and eventually stopped eating healthy altogether. I eventually gained back all the weight I had lost.
At this point, I'm now down almost 50 lbs again, done on my own by eating better, eating less, and moving more. No more trainers. No advice... from ANYONE.
I also refrain from giving advice. When people ask me how I've lost the weight, I respond only with the above... "eating better, eating less, and moving more". They always hate the answer, as it entails actual effort. People in general hate putting out effort.2 -
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My FIL told me it was because we eat later then 6:30 at night and it all turns straight into fat. The fact that most nights we don't get home from work until around that time seems to have passed him by. Maybe we should cook our evening meal and eat it whilst driving home from the office each night...
The 'carb' thing too. I'm so sick of hearing about how it's carbs that make you fat. One of my colleagues has been on a no carb 'diet' for a year now, she's lost a stone in that time. I heard her telling another colleague who's on Slimming World that the reason she only lost 0.5lb last week was because she ate potatoes twice during the week and she needs to give up the carbs. Just for comparison, i've been using MFP since Jan 4th, i've lost a stone in that time, and I haven't given up anything. Luckily the colleague she was preaching to came to me and asked me how i've managed to lose weight, so I gave her the MFP website address and told her to read up.0 -
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I've lost 76 pounds over the last 10 months and pretty much any advise on how to lose weight at this point is pretty annoying. I know exactly how to lose weight....eat less. And if I tell someone that they then proceed to say "Why don't you try the low carb diet"? No offense... but why would I want to?0
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That it's a simple CICO equation, when I'm working out 5-6 days a week and afraid to eat and the scale still won't budge. Turns out I have not one, but two medical conditions that make it hard to lose weight. Praying I find that magical combination that my body will respond to.0
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@Bshmerlie It still slips my mind how people can't understand the entire calorie balance thing0
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"Girls should not be eating so often"0
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ALLLLL of these!
My personal favorite is someone in my family, after having gastric bypass to lose the weight, suddenly became a health guru and knew allll about nutrition and general health.
Sorry, but shut up (personal dislike towards the person and the idea of surgery. There is a difference between point of no return and being a quitter. And even then...)0 -
I don't know if it is the most annoying, but since it happend yesterday it is top of mind.
A coworker friend who is really fit and that has been lifting a long time asked me about my current fitness goals.
I told him I was cutting. Currently 185 trying to get to 170.
He said "Gain weight!. Go for 200! Cutting is stupid! Getting lean is boring! You will look skinny at 170!"
Don't impose your goals on me and tell me mine are stupid. *kitten*.0 -
I don't know if it is the most annoying, but since it happend yesterday it is top of mind.
A coworker friend who is really fit and that has been lifting a long time asked me about my current fitness goals.
I told him I was cutting. Currently 185 trying to get to 170.
He said "Gain weight!. Go for 200! Cutting is stupid! Getting lean is boring! You will look skinny at 170!"
Don't impose your goals on me and tell me mine are stupid. *kitten*.
Haha forever bulking is easier of course0 -
I don't think I have ever been given any advise that has annoyed me but I am sure I annoy people when I say "eat what you please just be mindful of the amount you are consuming" - food might not all be high nutrient, low far, complex carb but just cuz it ain't the mention it is bad - so in my case if I want a burger and fries I go eat a burger and fries, might get the kids ration instead -- that is when I am being good cuz most times if I want a burger and fries a kids size doesn't do it... just sayin0
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SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage wrote: »I should try "clean eating" to which I replied "I wash my fruit before eating it, does that count?" Surprisingly, that person doesn't talk to me about nutrition advice anymore.
That's cute!!
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I have one friend, who when she knows I'm watching my food intake, will question me when I choose to make a 'not so good' choice (ie. should you be having that?). I know it comes from a good place, but it's annoying. I'm in control, I decide when I go off-plan a bit or not.
I changed my mindset right before Mardi Gras weekend here. So, I consciously chose to eat whatever I wanted for those few days, knowing that after that, it would be a different story. A friend and I were eating donut holes (I eat donuts maybe once a year). So, when her husband and my boyfriend teased us with "Really? Are you serious?", she said "Hey, don't count our calories for us!" I loved that response!1 -
I don't know if it is the most annoying, but since it happend yesterday it is top of mind.
A coworker friend who is really fit and that has been lifting a long time asked me about my current fitness goals.
I told him I was cutting. Currently 185 trying to get to 170.
He said "Gain weight!. Go for 200! Cutting is stupid! Getting lean is boring! You will look skinny at 170!"
Don't impose your goals on me and tell me mine are stupid. *kitten*.
Haha forever bulking is easier of course
Forever bulking is kinda awesome
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Quit eating carbs
Carbs make you fat
Try this fad diet, try that one
Try these pills
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SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage wrote: »I don't know how you people go without breakfast. I'm famished by the time I wake up.
I am too!!! Well, within a couple hours! I love, love, love, peanut butter toast with Dave's Killer Bread. Yum!!!1 -
Cindy01Louisiana wrote: »SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage wrote: »I don't know how you people go without breakfast. I'm famished by the time I wake up.
I am too!!! Well, within a couple hours! I love, love, love, peanut butter toast with Dave's Killer Bread. Yum!!!
Just preference. I usually want to snack in the evening more than I want to eat early so I just save my calories for later in the day.0 -
"You need to drink more water". If I drank more water (or other no-calorie beverages, like tea), I'd never leave the toilet.0
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I don't know if it is the most annoying, but since it happend yesterday it is top of mind.
A coworker friend who is really fit and that has been lifting a long time asked me about my current fitness goals.
I told him I was cutting. Currently 185 trying to get to 170.
He said "Gain weight!. Go for 200! Cutting is stupid! Getting lean is boring! You will look skinny at 170!"
Don't impose your goals on me and tell me mine are stupid. *kitten*.
Haha forever bulking is easier of course
Forever bulking is kinda awesome
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The most annoying thing people say to me is you can afford to put a little meat on your bones. And I think yeah I want to put meat on my bones but what you want me to stuff my face with will put fat on my bones.0
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schindml09 wrote: »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!
This. If I don't have a small snack of some kind about 9:30 pm, I will be ready to hurt someone when I wake up in the morning (blood sugar will be REALLY low). Or I'll wake up in the middle of the night and hit the fridge, making less than healthy choices.0 -
Mine has to be.... "There is Cake in the Breakroom... you can have just one piece can't you? You don't want to let the Birthday girl down!"... and "Why are you giving away the Girl Scout cookies that you ordered months ago that just came in!!"1
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SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage wrote: »smcrimmon84 wrote: »All the detoxes and the WRAPS. Oh, the wraps. So annoying.
Yes, the wraps! Why is it that whenever I see a vehicle driving around with all that advertising for the wraps, it's an overweight person in the driver's seat? I mean not that I care about a person's weight, but when you're touting a weight-loss product, shouldn't the seller be a ringing endorsement?
Exactly! I said this same thing to my husband! Not to mention, if those wraps really work, why do you have to continue using them weekly?0 -
Cortneyrenee04 wrote: »Any advice at this point is really annoying. Even though I've lost close to 80 pounds, people still feel like they know more than I do about my body.
This - every single time. Like yes I know I'm not tiny - I get it. But what I also get is I've lost and kept off 80+lbs, so I feel like the knowledge and experience I've gained along the way might be even a little bit helpful at some point.
Also, from a very skinny girl who eats very little all the time, don't eat carbs - you don't need carbs. Besides pasta is gross.
So 1) pasta is I guess the ONLY food out there with carbs in it and 2) Pasta is freakin amazing!! Eat some. You'll feel better.
And another one - from someone who "diets" regularly but I haven't seen her weight go down in years - "You should treat yourself more often, eat out etc" me: "well controlling what I eat is a large reason why I was able to lose weight" her: "Well yes, but you work out all the time . . . look how much muscle you're building, you're gaining muscle every day, you need carbs for those muscles to work right" me: "Yeh, we're not going there but in short - no"
I was like seriously? No. Do you know how hard it is for women to build muscle? And carbs for muscles? Not exactly.
And my allllllll time favourite: friends of my parents were visiting and they were talking about how they found these amazing giant navel oranges and how her husband eats like 3 or 4 in a sitting and she's so glad he's eating more fruit, he's going to lose so much weight. I said something like well oranges have a lot of sugar and carbs in them, it's still about moderation in this case. She looked at me and was like fruit doesn't have carbs, and it's natural sugar so you can eat as much as you want . . . maybe you'd be losing more weight if you knew what you were eating.
I just walked away. Couldn't even come up with anything to say at that point.
ETA: this also isn't like advice but I'm a really active person and I am careful about what I eat; moderation works for me . . .might not work for everyone. So I absolutely cannot stand it when someone will be like hey, Amanda you've lost a lot of weight so far you look amazing! What do you eat, how do you work out, etc etc? So I'll tell them what has genuinely worked - I'm not trying to sell them on anything because for me it's been moderate what you eat, burn more than you consume, make nutritionally sound choices 80% of the time and 20% live a little. It works for me.
Then they go off on these tangents about how they can't work out and lift with me because they'll bulk and they don't wanna bulk, or they wish they could eat carbs, or they want to "tone" their tummy/butt/arms/insert random body part here. . . . And sometimes I'm like look, you asked me. I lift heavy, I'm not bulking at all. I eat well nutrition wise . . . YOU ASKED ME WHAT I DO, AND I'M TELLING YOU SO SHUT UP AND LISTEN, OR DON'T ASK ME. It just makes me angry how they put all this bro science in when they've asked about my experience and then just ignore it.0 -
HappyCampr1 wrote: »scottish_laura_13 wrote: »HappyCampr1 wrote: »
But... I told them about moderation and portion control and maybe someday when they're done trying everything else, they'll remember.
think that's the thing, everyone wants a quick easy fix so they (me included in the past) try loads of fads and think it will work wonders in a short time period, it takes a really good mindset to prepare yourself for a life change - which is what most people on here are doing, any who truly think that just eating a colour of food a day or having herbalife shakes will magically make them lose 10lbs in one week are not serious about changing their life (for the long term) as they cant possibly be committed to it
also I often get told to detox and only drink water - I drink about 6-8l min of water a day and about 1 hot choc or soda a week so does that means im on a permanent detox? if so why wasn't I skinny for the last few years?!?!?
This is why I try to not say anything when people discuss weight loss and their diets. They don't really want to listen. But, I couldn't stand listening to her beat herself up and saying she'd rather be fat.
This, too! Women especially are horrible for getting something in their heads like don't eat after 7, don't eat bread, only eat "clean", etc and they don't want to hear anything else. I have also learned to just not put my two cents worth in when they discuss diets and weight loss.0 -
For me it's always "No pain no gain!"
Yeah, my wrists hurt doing these upright rows, sooooo not doing it anymore0
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