“Make sure you eat a WHOLE avocado then your body will start burning fat!” and other silly things!

EllieElla2015 wrote: »

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”

...does "the whole avocado" mean you have to eat the pit too? Is that what we've all been doing wrong?

My mother got the Beverly Hills Diet book from the library and I read it. I don't think I even believed it then, it was so silly, but I wanted to try it (I was around 12 and not overweight but wanted to be a little thinner, and I loved the idea of just eating unlimited fruit). My mother didn't let me (in that she wouldn't buy the fruits needed for the program) except she let me get grapefruit (which it turned out I hated). Here's an explanation (dealing with the updated and slightly less stupid but still really stupid version of the diet) from https://www.diet.com/g/beverly-hills-diet:

"The Beverly Hills diet...is based on the idea that it is not what a person eats, or even how much food is eaten that causes a person to gain weight [but]...the combinations in which foods are eaten and the order in which they are eaten causes weight gain.... [E]ating foods in the wrong order can stop some foods from being digested, and it is the undigested foods that cause fat build-up....

....[F]ruit must be eaten alone and must be eaten before anything else is consumed during the day [and]...each type of fruit must be eaten alone.... f a dieter eats an orange, the dieter must wait at least one full hour before eating another type of fruit, such as a pear. If the dieter eats a different type of food, such as a protein, the dieter must wait until the next day to eat fruit again.

...[P]rotein and carbohydrates cannot be eaten together....[O]n the first day of the diet, dieters are instructed to eat pineapple, corn on the cob, and a salad made of lettuce, tomatoes, and onions with Mazel dressing. (Mazel dressing is a recipe included in the book, and shows up frequently throughout the 35-day diet.) This means that dieters may eat as much pineapple as desired in the morning, but once they beginning eating corn on the cob they cannot go back and eat more pineapple. Once the salad is eaten, both corn on the cob and pineapple are no longer allowed. Dieters are instructed to wait between changing foods to ensure proper digestion.

Some days on the diet only one type of food is permitted during the entire day. Day three of the diet allows the dieter only to consume grapes. On other days the dieter is only allowed to eat watermelon. Although these rules are extremely restrictive, they are not as restrictive as the rules set out in the original Beverly Hills diet. On that diet, dieters were only allowed to eat fruit for the first 10 days of the diet. No animal protein was allowed at all until the 19th day...."

Well, diet soda doesn't cause weight gain but for me, it's definitely a gateway drug. If I have a soda I'm going to burp which makes room for more food. It also gives me a sweets craving almost instantly. Like I said, gateway drug. But, the not eating after 7p, low carb, and skipping breakfast is bohonkey. I had a doctor's appointment on Tuesday and it was a place I haven't been to in almost a decade so my last weight they had was 310lbs. When they logged my weight at 169, they congratulated me and then the doctor proceeded to tell me to cut out carbs. I'm like bruh, I lost 141lbs and didn't cut a single carb, I think I got this.

I was once told that you shouldn't drink water for at least half an hour after working out because it would stop your body from burning off the fat. The longer you went without water, the more you burned.

I was once told (and I believed it. SIGH) that taking cold showers makes you burn a lot of calories. I did that for like a week before deciding I'd rather stay fat.