What terms/phrases wind you up about losing weight?
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Way of eating, way of life, or even worse, "WOE" and "WOL", as if the word "diet" is verboten. Call a diet a diet, and it's pretty much guaranteed that some ninny will pop up and say "don't call it a diet!! It's a way of life!!" Good grief. The word "diet" merely refers to the foods one eats, it's not evil.
Also, the ubiquitous lose/loose error, of course.6 -
Clean eating....
I always imagine someone at the sink scrubbing their food with soap and water before eating it. Food isn't clean or dirty, good or bad. It is just food. Some has better nutritional value than others but no food in moderation will cause untold damage unless you have a medical reason to avoid it.
Eating is more than just giving your body the nutrition it needs. You need to enjoy what you are eating because health and wellbeing is so much more than what you eat and how much you exercise.5 -
"if it tastes good, spit it out"
why... ?6 -
Using "Female" to describe an adult human being is dehumanizing, particularly when juxtaposed with using "men" for other adult human beings. One specifically refers to adult human beings of a gender, the other refers to all creatures of a gender without respect to their species. That the species is contextually implied doesn't lessen the inequality ; the use of "females" rather than "women" when paired with "men" makes it clear that the former are no better than animals.
As others have said, it is most often used in a context of derision, approbation or contempt. It's a jarring grammatic inconsistency, and its use clearly signals either ignorance or disrespect.
Though we're moving away from it, 'female/male' has more typically been used as an adjective, with woman/man as the noun. I believe this is tied in to why 'female' can come across as rude, even if not intended that way. As women entered the workforce in greater numbers, many people would specify 'female pilot' or 'female soldier' when speaking of a woman in a male-dominated field.
Adjectives serve to add detail by marking something as different from others in its class. I don't want just any apple; I want a Golden Delicious apple. It tends to shift attention from the noun to the adjective. For professional women, in many cases (though not all) marking them as different like this was also a way to mark them as less qualified/effective/respected. And phrases like 'female doctor' reinforced the idea that having women in those fields was not the norm. There's a similar effect with 'male nurse,' for example, though it's less pronounced.
So using "female" as a noun when referring to a person pulls in the history of how that word has been used in the not-too-distant past. And in many cases (though not all), it is used that way deliberately - among redpillers, for example - which further reinforces its connotation of otherness and disrespect.
Do I expect everyone to know this already? Nope. But I do expect people to know that words carry meaning beyond the denotation.15 -
I'm trying to lose weight but I'm kinda struggling and i don't know what I'm doing wrong
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"Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels" (skinny isn't a feeling and this is a common pro ana/ana motto)
"A moment in the lips a lifetime in the hips" ( simply not true and also pro ana)6 -
"Fluffy".
No, it's fat. I can almost hear the slightly self-deprecating "tee hee" that goes along with "fluffy".
Not weight/health related, but often seen here: "XX years young". Bespeaks denial, self-deprecation, and a pathetic, near-apologetic desperation, when said of oneself; patronizing when used to describe others. (P.S., I'm 61; people my age say this. Yuck. Old is a good thing: Consider the actual alternative, which is not "young".)
Own who you are. Don't apologize, don't imply self-hatred by euphemizing. If you want to be different, change what you can influence or control.
Fat does not offend me, if I am describing myself but I like when the men say I am thick....that's hot.
Yep, "thick" means you got the goods. Rawr.
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pyrusangeles wrote: »"Fluffy".
No, it's fat. I can almost hear the slightly self-deprecating "tee hee" that goes along with "fluffy".
Not weight/health related, but often seen here: "XX years young". Bespeaks denial, self-deprecation, and a pathetic, near-apologetic desperation, when said of oneself; patronizing when used to describe others. (P.S., I'm 61; people my age say this. Yuck. Old is a good thing: Consider the actual alternative, which is not "young".)
Own who you are. Don't apologize, don't imply self-hatred by euphemizing. If you want to be different, change what you can influence or control.
Fat does not offend me, if I am describing myself but I like when the men say I am thick....that's hot.
Yep, "thick" means you got the goods. Rawr.
I'm Australian and old enough to remember this advert. Thick will never mean anything but this to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-H6Uz0b1Wk 3 -
"I can't afford to eat healthy". Which means they can't afford to shop at Whole Foods, the gluten free aisle, or organic.
There's a wealth of foods between Kraft Dinner and the GF aisle.
Sometimes I despair that this whole generation doesn't know how to shop or how to cook.24 -
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"I can't afford to eat healthy". Which means they can't afford to shop at Whole Foods, the gluten free aisle, or organic.
There's a wealth of foods between Kraft Dinner and the GF aisle.
Sometimes I despair that this whole generation doesn't know how to shop or how to cook.
Cooking very simple foods at home is the absolute cheapest way I can live. Meat, veg, rice/pasta/couscous/potato side, meat and salad lunches... I will never get the not being able to afford to 'eat healthy'.6 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »"I can't afford to eat healthy". Which means they can't afford to shop at Whole Foods, the gluten free aisle, or organic.
There's a wealth of foods between Kraft Dinner and the GF aisle.
Sometimes I despair that this whole generation doesn't know how to shop or how to cook.
Cooking very simple foods at home is the absolute cheapest way I can live. Meat, veg, rice/pasta/couscous/potato side, meat and salad lunches... I will never get the not being able to afford to 'eat healthy'.
I agree.... There was a time in my poor past where I lived on ground beef over white rice with canned veggies from the food pantry.3 -
Chef_Barbell wrote: »Alatariel75 wrote: »"I can't afford to eat healthy". Which means they can't afford to shop at Whole Foods, the gluten free aisle, or organic.
There's a wealth of foods between Kraft Dinner and the GF aisle.
Sometimes I despair that this whole generation doesn't know how to shop or how to cook.
Cooking very simple foods at home is the absolute cheapest way I can live. Meat, veg, rice/pasta/couscous/potato side, meat and salad lunches... I will never get the not being able to afford to 'eat healthy'.
I agree.... There was a time in my poor past where I lived on ground beef over white rice with canned veggies from the food pantry.
I spent a semester eating chicken thigh, rice/pasta and frozen veg baked together with a can of cream of chicken soup. One lot lasted me and the cat 5 days for about $8. I sure as hell never had an issue with being overweight then.7 -
Sometimes I despair that this whole generation doesn't know how to shop or how to cook.
Historically, only a small fraction of people needed to know how to cook well, because meals were far more communal than they are in the era of the 1.6 kid nuclear family.
Everybody knowing how to cook would actually be the historical anomaly.
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Sometimes I despair that this whole generation doesn't know how to shop or how to cook.
Historically, only a small fraction of people needed to know how to cook well, because meals were far more communal than they are in the era of the 1.6 kid nuclear family.
Everybody knowing how to cook would actually be the historical anomaly.
Cooking isn't evolutionary, there's been single family households for more than long enough for a reasonable expectation to exist that the majority of people in first world countries should know how to cook the basics.4 -
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dale050467 wrote: »using loose instead of lose
English speaking grammer Nazis who seem to assume that everyone who communicates in English speaks English as a first language and must therefore be perfect at it.
I corrected my mistake Herr Generaloberst.
Huh. Loose and lose. See the thing is they are two different words with two different meanings. It's nothing to do with grammar Nazism - because it isn't grammar. The opposite of loose is tight, the opposite of lose is gain. You might as well say " I want to apricot weight" because it makes as much sense.
I bolded your statement because I fail to understand why you took offence to learning something new - if English is indeed a second language for you then you now know the difference and can use either word correctly in the future. "Ich bien ein berliner" if you see what I mean?
I don't think people actually think that "loose" and "lose" are interchangeable or that "loose" is the right word.
I'm pretty sure it's just a simple typo that their spell-checker/autocorrect doesn't fix.
Same with "weigh" vs "weight."
I doubt people would say "I "weight" myself on Mondays" on purpose. It's just that many words that have "gh" at the end also end with a "t" (weight, height, thought, bought, brought, thought, caught...) so when typing "gh" the fingers habitually hit the "t" key. This doesn't happen to me on my phone when typing with my thumbs but on a keyboard I have to go back all the time and remove the unnecessary "t."3 -
Carlos_421 wrote: »dale050467 wrote: »using loose instead of lose
English speaking grammer Nazis who seem to assume that everyone who communicates in English speaks English as a first language and must therefore be perfect at it.
I corrected my mistake Herr Generaloberst.
Huh. Loose and lose. See the thing is they are two different words with two different meanings. It's nothing to do with grammar Nazism - because it isn't grammar. The opposite of loose is tight, the opposite of lose is gain. You might as well say " I want to apricot weight" because it makes as much sense.
I bolded your statement because I fail to understand why you took offence to learning something new - if English is indeed a second language for you then you now know the difference and can use either word correctly in the future. "Ich bien ein berliner" if you see what I mean?
I don't think people actually think that "loose" and "lose" are interchangeable or that "loose" is the right word.
I'm pretty sure it's just a simple typo that their spell-checker/autocorrect doesn't fix.
Same with "weigh" vs "weight."
I doubt people would say "I "weight" myself on Mondays" on purpose. It's just that many words that have "gh" at the end also end with a "t" (weight, height, thought, bought, brought, thought, caught...) so when typing "gh" the fingers habitually hit the "t" key. This doesn't happen to me on my phone when typing with my thumbs but on a keyboard I have to go back all the time and remove the unnecessary "t."
I have a love/hate relationship with autocorrect. Sigh.4 -
If I say I pigged out, I'm probably bragging. Lolsunfastrose wrote: »I hate the term "pigging out" when referring to self. It's so self hating.LovesDogsAndBooks wrote: »LovesDogsAndBooks wrote: »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.
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:
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.
There is a misconception that a person's muscles may be soft and "un-toned" and that working out with light weights or cardio will "tone" those muscles, making them tighter and firmer (appearing smaller). However, that's not actually how things work so when people take issue with people wanting to "tone," it has more to do with this misconception than the word itself.
The truth is that muscle is denser and firmer than fat so if your arm feels soft and squishy, it's because you have fat in your arm. The way to "get toned" then is to either 1) lose the fat to reveal the muscle underneath or 2) build the muscle (making it bigger) so that it can be seen/felt in contrast to the fat.
However, people think that if they're not too overweight and they feel soft, it's not due to the presence of fat and their muscles are just soft/fluffy, which is not really the case.4 -
I'm a new mommy OR I'm menopausal Or I'm female Or I'm old.
These aren't reasons, they're excuses.
They could be used as excuses, certainly.
But new babies, pregnancy, breast feeding, recent menopause, and aging all cause changes in the body that usually impact how women feel from day to day. I think women come here looking to hear how other women have adjusted in those situations.
Sometimes people just want advice from others in similar situations. They aren't necessarily making excuses.14
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