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So. What's the worst weight loss myth?
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Tacklewasher
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My vote is starvation mode. But there are so many good myths out there that are a hinderance to healthy weight loss that it might be fun to put them all in one place, argue about them and decide which is the worst of all.
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Sugar and carbs are the devil, fat makes you fat, sugar automatically gets stored as fat even in a huge deficit, weight lifting will make you bulky30
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Starvation mode, doing a cleanse to remove toxins, eating clean, ItWorks, Shakeology...32
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Doing cardio will burn fat.10
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Weight lifting makes you bulky or manly (and the idea that as soon as you start lifting you're gonna get a veiny, striated muscle body)25
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That eating "healthy" will result in weight loss and the flipside myth -- that there are certain foods that will prevent you from losing weight even if you're at a deficit.
I spent too many years thinking that I had to have a "perfect day" in order for it to count or that there were certain foods that I just couldn't eat.34 -
Ingredients that you can't pronounce are automatically poisonous and bad for you57
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That carbs make you fat...which is just ironic because carbs are not readily converted to fat...27
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Paleo....22
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You can lose *insert ridiculous amount of pounds* in a day/week/month.29
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That I must eat breakfast
I must drink lot's of water
That I should eat faux ice cream instead of the real thing
That I need to "Detox" to jump start my weight loss29 -
Aspartame will make you fat17
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The "magic pill" of the week.11
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That fruit is bad because of the carbs & sugar.34
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toxins (cleansing) , and starvation mode are my top two.
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That you can only lose weight through clean eating.19
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diets in general9
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paleo/lchf/vegan/organic/no sugar/etc is the only way to lose weight.15
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also saunas11
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If you eat late at night, the calories will not be burned but stored as fat.45
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Superfoods, negative calorie foods9
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