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What are your unpopular opinions about health / fitness?

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  • Posts: 5,132 Member
    Rivers2k wrote: »

    No I was exaggerating. I don't post often I mostly lurk and now I know I have to be so careful of what and how I say things. I was saying the CICO people are very passionate about saying there is no difference in calories so eat what ever you want.

    And you were completely taking them out of context.
  • Posts: 5,132 Member
    Hornsby wrote: »
    I'm Haribo Gummy Bears and Tootsie Pops kinda guy. Best fuel out there.

    Add my vote for Haribo Gummy Bears as well.
  • Posts: 380 Member
    edited June 2017
    double post

  • Posts: 34,458 Member
    Rivers2k wrote: »

    YES! exactly what I was saying! It might be false but that is the way it comes across I don't see anyone trying to clarify it. Someone made a post here about breakfast wraps she described some symptoms I have with carbs. I suggested leaving out the wrap and people jumped all over me chanting carbs for energy! I was just making a suggestion. That was one of my last posts.

    People need to take the intent of message and not pick apart every word. I even agreed with your first post.

    I know the difference between calories and nutrition
    I know carbs play apart in fueling your body
    I am not a low carb person
    I just think that people can get out of hand with CICO. I may be wrong that is just what I see. And wow I try to point out the error in what is bolded above heaven help me.

    Maybe don't take things so seriously?

    Or maybe communicate more clearly and with less absolute phrases? I didn't see your post about the wrap, but judging by what you've said in this thread...
  • Posts: 34,458 Member
    edited June 2017
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    snafu
  • Posts: 380 Member
    All of you have a nice a day. I need to get back to work spending to much time on this.
  • Posts: 5,132 Member
    Rivers2k wrote: »

    YES! exactly what I was saying! It might be false but that is the way it comes across I don't see anyone trying to clarify it. Someone made a post here about breakfast wraps she described some symptoms I have with carbs. I suggested leaving out the wrap and people jumped all over me chanting carbs for energy! I was just making a suggestion. That was one of my last posts.

    People need to take the intent of message and not pick apart every word. I even agreed with your first post.


    I know the difference between calories and nutrition
    I know carbs play apart in fueling your body (and how this went from calories to carbs I don't know)
    I am not a low carb person
    I just think that people can get out of hand with CICO. I may be wrong that is just what I see. And wow I try to point out the error in what is bolded above heaven help me.

    It gets clarified repeatedly in every thread where the subject comes up...
  • Posts: 6,771 Member

    This is a huge strawman. Link to a thread where this is what is said. Not your interpretation of what was said, but the actual text of a post where someone is advocating this.

    And a calorie is a calorie regardless of what food is being eaten. Calories and nutrition are 2 different concepts and it does no good to try to make them about the same thing.

    I can't believe we're back here again when literally the page before went over what utter nonsense it is that calorie counting isn't further qualified within the context of overall diet.
  • Posts: 4,298 Member
    edited June 2017

    I have yet to see an endurance cyclist pulling out 10 pounds of celery from their backpack instead of a pack of gummy bears or those glucose gels.
    Hornsby wrote: »
    I'm Haribo Gummy Bears and Tootsie Pops kinda guy. Best fuel out there.
    Carlos_421 wrote: »

    Add my vote for Haribo Gummy Bears as well.

    First off, I don't at all agree with any of the rest of what @Rivers2k is saying. However, you all aren't really talking about carb-loading, are you?

    My understanding is that carb-loading specifically refers to attempting to maximize liver glycogen in preparation for the event. That'd be the meals you eat prior, not the Gus or jelly beans you eat during. And for those meals, most of the recommendations I see are complex carbs (pasta, bread, potatoes, rice, etc).

    Though to be honest, the reason I wouldn't eat a hot fudge sundae the day before a race has nothing to do with the type of carb anyway. Dairy (and a lot of other foods) are dodgy for my intestinal system during a long, hard run. The day before would not be enough time to ensure it wouldn't cause gastrointestinal distress.
  • Posts: 110 Member

    I have yet to see an endurance cyclist pulling out 10 pounds of celery from their backpack instead of a pack of gummy bears or those glucose gels.

    Thank you for this.

    Bahahahhaa
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