Somebody lectured me about Splenda today

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  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    AnvilHead wrote: »
    nutmegoreo wrote: »
    jofjltncb6 wrote: »
    jofjltncb6 wrote: »
    mph323 wrote: »
    ponycyndi wrote: »
    I've had people telling me how awful artificial sweeteners are for decades. I used to listen quietly, nod, and say nothing.
    Then I spent a lot of time countering with my own story of diabetes and how high blood sugar will destroy all my organs and will put me into a coma.
    Now I'm too old to be told how to live my life and listen to discussion of my choices, or hear one more time about how someone ordered a triple bacon cheeseburger with a diet coke (Me. It was me. I ordered it.) So now the only response you'd get from me is a death stare while I drink my coffee with 3 Splendas.

    I've always preferred the taste of diet soda over regular. It surprised me when studies came out that correlated diet drinks with obesity, until I realized I was probably a contributing data point every time I ordered a big mac, fries and a diet coke. :)

    That's actually what I suspect is causing that correlation...the "I'm having a diet coke, so I can afford to splurge a little and super-size my meal"/"I ordered the wooly-mammoth sized meal, so I'll have a diet coke to drink" phenomenon.

    (Okay, now to stop replying and catch up on the...TWENTY-THREE PAGES?!? WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!?.

    **sigh**

    More reading, less typing.)

    LOL

    Now I have to decide if those woo's were for my personal theory or because I tried so hard to catch up before posting.
    jofjltncb6 wrote: »
    Just_Jon wrote: »
    Sometimes unsolicited advice is legitimate. Just sayin'.
    djneff15 wrote: »
    I understand how y'all feel about someone encroaching on your privacy, but at least they care enough to say something. It really doesn't sound like anyone is being judgy, they're just trying to let you know that that stuff is bad for you.

    Finally. Page 7. What took you two so long to get here???

    (And now I understand the 23 pages.)

    And these too! Woo'ed because I was shocked it took the "artificial sweeteners are obviously bad for everyone" people seven pages to get here? Or for my understanding of why this was 23 pages (which was totally confirmed, to be clear).

    Oh, MFP, don't ever change.

    Don't. Ever. Change.

    There seems to be an angry woo'er running around wooing everything in sight, and seems to have recruited some friends. I would love to see the update where we can see who hit the buttons. I can well imagine all the angry PMs flying around after that. :laugh:

    The moderators can see who's doing it.

    Lucky buggers. There was some chatter at one point about us being able to see it too!
  • Kalex1975
    Kalex1975 Posts: 427 Member
    nutmegoreo wrote: »
    AnvilHead wrote: »

    The moderators can see who's doing it.

    Lucky buggers. There was some chatter at one point about us being able to see it too!

    I swear when I first started paying attention to the forums a couple years ago I was able to see who clicked them but it was for a short period of time, maybe premium accounts had this ability at some point?
  • Fitnessgirl0913
    Fitnessgirl0913 Posts: 481 Member
    nutmegoreo wrote: »
    AnvilHead wrote: »
    nutmegoreo wrote: »
    jofjltncb6 wrote: »
    jofjltncb6 wrote: »
    mph323 wrote: »
    ponycyndi wrote: »
    I've had people telling me how awful artificial sweeteners are for decades. I used to listen quietly, nod, and say nothing.
    Then I spent a lot of time countering with my own story of diabetes and how high blood sugar will destroy all my organs and will put me into a coma.
    Now I'm too old to be told how to live my life and listen to discussion of my choices, or hear one more time about how someone ordered a triple bacon cheeseburger with a diet coke (Me. It was me. I ordered it.) So now the only response you'd get from me is a death stare while I drink my coffee with 3 Splendas.

    I've always preferred the taste of diet soda over regular. It surprised me when studies came out that correlated diet drinks with obesity, until I realized I was probably a contributing data point every time I ordered a big mac, fries and a diet coke. :)

    That's actually what I suspect is causing that correlation...the "I'm having a diet coke, so I can afford to splurge a little and super-size my meal"/"I ordered the wooly-mammoth sized meal, so I'll have a diet coke to drink" phenomenon.

    (Okay, now to stop replying and catch up on the...TWENTY-THREE PAGES?!? WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!?.

    **sigh**

    More reading, less typing.)

    LOL

    Now I have to decide if those woo's were for my personal theory or because I tried so hard to catch up before posting.
    jofjltncb6 wrote: »
    Just_Jon wrote: »
    Sometimes unsolicited advice is legitimate. Just sayin'.
    djneff15 wrote: »
    I understand how y'all feel about someone encroaching on your privacy, but at least they care enough to say something. It really doesn't sound like anyone is being judgy, they're just trying to let you know that that stuff is bad for you.

    Finally. Page 7. What took you two so long to get here???

    (And now I understand the 23 pages.)

    And these too! Woo'ed because I was shocked it took the "artificial sweeteners are obviously bad for everyone" people seven pages to get here? Or for my understanding of why this was 23 pages (which was totally confirmed, to be clear).

    Oh, MFP, don't ever change.

    Don't. Ever. Change.

    There seems to be an angry woo'er running around wooing everything in sight, and seems to have recruited some friends. I would love to see the update where we can see who hit the buttons. I can well imagine all the angry PMs flying around after that. :laugh:

    The moderators can see who's doing it.

    Lucky buggers. There was some chatter at one point about us being able to see it too!

    Yeah it would be nice to see who flags your posts at least. I posted what I thought was an amusing joke a few pages back and it got flagged by someone as abuse..?
  • mph323
    mph323 Posts: 3,565 Member
    nutmegoreo wrote: »
    AnvilHead wrote: »
    nutmegoreo wrote: »
    jofjltncb6 wrote: »
    jofjltncb6 wrote: »
    mph323 wrote: »
    ponycyndi wrote: »
    I've had people telling me how awful artificial sweeteners are for decades. I used to listen quietly, nod, and say nothing.
    Then I spent a lot of time countering with my own story of diabetes and how high blood sugar will destroy all my organs and will put me into a coma.
    Now I'm too old to be told how to live my life and listen to discussion of my choices, or hear one more time about how someone ordered a triple bacon cheeseburger with a diet coke (Me. It was me. I ordered it.) So now the only response you'd get from me is a death stare while I drink my coffee with 3 Splendas.

    I've always preferred the taste of diet soda over regular. It surprised me when studies came out that correlated diet drinks with obesity, until I realized I was probably a contributing data point every time I ordered a big mac, fries and a diet coke. :)

    That's actually what I suspect is causing that correlation...the "I'm having a diet coke, so I can afford to splurge a little and super-size my meal"/"I ordered the wooly-mammoth sized meal, so I'll have a diet coke to drink" phenomenon.

    (Okay, now to stop replying and catch up on the...TWENTY-THREE PAGES?!? WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!?.

    **sigh**

    More reading, less typing.)

    LOL

    Now I have to decide if those woo's were for my personal theory or because I tried so hard to catch up before posting.
    jofjltncb6 wrote: »
    Just_Jon wrote: »
    Sometimes unsolicited advice is legitimate. Just sayin'.
    djneff15 wrote: »
    I understand how y'all feel about someone encroaching on your privacy, but at least they care enough to say something. It really doesn't sound like anyone is being judgy, they're just trying to let you know that that stuff is bad for you.

    Finally. Page 7. What took you two so long to get here???

    (And now I understand the 23 pages.)

    And these too! Woo'ed because I was shocked it took the "artificial sweeteners are obviously bad for everyone" people seven pages to get here? Or for my understanding of why this was 23 pages (which was totally confirmed, to be clear).

    Oh, MFP, don't ever change.

    Don't. Ever. Change.

    There seems to be an angry woo'er running around wooing everything in sight, and seems to have recruited some friends. I would love to see the update where we can see who hit the buttons. I can well imagine all the angry PMs flying around after that. :laugh:

    The moderators can see who's doing it.

    Lucky buggers. There was some chatter at one point about us being able to see it too!

    Yeah it would be nice to see who flags your posts at least. I posted what I thought was an amusing joke a few pages back and it got flagged by someone as abuse..?

    Yes there have been a number of inappropriate flags thrown - I called one out early on but I'm afraid giving any attention to these people just encourages them :(
  • mph323
    mph323 Posts: 3,565 Member
    mph323 wrote: »
    If I were running the site, there would be an Agree and Disagree button, and people would be able to see who agrees and disagrees with them. The woo button is not only meaningless because of the ambiguous meaning, but when it's used as "this post is just a bunch of woo" (when a comment collects 17 woos immediately after posting) it has an automatic personal attack emotion attached, whether or not it's meant that way.

    For a site that hammers on respecting other people's views and will send warnings for fairly innocuous remarks if someone gets their feelings hurt, I'm completely lost why they would think a stealth attack button is a good idea.

    <steps off soap box>

    You have no idea how much I wanted to "woo" this post for the irony, but I settled for liking it.

    Loveya! I had a fairly low woo count before this thread but it's on it's way to doubling now :'(
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,204 Member
    Kalex1975 wrote: »
    nutmegoreo wrote: »
    AnvilHead wrote: »

    The moderators can see who's doing it.

    Lucky buggers. There was some chatter at one point about us being able to see it too!

    I swear when I first started paying attention to the forums a couple years ago I was able to see who clicked them but it was for a short period of time, maybe premium accounts had this ability at some point?

    I think they're missing a revenue opportunity by not offering that feature as an extra-cost option. ;)
  • WanderingTaurus
    WanderingTaurus Posts: 7 Member
    100_PROOF_ wrote: »
    My husbands friend gets bags and bags of blueberries and eats them with spoonfuls of peanut butter. When asked why, he says that it's a super food and that it's helping his body because of the nutrition . He didn't want to believe that the calories still counted.
    He started to walk up to others and talk to them about how they should be eating super food too.

    Now he's 310lbs and 5'8. I guess the calories did count after all. Lol
    He stopped walking up to strangers to preach about the super foods now but my husband said people would roll their eyes and walk away quickly or say something like well then you eat it. Lol

    Hearing "super food" would have made me stop him right there in his tracks.
  • stanmann571
    stanmann571 Posts: 5,727 Member
    100_PROOF_ wrote: »
    My husbands friend gets bags and bags of blueberries and eats them with spoonfuls of peanut butter. When asked why, he says that it's a super food and that it's helping his body because of the nutrition . He didn't want to believe that the calories still counted.
    He started to walk up to others and talk to them about how they should be eating super food too.

    Now he's 310lbs and 5'8. I guess the calories did count after all. Lol
    He stopped walking up to strangers to preach about the super foods now but my husband said people would roll their eyes and walk away quickly or say something like well then you eat it. Lol

    Super food, LOL.

    Super food's like PB, Granola, Blueberries, etc are what People like Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps and AT walkers use to ensure they get their necessary calories and nutrients in as dense a package as possible.

    If you want to eat like Michael Phelps, you gotta train like Michale Phelps.
  • ccrdragon
    ccrdragon Posts: 3,374 Member
    edited May 2018
    Aaron_K123 wrote: »
    I haxxord their system and I apparently have 159 woos distributed over a total of 50 posts.

    Did you do that in public?!?!?!?!? :open_mouth:
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    edited May 2018
    ccrdragon wrote: »
    Aaron_K123 wrote: »
    I haxxord their system and I apparently have 159 woos distributed over a total of 50 posts.

    Did you do that in public?!?!?!?!? :open_mouth:

    Pfff, what do you know...you have 59 woo's distributed over 41 posts. One post on May 3rd had 5 woo's!
  • mph323
    mph323 Posts: 3,565 Member
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    Kalex1975 wrote: »
    nutmegoreo wrote: »
    AnvilHead wrote: »

    The moderators can see who's doing it.

    Lucky buggers. There was some chatter at one point about us being able to see it too!

    I swear when I first started paying attention to the forums a couple years ago I was able to see who clicked them but it was for a short period of time, maybe premium accounts had this ability at some point?

    I think they're missing a revenue opportunity by not offering that feature as an extra-cost option. ;)

    Oooh somebody get in there with a third party app!
  • stanmann571
    stanmann571 Posts: 5,727 Member
    Aaron_K123 wrote: »
    ccrdragon wrote: »
    Aaron_K123 wrote: »
    I haxxord their system and I apparently have 159 woos distributed over a total of 50 posts.

    Did you do that in public?!?!?!?!? :open_mouth:

    Pfff, what do you know...you have 59 woo's distributed over 41 posts. One post on May 3rd had 5 woo's!

    Are you hand counting the posts? Or am I missing a click somewhere. I know I have 332.
  • stanmann571
    stanmann571 Posts: 5,727 Member
    Aaron_K123 wrote: »
    Aaron_K123 wrote: »
    ccrdragon wrote: »
    Aaron_K123 wrote: »
    I haxxord their system and I apparently have 159 woos distributed over a total of 50 posts.

    Did you do that in public?!?!?!?!? :open_mouth:

    Pfff, what do you know...you have 59 woo's distributed over 41 posts. One post on May 3rd had 5 woo's!

    Are you hand counting the posts? Or am I missing a click somewhere. I know I have 332.

    Yes anytime anyone gets woo'd I write it in my notebook. Your highest woo'd post was 5 woos.

    LOL, thanks for nothing, but seriously, I don't see a post count anywhere on the linked pages.

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/profile/reactions/stanmann571/1005556991?reaction=wtf

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/profile/reactions/Aaron_K123/60911203?reaction=wtf
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    Aaron_K123 wrote: »
    Aaron_K123 wrote: »
    ccrdragon wrote: »
    Aaron_K123 wrote: »
    I haxxord their system and I apparently have 159 woos distributed over a total of 50 posts.

    Did you do that in public?!?!?!?!? :open_mouth:

    Pfff, what do you know...you have 59 woo's distributed over 41 posts. One post on May 3rd had 5 woo's!

    Are you hand counting the posts? Or am I missing a click somewhere. I know I have 332.

    Yes anytime anyone gets woo'd I write it in my notebook. Your highest woo'd post was 5 woos.

    LOL, thanks for nothing, but seriously, I don't see a post count anywhere on the linked pages.

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/profile/reactions/stanmann571/1005556991?reaction=wtf

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/profile/reactions/Aaron_K123/60911203?reaction=wtf

    In Chrome I go to the page, go to the more tools menu and developer tools, then view the source code for the page under the sources tab. Then I scroll through the file structure to the plugins tab and go to the css definitions and.....hah hah no actually yeah I just hand count them.
  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
    Aaron_K123 wrote: »
    Aaron_K123 wrote: »
    ccrdragon wrote: »
    Aaron_K123 wrote: »
    I haxxord their system and I apparently have 159 woos distributed over a total of 50 posts.

    Did you do that in public?!?!?!?!? :open_mouth:

    Pfff, what do you know...you have 59 woo's distributed over 41 posts. One post on May 3rd had 5 woo's!

    Are you hand counting the posts? Or am I missing a click somewhere. I know I have 332.

    Yes anytime anyone gets woo'd I write it in my notebook. Your highest woo'd post was 5 woos.

    LOL, thanks for nothing, but seriously, I don't see a post count anywhere on the linked pages.

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/profile/reactions/stanmann571/1005556991?reaction=wtf

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/profile/reactions/Aaron_K123/60911203?reaction=wtf

    Press on your woo. fdh7lyfr3xtb.png
  • mph323
    mph323 Posts: 3,565 Member
    100_PROOF_ wrote: »
    My husbands friend gets bags and bags of blueberries and eats them with spoonfuls of peanut butter. When asked why, he says that it's a super food and that it's helping his body because of the nutrition . He didn't want to believe that the calories still counted.
    He started to walk up to others and talk to them about how they should be eating super food too.

    Now he's 310lbs and 5'8. I guess the calories did count after all. Lol
    He stopped walking up to strangers to preach about the super foods now but my husband said people would roll their eyes and walk away quickly or say something like well then you eat it. Lol

    Hearing "super food" would have made me stop him right there in his tracks.

    I used to read those clickbait articles and always ended up feeling a little anxious because I either didn't like the foods or would have to change my whole way of eating to incorporate them. At one point I spent some time really thinking about the whole concept and came up with

    1. Most of the articles were worded "studies show eating this food may contribute to a healthier heart". You can find a legitimate study that shows most nutrient dense foods contribute to heart health one way or another.
    2. "This food is high in antioxidants". And so are a bunch of other foods not on the list.
    3. If I tried to incorporate a serving of every superfood in every article at the recommended frequency I would be eating 3000 calories a day. How do you pick and choose? Heart health is more important than cell regeneration? Let your brain degenerate in order to support your gut?
  • stanmann571
    stanmann571 Posts: 5,727 Member
    Aaron_K123 wrote: »
    Aaron_K123 wrote: »
    Aaron_K123 wrote: »
    ccrdragon wrote: »
    Aaron_K123 wrote: »
    I haxxord their system and I apparently have 159 woos distributed over a total of 50 posts.

    Did you do that in public?!?!?!?!? :open_mouth:

    Pfff, what do you know...you have 59 woo's distributed over 41 posts. One post on May 3rd had 5 woo's!

    Are you hand counting the posts? Or am I missing a click somewhere. I know I have 332.

    Yes anytime anyone gets woo'd I write it in my notebook. Your highest woo'd post was 5 woos.

    LOL, thanks for nothing, but seriously, I don't see a post count anywhere on the linked pages.

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/profile/reactions/stanmann571/1005556991?reaction=wtf

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/profile/reactions/Aaron_K123/60911203?reaction=wtf

    In Chrome I go to the page, go to the more tools menu and developer tools, then view the source code for the page under the sources tab. Then I scroll through the file structure to the plugins tab and go to the css definitions and.....hah hah no actually yeah I just hand count them.

    LOL. Ain't nobody got time fo that.

    So 5x41 pages. 205. Not quite as bad as counting them by hand
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,281 Member
    no no no - You have to do cognitive improvement at the beginning - otherwise by later in the week you will have forgotten which thing you are improving next. :o;);)
  • mph323
    mph323 Posts: 3,565 Member
    no no no - You have to do cognitive improvement at the beginning - otherwise by later in the week you will have forgotten which thing you are improving next. :o;);)

    Um. Wait, what? What were we talking about? What are we improving?