What is the daftest weight related thing someone has ever said to you?
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RaeBeeBaby wrote: »I had a friend tell me she was adding Hot Cheetos to her weight-loss plan because she needed more protein in her diet. Because cheese. She didn't want to lose muscle while losing pounds and needed more healthy snacks.
I just responded with "maybe you should read the label" . . . . .
One whole gram!2 -
Rebecca0224 wrote: »If you want to lose weight you're supposed to eat 5 small meals a day.
My boyfriend said this last night, I just laughed and said ok.
This is the bane of my existence.
For YEARS I was convinced you had to do this to lose weight. Intermittent fasting has been working flawlessly to stop my binging and it works well with my lifestyle. Because I'm not eating tons of small meals every couple hours, people think what I'm doing will make me gain weight. I'm like, honey, I've achieved 10% weight loss for the first time on any diet I've tried and I'm not even putting in half the effort. I'm cool with this strategy.8 -
nickslat1961 wrote: »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 you
Umm. Well I'm diabetic and test my blood regularly. Drinking diet soda has never once caused a blood sugar spike.
What's more, an increase of insulin would lower blood sugar levels if that was true, so instead of injecting insulin, all T1's and T2 diabetics should be prescribed diet soda and be hunky dory with no limb amputations.
Not sure where that was written, but it's very wrong.
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RaeBeeBaby wrote: »I had a friend tell me she was adding Hot Cheetos to her weight-loss plan because she needed more protein in her diet. Because cheese. She didn't want to lose muscle while losing pounds and needed more healthy snacks.
I just responded with "maybe you should read the label" . . . . .
That reminds me of one of my daughter's classmates in high school. She decided to become a vegetarian to lose weight. She was complaining one day about how she was so hungry because all she had eaten that day was a salad and some beef jerky. They asked her what plant beef jerky came from. I think she was a bit confused.14 -
RaeBeeBaby wrote: »I had a friend tell me she was adding Hot Cheetos to her weight-loss plan because she needed more protein in her diet. Because cheese. She didn't want to lose muscle while losing pounds and needed more healthy snacks.
I just responded with "maybe you should read the label" . . . . .
That reminds me of one of my daughter's classmates in high school. She decided to become a vegetarian to lose weight. She was complaining one day about how she was so hungry because all she had eaten that day was a salad and some beef jerky. They asked her what plant beef jerky came from. I think she was a bit confused.
I worked with a girl who went low carb, no potatoes, no rice, no pasta etc - no weight loss. She's eating a bag of jelly beans at lunch and someone asks. She didn't realise sugar was a carb. Thought it was a completely different thing.14 -
RaeBeeBaby wrote: »I had a friend tell me she was adding Hot Cheetos to her weight-loss plan because she needed more protein in her diet. Because cheese. She didn't want to lose muscle while losing pounds and needed more healthy snacks.
I just responded with "maybe you should read the label" . . . . .
That reminds me of one of my daughter's classmates in high school. She decided to become a vegetarian to lose weight. She was complaining one day about how she was so hungry because all she had eaten that day was a salad and some beef jerky. They asked her what plant beef jerky came from. I think she was a bit confused.
I almost just shot water out of my nose!
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An internist told me years ago that in order for me to lose weight, I should just eat cheese, a lot of it. I said to him that I would then have a cholesterol problem. He said to me that we would worry about it then.
I went to a doctor once, forgot why, but without him knowing me at all, and without me asking, gave me the name of an obesity surgeon and that I should have WLS.
I find it strange that I went recently to a hematologist. Have anemia/low iron. She never once asked me if I am vegan, a vegetarian or anything about how much foods with iron I eat on a daily basis.
One time after losing around 50 lbs. the nurse weighed me. When the doctor came in, the nurse must have told her I lost weight. Immediately she wanted to know how I lost it. I said I ate less. She seemed disappointed.
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CattOfTheGarage wrote: »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.
I'd guess that for some, they don't because eating a cookie (or similar food) revs up their appetite to a point where they feel like it controls them. So that would make keeping calories down a major struggle, and for weight loss, the struggle to get calories up can feel like the lesser of two evils. Also, when your appetite is suppressed, eating is really unpleasant, gag-inducing.
I think some of these people just haven't yet figured out how to eat in a way that keeps their appetite in check without supressing it too much. It can take time and experimenting. And faith that it won't grow back to its prior point.
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I was walking on campus yesterday and thought of this thread. A guy behind me was on the phone saying that fat needs oxygen to burn, so people can only lose weight if they get their heart rate up for at least 30 min a day because that increases our oxygen levels. He said that oxygen accounts for 80% of weight loss and the rest is from water, so that drinking a lot of water is also necessary.
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Chunkahlunkah wrote: »I was walking on campus yesterday and thought of this thread. A guy behind me was on the phone saying that fat needs oxygen to burn, so people can only lose weight if they get their heart rate up for at least 30 min a day. He said that oxygen accounts for 80% of weight loss and the rest is from water, so that drinking a lot of water is also necessary.
Well, personally, I do try my best not to be deficient in oxygen.13 -
CattOfTheGarage wrote: »Chunkahlunkah wrote: »I was walking on campus yesterday and thought of this thread. A guy behind me was on the phone saying that fat needs oxygen to burn, so people can only lose weight if they get their heart rate up for at least 30 min a day. He said that oxygen accounts for 80% of weight loss and the rest is from water, so that drinking a lot of water is also necessary.
Well, personally, I do try my best not to be deficient in oxygen.
Yeah, it does make the whole staying alive thing much easier. 11 -
CattOfTheGarage wrote: »Chunkahlunkah wrote: »I was walking on campus yesterday and thought of this thread. A guy behind me was on the phone saying that fat needs oxygen to burn, so people can only lose weight if they get their heart rate up for at least 30 min a day. He said that oxygen accounts for 80% of weight loss and the rest is from water, so that drinking a lot of water is also necessary.
Well, personally, I do try my best not to be deficient in oxygen.
I do hope so.
Then again... wouldn't being deficient in oxygen eventually lead to a rather radical case of weight loss?10 -
If you go low carb (or low anything for that matter), you don't have to worry about calories. Anything to do with women gaining all kinds of weight because of the muscle they are packing on. Yeah, I wish it was that easy. Definitely the family/friends who tell you you are getting too skinny. I'm not even in my healthy weight range/BMI yet. That you have to eat and workout at a specific time of day in order to lose weight.1
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Well, personally, I do try my best not to be deficient in oxygen. [/quote]
I live at 7000' so the air is a bit thin - so THAT'S the problem!
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CattOfTheGarage wrote: »Chunkahlunkah wrote: »I was walking on campus yesterday and thought of this thread. A guy behind me was on the phone saying that fat needs oxygen to burn, so people can only lose weight if they get their heart rate up for at least 30 min a day. He said that oxygen accounts for 80% of weight loss and the rest is from water, so that drinking a lot of water is also necessary.
Well, personally, I do try my best not to be deficient in oxygen.
Oxygen is more addictive than heroin though.18 -
stevencloser wrote: »CattOfTheGarage wrote: »Chunkahlunkah wrote: »I was walking on campus yesterday and thought of this thread. A guy behind me was on the phone saying that fat needs oxygen to burn, so people can only lose weight if they get their heart rate up for at least 30 min a day. He said that oxygen accounts for 80% of weight loss and the rest is from water, so that drinking a lot of water is also necessary.
Well, personally, I do try my best not to be deficient in oxygen.
Oxygen is more addictive than heroin though.
I've never seen anyone sell their kid for oxygen 7 -
Tacklewasher wrote: »stevencloser wrote: »CattOfTheGarage wrote: »Chunkahlunkah wrote: »I was walking on campus yesterday and thought of this thread. A guy behind me was on the phone saying that fat needs oxygen to burn, so people can only lose weight if they get their heart rate up for at least 30 min a day. He said that oxygen accounts for 80% of weight loss and the rest is from water, so that drinking a lot of water is also necessary.
Well, personally, I do try my best not to be deficient in oxygen.
Oxygen is more addictive than heroin though.
I've never seen anyone sell their kid for oxygen
But withdrawal will kill you in minutes.9 -
I'm sure there's some people here, myself included, who have said some of these various things to love ones. We all had to start somewhere, I know I had to learn a lot during this journey.4
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Not a silly food or exercise thing, but the dumbest thing I was told was that I would become anorexic if I lost any more weight. That was after slowly losing 30 pounds (eating clean) so I was at 180.1
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Carlos_421 wrote: »Tacklewasher wrote: »stevencloser wrote: »CattOfTheGarage wrote: »Chunkahlunkah wrote: »I was walking on campus yesterday and thought of this thread. A guy behind me was on the phone saying that fat needs oxygen to burn, so people can only lose weight if they get their heart rate up for at least 30 min a day. He said that oxygen accounts for 80% of weight loss and the rest is from water, so that drinking a lot of water is also necessary.
Well, personally, I do try my best not to be deficient in oxygen.
Oxygen is more addictive than heroin though.
I've never seen anyone sell their kid for oxygen
But withdrawal will kill you in minutes.
spit out my water LOL2
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