Silliest weight loss/fitness myth you've ever heard?
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"Bananas are the reason I gained 60lb while I was pregnant." (Couldn't have been the daily fast food and enormous food intake in general...)
"You're not supposed to eat pasta if you want to lose weight."0 -
Mavrick_RN wrote: »A Snickers bar eaten with Diet Coke cancel out the calories.
Broken cookies are less fattening due to calorie "leakage".
OK these are old jokes but just as stupid as "muscle weighs more than fat".
If I bake cookies the ugly ones have no calories and must be eaten right away!
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Mavrick_RN wrote: »A Snickers bar eaten with Diet Coke cancel out the calories.
Broken cookies are less fattening due to calorie "leakage".
OK these are old jokes but just as stupid as "muscle weighs more than fat".
If I bake cookies the ugly ones have no calories and must be eaten right away!
Raw cookie dough also doesn't have any calories when baking. 0 -
singingflutelady wrote: »
Muscle and fat are separate tissues. You can lose and gain both but muscle doesn't turn into fat and fat doesn't turn into muscle
I mean I'm confused about the myth in the first place. What's the logic behind muscle "turning into" something else? I've literally never heard this.
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Thigh gap exercises, or any fat spot reducing exercises.0
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MichelleLei1 wrote: »thereshegoesagain wrote: »I met my best friend for lunch and her weird sister came along. She went on and on about her new diet and how she hadn't had a single french fry for over a month. Then she ordered onion rings with her sandwich. Whaaaaat?
Lol this reminds me of when my friend and I were eating breakfast on vacation. I got a cinnamon roll and she comments. "Maybe you should get something with more protein in it, we're going to be walking all day." This would have been solid advice if she weren't eating a nutella croissant. According to her nutella is a protein source since it's kinda like peanut butter.
This one is funny.... If only!0 -
augustremulous wrote: »I mean I'm confused about the myth in the first place. What's the logic behind muscle "turning into" something else? I've literally never heard this.
I had the misfortune of hearing two doctors proclaim that muscle will turn into fat on Doctor Radio this weekend. The context was a discussion of sarcopenia, the tendency to lose muscle mass as you age, and the importance of exercise, especially resistance training, to preserve muscle. Unfortunately, one doctor stated outright that muscle will turn into fat, and the host (another doctor) repeated that statement multiple times.
It is a shame, because the message was good (incorporate resistance training to prevent muscle loss), but the information was not (it is impossible for muscle to turn into fat). And it is frustrating to hear doctors who should know better speak with such a lack of precision - no wonder that myth is so prevalent!
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MichelleLei1 wrote: »Mavrick_RN wrote: »A Snickers bar eaten with Diet Coke cancel out the calories.
Broken cookies are less fattening due to calorie "leakage".
OK these are old jokes but just as stupid as "muscle weighs more than fat".
If I bake cookies the ugly ones have no calories and must be eaten right away!
Raw cookie dough also doesn't have any calories when baking.
Salmonella from the raw eggs eats the calories so you don't have to!0 -
MichelleLei1 wrote: »Mavrick_RN wrote: »A Snickers bar eaten with Diet Coke cancel out the calories.
Broken cookies are less fattening due to calorie "leakage".
OK these are old jokes but just as stupid as "muscle weighs more than fat".
If I bake cookies the ugly ones have no calories and must be eaten right away!
Raw cookie dough also doesn't have any calories when baking.
Salmonella from the raw eggs eats the calories so you don't have to!
I know....I KNOW that I'm risking a few days of absolute misery every time I eat cookie dough.
I just can't not.
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In the uk chickens are vaccinated against salmonella.....woohoo. free cookie dough.0
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I must be a very lucky person than considering the amounts of raw cookie dough I've eaten in my life.MichelleLei1 wrote: »Mavrick_RN wrote: »A Snickers bar eaten with Diet Coke cancel out the calories.
Broken cookies are less fattening due to calorie "leakage".
OK these are old jokes but just as stupid as "muscle weighs more than fat".
If I bake cookies the ugly ones have no calories and must be eaten right away!
Raw cookie dough also doesn't have any calories when baking.
Salmonella from the raw eggs eats the calories so you don't have to!
I know....I KNOW that I'm risking a few days of absolute misery every time I eat cookie dough.
I just can't not.
Actually salmonella is quite rare in eggs. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the risk of an egg being contaminated with Salmonella bacteria is about 1 in 20,000 eggs. It's chicken you have to worry about.0 -
MichelleLei1 wrote: »I must be a very lucky person than considering the amounts of raw cookie dough I've eaten in my life.MichelleLei1 wrote: »Mavrick_RN wrote: »A Snickers bar eaten with Diet Coke cancel out the calories.
Broken cookies are less fattening due to calorie "leakage".
OK these are old jokes but just as stupid as "muscle weighs more than fat".
If I bake cookies the ugly ones have no calories and must be eaten right away!
Raw cookie dough also doesn't have any calories when baking.
Salmonella from the raw eggs eats the calories so you don't have to!
I know....I KNOW that I'm risking a few days of absolute misery every time I eat cookie dough.
I just can't not.
Actually salmonella is quite rare in eggs. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the risk of an egg being contaminated with Salmonella bacteria is about 1 in 20,000 eggs. It's chicken you have to worry about.
I've been eating raw cookie dough all my life...lucky so far, guess I didn't get that one egg. Of course, now I don't bake cookies.0 -
stevencloser wrote: »Folks, instead of arguing about whether the statement that "muscle weighs more than fat" is obviously true or obviously false, how about we all just agree to say this:
"Muscle is denser than fat."
However, it is true to say that an ounce of silver weighs more than an ounce of lead!
Ah, but it is only necessarily denser under the same conditions, too! Muscle on earth would not be as dense as fat inside a black hole.
Inside a blackhole we probably can no longer know its density - blackholes tend to destroy information. I'm not sure something can even continue to be baryonic matter once past the event horizon.0 -
MichelleLei1 wrote: »I must be a very lucky person than considering the amounts of raw cookie dough I've eaten in my life.MichelleLei1 wrote: »Mavrick_RN wrote: »A Snickers bar eaten with Diet Coke cancel out the calories.
Broken cookies are less fattening due to calorie "leakage".
OK these are old jokes but just as stupid as "muscle weighs more than fat".
If I bake cookies the ugly ones have no calories and must be eaten right away!
Raw cookie dough also doesn't have any calories when baking.
Salmonella from the raw eggs eats the calories so you don't have to!
I know....I KNOW that I'm risking a few days of absolute misery every time I eat cookie dough.
I just can't not.
Actually salmonella is quite rare in eggs. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the risk of an egg being contaminated with Salmonella bacteria is about 1 in 20,000 eggs. It's chicken you have to worry about.
The chicken and egg dilemma finally resolved!0 -
"All that grease in "X" food sends me immediately to the toilet". C'mon your digestive tract doesn't just squish out grease immediately!0
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augustremulous wrote: »singingflutelady wrote: »
Muscle and fat are separate tissues. You can lose and gain both but muscle doesn't turn into fat and fat doesn't turn into muscle
I mean I'm confused about the myth in the first place. What's the logic behind muscle "turning into" something else? I've literally never heard this.
My dad says it a lot, as do several other family members. I've questioned it a few times, asking what magical process allows a muscle cell to magically turn into a fat cell and the only response I get is "Ex athletes are always fat!"
It makes no sense to me either but have been told it quite a lot.0 -
I take my chances with cookie dough. And this conversation is totally giving me a trigger to my addiction!!!0
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mdrichardsons wrote: »I take my chances with cookie dough. And this conversation is totally giving me a trigger to my addiction!!!
I make this amazing greek yogurt cookie dough with a cup of plain nonfat greek yogurt, 1tbs coconut flour, 2 tbs powdered peanut butter, a tbs of chocolate chips, vanilla extract, and stevia. Definitely not the same thing, but it's a pretty healthy way to satisfy that cookie dough craving.0 -
"Spicy food burns so many calories that they are pretty much a free food."0
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meganridenour wrote: »
"When I'm dieting I just eat like three heads of iceberg lettuce for dinner and that's it."
A pretty good calorie management trick, if you can stand it!
Silly myths: cleanse, reset, reboot anything. So you ate too much. Just move on without the punishment!0 -
RaeBeeBaby wrote: »That muscle weighs more than fat. Grrrrrrr! Can't count the number of times I've read that on MFP threads.
so this - i hate this sentence!0 -
From our doctor: "calories don't matter on low carb"0
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RaeBeeBaby wrote: »That muscle weighs more than fat. Grrrrrrr! Can't count the number of times I've read that on MFP threads.
It does, in the same way that brick weighs more than water (and sinks) and pine wood weighs less than water (and floats).
A brick weighs more than the ocean?
Really good point.
Do adults weigh more than children? Not at all, 10 children weigh more than 2 adults.
Does brick weigh more than giprock? Not at all, 2kg or giprock weighs more than 1kg of brick.
Do hermes handbags cost more than coach handbags? Nope, $10k of hermes handbags and $10k of coach handbags cost the same.
Does ben & jerrys icecream contain more calories than celery? Nope, 1000cal of ice cream has the same calories as 1000cal of celery.
I'd agree that people could be more precise in their language, but it doesnt make "muscle weighs more than fat" a "myth".
Agreed. I feel like people pointing it out as a 'myth' or 'false' are just being pedantic. We all know what you mean when you say 'x weighs more than y'. Nobody is going around thinking that a pound of one thing weighs more than a pound of something else (at least not after giving it 5 seconds of thought) because that is completely illogical; obviously the 'by volume' is implied in the statement. And going around saying 'muscle does not weigh more than fat' is misleading.0 -
MommyL2015 wrote: »Dominicj569 wrote: »MommyL2015 wrote: »Dominicj569 wrote: »RaeBeeBaby wrote: »That muscle weighs more than fat. Grrrrrrr! Can't count the number of times I've read that on MFP threads.
Yeah, and cement weighs the same as cotton wool....
Depends. A pound of each weighs the same.
Unless I'm reading your comment oddly. Or are you saying a pound of cement doesn't weigh the same as a pound of cotton?
A bucket of cement is considerably heavier than a bucket of cotton wool, which is the point.
That a pound of anything weighs the same as a pound of anything else is not a useful piece of information and its certainly not worth the religious fanaticism its imbued with.
For a given volume, muscle is some 18% heavier than body fat.
I get what you're saying. The argument happens all the time, but it just sounds really, really stupid to hear someone say muscle weighs more than fat.
I think it's stupid to think that that statement could mean anything else than 'by volume, muscle weighs more than fat. Do you think people read that and think it means that a pound weighs more than a pound? It is far more misleading to say 'muscle does not weigh more than fat'.0 -
lemonlionheart wrote: »MommyL2015 wrote: »Dominicj569 wrote: »MommyL2015 wrote: »Dominicj569 wrote: »RaeBeeBaby wrote: »That muscle weighs more than fat. Grrrrrrr! Can't count the number of times I've read that on MFP threads.
Yeah, and cement weighs the same as cotton wool....
Depends. A pound of each weighs the same.
Unless I'm reading your comment oddly. Or are you saying a pound of cement doesn't weigh the same as a pound of cotton?
A bucket of cement is considerably heavier than a bucket of cotton wool, which is the point.
That a pound of anything weighs the same as a pound of anything else is not a useful piece of information and its certainly not worth the religious fanaticism its imbued with.
For a given volume, muscle is some 18% heavier than body fat.
I get what you're saying. The argument happens all the time, but it just sounds really, really stupid to hear someone say muscle weighs more than fat.
I think it's stupid to think that that statement could mean anything else than 'by volume, muscle weighs more than fat. Do you think people read that and think it means that a pound weighs more than a pound? It is far more misleading to say 'muscle does not weigh more than fat'.
when its put into a sentence such as " the reason youve not lost weight this week is because muscle weighs more than fat" and you my friend have gained muscle. 0 -
- Margarine is better than butter (yay for trans fats I guess..)
- Detox (does anyone even believe this? Peeing more does not help you "get rid of toxins")
- Exercising off ALL the calories you eat (Good luck keeping that up!)0 -
I tell people to eat frozen mint peas for their "thermogenisis" properties, makes you burn calories heating your body back up. Like the people who drink ice water thinking it will make a massive impact.
But really I just want more people to eat frozen mint peas so its not as weird when I do it.Completely not serious cleanse/detox here. Please don't report me, its clearly a joke.
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From someone preaching about Paul McKenna diet.
Don't drink caffeine and you will lose weight.
Only eat fruit on an empty stomach.
Only eat between 7.30am and 8pm
Don't mix "heavy carbs" with protein
Good on her she did lose weight but I bet she had a calorie deficit.0 -
The one about the 'plateau', as if there was some form of wall preventing you from losing weight.
Or the one about 'my friend eats pizza all day and is skinny whereas I eat salads and pile on the pounds. It's so unfair'...0 -
augustremulous wrote: »However, I'm allergic to sulfur, so I can't eat sundried tomatoes, raisins, can't drink red wine, have to buy special dish soap, shampoo, face wash, and toothpaste and have to read every ingredient list thoroughly.
I have been working with my Doc for the past few years to try and figure out what it is in foods that I am allergic to. We have tested for, wheat, eggs, milk, nuts, all the environment ones and still couldnt figure it out. You mentioned raisins, face soaps, and such. I cant eat raisins, sun dried tomatoes and I cant use certain lotions and soaps, plus a host of other things. I believe I will ask my Doc about the Sulphur and see if we can test for that. Your comment may have helped me narrow this down. You made my day
Becca0
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