What's the biggest weight-loss lie you've ever heard?
aliceband21
Posts: 15 Member
There's loads flying about. I'll start us off: 'if you eat it in the dark it doesn't count'!
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Stop eating after 7 PM
To lose weight just stop eating bread, pasta and rice25 -
"You don't need to worry about calories, only sugar!"
My god I could eat 5,000 calories with minimal sugar, doesn't make it magically defy the law of CICO. And this came from someone who knew I have recently lost 12kg doing calorie counting28 -
Broken biscuits don't contain calories!
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You can only eat boring food when on a diet.
I get that a lot and nothing I eat I find boring.12 -
B12 injections help with weightloss
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Starvation mode35
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If you just eat protein you can't get fat10
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Therealobi1 wrote: »Stop eating after 7 PM
To lose weight just stop eating bread, pasta and rice
And potatoes! Don't forget about those evil, fattening potatoes!
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If you don't exercise you can't lose weight. Said to me by someone who exercises like a crazy thing but never loses weight...while my fairly sedentary self drops lbs!23
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Not eating after 6 pm
Dinner has to be pure protein because carbs eating in the evening are automatically stored as fat
Carbs are evil
Fruits make you fat
Eating every 3 hours will help to lose weight
Eating more to lose more because of starvation mode18 -
Stop eating fat to lose fat / better to eat sweets than avocado and cashews
Too much sugar in fruits
Carbs are the devil
If you don't exercise, you won't lose any weight
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, not eating any is a crime
If you're on a diet, you need to eat lettuce all the time
Liquid calories don't count9 -
dustedwithsugar wrote: »Eating every 3 hours will help to lose weight
This is not a myth actually. If you eat more frequent but little portions, your body has time to digest what you ate and you are less hungry in a process. Also eating when you're NOT hungry helps to fill you up faster leading to eating less at meal time.
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dustedwithsugar wrote: »Eating every 3 hours will help to lose weight
This is not a myth actually. If you eat more frequent but little portions, your body has time to digest what you ate and you are less hungry in a process. Also eating when you're NOT hungry helps to fill you up faster leading to eating less at meal time.
This is a myth as it varies per person. I don't do well on frequent, small meals as they always leave me hungry. This is why many people adopt an IF style of eating, as meal times are a preference. There is nothing special about small, frequent meals in and of itself that would induce weight loss.40 -
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dustedwithsugar wrote: »Eating every 3 hours will help to lose weight
This is not a myth actually. If you eat more frequent but little portions, your body has time to digest what you ate and you are less hungry in a process. Also eating when you're NOT hungry helps to fill you up faster leading to eating less at meal time.
This is a myth as it varies per person. I don't do well on frequent, small meals as they always leave me hungry. This is why many people adopt an IF style of eating, as meal times are a preference. There is nothing special about small, frequent meals in and of itself that would induce weight loss.
Then you don't eat right macros per meal. It's really that easy. I was of same thought as you before I started to look at meal macros.2 -
Any diet that tells you to cut an entire food group out of your eating plan ... Moderation is the key to weight management success, not discrimination...!!22
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dustedwithsugar wrote: »Eating every 3 hours will help to lose weight
This is not a myth actually. If you eat more frequent but little portions, your body has time to digest what you ate and you are less hungry in a process. Also eating when you're NOT hungry helps to fill you up faster leading to eating less at meal time.
This is a myth as it varies per person. I don't do well on frequent, small meals as they always leave me hungry. This is why many people adopt an IF style of eating, as meal times are a preference. There is nothing special about small, frequent meals in and of itself that would induce weight loss.
Then you don't eat right macros per meal. It's really that easy. I was of same thought as you before I started to look at meal macros.
For you. There's nothing universally better about small, frequent meals over having larger meals less frequently. Meal timing doesn't matter for weight loss (only the overall deficit) so each person can move their calories around to whatever times they wish.44 -
-sugar is toxic and will cause you to gain weight (without giving proper context as to the hows and whys)
-artificial sweetner is evil and causes weight gain
-diet soda will not only kill you, it will also make you fat
-eating fast food is bad and will cause you to gain weight (again, no context is usually given)
-you must eat a certain macros ratio to lose weight
-calories are not created equal
-you must eat breakfast
-you must eat 6 small meals a day
-you must exercise to lose weight....
And I could go on and on
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dustedwithsugar wrote: »Eating every 3 hours will help to lose weight
This is not a myth actually. If you eat more frequent but little portions, your body has time to digest what you ate and you are less hungry in a process. Also eating when you're NOT hungry helps to fill you up faster leading to eating less at meal time.
No, that's been debunked. There's lots of us who do IF and only eat 1-3 times a day, and are very successful meeting our goals. Meal timing and frequency is a preference thing, nothing more. What does matter is how many calories you've consumed at the end of each day.31 -
dustedwithsugar wrote: »Eating every 3 hours will help to lose weight
This is not a myth actually. If you eat more frequent but little portions, your body has time to digest what you ate and you are less hungry in a process. Also eating when you're NOT hungry helps to fill you up faster leading to eating less at meal time.
This is a myth as it varies per person. I don't do well on frequent, small meals as they always leave me hungry. This is why many people adopt an IF style of eating, as meal times are a preference. There is nothing special about small, frequent meals in and of itself that would induce weight loss.
Then you don't eat right macros per meal. It's really that easy. I was of same thought as you before I started to look at meal macros.
Macros breakdown doesn't matter for weight loss either. In terms of weight loss the only thing that matters is that you're eating at the correct calorie deficit for your weight loss goals.11
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