What terms/phrases wind you up about losing weight?
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Hi All,
What bothers me is when people tell me, you are so LUCKY to have lost so much weight... Luck doesn't come into it. After being practically immobile for decades due to the excruciating agony of fibromyalgia, I got on some medication which helped with pain relief and I got off my (rather large) backside and started to MOVE after years of inactivity. I thought this would kill me at first, but gradually I was able to do more. I combined this with eating less, cooking practically everything myself (peeling a carrot was agony some years ago), logging everything on MFP, and so far I am doing pretty well. I am proud to announce that I did a 75-km bike ride yesterday with practically no effort at all (OK so it was a flat one yesterday) but a few years ago I couldn't walk to the shop at the end of my street without being in pain.
Luck? I don't think so...
"Good luck" to fellow MFP-ers (joke)
Luck, life's lottery...all defensive measures to avoid personal responsibility. Luck is an excuse used by the envious.
“Things worthwhile generally don’t just happen. Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor. Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Negligence or indifference are usually reviewed from an unlucky seat. The law of cause and effect and causality both work the same with inexorable exactitudes. Luck is the residue of design.” - Branch Rickey2 -
Pooch. Used to describe belly overhang from having children via cs or otherwise. I don't know about elsewhere and I know this site is pretty global but In the U.K. A pooch is a dog. I assume they actually mean pouch as in where marsupials keep their offspring. I don't know why I'm not usually a spelling stickler but pooch really really gets to me
LOL yup, we call it a pooch here in the Southern US. I call it "the kids", because they are the primary reason I have it. I BLAME THEM.
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Oh, it's southern. I'd always been puzzled by that one too, and assumed it was intended to be paunch.2
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lemurcat12 wrote: »Oh, it's southern. I'd always been puzzled by that one too, and assumed it was intended to be paunch.
Most Southerners can't spell that well. SC is at the bottom of the ranking for education, after all. Because it pooches out over the top of your pants.
(Man, I am probably going to catch some crap for that LOL)4 -
suzannesimmons3 wrote: »Dr oz (or any other snake oil salesman) said.......
Or the worst of them all... "David Wolfe said..."
I die a little every time.3 -
newheavensearth wrote: »I'm tired of the plethora of "food is evil and the government is trying to kill you with it" documentaries. Almost every week another one of my relatives is calling me about how they found "The Solution" after watching another one of these movies. Usually involving raw veganism or juicing. These things usually present a bunch of hype and an oversimplified solution to a complex problem.
Speaking as a former government employee. The government is not competent enough to pull off simple plans, let alone these massive conspiracies.
Speaking as someone who has worked on research projects that try to match data across government databases? SO MUCH THIS. SO MUCH. There is no overarching database that allows the government to put together everything on you. It took us TWO YEARS to even match two databases collected by the same agency well enough to run any stats on it.
BY THE SAME TOKEN: There is no "conspiracy" to hide inexpensive or free treatments for cancer, diabetes, etc from "the people." IF THERE WAS A CHEAP EFFECTIVE CANCER TREATMENT? EVERYONE WOULD BE DOING IT BECAUSE IT WORKED. "They" are not "hiding it from you so they can sell their expensive 'pHARMa' to you. SERIOUSLY.
*Thank you*.
As a sometime professional data geek, I second your technical point.
As a cancer survivor who knows how many oncologists & researchers enter the field because of personal loss and heartache, about whom the "cancer conspiracy" idea is an inhumane slander of the most extreme kind, I second your oncology point.
As someone who's kind of noticed human nature for 61 years now, and over and over again seen half a dozen highly motivated people be unable to sustain a conspiracy despite huge inducements of profit, I second the idea that it's ridiculous to believe that any vast sea of people (governments, let alone industries) who don't even know each other can sustain a secret conspiracy for many decades.
How do people even think this baby-feline stupid stuff?7 -
WJS_jeepster wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »"Tummy"
Ugh. What are we, three years old?
14 pages in, here is mine. I've even heard someone at work say it. Yikes.
OK, guilty of using the term "tummy" at least once, as in 'I sure have a fluffy tummy when it used to be so flat'.
Oh wait, not supposed to use "guilty" either.
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I squint at "detox" in reference to a food or food combo. I'm always tempted to say that I'm just going to enjoy my detox Snickers bar, instead.4
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Muscle weighs more than fat. Seriously winds me up.4
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Count me in on being really annoyed by the cancer - cure - withheld - by - pharma conspiracy bull puckey. It's insulting as well as massively unrealistic.5
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I've heard it called pooch all my life. Never thought anything about it. It's not wrong, just a regionalism.8
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This isn't really a specific phrase, but I hate when someone joins an internet forum, spends zero time reading old posts to understand the culture of the place, than asks some dumb question that would have been answered in 5 minutes of reading. Ad infinitum.
Yes, or doesn't take the time to understand the purpose of each forum and posts a hot question in the debate section. Then flounces because mean people.1 -
Lifestyle change. WOE. Anyone using words that indicate they have an aversion to the word "diet" which literally means "the food you eat" and isn't actually supposed to have any temporal indication about the amount you eat.1
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not MFP specific, but it totally irks me when people post about "females" - especially if it's followed by some sweeping generalization. kind of related: when people post threads "just for the guys" or "women only" they know that it's basically click bait cryptonite for the excluded gender, right? 8
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jessiferrrb wrote: »not MFP specific, but it totally irks me when people post about "females" - especially if it's followed by some sweeping generalization. kind of related: when people post threads "just for the guys" or "women only" they know that it's basically click bait cryptonite for the excluded gender, right?
Agree...we should discriminate over things that really matter...like height.
None under 6' 4" shall respond.5 -
newheavensearth wrote: »I'm tired of the plethora of "food is evil and the government is trying to kill you with it" documentaries. Almost every week another one of my relatives is calling me about how they found "The Solution" after watching another one of these movies. Usually involving raw veganism or juicing. These things usually present a bunch of hype and an oversimplified solution to a complex problem.
Speaking as a former government employee. The government is not competent enough to pull off simple plans, let alone these massive conspiracies.
Speaking as someone who has worked on research projects that try to match data across government databases? SO MUCH THIS. SO MUCH. There is no overarching database that allows the government to put together everything on you. It took us TWO YEARS to even match two databases collected by the same agency well enough to run any stats on it.
BY THE SAME TOKEN: There is no "conspiracy" to hide inexpensive or free treatments for cancer, diabetes, etc from "the people." IF THERE WAS A CHEAP EFFECTIVE CANCER TREATMENT? EVERYONE WOULD BE DOING IT BECAUSE IT WORKED. "They" are not "hiding it from you so they can sell their expensive 'pHARMa' to you. SERIOUSLY.
I work in pharma now and find this especially insulting to the researchers dedicating their lives to finding solutions. My wife is a molecular biologist and has identified monoclonal antibodies with specific affinity for pancreatic cancer cells. Does anyone really think that we have identified cures and hiding these from the public?
Simply looking at the logistics this would involve a massive conspiracy with hundreds of thousands of people knowing about this and remaining silent. Never leaking to media, never leaking to their significant others, never leaking to another person at a bar....
Much of the price of drugs is due to government regulations and lack of competition (also due to government and lack of tort reform). It would be very simple for a competitor to develop a product that does the same thing as Epipen, but try getting it approved through the regulatory channels ~90 Million USD for medical device, ~2.6 Billion USD.
Look.
They faked the moon landing, including having the Russians who the Americans were racing to the moon being in on the faking of it, surely they can get together and hide the cure for cancer....
The one thing that does surprise me, from some of the rants on the Daily show a few years back. Even though the US gov't could not get their *kitten* together to get veterans records digitized and usable, the NSA could build a huge friggen infrastructure for recording cell phone conversations etc.3 -
jessiferrrb wrote: »not MFP specific, but it totally irks me when people post about "females" - especially if it's followed by some sweeping generalization. kind of related: when people post threads "just for the guys" or "women only" they know that it's basically click bait cryptonite for the excluded gender, right?
Agree...we should discriminate over things that really matter...like height.
None under 6' 4" shall respond.
i have nothing to say to that.
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