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So. What's the worst weight loss myth?
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Bananas are bad for weight loss8
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Any thing you buy that promises to jump start, kick start, cleanse, detox.
People who are convinced they are full of toxins.9 -
Sugar is addictive, like cocaine.
Blood type diet.13 -
Anything that doesn't follow the basic science of consuming fewer calories than one burns. The rest is a personal choice and each individual has to find what works for them.3
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* Starvation mode
* lifting makes girls bulky
* don't lift until you've lost a little weight
* don't run/walk if you're too fat
* The pasta diet everyone was doing 17 years ago (at least everyone in Iceland)
* The Cambridge soup diet where you eat 415 calories per day!!3 -
French_Peasant wrote: »chocolate_owl wrote: »-Carbs are bad
-You must eat breakfast/small meals
-Sugar is the devil
-You must eat a certain way or you won't lose weight/calories don't matter
-You have to detox
-Use this wrap/waist trainer/laxative disguised as a miracle pill to lose 5 lbs instantly and shape your figure
-Every MLM scheme
-Women shouldn't lift weights
Weirdly enough, the starvation mode one doesn't bother me so much. It's stupid, but IMO it's not as damaging or derailing as those others are. My biggest pet peeve though? All this nonsense with diet soda and cancer and insulin and toxins. IDK why, but it drives me up the wall.
If sugar is indeed not the devil, then what pray tell is in devil's food cake, hmmm?
Ahhh...but is sugar not also in angel food cake???
For many years...I've been living a lie.3 -
def. the sugar and carbs being the reason people are fat! that's so dumb!1
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Workouts that claim to "blast belly fat"!! like you can choose where the fat disappears from!
Any kind of diet plan that sells "meal replacement" bars/shakes etc. What's wrong with real food??
Juicing.11 -
dramaqueen45 wrote: »Muscle weighs more than fat. Yes- a pound of feathers takes up more space than a pound of lead, but a pound is a pound is a pound.
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French_Peasant wrote: »French_Peasant wrote: »The Master Cleanse, where apparently all you drink for 10+ days is acetic acid, maple syrup and cayenne pepper, then take a laxative to blow it all out your kitten. I've heard a lot of stupid ideas, but this takes the cake for pure, sheer idiocy. I have to admit to a certain amount of schadenfreude over the sufferings of certain Master Cleansers as they scour their bowels. Does that make me a bad person?
I reported a case like this to the FDA this week - multiple deaths related to over-ingestion of vinegar. The extent of damage done to the GI was disturbing.
Seriously!!? I know from sorting through some of the lit that it can affect your teeth and wreak some other havoc, but I didn't realize people were dying from it. There used to have some crazy ACV threads going about a year ago, back before 'Nam, but I don't think there's been a good one recently. There were worms coming out of people's noses and EVERYTHING. Good times.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27421692
Here is the article referenced. Part of my function is searching literature databases for specific search terms and as acetic acid is one of our ANDAs this came up. Note that the cases identified within the article are not specific to the volume ingested other than "large quantities".
This is white distilled vinegar, which contains ~5% acetic acid.0 -
The absolute worst myth of weight loss is that it requires a very low calorie diet and a large account of time spent in a gym to control your weight. This persistent myth, which systems from the belief that people must be miserable to be healthy, or must suffer for being overweight, is the root of willingness to grasp onto every weight loss fad, scheme, and scam. It drives people into eating disorders and self - loathing actions. It demoralized people from even starting to attempt to attain a healthy body or lifestyle, and leads to people giving up. It sets people up for repeated weight loss and gain cycles.
Nothing is more insidiously dangerous because this concept brews failure and destruction.
this sounds dangerously close to a root analysis of a systemic problem5 -
Cleansing and juicing. I actually don't know if juicing is a weight loss myth. I haven't looked it up, but it just sounds like a bad idea.2
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dramaqueen45 wrote: »Muscle weighs more than fat. Yes- a pound of feathers takes up more space than a pound of lead, but a pound is a pound is a pound.
I don't think that's a myth so much as people not communicating well; I can't imagine anyone really thinks a pound somehow does not equal a pound.
not only do people not grasp elementary concepts like mass, weight, and density but I had someone try to tell me that liquids don't have calories because you pee them out. take a quick inventory of the state of affairs in the world around you. people have become dangerously stupid.19 -
roamingtiger wrote: »Cleansing and juicing. I actually don't know if juicing is a weight loss myth. I haven't looked it up, but it just sounds like a bad idea.
It depends if you are talking about extracting juice from fruit and vegetables or taking illegal substances. I assume the former.5 -
French_Peasant wrote: »French_Peasant wrote: »The Master Cleanse, where apparently all you drink for 10+ days is acetic acid, maple syrup and cayenne pepper, then take a laxative to blow it all out your kitten. I've heard a lot of stupid ideas, but this takes the cake for pure, sheer idiocy. I have to admit to a certain amount of schadenfreude over the sufferings of certain Master Cleansers as they scour their bowels. Does that make me a bad person?
I reported a case like this to the FDA this week - multiple deaths related to over-ingestion of vinegar. The extent of damage done to the GI was disturbing.
Seriously!!? I know from sorting through some of the lit that it can affect your teeth and wreak some other havoc, but I didn't realize people were dying from it. There used to have some crazy ACV threads going about a year ago, back before 'Nam, but I don't think there's been a good one recently. There were worms coming out of people's noses and EVERYTHING. Good times.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27421692
Here is the article referenced. Part of my function is searching literature databases for specific search terms and as acetic acid is one of our ANDAs this came up. Note that the cases identified within the article are not specific to the volume ingested other than "large quantities".
This is white distilled vinegar, which contains ~5% acetic acid.
Oh god, that is utterly horrific. I just read the abstract, but it reminds me of why I do not pick up the light-reading forensic journals at my husband's lab.
On the bright side, it doesn't appear that I will be dying anytime soon from my love affair with vinaigrettes and balsamic reductions.5 -
the only way to lose weight is to give up every food you love and just eat XYZ11
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I had that same fight with a coworker yesterday!!! It's everywhere!3 -
"Weight loss happens in the kitchen not wherever you exercise."3
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Losing weight is complex.2
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