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What is the daftest weight related thing someone has ever said to you?
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My son's pediatrician just told him Food Matters more than exercise exercise has nothing to do with weight loss1
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airforceman1979 wrote: »My son's pediatrician just told him Food Matters more than exercise exercise has nothing to do with weight loss
Maybe not completely right, but it is on the right track. Diet is far more important than exercise for weight loss.18 -
Tacklewasher wrote: »airforceman1979 wrote: »My son's pediatrician just told him Food Matters more than exercise exercise has nothing to do with weight loss
Maybe not completely right, but it is on the right track. Diet is far more important than exercise for weight loss.
Exactly this. The pediatrician over simplified it, it is true you can't outrun a bad diet.8 -
You made me spit coffee on my computer monitor!
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Tacklewasher wrote: »airforceman1979 wrote: »My son's pediatrician just told him Food Matters more than exercise exercise has nothing to do with weight loss
Maybe not completely right, but it is on the right track. Diet is far more important than exercise for weight loss.
Exactly this. The pediatrician over simplified it, it is true you can't outrun a bad diet.
I always think it's more like it's easy to out-eat a good workout....cause theoretically you could outrun a reasonably poor diet. I exercise for ice cream
It's semantics I know...I always just think when I read you can't outrun a bad diet "watch me" lol!5 -
Tacklewasher wrote: »airforceman1979 wrote: »My son's pediatrician just told him Food Matters more than exercise exercise has nothing to do with weight loss
Maybe not completely right, but it is on the right track. Diet is far more important than exercise for weight loss.
Exactly this. The pediatrician over simplified it, it is true you can't outrun a bad diet.
I always think it's more like it's easy to out-eat a good workout....cause theoretically you could outrun a reasonably poor diet. I exercise for ice cream
It's semantics I know...I always just think when I read you can't outrun a bad diet "watch me" lol!
I always try to explain this to people (I need to stop, lol). I see friends killing themselves in the gym and then beating themselves up about not losing weight and complaining that it's impossible to lose weight when they've done nothing to adjust their food intake. I gained 30 lbs working out (hard) every single day. I could EASILY eat back what I burned before lunch if I don't pay attention.8 -
"I'm not losing [or 'loosing'] weight - I'll have to increase my calories." Yeah right, that'll work.11
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I think the one I heard most often was definitely the "but you don't need to lose weight!" This was also told to me at 320 pounds though. I mean I know I'm tall (5'11), but I'm not a literal giant, so I really don't see how that could even be remotely true.
And not said to me, but I overhear people at my work place talking all the time about how they need to cut carbs (I realize this works for some people, but isn't realistic for me), drink this special type of tea, or consume apple cider vinegar every morning because they read that it's done wonders to melt away weight. Meanwhile they've literally seen me go from my highest weight to over 100 pounds lighter, but these other ways are magically better. I've long given up trying to give input and just roll my eyes at my computer in silence. 15 -
NorthCascades wrote: »"You lose weight in the kitchen, not by exercising."
^^^^ this is somewhat true - I lost 45 lbs simply by changing my diet habits and never once set foot in a gym.4 -
Daftest thing - Once I lost a bunch of weight and was down to a size 00 - my mother told me "Yeah, but your *kitten* is saggy"...that was awesome.8
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Carlos_421 wrote: »As a skinny, athletic middle schooler in the 70's, I was told that girls can't pole vault because we are butt heavy. Right after I'd successfully made my first attempt. That coach is dead now.
Your inclusion of that last detail makes it seem like it must be relevant to the story.
I'm officially creeped out.
We'd better make sure we don't get on @kavahni 's bad side!7 -
ValkyrieFury79 wrote: »Daftest thing - Once I lost a bunch of weight and was down to a size 00 - my mother told me "Yeah, but your *kitten* is saggy"...that was awesome.
Gotta love mothers like that. My mother is dead and never saw my weight loss, but she would have said something similar.
I'll be seeing her sister (who I have no contact with) at my niece's wedding this summer. I am fully expecting some similar remark to come flying out of her mouth.3 -
Phone call with my mother whom I haven't seen in a couple of years. Mom: "I weigh 118 lbs. How much do you weigh?" Me: "I don't know, I don't weigh myself". Mom: "Really, how much do you weigh? About 300 lbs?"
Of course, I know how much I weigh - currently 171 lbs - but did not want to discuss it with her. Last time I saw her I was at my heaviest, about 220 lbs. She is obsessed with her weight and how much other people eat and weigh. Prior to me losing about 40 lbs. we skyped. She told me: "I didn't recognize you because your face is round".
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Carlos_421 wrote: »As a skinny, athletic middle schooler in the 70's, I was told that girls can't pole vault because we are butt heavy. Right after I'd successfully made my first attempt. That coach is dead now.
Your inclusion of that last detail makes it seem like it must be relevant to the story.
I'm officially creeped out.
We'd better make sure we don't get on @kavahni 's bad side!
I'm only afraid if I meet her at a track & field event.4 -
spiriteagle99 wrote: »DietVanillaCoke wrote: »
You don't want to lose weight, you'll loss your boobs.
That one is true, at least for me.
I wish it was true for me. At my thinnest I was a size 2. Finding a 34 E is freaking impossible without turning to very expensive internet shopping.
Craziest diet/weight loss advice I've heard:- All women at a healthy weight naturally have a thigh gap. If you don't, you're fat and need to diet until you do.
- You should exercise in heavy sweat pants and a sweat shirt even when it's hot. You'll lose more weight.
- If you hit a plateau, that's your body's way of telling you you're at a healthy weight.
- Vegetable calories don't count. Eat as much veg as you want.
- If you're a woman past menopause and diet, you'll just lose all your muscle. Post-menopausal women can't lose fat.
- Co-worker trying to lose weight: Frequently ordered double quarter pounders, large fries, diet cokes. "As long as I drink diet sodas, I can eat what I want and still lose weight." She was not losing weight and swore up and down that CICO is a myth, that all you really had to do was eat less than you had been eating initially and that your body would shed pounds to adjust to the food deficit.
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It's so much harder to lose weight after 30/40/50 whatever years old.
Your body gets used to exercise, that's why you're not losing weight (when OP hasn't lost weight for a week or two and/or has sloppy logging) you need to switch it up and switch your macros.
Macros split determines how much weight you lose, a better macro split will mean more weight loss at the same calorie intake.
Set points.2 -
I was actually told once that I should eat margarine instead of butter because margarine is an "artificial fat" that my body won't recognize so it will just past through me and not be absorbed. Seriously.
I made my WTF? face and the subject was never mentioned again.
Remember olestra?3 -
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.
You know, I think the people who experience this have never, or haven't in a very long time, eaten 1200 calories of nutrient dense, high fiber foods. I can say that for me personally there is a tremendous difference between eating a slice of pizza versus a bowl of lentil stew chock full of vegetables. The pizza makes me hungrier for more pizza and sweets. The lentil stew leaves me very full and satisfied. A lot of fast foods and junk food are designed specifically not to be very filling and to awaken cravings, so you'll buy/eat more of them.
Another thing is when you eat. I used to be a one meal a day-er, but that one meal was a huge calorie bomb. Trying to eat more regularly leaves me feeling much fuller at different times of the day than I was used to and feels like more food. Technically, it is more food. It's just a lot less calorie dense.
Anyway, point is I sort of understand where they're coming from, but I don't think any of these conclusions are difficult to reach on their own if they think about it.2 -
ValkyrieFury79 wrote: »Daftest thing - Once I lost a bunch of weight and was down to a size 00 - my mother told me "Yeah, but your *kitten* is saggy"...that was awesome.
My mom is okay. It's my dad. He wouldn't say exactly this, but he thinks that losing weight is easy.2 -
A friend once said "Going vegan will cure your eating disorder"
My binge eating disorder began while I was vegan0 -
*sigh*
New trainer at the gym I go to (hes subbing for the one that usually comes in while he's curing a broken foot... going to have to change my work out hours if he keeps spewing such daft stuff):
"If you eat carbs at night your metabolism will stop and you'll store those carbs as fat."
How about you stick to training people and leave the nutrition advice to people who know something about it...7 -
DarkSinestra wrote: »spiriteagle99 wrote: »DietVanillaCoke wrote: »
You don't want to lose weight, you'll loss your boobs.
That one is true, at least for me.
I wish it was true for me. At my thinnest I was a size 2. Finding a 34 E is freaking impossible without turning to very expensive internet shopping.
Craziest diet/weight loss advice I've heard:- All women at a healthy weight naturally have a thigh gap. If you don't, you're fat and need to diet until you do.
- You should exercise in heavy sweat pants and a sweat shirt even when it's hot. You'll lose more weight.
- If you hit a plateau, that's your body's way of telling you you're at a healthy weight.
- Vegetable calories don't count. Eat as much veg as you want.
- If you're a woman past menopause and diet, you'll just lose all your muscle. Post-menopausal women can't lose fat.
- Co-worker trying to lose weight: Frequently ordered double quarter pounders, large fries, diet cokes. "As long as I drink diet sodas, I can eat what I want and still lose weight." She was not losing weight and swore up and down that CICO is a myth, that all you really had to do was eat less than you had been eating initially and that your body would shed pounds to adjust to the food deficit.
I think this is why so many people believe diet soda makes them fat because they really think it cancels out anything else they eat so they eat more.7 -
ResistingTemptation5 wrote: »A friend once said "Going vegan will cure your eating disorder"
My binge eating disorder began while I was vegan
There are a lot of anorexics who go vegan or vegetarian to further restrict their intake4 -
ladyreva78 wrote: »*sigh*
New trainer at the gym I go to (hes subbing for the one that usually comes in while he's curing a broken foot... going to have to change my work out hours if he keeps spewing such daft stuff):
"If you eat carbs at night your metabolism will stop and you'll store those carbs as fat."
How about you stick to training people and leave the nutrition advice to people who know something about it...
I've heard this one a million different ways. "Your body doesn't need carbs/ calories at night because your metabolism is slowing down so any carbs/calories you eat after lunch/ dinner/ x o'clock will get stored as fat".0 -
I once heard that you shouldn’t drink beer because that's the only thing that causes a beer belly. If someone had a round tummy they were a secret alcoholic.
Also if you drank alcohol (other than beer) till you were drunk your body wouldn't know what it was doing and wouldn't store the calories of what you ate.....
Even when we were 16 we knew this girl was a moron3 -
That calories in, calories out is all there is to weight loss. I don't consider calories at all and I've lost a great deal of weight. It required a few weird tricks, but now I'm as thin as I've ever been, and doctors hate me.6
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itsthehumidity wrote: »That calories in, calories out is all there is to weight loss. I don't consider calories at all and I've lost a great deal of weight. It required a few weird tricks, but now I'm as thin as I've ever been, and doctors hate me.
But CICO is all that matters when it comes to weight loss. Some people can successfully lose weight without tracking calories, but their weight loss was still the result of a caloric deficit.22 -
As a skinny, athletic middle schooler in the 70's, I was told that girls can't pole vault because we are butt heavy. Right after I'd successfully made my first attempt. That coach is dead now.
I don't know why this is creeping people out. It's evolution's whole job to ensure that people of a certain level of life competence don't make it very far. Sadly, with product liability law what it is these days, most of them last long enough to breed.
Obligatory on-topic: If you drink ice water, you'll burn a meaningful number of extra calories.9 -
As a skinny, athletic middle schooler in the 70's, I was told that girls can't pole vault because we are butt heavy. Right after I'd successfully made my first attempt. That coach is dead now.
I don't know why this is creeping people out. It's evolution's whole job to ensure that people of a certain level of life competence don't make it very far. Sadly, with product liability law what it is these days, most of them last long enough to breed.
Obligatory on-topic: If you drink ice water, you'll burn a meaningful number of extra calories.
That was actually a question in my physics A-level paper, working out temperature changes of ice water when drunk to KJ of energy. And how you'd have to drink to lose a lb.... I seem to remember it was A LOT3 -
Not directed at me, but women used to be barred from competing in the ski jump for fear that it would weaken the muscles holding their uterus in place and the uterus would 'wander.'9
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