What is the daftest weight related thing someone has ever said to you?

"220lbs is just my natural weight."
I can't believe that being obese is seen as natural.

food eaten whilst walking contains half the calories as you are burning them off

My junior at work just yesterday said "drinking water helps flush the adipose liquid that is on our bellies"...I preferred to ask none about this obscure "adipose liquid".

eyleene wrote: »

CafeRacer808 wrote: »

"Sugar is as addictive as heroin."

pertsonally i find this very true .... but i have also heard

SUGAR DOESNT MAKE YOU FAT .

You have clearly never been addicted to heroin or been close to anyone who was (the withdrawals from quitting cold turkey include vomiting, convulsions, hysteria and sometimes even death). Quitting sugar cold turkey just makes you feel deprived from yummy foods so you get a craving for something sweet. No different than feeling deprived and wanting more of your favorite show at the end of a season.

And sugar doesn't make you fat. Too much food in general makes you fat. Sweets are just easier to overeat than most other foods so they get a bad rap.

I don't eat sweeteners (I know they're safe but I don't like the taste and some of them give me a headache)

I was told I could never lose weight if I didn't switch to diet coke and light yoghurts *sigh*

CafeRacer808 wrote: »

"Sugar is as addictive as heroin."

I do believe this one - to a point.

My sister told me that tracking intake doesn't work at all. Apparently she missed the fact that I lost 75lbs by tracking what I ate.

My friends who binge-drink alcohol multiple times a week but won't touch diet soda because it's "unhealthy" and makes you fat............... okay

Bakins929 wrote: »

"Muscle weighs more than fat."
What?! Muscle is more dense, yes, but a pound is a pound...

Except that when comparing a cubic inch of fat to a cubic inch of muscle, the muscle weighs more. You could as easily say that fat takes up more space than muscle even though an inch is an inch. It's just a different way of describing density.

Lucy1771 wrote: »

Sorry the above was off topic...didnt mean to hijack.

Daft diet advice: If you eat meat you will never lose weight. Only vegetarians/vegans can be thin.

I gained weight three times as a vegetarian and lost it three times as a vegetarian! My husband remains skinny as a rail although he eats meat a few times a week.

The daftest weight loss things I have heard from coworkers:

(1) Various cleanses they have tried (and been miserable on, and ultimately had no results from)

(2) That if you eat 2000 calories per day, but only do it from noon to 8PM, you will lose weight (this from someone about my height who would, I'm guessing based on my own experience last year, need to eat about 1500 calories w/o exercise to lose 0.5-1 pounds per week)

(3) That counting calories didn't work for this one gal because she tried once and had trouble even eating 1000 calories per day (I have seen what she has for lunch most days and would guesstimate her at a size 8 -- not overweight, but definitely not anorexic either -- so she is eating more than 1000 calories per day)

(4) Complete surprise (this was 15 years ago at a different workplace) that her office chair seemed smaller compared to her rear end size because she was eating chicken every day for lunch and "chicken is healthy" (it can be, but KFC is probably NOT the best DAILY lunch choice...)

And lately, my parents have started asking me about weight loss supplements. As well as about the claim that "your body only stores food as fat if it can't 'process" the food properly." (No, if your body is storing food as fat it's because your body is working exactly as it is supposed to and you are simply consuming too many calories, unless you have a medical condition diagnosed by your doctor.) At least my parents are willing to listen to me (PhD biochemist who has successfully lost weight) and my sister (personal trainer who lost weight each time after three pregnancies) and I don't think they're taking any weird supplements.

Sometimes you just can't talk sense into people. They see my results. I tell them how the results were achieved. They go back to doing the same things they always did.

The daft thing that really bugs me is when people say to me "you're lucky".

(Funny enough the harder I try the luckier I get.)

That sugar makes you fat.

Or fat makes you fat.

Or protein is just for body builders

Or carbs are just for body builders.

Lucy1771 wrote: »

Sorry the above was off topic...didnt mean to hijack.

Daft diet advice: If you eat meat you will never lose weight. Only vegetarians/vegans can be thin.

:laugh:

<- Former obese vegetarian here!

eyleene wrote: »

CafeRacer808 wrote: »

"Sugar is as addictive as heroin."

pertsonally i find this very true .... but i have also heard

SUGAR DOESNT MAKE YOU FAT .

Have you ever taken heroin? Have you ever spent time with people who are addicted and seen first hand what it does to them? Have you ever left your family, alienated your friends and committed a felony so you can get your sugar fix? Have you ever sold your car or your belongings so you can buy a cake?

CafeRacer808 wrote: »

eyleene wrote: »

CafeRacer808 wrote: »

"Sugar is as addictive as heroin."

pertsonally i find this very true .... but i have also heard

SUGAR DOESNT MAKE YOU FAT .

Have you ever taken heroin? Have you ever spent time with people who are addicted and seen first hand what it does to them? Have you ever left your family, alienated your friends and committed a felony so you can get your sugar fix? Have you ever sold your car or your belongings so you can buy a cake?

Exactly.