What terms/phrases wind you up about losing weight?
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HeliumIsNoble wrote: »"I'm ordering my wedding dress a couple of sizes smaller to give myself something to aim for".
Just... Look, we all make mistakes. But what is the point of being sapient, social creatures with written and spoken language, if we're not going to communicate and learn from each others' mistakes and resolve to make our own, unique ones? Enough women have spun the "will I get into this dress in time?" wheel and either lost, or 'won' and looked deathly ill on the day.
Can people please stop doing this to themselves? Please?
If you are planning a wedding, look for a design of dress that fits now and could be easily taken in, if necessary. Talk to a seamstress about it. They'll thank you for consulting them before you purchase the damn thing, rather than bringing it in at short notice because it's still too small.
I think we have all been there....I always say I'll lose weight for my bikini and that I'll be my husband's "skinny boat babe".....HA! Who am I kidding LMAO (At least I know I'm being ridiculous)
However, I do agree with you. I was 5 months pregnant when I got married, I had my wedding dress taken out twice for my growing belly, and I can honestly say that I didn't even look pregnant. I had several people ask me where the baby was LoL0 -
sarahlifts wrote: »
We may understand what they think they meant, but the general public clearly does not.It drives me nuts when people correct someone for saying "muscle weighs more than fat", nitpicking semantics... we understood what they meant.
Watch the shocked look on the average person's face when you show them a specific volume of fat and muscle (such as from beef or pork) and then try to guess which weighs more.
The average person cannot correctly answer me when I ask which would hit the ground first if you dropped a bowling ball, a banana, a golf ball and a baseball off of a second story building.
That is, not without a Google search first...
Start educating people to use words properly and they might learn something.
Ignorance of proper diet and exercise requirements are only part of the reason most people are overweight but it is one of the easiest things to correct.
Developing the discipline to do what is necessary for improving one's diet and "fitness" is much harder.
Setting expectations for weight loss, body image, etc. based on facts instead of what they "think" is true and ultimately "want" to be true can go a long way towards preventing early disappointment and disillusionment.
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Its about educating people not correcting them. Most are overweight because they don't have good info. The think they have to live on salads eat clean and suffer to lose weight. That is out of reach for most people.
I don't disagree with the content of this. I disagree with it being attached to my opinion on something as it is assuming I disagree with all of this. I don't. It is, and will forever be - MY OPINION about being annoyed by something I consider to be nitpicking.
And in spirit of this thread, it's not really fair to attack someone for their opinion. I'm glad you have yours, and I have mine. I always do my best to provide accurate information when posting in help threads. See title of thread.
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This is a Journey:
Don't stop believin'17 -
I'm not a big fan of "weight loss is not linear". I wholeheartedly agree with the concept but there must be different ways of expressing it.0
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Hahaha @ all of this. You have all reached hero status in my book.3
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I am not sure if there was something in my post that made you feel you were being attacked but there was not any "attack on your opinion" intended.I don't disagree with the content of this. I disagree with it being attached to my opinion on something as it is assuming I disagree with all of this. I don't. It is, and will forever be - MY OPINION about being annoyed by something I consider to be nitpicking.
And in spirit of this thread, it's not really fair to attack someone for their opinion. I'm glad you have yours, and I have mine. I always do my best to provide accurate information when posting in help threads. See title of thread.
The only time I "attack" anyone for their opinion is when they behave as if their "opinion" should be given consideration and credibility while it could be demonstrated to be false.
"Being entitled to your opinion" is a logical fallacy. No one is "entitled" to their opinion.
That is another statement that does not mean what most people want to think it means.
This is several years of formal logic and philosophy talking.
But again, it was not my intent to attack your "opinion" here. I was clarifying my stance for why people such as I are particular about saying "muscle weighs more than fat".
Disagreeing with someone is not an overt attack.
If you feel that is somehow attacking you or your opinion then we are simply at an impasse and there is no reason to discuss it further.
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HeliumIsNoble wrote: »"I'm ordering my wedding dress a couple of sizes smaller to give myself something to aim for".
Just... Look, we all make mistakes. But what is the point of being sapient, social creatures with written and spoken language, if we're not going to communicate and learn from each others' mistakes and resolve to make our own, unique ones? Enough women have spun the "will I get into this dress in time?" wheel and either lost, or 'won' and looked deathly ill on the day.
Can people please stop doing this to themselves? Please?
If you are planning a wedding, look for a design of dress that fits now and could be easily taken in, if necessary. Talk to a seamstress about it. They'll thank you for consulting them before you purchase the damn thing, rather than bringing it in at short notice because it's still too small.
I think we have all been there....I always say I'll lose weight for my bikini and that I'll be my husband's "skinny boat babe".....HA! Who am I kidding LMAO (At least I know I'm being ridiculous)
However, I do agree with you. I was 5 months pregnant when I got married, I had my wedding dress taken out twice for my growing belly, and I can honestly say that I didn't even look pregnant. I had several people ask me where the baby was LoL
Ha! I actually told my doctor I couldn't lose any weight because I'd had my dress altered already and I couldn't afford to do it again! How's that for fat lady rationalization.
Then I gained 15-20 lbs and couldn't breathe in the damn thing.
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Heather4448 wrote: »If u type lik dis on da forums... I want to strangle you and/or beat you to death.
This. Yes, I know how to read "text speak" but a whole post full of "ur" and "u have 2" makes me want to slap people. I want to tell them typing out the whole word takes more energy and adds to your NEAT. 21 -
"It's a good thing I'm Church of England!"Penthesilea514 wrote: »Favorites bits include Cake or Death skit and Haaalp, I'm covered in beeeeeeees.
"And this one is wet, and this one is wet....where did you dry these? In a rain forest?"4 -
I am not sure if there was something in my post that made you feel you were being attacked but there was not any "attack on your opinion" intended.I don't disagree with the content of this. I disagree with it being attached to my opinion on something as it is assuming I disagree with all of this. I don't. It is, and will forever be - MY OPINION about being annoyed by something I consider to be nitpicking.
And in spirit of this thread, it's not really fair to attack someone for their opinion. I'm glad you have yours, and I have mine. I always do my best to provide accurate information when posting in help threads. See title of thread.
The only time I "attack" anyone for their opinion is when they behave as if their "opinion" should be given consideration and credibility while it could be demonstrated to be false.
"Being entitled to your opinion" is a logical fallacy. No one is "entitled" to their opinion.
That is another statement that does not mean what most people want to think it means.
This is several years of formal logic and philosophy talking.
But again, it was not my intent to attack your "opinion" here. I was clarifying my stance for why people such as I are particular about saying "muscle weighs more than fat".
Disagreeing with someone is not an overt attack.
If you feel that is somehow attacking you or your opinion then we are simply at an impasse and there is no reason to discuss it further.
All good, attack was a bit of an overstatement, but I felt I was being taken out of context and needed to clarify my stance.
I agree with your statements about being entitled to your opinion. Seems a pass for anyone to be a raging *kitten* for no reason, wrong or right. If I thought everyone who disagreed with me was attacking me, I'd probably be in a padded room by now.
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"It's a good thing I'm Church of England!"Penthesilea514 wrote: »Favorites bits include Cake or Death skit and Haaalp, I'm covered in beeeeeeees.
"And this one is wet, and this one is wet....where did you dry these? In a rain forest?"
"Do you want peas with that?"2 -
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One thing that annoys me.
People who are trying to lose saying they can't eat more than 1000 calories a day since they started their diet 2 months ago. Really? You weigh 300 pounds and you don't know how to eat a bit MORE.38 -
I'm not a big fan of "weight loss is not linear". I wholeheartedly agree with the concept but there must be different ways of expressing it.
You just reminded me of another peeve I've got!
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When people say "Weight loss is not linear", what they often mean is "Weight loss is not monotonic." Linear means falling on a line, i.e. rate of weight loss stays the same. Monotonic means that the slope never changes sign, that is you never gain when you're trying to lose.
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You just reminded me of another peeve I've got!
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When people say "Weight loss is not linear", what they often mean is "Weight loss is not monotonic." Linear means falling on a line, i.e. rate of weight loss stays the same. Monotonic means that the slope never changes sign, that is you never gain when you're trying to lose.
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You sir, are a Great American.6 -
When people say its what you eat rather than how much that determines weight loss... Like sure you may feel better eating better quality food but you'll lose weight the same as long as you have the same deficit4
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"Bad" foods.
I work out a lot and have a lot of muscle (without the BodPod or Dexa scan) they just "know," therefore a high BMI doesn't apply to me. Very few of us are people at the level of fitness to whom this applies.
Telling someone's who's plateaued or gained weight that since they've been exercising and eating in a deficit that they've gained weight due to building muscle in a few weeks. (Or when this is an observation about one's self.)
The myth that any one WOE will cure disease, heal the sick, make people fly, or do anything but help them lose weight (which in itself often comes with improved health benefits--but it's due to the weight loss, not the magic of the diet components).- With my WOE, I can eat as many calories as I want and still lose weight. CICO is a myth.
Demonizing a food or food group.
I need to eat more to lose.
Starvation mode.
The "Biggest Loser" study applies to all of us who have lost/are losing weight. Geez, people! READ the study, even the authors said right IN the study the results could not be generalized to the rest of the population!
Whew! That felt good--THANKS!
You found the thing that drives me crazy.
I cannot stand the whole culture of food as medicine, no matter what form it takes. In addition to being bunk, it offers false hope, and has a really ugly underbelly that just makes me very, very angry. It underpins a lot of the diet superiority infighting that happens (which happens to be a pet peeve of mine - why is there a macro balance Olympics for some people... who cares how you achieve a calorie deficit?) and fosters mentalities like victim blaming and "you just didn't do it right/try hard enough/want it enough".
Can't stand the whole deal and I think every charlatan who peddles food as medicine is an awful person and should feel badly about themselves.
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WOE gives me woe.8
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amusedmonkey wrote: »LadyLilion wrote: »Okay...questions:
Journey - What other word do you think is appropriate?
I usually just say it's a process, not a journey. For me it's more accurate and appropriate.
I do get a little bugged when people refer to "eating clean". Everyone I have come across that says they are trying to eat clean has a different interpretation. Or when people say they don't eat processed foods. I think the only unprocessed foods are foods that people grow themselves, otherwise, everything is technically processed.
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"Turn fat into muscle".
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