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What terms/phrases wind you up about losing weight?
martinemarbella
Posts: 2 Member
I'm sure this won't go down too well but my personal bete noire is 'my journey'. Makes me cringe!
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Diet and cheat33
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Cheat Day, Detox and Cleanse52
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when ppl lose a ton of weight and say they arent where they want to be..shutup and be proud of urself51
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Low carb/keto40
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That humans aren't governed by the laws of thermodynamics.54
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None. Although there are terms I don't like using personally (cheat, journey...etc), I'm pretty laid back about what others want to use and I can usually tell from context what they mean without feeling annoyed.
At times there are terms that I'm just burned out on discussing so I just stay out of these threads for a while (clean eating, sugar, calorie is a calorie...etc).
These don't wind me up, but they just make me roll my eyes sometimes: short weight loss slogans like "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels", "no pain no gain", "sweat is your fat crying"...etc. I just don't care for slogans and motivational quotes/fitspiration much. There are only a few quotes out there than don't cause me to go "yeah yeah.. Next" in my mind.35 -
Way too many. Trying to lose weight (and loose weight, even), intermittent fasting. Not so much journeys, as tracks, horses and wagons (even bandwagons). The last X pounds, healthy food is expensive, healthy recipes, cheating, confusing CICO with calorie counting, motivation, willpower, foods to make you feel full, healthy snacks. I'm not full of hate, but I'm bitter and enthusiastic - because believing in these kinds of myths and confusion made it impossible for me to reach my goals, and exposing them to daylight made it virtually effortless. I don't want others to go through the same as me, but I can't do anything to stop a person who has made up their mind, and that makes me frustrated. I usually burn out after a few years, so I hope I some day can just roll my eyes
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All the above, but more than anything, when people say "I wish I could lose weight" - or "How do you stay slim when you're always eating". When I explain HOW I lose weight and keep it off (eat less, move more, tracking everything I eat) the excuses start coming "I don't have time, I'm not technological, I had measles when I was 3....) (But not the last one often!055
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since I have been on these boards I seem to get irrationally angry when people say they are 'being good' or they go on about 'bad foods' haha33
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kommodevaran wrote: »Way too many. Trying to lose weight (and loose weight, even), intermittent fasting. Not so much journeys, as tracks, horses and wagons (even bandwagons). The last X pounds, healthy food is expensive, healthy recipes, cheating, confusing CICO with calorie counting, motivation, willpower, foods to make you feel full, healthy snacks. I'm not full of hate, but I'm bitter and enthusiastic - because believing in these kinds of myths and confusion made it impossible for me to reach my goals, and exposing them to daylight made it virtually effortless. I don't want others to go through the same as me, but I can't do anything to stop a person who has made up their mind, and that makes me frustrated. I usually burn out after a few years, so I hope I some day can just roll my eyes
How is IF a myth?15 -
"Every body's different".
Nope. No, not really at all.25 -
"nothing tastes as good as skinny feels".... :huh: :noway:41
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TavistockToad wrote: »"nothing tastes as good as skinny feels".... :huh: :noway:
Oh, I really hate that one too.10 -
Toned
As in "I want to look toned for bikini season"
Ugh tone is music you want to look more muscular or stronger.20 -
IF is confusion, and the confusion is mythical. IF just not eating all the time, which can be good for adherance for those who prefer it. But lots of people are already not eating all the time, and thriving, without calling it IF. IF is sourrounded with ideas that you burn more fat by not eating, that it makes you live longer, that it is "skipping breakfast", but just skipping breakfast won't have the same effect (you have to call it IF), that certain foods and drinks magically breaks your fast, or not, and that it has any special meaning, which it has not, and that you have to eat a certain number of meals, which you don't.Ironandwine69 wrote: »kommodevaran wrote: »Way too many. Trying to lose weight (and loose weight, even), intermittent fasting. Not so much journeys, as tracks, horses and wagons (even bandwagons). The last X pounds, healthy food is expensive, healthy recipes, cheating, confusing CICO with calorie counting, motivation, willpower, foods to make you feel full, healthy snacks. I'm not full of hate, but I'm bitter and enthusiastic - because believing in these kinds of myths and confusion made it impossible for me to reach my goals, and exposing them to daylight made it virtually effortless. I don't want others to go through the same as me, but I can't do anything to stop a person who has made up their mind, and that makes me frustrated. I usually burn out after a few years, so I hope I some day can just roll my eyes
How is IF a myth?15 -
"You're gaining muscle" when in a deficit - especially in the time frame of about a week or a few weeks. Ugh.
"How do I 'kick-start' my 'diet'?"
"Clean food", "clean calories"
"I do HIIT 5x per week AND I lift weights, AND I eat 1200 calories AND I don't eat my exercise calories back AND I can't lose any weight".48 -
"I eat 800 calories a day and I am gaining weight. I must be in starvation mode." or "Don't eat below 1200 calories or your body will hold on to everything you eat and gain weight."38
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kommodevaran wrote: »
IF is confusion, and the confusion is mythical. IF just not eating all the time, which can be good for adherance for those who prefer it. But lots of people are already not eating all the time, and thriving, without calling it IF. IF is sourrounded with ideas that you burn more fat by not eating, that it makes you live longer, that it is "skipping breakfast", but just skipping breakfast won't have the same effect (you have to call it IF), that certain foods and drinks magically breaks your fast, or not, and that it has any special meaning, which it has not, and that you have to eat a certain number of meals, which you don't.Ironandwine69 wrote: »kommodevaran wrote: »Way too many. Trying to lose weight (and loose weight, even), intermittent fasting. Not so much journeys, as tracks, horses and wagons (even bandwagons). The last X pounds, healthy food is expensive, healthy recipes, cheating, confusing CICO with calorie counting, motivation, willpower, foods to make you feel full, healthy snacks. I'm not full of hate, but I'm bitter and enthusiastic - because believing in these kinds of myths and confusion made it impossible for me to reach my goals, and exposing them to daylight made it virtually effortless. I don't want others to go through the same as me, but I can't do anything to stop a person who has made up their mind, and that makes me frustrated. I usually burn out after a few years, so I hope I some day can just roll my eyes
How is IF a myth?
I use IF, but not for any of the crap you listed above. It works well with my day and I like having a lot of calories in a shorter period of time. It's not magic. You can gain weight using IF the same as you can not using it; if you eat more calories during any time frame than you are burning, you will gain. I also don't have any magic foods that I "break fast" with. And no, you don't have to eat any certain number of meals, you can eat all calories in one meal, in 3 meals, in 8 meals. It matters not as long as the calories add up and keep you in the green.15 -
Thin people lecturing me about my health and how I need to lose weight so I can look good like them while they literally are smoking cigarettes. Not really a phrase so much as a habit or something.18
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"Bad food" -you don't have to cut out anything, just keep under your calorie goal for the day and you're all good.14
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kommodevaran wrote: »
IF is confusion, and the confusion is mythical. IF just not eating all the time, which can be good for adherance for those who prefer it. But lots of people are already not eating all the time, and thriving, without calling it IF. IF is sourrounded with ideas that you burn more fat by not eating, that it makes you live longer, that it is "skipping breakfast", but just skipping breakfast won't have the same effect (you have to call it IF), that certain foods and drinks magically breaks your fast, or not, and that it has any special meaning, which it has not, and that you have to eat a certain number of meals, which you don't.Ironandwine69 wrote: »kommodevaran wrote: »Way too many. Trying to lose weight (and loose weight, even), intermittent fasting. Not so much journeys, as tracks, horses and wagons (even bandwagons). The last X pounds, healthy food is expensive, healthy recipes, cheating, confusing CICO with calorie counting, motivation, willpower, foods to make you feel full, healthy snacks. I'm not full of hate, but I'm bitter and enthusiastic - because believing in these kinds of myths and confusion made it impossible for me to reach my goals, and exposing them to daylight made it virtually effortless. I don't want others to go through the same as me, but I can't do anything to stop a person who has made up their mind, and that makes me frustrated. I usually burn out after a few years, so I hope I some day can just roll my eyes
How is IF a myth?
IF is a tool to help with one goals. There's many tools, IF is just one. You can't say tools are confusion or myths, because they are not. They work for some, don't work for others. Some people use them sometimes, some people go a little nuts with it.
And just for the record, IF doesn't have any rules about how many meals to have.
I understand how some people see it as an magic tool to lose weight, which is not. But nothing is. Exercise is a tool in weight loss, yet some people gain weight even with exercise. Because the rest of the plan is not "on point". You can't say exercise is a myth.14 -
"Toning"
"Muscle weighs more than fat"
Ugh just thinking about this makes me angry.11 -
"toning" ("I don't want to build any muscles, I just want to tone them")
"starvation mode"
"loose" weight
and the worst - something like this: "I've gained 5 lbs this week, but I know not to worry because it's all muscle"
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When people are surprised when they "gain" weight right after eating or drinking something. I mean... it's IN you now. Of course it shows on the scale.53
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guesstimate. just that word. As soon as i see it i'm like "nah"6
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TONE!!
and "I don't wanna get too bulky."
:grumble:19 -
"You should...x...y...z..."
"You shouldn't...x...y...z."
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Alatariel75 wrote: »When people are surprised when they "gain" weight right after eating or drinking something. I mean... it's IN you now. Of course it shows on the scale.
women who are surprised when they gain weight on their period even though they say they are bloated... what do they think the bloat is!? air!?41 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »"nothing tastes as good as skinny feels".... :huh: :noway:
Oh, I really hate that one too.
Nails down a blackboard for me, that one. Makes me want to immediately start cramming pizza into my cakehole.
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"Humans weren't made to eat that stuff". Why stop with caveman food? Humans evolved from bacteria; let's just use photosynthesis and really get back to our "natural state"!83
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