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What are your unpopular opinions about health / fitness?

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  • Bry_Fitness70
    Bry_Fitness70 Posts: 2,480 Member
    Can someone honestly tell me how these nefarious overlord conspiracy things actually work? I mean, there has to be thousands of people involved. All keeping it quiet. No leaks. Highly organised. Incredibly coordinated.

    I mean, I've worked in Government, pretty high up, pretty respectable security clearance and I can honestly say - the things that they are doing *publicly*, with broad based support, resources and funding, they're... just not that good at. How the hell are these giant conspiracies working so smoothly? How has this been going for 60+ years and no one has blown the lid on it yet?

    What has the government been doing for 60 years?
  • ForecasterJason
    ForecasterJason Posts: 2,577 Member
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    panda4153 wrote: »
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    Regarding women and pregnancy weight gain, I think it's fair to say this. There are a lot of women out there who gain a lot more than what they really need to. Regardless of whatever amount of weight that is, there are a lot of women who gain excessively.

    So do non pregnant men. What's your point?

    Exactly what I was wondering in response to that statement.

    Perhaps the point being made was not that non pregnant people also gain too much, but that there are women who use the pregnancy as an excuse to gain too much.

    People use lots of things as an excuse for weight gain, so again I'm not sure what JasonForecaster's point was in singling out -- indeed, concern trolling, or so it seemed to me -- about pregnant women doing this. I found it rather humorous (in a way) that he did so. After all, no one asserted that pregnant women never gain too much, there's no particular reason to see pregnant women gaining weight with a pregnancy as the driving force of the obesity problem, which is much broader, and it seems odd that Jason, who is a normal or underweight single guy, last I recall, would be particularly concerned about how all these pregnant women are packing on the pounds. Well, not odd, exactly, but something.
    IRL, I would say that more than half of women I know who have become pregnant gained substantially more weight than they needed to. I don't know if that represents the population as a whole, but among those I actually know, it seems to me like it's a very common (and preventable) issue.

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,617 Member
    Can someone honestly tell me how these nefarious overlord conspiracy things actually work? I mean, there has to be thousands of people involved. All keeping it quiet. No leaks. Highly organised. Incredibly coordinated.

    I mean, I've worked in Government, pretty high up, pretty respectable security clearance and I can honestly say - the things that they are doing *publicly*, with broad based support, resources and funding, they're... just not that good at. How the hell are these giant conspiracies working so smoothly? How has this been going for 60+ years and no one has blown the lid on it yet?

    Yup.

    And in the recently-discussed instance, a good part of the conspiracy involved "covertly" filling our foods with salt and sugar . . . which evidently we can't taste, because covert (yet somehow still addictive via flavor). SMH.

    Smart as cement blocks back in the 1950s and 1960s, we were, I guess.
  • lpina2mi
    lpina2mi Posts: 425 Member
    Bird of a feather flock together, so what is a guide in one chat area is quackery in another. Vive la difference...and now I return to my closed group!
  • mph323
    mph323 Posts: 3,563 Member
    lpina2mi wrote: »
    Bird of a feather flock together, so what is a guide in one chat area is quackery in another. Vive la difference...and now I return to my closed group!

    ?
  • Chef_Barbell
    Chef_Barbell Posts: 6,644 Member
    lpina2mi wrote: »
    Bird of a feather flock together, so what is a guide in one chat area is quackery in another. Vive la difference...and now I return to my closed group!

    K.
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    Can someone honestly tell me how these nefarious overlord conspiracy things actually work? I mean, there has to be thousands of people involved. All keeping it quiet. No leaks. Highly organised. Incredibly coordinated.

    I mean, I've worked in Government, pretty high up, pretty respectable security clearance and I can honestly say - the things that they are doing *publicly*, with broad based support, resources and funding, they're... just not that good at. How the hell are these giant conspiracies working so smoothly? How has this been going for 60+ years and no one has blown the lid on it yet?

    Because.... Monsanto. Not government. :open_mouth:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW7Op86ox9g
  • Chef_Barbell
    Chef_Barbell Posts: 6,644 Member
    unpopular opinion.. protein is overrated.. we dont have protein deficiencies here in the US... its all a marketing scheme..

    Lol what?
  • Chef_Barbell
    Chef_Barbell Posts: 6,644 Member
    Hilarious!!! :laugh:
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    kolagani12 wrote: »
    i have a lot

    IIFYM- plain stupid. An excuse by fatties to allow themselves to eat whatever they want. That type of behavior is what got them in this situation in the first place- you shouldn't ENCOURAGE this behavior

    Pre-Workouts- If you lack the energy or the drive to do a proper workout and need to take a powder to give you that energy, you aren't worthy of achieving fitness

    Keto- "muh carbs, so let me just eat some bacon instead." You dummy. Carbs didn't make you fat, it was you eating too much that made you fat. Make wise choices, such as whole grains, and you can enjoy carbs. Not to mention this plan is *kitten* for anyone trying to build muscle.

    "I can't lose weight"- yes you can, you aren't trying hard enough. Take responsibility.





    I don't know what to say...in reality you called me a fatty...because I follow IIFYM and I eat what I want...

    It was this type of behaviour that helped me lose the weight because I finally got I didn't have to give up my favourite foods to lose weight as long as it fit in goal.

    Pre workouts etc up to the person...I don't get them but not sure it makes them unworthy...maybe they are tired after a sleepless night due to a baby who knows...

    Keto whatever again...

    staying away from the "I can't lose weight" I haven't bought my 11 foot pole yet.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    unpopular opinion.. protein is overrated.. we dont have protein deficiencies here in the US... its all a marketing scheme..

    Care to elaborate on that?
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    All of this is reminding me of a cringeworthy story about my husband before we were together. His ex girlfriend dragged him to a couples baby shower which he was very against, and made him play the cheesy shower games, which he is extremely against. One of the games was "guess the weight!" on which everyone made a prediction of how much the baby would weigh at birth. He insists he missed that detail but my charming husband wrote "183 lbs" on his, and the hostess, upon reading it aloud with a confused look, was dim enough to ask him if he meant ounces, and he said "oh, no, I thought we were guessing how much the mother to be weighs".

    Wonderful story! (And, yes, cringeworthy!)
  • Derf_Smeggle
    Derf_Smeggle Posts: 610 Member
    edited June 2017
    SezxyStef wrote: »
    kolagani12 wrote: »
    staying away from the "I can't lose weight" I haven't bought my 11 foot pole yet.
    They are quite a deal for those people who only have a 10' pole. This thread is gonna make me rich!

  • ForecasterJason
    ForecasterJason Posts: 2,577 Member
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    panda4153 wrote: »
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    Regarding women and pregnancy weight gain, I think it's fair to say this. There are a lot of women out there who gain a lot more than what they really need to. Regardless of whatever amount of weight that is, there are a lot of women who gain excessively.

    So do non pregnant men. What's your point?

    Exactly what I was wondering in response to that statement.

    Perhaps the point being made was not that non pregnant people also gain too much, but that there are women who use the pregnancy as an excuse to gain too much.

    People use lots of things as an excuse for weight gain, so again I'm not sure what JasonForecaster's point was in singling out -- indeed, concern trolling, or so it seemed to me -- about pregnant women doing this. I found it rather humorous (in a way) that he did so. After all, no one asserted that pregnant women never gain too much, there's no particular reason to see pregnant women gaining weight with a pregnancy as the driving force of the obesity problem, which is much broader, and it seems odd that Jason, who is a normal or underweight single guy, last I recall, would be particularly concerned about how all these pregnant women are packing on the pounds. Well, not odd, exactly, but something.
    IRL, I would say that more than half of women I know who have become pregnant gained substantially more weight than they needed to. I don't know if that represents the population as a whole, but among those I actually know, it seems to me like it's a very common (and preventable) issue.

    Did you ask these friends of yours how much they gained or you just assumed they gained more than necessary? Curious.
    I did not ask. But I also know other pregnant women who did not gain excessively. There's obviously a noticeable difference between a few extra pounds and a ton extra.

    In pregnant women, you can tell just by looking at them how much weight they've put on? That's quite a talent. I wonder how you would have pegged me, who has fibroid tumors that grow to tennis ball/baseball size during pregnancy due to all the excess hormones and gave the distinct appearance that I was carrying twins even though I had only gained 22 lbs and 27 lbs with my pregnancies and gave birth to single, healthy weight, babies each time.

    Seriously dude, stop digging your hole. You have no idea how much weight any of those women gained, what their doctors advised them was healthy, etc.
    I never claimed to be able to tell exactly how much weight anyone gained. I said I could tell a difference between a little extra weight and a ton.

    And since this thread is about unpopular opinions, what I'm saying is still valid.

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