“Make sure you eat a WHOLE avocado then your body will start burning fat!” and other silly things!
EllieElla2015
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So I just got off the phone with my dad, catching up about our days and so on. I told him I just got back from the gym and he goes “listen, if you want to lose weight, all you need to do is eat a whole avocado a day and it’ll just burn fat. Then you can eat whatever you want”. There’s no changing him so I didn’t get to the whole “the average avocado is 150 grams and approx 250-300 calories” thing since he (and nobody else in my family lol) believe in calorie counting.
I just figured I’d ask what other silly things you’ve heard regarding weight loss! In a completely light-hearted way. Other things said in my family include:
“calories in oatmeal don’t count because of the fiber!”
“Chicken doesn’t have the kind of calories that make you fat- it’s pure protein!”
“Alcohol makes your body cling on to fat”
I just figured I’d ask what other silly things you’ve heard regarding weight loss! In a completely light-hearted way. Other things said in my family include:
“calories in oatmeal don’t count because of the fiber!”
“Chicken doesn’t have the kind of calories that make you fat- it’s pure protein!”
“Alcohol makes your body cling on to fat”
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Macro science dictates that onion rings + fries cancels out when mixed with the protein of a double cheeseburger with the dairy and the bun and the carbs and all together they cancel out so my body gets all the nutrients and therefore wont hold fat. And obviously a full fat pop because diet pop causes cancer. But my small side salad with light dressing will keep me fat because macro science. Macro *kitten* science.16
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Diet soda will make me gain weight.
Don't eat at night or your body stores it as fat.
Eating smaller meals helps you burn fat faster by upping your metabolism.
If you toast bread it reduces the calories because it burns them off.
I need to do situps to lose belly fat.
ACV
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A friend told me once the calories don't count if no one sees you eating them. I laughed. She got mad. She wasn't joking.
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Don't eat after 6 pm.
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
Sauces don't have any calories.
My favorite:. Diet soda causes weight gain.18 -
corinasue1143 wrote: »A friend told me once the calories don't count if no one sees you eating them. I laughed. She got mad. She wasn't joking.
This made me chuckle. When i binge it’s always in secret. I never would have gotten fat if this were the case!
How can people be so silly!!!8 -
I can personally vouch for the avocado diet not working.
My mother-in-law used to say that she could eat all the jelly bellys she wanted since they had no fat grams. That was back in the day when fat was the demon, instead of carbs.9 -
corinasue1143 wrote: »A friend told me once the calories don't count if no one sees you eating them. I laughed. She got mad. She wasn't joking.
Was fighting the desire to burst out laughing.2 -
I had someone tell me the same thing about protein actually.. that it doesn't count.. lol
And agreeing with Gem on the binge eating.. a ton of my eating was done secretly.. no one ever saw me eating most of what i would eat. Yet some how the weight still went on.. lol
I have had a lot of people wonder how i was ever able to lose weight since i don't like fruit. Apparently fruit is the foundation for weight loss.
I was told that it would be okay to eat an entire frozen pizza as long as it's got veggies on it cause it's better.
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JaydedMiss wrote: »Macro science dictates that onion rings + fries cancels out when mixed with the protein of a double cheeseburger with the dairy and the bun and the carbs and all together they cancel out so my body gets all the nutrients and therefore wont hold fat. And obviously a full fat pop because diet pop causes cancer. But my small side salad with light dressing will keep me fat because macro science. Macro *kitten* science.
What poem is that from? Is that James Joyce?
Beautiful! (applause)10 -
Veganism is the only way to lose weight.
Counting calories isn't sustainable.
Exercise isn't good for your body, unless it's yoga.1 -
Bananas are the worst thing to eat if you're trying to lose weight...11
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The worst are people who publish books, or have YouTube channels, or consider themselves knowledgeable so people actually believe them. A well known you tuber with a book who is supposed to be a nutritionist said "you shouldn't eat late at night as your body doesn't digest the food and it sits in your stomach rotting" like your digestion knows what time of day it is.10
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Eat an apple and drink a glass of warm water with a teaspoon of vinegar in it every night before bed. It causes a chemical reaction that neutralizes all the fat you ate that day and you'll never gain a pound!!
(I had a friend who swore by this and to be fair she was as thin as a rail....until you looked closer and realized her entire diet was basically cigarettes and coffee)9 -
"you'll never lose weight if you drink Coke Zero"
(lost 63lb, drank Coke Zero every day)11 -
TavistockToad wrote: »Bananas are the worst thing to eat if you're trying to lose weight...
I was once told that eating bananas would make me gain weight, not lose weight. Nothing to do with CICO, but because they are pure sugar (no other nutritional value) and it's sugar that makes you fat.0 -
"You can eat whatever you want. You'll burn it off anyway."
-My Dad has high hopes for my lifting gains.6 -
TavistockToad wrote: »Bananas are the worst thing to eat if you're trying to lose weight...
I used to be told this all the time!0 -
MaddMaestro wrote: »"You can eat whatever you want. You'll burn it off anyway."
-My Dad has high hopes for my lifting gains.
People say this to me because I'm a long distance runner... sadly it's just not true!4 -
moosmum1972 wrote: »corinasue1143 wrote: »A friend told me once the calories don't count if no one sees you eating them. I laughed. She got mad. She wasn't joking.
Other people's food doesn't have calories....
This is true. Fries I steal off my hubbie's plate don't count.....
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