What terms/phrases wind you up about losing weight?
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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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OMG...I almost forgot....
"Only shop on the perimeter of the grocery store."
Ok...like everyone's grocery store is laid out the same way...and I should never buy anything from the "interior" aisles?12 -
Cleanse, Detox, Natural, Organic, Non-gmo, like. Ugh. Just stop.3
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gabriellejayde wrote: »"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."
ha. same here. as someone who eats below 1200 calories, seeing someone talk about 'starvation mode' (what IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE?) or tell me I'm going to die or gain weight is a just funny.
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"Clean eating." Your food is not dirty unless you forgot to wash it.8
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"I couldn't lose weight using CICO so I started following [name the fad diet] and the pounds are falling off!"
Ugh. You couldn't lose weight because you were eating too much and your CI was greater than your CO. Now you're eating less on a restricted food plan and OF COURSE YOU'RE LOSING WEIGHT because now your CI is now LESS THAN your CO.10 -
I hate the term "pigging out" when referring to self. It's so self hating.3
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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!
<geek>
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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Yeah, it's kinda too bad that both people in a conversation have to understand all the words, in order for communication to happen. If that weren't true, we could be so much more accurate. 7 -
LadyLilion wrote: »Okay...questions:
Journey - What other word do you think is appropriate?
I like "big, fun science-fair project for grown-ups", but it's a phrase, not a word.You guys find a lot to be annoyed about. The only one mentioned so far was not an example...I hate when people call other people "snowflakes" in any context. Guess what...no two people are alike. Thus, it's not really an insult to call them that; it's accurate. They are snowflakes. So are you.
Annoyed? Nah, just a little, light, tongue-in-cheek venting for funsies. I've been (mostly, sort of) kind, helpful and empathetic - to the best of my ability, anyway - over and over again on the forums, after someone's asserted some truly eyebrow-raising thing. This is just a chance to blow off a little steam in a context where it isn't a direct slap to anyone.15 -
When people confuse CICO with strictly calorie counting. It's 2 parts! Calories you eat and what you burn. Even if you do not exercise you still burn calories being alive. It's an important part that many it seems fail to get. I guess it's because it's not something you need to worry about daily with an app that calculates things for you. Might be splitting hairs but man it bugs me.4
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I don't get why people get so butthurt when someone corrects loose to lose. Are we so delicate as a society that is better to be allowed to be wrong than be corrected and learn? I'd rather learn of a misspelling on MFP than after i put the wrong word in a presentation at work....26
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English is not my first language, so I don't get what's wrong with talking about "muscle tone" or "being toned"? Just had a quick glance at Wikipedia, and the word seems related to muscle.4
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Alatariel75 wrote: »I don't get why people get so butthurt when someone corrects loose to lose. Are we so delicate as a society that is better to be allowed to be wrong than be corrected and learn? I'd rather learn of a misspelling on MFP than after i put the wrong word in a presentation at work....
This ^^^^^^ If I'm using a word incorrectly I'd like to know about it so I make sure my message is clear.4 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »I don't get why people get so butthurt when someone corrects loose to lose. Are we so delicate as a society that is better to be allowed to be wrong than be corrected and learn? I'd rather learn of a misspelling on MFP than after i put the wrong word in a presentation at work....
Seems to be the modus operandi now a days. Lol5 -
-low-carb/keto
-cleanse
-detox
-Isagenix/Beachbody/(insert MLM scam here)
-paleo/paleo-inspired4 -
LovesDogsAndBooks wrote: »English is not my first language, so I don't get what's wrong with talking about "muscle tone" or "being toned"? Just had a quick glance at Wikipedia, and the word seems related to muscle.
It is. Atonic literally means 'lacking muscular tone.' So tone is technically fine to say.
However, when someone says they want to 'tone up' I still always picture this:
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"Cheating" - the negative connotations we associate with food really bugs me. Once I let those go, I felt much better.6
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LovesDogsAndBooks wrote: »English is not my first language, so I don't get what's wrong with talking about "muscle tone" or "being toned"? Just had a quick glance at Wikipedia, and the word seems related to muscle.
It is. Atonic literally means 'lacking muscular tone.' So tone is technically fine to say.
However, when someone says they want to 'tone up' I still always picture this:
Thanks! Maybe there are certain negative connotations that you only have as a native speaker. But there have been a couple of people here in this thread that are bothered by someone saying muscle tone or getting toned. Then they seem to be wrong, not the people who say that.2 -
Muscleflex79 wrote: »"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"
All of the above. And I really hate "loose" weight and "loosing" weight. No one can spell lose and losing anymore.
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"Clean eating". There are children literally starving to death in Venezuela. Mothers are picking scraps out of trash cans to keep their babies alive. Meanwhile the developed world is yapping about their "clean eating diet". I'm so sick of hearing about people's first world elitist food snobbery. Just shut it and be happy you have food at all, let alone the choice to decide if it's "clean" or not. I'll just be over here losing weight eating what ever the *kitten* I want and being grateful for the privilege to do so.57
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