What terms/phrases wind you up about losing weight?
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LadyLilion wrote: »"It's not a diet it's a lifestyle change"
I wonder if in a few years people will be saying "no dessert for me, I'm lifestyling"
But it IS a lifestyle change. Going from sitting in front of the TV and eating Dairy Queen 3x a week to taking evening walks and cooking healthy food and actually paying attention to your diet (noun, not verb) while avoiding 1300 calorie desserts you freaking LOVE - takes a considerable change in your actual lifestyle - believe me. And if you go back to your former lifestyle, you gain it back.
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When the Doc says "Good luck with the diet!". Makes me wanna throttle him.
I can't even baby-feline imagine how much doctors get tiny-kitty tired of giving weight-loss info to people who swear to lose, and instead come back in 6 months just as fat or fatter, with a boatload of lame rationalizations/excuses. How docs can even remotely remain polite and professional - this escapes me.
This is one reason my A&P professor quit practicing on live people and became a forensic pathologist. LOL2 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »tlanger251 wrote: »I hate the word "journey" in the same way I hate when someone says, "the moon must be full." ummm... you do know that the moon is "always full" right????
So you assume that when people say "the moon must be full," they mean "the heavenly wolf that pursues the moon goddess and consumes her must have vomited her back up," rather than "it must be that point in the lunar month when the entire surface of the moon we can see from earth is reflecting sunlight toward us"?
I'm a nurse. To me it means, "The ER will be batshit crazy tonight."26 -
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- this one is slightly irrational on my part, but I find it incredibly frustrating: it irritates me that as a 5'5, 139 lbs woman aged 41, I need to consistently walk about 11,000 steps a day to bring my calorie expenditure just to 2,000 or so calories. I am intensely jealous of taller, heavier and more muscular people who can eat more and not gain weight. Because I love eating. I also want to scream when older shorter women mention their total daily calorie expenditure is 1,500, just because of the sheer injustice of it
As a 5'3" woman, I agree with this on a spiritual level.7 -
rightoncommander wrote: »clicketykeys wrote: »"There is a lot of research that shows" or "there are studies that show" when links to or titles of said research/studies are not provided.
It remains a mild irritation until someone claims that the woo they're spouting can significantly improve a major life condition. That's what gets me het up.
I'm confused, do you object when people "spout woo" and claim that it's backed up by research, or do you insist that every post on MFP that mentions research should have a bibliography and be peer-reviewed?!
I rarely (if ever) object or insist in either case. However, if you're going to bother to claim that your point is supported by research, it takes less than a minute to open a new tab or window and use your search engine to find a link to a peer-reviewed article or five. If we ALL made the attempt to provide the research we're claiming, we'd all be better informed.
Saying that only woo-spouting posts should have research would be foolish and ineffective, because
nobody ever thinks that the ideas they're spouting are wooey.
I'm not on here for that reason at all. I eat to gain muscle mass and fuel my workouts.nosebag1212 wrote: »Every time I see a thread titled "can't eat enough calories, please help". Are you *kitten* kidding me? The sole reason you're on here is because you managed to eat more than enough for an extended period of time to get fat in the first place, makes me rage.
Eating enough calories in a day is often an issue for me because I have to schedule extra food around coaching, working, teaching, lifting, etc...
/First_World_Problem
But I understand your point with most {overweight} people.
Depends what the previous commenter meant by 'here.' This IS the "General Diet and Weight LOSS Help" forum
- this one is slightly irrational on my part, but I find it incredibly frustrating: it irritates me that as a 5'5, 139 lbs woman aged 41, I need to consistently walk about 11,000 steps a day to bring my calorie expenditure just to 2,000 or so calories. I am intensely jealous of taller, heavier and more muscular people who can eat more and not gain weight. Because I love eating. I also want to scream when older shorter women mention their total daily calorie expenditure is 1,500, just because of the sheer injustice of it.
I don't think it's irrational at all to find that frustrating. Someone taller can eat more, move less, and still maintain - or even lose. So it's not equal, and that inequality does not seem to be in your favor. Frustration is a 100% valid response.2 -
I'm on a diet as opposed to it's a lifestyle change. Diets don't work in the long run -1
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[quote= "I've gained 5 lbs this week, but I know not to worry because it's all muscle"
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hahaha - I only WISH it was that easy to gain 5 lbs of muscle!
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Loose.
Another thread with this in the title.
It ain't that hard folks.9 -
So that's how I got fat!11111spiriteagle99 wrote: »Loose/lose just makes me laugh. I have this visual image of someone gratefully or even prayerfully loosing all their fat out into the universe, where it settles on some poor unsuspecting soul, who must then either loose it again into the ether or just accept the gift that the universe gave them. Kinda like the old cartoons of the babies waiting in heaven for the storks to drop them into the houses below.
:laugh:
I imagine adipose from Doctor Who.
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Just remembered one that does annoy me, irrationally so. I don't know why, but I don't like "for you", as in "good for you" or "bad for you" and such. Logically, I know what people are saying but it just grinds my nerves.1
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"Starvation Mode" (and what people think it means)
I just saw my trigger in another thread. It's not a word so much as the mythological way it's applied to "I'm not losing weight, but I'm in deficit. Is it Starvation Mode?" The answer is NO. It will always be NO.
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WendyLeigh1119 wrote: »"Starvation Mode" (and what people think it means)
I just saw my trigger in another thread. It's not a word so much as the mythological way it's applied to "I'm not losing weight, but I'm in deficit. Is it Starvation Mode?" The answer is NO. It will always be NO.
Or the new person posting for the first time, telling someone the reason they aren't losing is because they are in "starvation mode" and their body is trying to hang on to the fat.2 -
For me it's the people who arrive in the forums and then start the 1000th "Is Sugar Bad?" (or Carbs, or Fat, or Diet Soda or whatever) thread without using the search feature first to discover that this has already been discussed 1001 times.
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cerise_noir wrote: »
So that's how I got fat!11111spiriteagle99 wrote: »Loose/lose just makes me laugh. I have this visual image of someone gratefully or even prayerfully loosing all their fat out into the universe, where it settles on some poor unsuspecting soul, who must then either loose it again into the ether or just accept the gift that the universe gave them. Kinda like the old cartoons of the babies waiting in heaven for the storks to drop them into the houses below.
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I imagine adipose from Doctor Who.
They are my friends!3 -
- cheat day/ meal - so frustrating and self-hating. Of course everyone will have a bigger meal every now and then, it's perfectly normal. No cheating involved.
- Lol. Ok, I'm showing my age here (an ancient 41 year old here), but why do people feel the urge to write lol in random places in a sentence? For example "I am at 180lbs now and really need to get to 120lbs lol". Do some people's keyboards just randomly dispense the word?
- People wanting to quit coffee, but simultaneously looking for natural magical drinks that will speed up their metabolism. That one really stumps me. That's exactly what coffee is, a natural way of speeding up your metabolism, and it's delicious, and it makes you more alert, and it's delicious, and it keeps you awake, and it's delicious. Yet so many "health conscious" people stop drinking coffee. I understand that if you used to drink it with tons of cream and sugar you may want to change how you drink it, but there's nothing inherently wrong with coffee.
- this one is slightly irrational on my part, but I find it incredibly frustrating: it irritates me that as a 5'5, 139 lbs woman aged 41, I need to consistently walk about 11,000 steps a day to bring my calorie expenditure just to 2,000 or so calories. I am intensely jealous of taller, heavier and more muscular people who can eat more and not gain weight. Because I love eating. I also want to scream when older shorter women mention their total daily calorie expenditure is 1,500, just because of the sheer injustice of it.
- people who only need to lose moderate amounts of weight but want to lose 2lbs or more per week. Do those people not understand how insanely hard it is to achieve and sustain a deficit of 1,000 or more calories a day if you are not that big to begin with? I found even a deficit of 500 calories difficult to sustain and switched to an even slower rate of weight loss fairly early in my journey (Ha! I said journey!)
Wow. You so angry lol
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martinemarbella wrote: »I'm sure this won't go down too well but my personal bete noire is 'my journey'. Makes me cringe!
YES!! This drives me insane! You aren't on a "journey". It's fricken' work. The other thing that drives me nuts is "shifting" weight. Weight doesn't "shift". You either lose it or gain it.
"Shifting" is common UK usage. Don't sweat it.
"Journey" Really? I sure as hell don't intend this to be a commute. A voyage, maybe, but I ain't going back.5 -
"I fell off the bandwagon". No. You fall off the wagon. You jump on the bandwagon. They are two different expressions. At least they used to be.
Loose.
Motivation, not being able to find it and needing others to help them find it. I have never understood this. If you aren't able to find motivation, how in the world did you find MFP? Deciding to lose weight/get fit is motivation - what you actually need is discipline.
"I lost 4500 pounds in three weeks" or some other numbers that aren't healthy - them saying it bugs me, but the tons of people congratulating them and asking them how they did it makes me loose my mind.18 -
The OPs who come along and complain they're not losing, when the threads go one of multiple ways:
a) they refuse to give any stats or avoid mentioning their weight (sometimes this is an eating disorder red flag)
b) they insist they're doing everything right, only it turns out they're not using a scale, but they insist they don't need one (pro tip: if you're not losing, you're not doing it right and probably need a scale!)
c) it turns out they've actually lost x number of pounds (so you ARE losing) but
d) they're complaining they're not losing "fast enough", and it turns out they're actually losing at a healthy rate, but they've got stupidly unrealistic Biggest Loser-style expectations (like 10lbs a week or something)
e) the ones who refuse to accept that they are simply not in a caloric deficit and insist they must be some kind of special snowflake who defies the laws of thermodynamics.
There are more.25 -
Help! Eating 1200 calories a day and can't loose wait even though I eat clean and organic and keto! I don't use a scale, I guesstimate the butter for my bulletproof coffee but I know I'm accurate. Dont you dare accuse me of lying. Am I in starvation mode? Should I eat more? Or am i gaining muscle? Should I take a break to reset my matabulism?54
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