“Make sure you eat a WHOLE avocado then your body will start burning fat!” and other silly things!
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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.
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charlenekapf wrote: »Putting oil and butter in your coffee to lose weight. Um why not just create a calorie deficit?
That's funny. When hiking the Appalachian Trail, we used to put butter in our coffee to give us more energy to carry our 60 pound packs.
The diet woo that most puzzled me was that you are supposed to drink warm water with half a lemon squeezed in it before eating anything in the morning. It was supposed to aid digestion and flush out toxins. I'm pretty sure it just provides the average amount of hydration and the lemon makes it taste better.3 -
Carrots and banana are fattening! All fruit has too much sugar. Calories don't matter! Diet doesn't matter, you just need to exercise more
All things said by family members.
Enjoying my banana and blueberries now.3 -
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.
As an older consumer of these things, I am able to see around the nonsense, but it is so prevalent and a lot of these "fitness models" do look great so you can see why people would buy into their routines. There was a lot of "warm lemon water as soon as I get out of bed" this year, which sounds like it would taste like vomit.2 -
I had a friend tell me that if she ate a potato cold it wouldn't count because your body can't digest cold potatoes.2
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Pocket__Cthulhu wrote: »I had a friend tell me that if she ate a potato cold it wouldn't count because your body can't digest cold potatoes.
So where does it go? I have to know!5 -
The temperature difference must interrupt the laws of thermodynamics and your stomach acid?2
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MelanieCN77 wrote: »Pocket__Cthulhu wrote: »I had a friend tell me that if she ate a potato cold it wouldn't count because your body can't digest cold potatoes.
So where does it go? I have to know!
There is a grain, a tiny grain, of something valid here. Chilling starches (potatoes, pasta) does appear to *somewhat* reduce the number of calories available to your body because a portion of the starch is converted to "resistant starch." It goes to the large intestine and acts more like fiber there (passing through your body). But you can get the same impact from cooking the potato, chilling it, and then reheating it. And it's not going to make the potato calorie-free.8 -
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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.28
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alondrakayy wrote: »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.
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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.
I got into a Twitter fight with a DOCTOR (of all things) who actually wrote the following sentence:
"Diet soda puts on adipose tissue (the worst kind of fat) that doesn't show up on the scale. Just stick to knitting since you obviously don't know science." (the last bit was a reference to my twitter handle)
Yes, I had to correct an MD and tell her that all fat was adipose tissue and that she meant visceral fat and then ask her how something that had mass didn't show up on the scale. She disappeared from our three day debate after I posed that question.
I also corrected her and told her that studies showed that visceral fat accumulation was correlated with sugar sweetened beverages, not diet soda.14 -
Pocket__Cthulhu wrote: »I had a friend tell me that if she ate a potato cold it wouldn't count because your body can't digest cold potatoes.
I fervently wish this were true. I love cold potatoes. When I was still running, I used to keep a bowl of small potatoes in the fridge that I had boiled. I ate them as snacks. I adore them.3 -
Ah, back to the first post... this isn't a fun post I'm about to make, just a recommendation: buy the avocados that come packaged in the string bags. They're usually smaller. Most of them clock in around 100-110 grams.
I'm a vegetarian who tries to keep my fat to around 50-60 grams a day and I get my protein mostly from dairy, but I want to keep my saturated fat low for medical reasons, so I need to get my fat from other places. I eat an avocado every day for one of my sources of healthy fat.
I wish I could just magically eat whatever I wanted after that and watch the rest of my vanity weight drop off!3 -
Hmmmm...
-Don't drink a cold drink with food, it will solidify fat and your body will absorb more of it
-You can't drink diet soda it will make you crave sugar (it doesn't)
-Drink lemon water in the morning and it'll speed up your metabolism all day
-You can't eat any chocolate as it will always turn into fat
-ACV
-Some people are just meant to be fat
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janejellyroll wrote: »There is a grain, a tiny grain, of something valid here. Chilling starches (potatoes, pasta) does appear to *somewhat* reduce the number of calories available to your body because a portion of the starch is converted to "resistant starch." It goes to the large intestine and acts more like fiber there (passing through your body). But you can get the same impact from cooking the potato, chilling it, and then reheating it. And it's not going to make the potato calorie-free.
that might work, but after chewing up potato, pasta or any food and swallowing it, it will warm to body temp in your stomach before it ever makes it to your intestines.Hmmmm...
-Don't drink a cold drink with food, it will solidify fat and your body will absorb more of it
like above, anything in your stomach will warm up. so funny!
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Oh yeah- the one where they say " the some people are just meant to be fat- it is in the genes-"- nothing can be done about it- so sad that some folks really believe it-6
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Oh yeah- the one where they say " the some people are just meant to be fat- it is in the genes-"- nothing can be done about it- so sad that some folks really believe it-
Well, this is another one ... the genetic thing... that has a very small grain of truth to it.
There is a genetic predisposition for some people to have a few more pounds on them than someone else of the same stats. IIRC, the difference was maybe in the ballpark of 4-6 pounds more than the person without the obesity gene, and still would put the person well within the range of having a normal weight.
So yeah, meant to weigh a bit more, but not meant to be fat.7 -
moosmum1972 wrote: »Eating ice boosts your metabolism. ..
It's from shivering.4 -
itsbasschick wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »There is a grain, a tiny grain, of something valid here. Chilling starches (potatoes, pasta) does appear to *somewhat* reduce the number of calories available to your body because a portion of the starch is converted to "resistant starch." It goes to the large intestine and acts more like fiber there (passing through your body). But you can get the same impact from cooking the potato, chilling it, and then reheating it. And it's not going to make the potato calorie-free.
that might work, but after chewing up potato, pasta or any food and swallowing it, it will warm to body temp in your stomach before it ever makes it to your intestines.Hmmmm...
-Don't drink a cold drink with food, it will solidify fat and your body will absorb more of it
like above, anything in your stomach will warm up. so funny!
The resistant starch is known to happen with pasta and rice. I don't recall seeing evidence that it happened with potatoes. The process is to cook it then refrigerate it for 12 hours to accomplish the conversion. Eating and thus warming it to body temp does not un-convert the resistance.
The bacteria in the large intestine digest and consume the resistant starches which you failed to digest.
I'm not informed of how bacteria respond to having a big old meal of resistant starch.
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Super foods don't contribute to weight gain.
You can't be obese if you eat clean.
Low GI foods don't contribute to weight gain.
Eat what you want, exercise burns it off.
It's impossible to lose weight past a certain age.
Every woman must eat 1200 calories only forever. My friend threw a Fitbit at me and yelled that it was wrong because it told her she needed to eat 1500 calories to lose weight.
Just heard this one: when you've been overweight too long your fat deposits harden and won't come off so it becomes impossible to lose weight4 -
janejellyroll wrote: »Chilling starches (potatoes, pasta) does appear to *somewhat* reduce the number of calories available to your body because a portion of the starch is converted to "resistant starch." It goes to the large intestine and acts more like fiber there (passing through your body). But you can get the same impact from cooking the potato, chilling it, and then reheating it.
oooooooh, hash browns FINALLY legitimized. insert thank-someone gif here.
one i remember from my own teens (late 70'sish) was 'celery has negative calories.' trouble was, i really hate celery.
and one i can't blame on anything but my own brain: there's vitamin c in skittles. because . . . oh never mind.
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JeromeBarry1 wrote: »itsbasschick wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »There is a grain, a tiny grain, of something valid here. Chilling starches (potatoes, pasta) does appear to *somewhat* reduce the number of calories available to your body because a portion of the starch is converted to "resistant starch." It goes to the large intestine and acts more like fiber there (passing through your body). But you can get the same impact from cooking the potato, chilling it, and then reheating it. And it's not going to make the potato calorie-free.
that might work, but after chewing up potato, pasta or any food and swallowing it, it will warm to body temp in your stomach before it ever makes it to your intestines.Hmmmm...
-Don't drink a cold drink with food, it will solidify fat and your body will absorb more of it
like above, anything in your stomach will warm up. so funny!
The resistant starch is known to happen with pasta and rice. I don't recall seeing evidence that it happened with potatoes. The process is to cook it then refrigerate it for 12 hours to accomplish the conversion. Eating and thus warming it to body temp does not un-convert the resistance.
The bacteria in the large intestine digest and consume the resistant starches which you failed to digest.
I'm not informed of how bacteria respond to having a big old meal of resistant starch.
They are happy bacteria. And if this is a dramatic change in your eating habits, you might have too few bacteria each eating too much delicious bacteria food, such that they are overfed and start micro-tooting, thus giving you more-than-usual intestinal gas. Seriously.2 -
That if you eat standing up it makes you fat, if you eat sitting down you will lose weight1
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JeromeBarry1 wrote: »itsbasschick wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »There is a grain, a tiny grain, of something valid here. Chilling starches (potatoes, pasta) does appear to *somewhat* reduce the number of calories available to your body because a portion of the starch is converted to "resistant starch." It goes to the large intestine and acts more like fiber there (passing through your body). But you can get the same impact from cooking the potato, chilling it, and then reheating it. And it's not going to make the potato calorie-free.
that might work, but after chewing up potato, pasta or any food and swallowing it, it will warm to body temp in your stomach before it ever makes it to your intestines.Hmmmm...
-Don't drink a cold drink with food, it will solidify fat and your body will absorb more of it
like above, anything in your stomach will warm up. so funny!
The resistant starch is known to happen with pasta and rice. I don't recall seeing evidence that it happened with potatoes.
It does. Here's one discussion, but there are lots: https://www.nature.com/articles/1602238
This also supports the idea that eating potatoes cold with a vinegar-based dressing (i.e., German potato salad, yum!) probably is better if you have insulin issues than many other ways of consuming potatoes.
That said, I've always chilled cooked potatoes and rice often, since I tend to make enough for leftovers. For the record, it did not prevent me from getting fat. So I'm one who won't be pre-chilling all my starches or thinking "yay, pre-chilled potatoes, I can go wild and eat more." If it's a calorie bonus, great.0 -
newheavensearth wrote: »Super foods don't contribute to weight gain.
You can't be obese if you eat clean.
Low GI foods don't contribute to weight gain.
Eat what you want, exercise burns it off.
It's impossible to lose weight past a certain age.
Every woman must eat 1200 calories only forever. My friend threw a Fitbit at me and yelled that it was wrong because it told her she needed to eat 1500 calories to lose weight.
Just heard this one: when you've been overweight too long your fat deposits harden and won't come off so it becomes impossible to lose weight
If someone threw something at me and yelled, I don't believe they would still be my friend.7 -
Drink lots of water because fat comes out in your pee.6
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Don't exercise beyond the "fat burning" zone, or you won't lose weight.1
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If you eat any sweets at all, such as a piece of pie, your body will hold on to all of the calories you eat until you eat more pie so you're better off just never eating sweets.
Fruit doesn't count as sugar at all, and calories in fruit don't count, so you can eat fruit in unlimited amounts 24/7 no matter what else you eat, and you will lose weight.
My mom thinks back to a time in her life when she lost weight (we're talking 5-7 lb) and says things like "I was eating a lot of boiled eggs and ham, so I'm going to do a boiled eggs and ham diet now".3
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