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What terms/phrases wind you up about losing weight?

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  • Posts: 1,011 Member
    sjaplo wrote: »

    "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?"
  • Posts: 1,693 Member
    Raysie1 wrote: »
    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.

    This made me laugh.
  • Posts: 1,120 Member
    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 deficit
  • Posts: 42 Member
    Cleanse, Detox, Natural, Organic, Non-gmo, like. Ugh. Just stop.
  • Posts: 5,468 Member

    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.

    Ugh, just ugh.
  • Posts: 543 Member
    I hate the term "pigging out" when referring to self. It's so self hating.
  • Posts: 558 Member
    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.
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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.
  • Posts: 974 Member
    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.
  • Posts: 205 Member
    -low-carb/keto
    -cleanse
    -detox
    -Isagenix/Beachbody/(insert MLM scam here)
    -paleo/paleo-inspired
  • Posts: 190 Member
    pinuplove wrote: »

    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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    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.
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    duddysdad 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."

    Ugh. The dreaded phrase "starvation mode." Shudder.
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    "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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