What is the daftest weight related thing someone has ever said to you?
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"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."
two co-workers about a third co-worker
1: She lost so much weight How did she do it?
2: Well you know she found she did not eat enough So she started eating more
1: Oh that sounds great -so her body was just holding on to whatever she ate
2: well yes
Me: So actually she started to eat properly at meal times and stopped snacking on candy
2: Well Yes that is another way of looking at it.
Me: so she did not eat more, she ate less, just proper meals to keep full and not have that cake and candy and stuff on the department table
2: Yes....?
Me: So again, she ate less not more.
1. I could never do that
me *sigh*14 -
1. Women should never eat more than 1200 calories per day
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Oops hit post by accident on a bumpy tour bus!
2. A friend insists she only eats 1300 calories per day (does not count, tried and gave up) and burns 1000 calories per day in exercise class because "it's a really hard class" but is still gaining weight. All she knows is her numbers sound about right. Friend #2 tells her to start jogging to get rid of all that bulky muscle she built up in exercise class because it's making her too heavy.15 -
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 understand this, too. What I don't understand is why they don't just eat a cookie.6 -
CafeRacer808 wrote: »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?!?!
I guess I'll take that as a compliment!
But, yes. The caffeine magically turning into sugar came from a diabetic relative. *shrug*4 -
Your thighs are heavy...you looked so good when you were exercising all the time.
(Said to a teenager who weight 120lbs and was a size 4/6, by her quite obese mother - size 22).
And she wonders why I have food issues now.
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It's impossible to gain unhealthy weight because I'm skinny.3
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PoisonDartFrog wrote: »Your thighs are heavy...you looked so good when you were exercising all the time.
(Said to a teenager who weight 120lbs and was a size 4/6, by her quite obese mother - size 22).
And she wonders why I have food issues now.
I know as a mom I have struggled every day not to put my body issues on my daughter. I hope you can get past it and know that that wasn't really what she thought about you, she just doesn't realize her own issues are sneaking out. All the best. 7 -
PoisonDartFrog wrote: »Your thighs are heavy...you looked so good when you were exercising all the time.
(Said to a teenager who weight 120lbs and was a size 4/6, by her quite obese mother - size 22).
And she wonders why I have food issues now.
Sounds like my cousin's overweight wife telling their 10 year old stick thin daughter she is fat and making her drink several glasses of water before meals and anytime she said she was hungry. They divorced about six months after this started.5 -
Rebecca0224 wrote: »PoisonDartFrog wrote: »Your thighs are heavy...you looked so good when you were exercising all the time.
(Said to a teenager who weight 120lbs and was a size 4/6, by her quite obese mother - size 22).
And she wonders why I have food issues now.
Sounds like my cousin's overweight wife telling their 10 year old stick thin daughter she is fat and making her drink several glasses of water before meals and anytime she said she was hungry. They divorced about six months after this started.
I hope he got custody.
My dad tried to control our eating. I remember him glaring at me forever eating veggies at a party. My sister says he did it to her too. We were stick thin tweens and teens.0 -
Rebecca0224 wrote: »PoisonDartFrog wrote: »Your thighs are heavy...you looked so good when you were exercising all the time.
(Said to a teenager who weight 120lbs and was a size 4/6, by her quite obese mother - size 22).
And she wonders why I have food issues now.
Sounds like my cousin's overweight wife telling their 10 year old stick thin daughter she is fat and making her drink several glasses of water before meals and anytime she said she was hungry. They divorced about six months after this started.
I hope he got custody.
My dad tried to control our eating. I remember him glaring at me forever eating veggies at a party. My sister says he did it to her too. We were stick thin tweens and teens.
She gave hom the kids after 3 months so she could run off with her boyfriend. Him and kids are doing well living with my aunt who feeds everyone constantly, people don't get a choice with her you just eat.8 -
"I thought you were trying to lose weight, what are you doing eating that?"
(I can't remember exactly what "that" was - I think it might have been Maccas. I do remember it was yummy and that it fit my calorie goals for the day.)10 -
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TheJourneyToFabulous wrote: »
I got that comment recently from someone I'm not terribly fond of. I believe my intentionally snarky reply was, "I am. I guess you don't really know how dieting works..." He stopped commenting after that. 30 -
When I was suffering from Anorexia someone told me I looked healthy... I wasn't. I was 5lbs away from a feeding tube. Like?????8
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Diet soda will make you gain weight and causes cancer
Well I have actually read a lot of studies about diet soda and none of them are good. The problem with DS is your body thinks it is sweet and you have just taken in sugar, when you haven't, so your body produces insulin to regulate the sugar you didn't drink. Eventually your body starts to slow down on insulin production and problems start. And if you don't think the phenylaniline (sp.) in Diet Coke is bad, just google it and see. If 1/2 of what is said about it is true it is really bad for you3 -
When I was at 143lbs and was out of breath and felt my heart racing after walking upstairs in my townhouse someone told me that's normal. My response was no I need to get healthier.6
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emmaling142 wrote: »Stop taking all that medication, weight gain is a side effect! 1- I'll leave medication facts to the doctor thanks. 2- I was fat before I was given the stuff. 3- It is ANTI EPILEPSY medication. I am not stopping! 4- The other side effects include hyperactivity so doing loads at the gym is easier as I don't get tired so fast 5- Another side effect is rage. I suggest you back off.
Such lolz. I'm on Lamictal. Luckily not a weight gainer. Rage not a side effect though as far as i can tell.1 -
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.
And if all else fails, take a ball and play fetch. If I've learned anything from my parent friends its that kids and dogs have a lot in common... but parents don't like to be reminded of that.12 -
From my mother "you can have as much pasta as you like, it's free on slimming world on a green day". No mother, it still has calories. Slimming world's business model revolves around you losing some weight but never enough to stop and never for lobg enough that you don't come back. So they teach you nothing and leave you completely dependant on them.9
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