What is the daftest weight related thing someone has ever said to you?
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My grandma: "Drinking soda straight from the can makes you swallow too much gas, and if you drink more than three cans a day you'll explode from all the gas." She insisted that after I open the can I first blow across the top so the excess gas can escape before having a sip.
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Chunkahlunkah wrote: »need2belean wrote: »RollTideTri wrote: »elisa123gal wrote: »MFP posts seeking advice on the struggles of trying to eat 1200 or 1000 calories. "I feel so full I'm stuffed how can i get my daily calories in?" Just who do they think they're talking to?
Those are hilarious. If they were stuffed after eating 1200 calories a day they wouldn't be overweight and wouldn't have ever heard of this site.
I think about that ALLL THE TIME! If you have trouble eating that little, you wouldn't be overweight. Those are people who don't open up their diary and/or don't log anything correctly.
See, this one I can understand. Satiety, for some people, is strongly linked to *what* they eat, just as much or moreso than *how much* they eat. So if these people have changed their diet to the foods that sate them and limited/removed the ones that rev up their appetite, I find it totally believable that they're experiencing a genuine reduction in their appetite to a suppressing degree.
For example, I've leaned that when I eat a large amount of protein on an empty stomach, it kills my appetite for many hours. And by kills, I mean it makes even the thought of food unappealing and nearly gag-inducing. The feeling kicks in about 2 hours after eating, and my appetite doesn't return for about 8 or more hours. And this can happen on relatively few calories, like in the 300s. Some brief googling suggested I'm probably super sensitive to the hormone Peptide YY, but I'd be curious to learn more about this.
I think for some people, the suppressed appetite they experience is primarily psychologically motivated, but from my own experiences I have no doubt that foods themselves can have a dramatic impact on some people's appetite.
I have this experience, too. If I have protein for breakfast, I can go until very late afternoon without eating. It does seem like a switch gets flipped, so I can get that if some people are changing what they eat that it could impact their appetite and how much they feel like eating.5 -
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Madwife2009 wrote: »CattOfTheGarage wrote: »MontyMuttland wrote: »Them: You've lost so much weight! You must be in the gym every day.
Me: I've not set foot in a gym, I just walk a lot.
Them: I wish I could do that.
Me: You can, just go for a walk whenever and wherever you happen to be.
Them: I can't do that, I always have to look after my grand-daughter.
Me: What? Your grand-daughter doesn't have legs?
Them: She doesn't like to walk.
Me: Don't you have a buggy for her?
Them: She won't sit in it for long, she gets bored.
Me: ... (gives up)
"She doesn't like to walk".
Kids don't like a lot of things until you make them do it, and then they enjoy themselves. Getting a kid to like walking means taking them walking and ignoring the whining. They learn to love it and it is one of the greatest gifts you can give them, imo.
I will never understand the idea that we express our love to our kids by encouraging them to be unhealthy, whether it's "kid food" or sitting on their backsides all day. Everyone likes a duvet day or chicken nuggets once in a while, but making that the routine is not an expression of love. Get the kids out in the rain. They'll thank you for it one day.
Agree.
My four year old daughter LOVES to walk, cycle, run, jump, bounce around. She never sits still and one of her favourite things is to take a walk to feed the ducks. In fact, today we walked 2.5 miles to a cycling session, cycled for an hour and then walked home. Half of that time was through a gale and my daughter loved it.
What alarms me more than anything is parents who fight with their children to get them into a pushchair, why not let the child walk, for goodness sake?
Because the parents don't want to run around chasing their child. Mine thought running from me was a game even while I screamed at her to stop while she ran into traffic.
Oh my goodness I remember the times I had to abandon buggy and bags and just run to catch my daughter. She thought it was a game too. Still didn't stop us walking5 -
I was told by a friend to lose weight just give up bread pasta and rice3
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I was told by a colleague about 25-years ago that men had slimmer legs than women because they wore heavy overcoats.
Daft diet-related advice - negative calories. Eat ALL the celery and other 'negative calorie' foods as they burn more calories to eat than they're worth.14 -
That drinking fizzy juice will stop you losing weight
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My mother ordered a Richard Simmons VHS set in the early 90s, and I heard him tell thousands of people to never drink water before a meal, with a meal, or an hour after a meal, as this would dilute all your stomach acids, so the food wouldn't digest, and it would then turn to fat. As a kid, this somehow stuck in my head, and I never knew when was the right time to drink water. It took me years to figure out that water can't "dilute" stomach acid. WOW.11
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Cousin-in-law: "You've lost a lot of weight! How'd you do it? Oh, it's all your rowing, isn't it?"
Me: "I've been rowing this much for a dozen years" (and she knows this) " but only lost weight in the past year. I'm just eating less."
Cousin-in-law: (Disbelief. Insistence that it's because I do sooooo much more exercise than she's able to imagine doing.)
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Common situation on MFP forums where a woman has reportedly started a brutal workout schedule and a steep calorie deficit but hasn't lost any weight, or even gained a couple of pounds.
Random reply post: "It's probably that you're gaining muscle while you're losing fat."
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Friend: "You can't lose weight without cutting carbs. I read all the books last winter, and they all say so."
(I lost 60 pounds since last winter without any particular effort to cut carbs, and say so. She sees this as contentiousness on my part, because - I guess? - I haven't written any books, so I know nothing.)
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Friend: "You can't lose weight without cutting carbs. I read all the books last winter, and they all say so."
(I lost 60 pounds since last winter without any particular effort to cut carbs, and say so. She sees this as contentiousness on my part, because - I guess? - I haven't written any books, so I know nothing.)
I'm pretty sure I would read your book if you chose to write one.
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CICO is a fad....5
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My mother ordered a Richard Simmons VHS set in the early 90s, and I heard him tell thousands of people to never drink water before a meal, with a meal, or an hour after a meal, as this would dilute all your stomach acids, so the food wouldn't digest, and it would then turn to fat. As a kid, this somehow stuck in my head, and I never knew when was the right time to drink water. It took me years to figure out that water can't "dilute" stomach acid. WOW.
That's a REALLY old one, like dating to the 1700's. My grandma believed it and it nearly killed her when she got older, she got an abcess from a piece of meat that got stuck in her esophagus. She still refused to drink with meals.5 -
Friend: "You can't lose weight without cutting carbs. I read all the books last winter, and they all say so."
(I lost 60 pounds since last winter without any particular effort to cut carbs, and say so. She sees this as contentiousness on my part, because - I guess? - I haven't written any books, so I know nothing.)
I'm pretty sure I would read your book if you chose to write one.
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nutmegoreo wrote: »Friend: "You can't lose weight without cutting carbs. I read all the books last winter, and they all say so."
(I lost 60 pounds since last winter without any particular effort to cut carbs, and say so. She sees this as contentiousness on my part, because - I guess? - I haven't written any books, so I know nothing.)
I'm pretty sure I would read your book if you chose to write one.
Me too!
LOL - thanks for the vote of confidence, both!
It'd be a short book, despite me being a wordy li'l ol' lady: "Want to lose weight? Eat less than you burn. Want to be healthy, too? Do something active you enjoy, and eat a well-rounded array of nutritious food."
Sorry for the digression, y'all who are on-topic posters!11 -
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nutmegoreo wrote: »Friend: "You can't lose weight without cutting carbs. I read all the books last winter, and they all say so."
(I lost 60 pounds since last winter without any particular effort to cut carbs, and say so. She sees this as contentiousness on my part, because - I guess? - I haven't written any books, so I know nothing.)
I'm pretty sure I would read your book if you chose to write one.
Me too!
LOL - thanks for the vote of confidence, both!
It'd be a short book, despite me being a wordy li'l ol' lady: "Want to lose weight? Eat less than you burn. Want to be healthy, too? Do something active you enjoy, and eat a well-rounded array of nutritious food."
Sorry for the digression, y'all who are on-topic posters!
All for the low price of $29.97. Worth it!RunningMom1038 wrote: »
Me too. And motorcycles when Kickstart is mentioned.10 -
I've heard, "Diet sodas will make you gain weight," too many times to count,
And "Caffeine turns into sugar in your body."
The starvation mode verbal vomit bugs me the most. I just want to exclaim, "So THAT'S why all those starving people in third-world countries are so fat!" (I'm a sarcastic person. It isn't my nicest quality.)17 -
RunningMom1038 wrote: »I've heard, "Diet sodas will make you gain weight," too many times to count,
And "Caffeine turns into sugar in your body."
The starvation mode verbal vomit bugs me the most. I just want to exclaim, "So THAT'S why all those starving people in third-world countries are so fat!" (I'm a sarcastic person. It isn't my nicest quality.)
Ah, but it's one of your more entertaining qualities!
Also, "Caffeine turns into sugar in your body." Wut?!?!2 -
RunningMom1038 wrote: »
Oh goody, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this. "revving up the metabolism" induces similar mental images (especially since I'm watching the Bathurst 12 Hour right now).4 -
"You're not losing weight because your eating too little. I'm the same, I don't eat enough so my body holds on to all the fat."
Same person at around midday:"Let's have lunch, I've barely eaten anything today"
Me being sceptical: "What have you eaten?"
Then: "a bowl of cereal, a ham and cheese sandwich, a packet of crisps. And that's IT!"
Me eating a 280 calorie toasted sandwich.
Them eating a 500+ calorie ceaser salad: "You shouldn't be eating bread if you want to lose weight."21
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