“But there aren’t any calories in sour cream.”
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If you keep drinking diet pop, you will:
1. get a brain tumor or
2. gain weight because it has hidden calories
I'm not gaining weight, its just inflammation from eating something I'm allergic to. If I figure out what it is, I'll stop eating it and the weight will just fall off.
All sugar is poison, eating ANY amount of it ever will cause you to be obese, sick, have bad skin and hair, and die young.
Weight doesn't matter, only health is important, and they aren't linked in any way. In fact, trying to lose weight is unhealthy and you should just eat whatever your body craves.21 -
I just saw this comment on a fitness related website.
"You know calories are mostly fictitious? The number from the food label is just the amount of heat released when the food is burned to ashes. It has very little to do with how your body breaks down, assimilates, uses or excretes food."17 -
“I could eat the same as you and wouldn’t lose weight. There really isn’t such a thing as overweight, it’s where your body naturally wants to be and it’s pointless to fight that so eat another cookie.”
Slightly paraphrased but yep, someone really said that to me.
Ugh. That's the Health At Every Size (HAES) mindset and the founder (or I think she's the founder) says this. That it's where your body naturally wants to be and it's pointless to fight it.
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I also see a lot of people complaining about not losing weight at all however they workout every day for 5 months, but keep on saying that counting calories is pointless and you just have to eat whole foods to lose weight.9
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“I could eat the same as you and wouldn’t lose weight. There really isn’t such a thing as overweight, it’s where your body naturally wants to be and it’s pointless to fight that so eat another cookie.”
Slightly paraphrased but yep, someone really said that to me.
Ugh. That's the Health At Every Size (HAES) mindset and the founder (or I think she's the founder) says this. That it's where your body naturally wants to be and it's pointless to fight it.
I didn’t have a response to it. I mean, what is there to say that the 70lb I’ve lost hadn’t already said? If she is ever ready, she knows I’m here for her.8 -
This was a while ago now, but I still remember the coworker who would routinely stop by my desk to tell me my diet soda was awful for my health. He was on his way to the back entrance for his cigarette break
He'd also get completely trashed at happy hour every Friday.
A friend recently told me she finally gave up her small orange juice with her breakfast because sugar was causing her to hold onto belly fat, while holding a big bottle of POM Wonderful juice. When I asked about it, she said... superfood. I nodded and smiled.32 -
"You should try a Detox Cleanse - all those toxins in your body are what's holding on to the weight."
Seriously, this is one drives me bananas! When I ask anyone who drops that line on me, exactly which 'toxins' they are talking about, and how this will perform the function better than my kidneys, liver and intestines already do, they don't have an answer.
People lose 'weight' on these cleanses by consuming starvation levels of calories; because the body is depleting glycogen, they're losing water first, then starting to cannibalize muscle tissue if they keep it up for more than a few days. Do the math - because each gram of glycogen requires 3 - 4 grams of water to hydrate it properly, 200 grams of glycogen + 800 grams of water is just over 2 lbs. Once they start eating normally and restoring their depleted glycogen stores, the scale goes back up.
Then there's the other side effects - like kidney (Green Smoothie Cleanses) or liver (Detox Teas) damage that can be fatal if on some of these 'Detox' programs too long.11 -
My friend while eating a family pizza to herself, box of cookies ready for dessert
" I don't have to count calories because I'm doing 16:8 intermittent fasting"
I answered without thinking "don't worry your body will count it"
Things got awkward fast65 -
Teabythesea_ wrote: »"If it jiggles it's water weight."
Or the whole, "My body processes carbs differently, so I can't lose weight while eating them."
Water weight jiggles? Marvellous! I'm no longer fat, just carrying a few stone of water!27 -
I’ve heard quite a few jaw-droppers lately, including:
“I put sour cream on pretty much everything because it doesn’t have any calories.”
“It’s been proven that calorie counting doesn’t work.”
“Why are you putting whole milk in your coffee? I thought you were trying to lose weight. Whole milk has fat in it.”
Anybody else hear some great misconceptions lately? Please share!
Aliens built the pyramids and those statues on Easter Island.5 -
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Printer repair man visiting the office overheard part of a conversation and jumped in with you can’t lose weight without doing cardio, when he heard two of us discussing our lifting routines. My co worker asked him where the 70lbs I have lost had gone then, his response was well it won’t stay off. 18 months later that pesky 70lbs is still missing 😀30
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Food that isn't homemade is made with poor quality ingredients, which is why it makes you fat.11
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Slightly different take:
I work at a Veterinary hospital and we were trying to help a client get her dog to lose to lose weight. Client replaced the dog’s regular treats with dehydrated lamb lung because she thought “dehydrated” meant it had no calories. Needless to say that didn’t help.24 -
The one I get fairly regularly is
“You don’t need to worry about what you eat because you work out.”
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"My problem is I don't eat enough"40
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"I've been so inspired by your weight loss that I decided to do the mung bean soup diet." WHAAAAA???
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"I can't eat more than 6 almonds or I gain 5 pounds." SRSLY?9 -
emilysusana wrote: »“Evil carbs” — My wine-guzzling uncle says this on the regular.
I hope the woo is for my uncle and not me!
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Her: I'm eating low carb
Me: I'm glad that works for you. I enjoy bread and cookies way too much to do that
Her: Oh, I don't eat sugar either3 -
the moon is the flip side of the sun5
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hippiesaur wrote: »I just saw this comment on a fitness related website.
"You know calories are mostly fictitious? The number from the food label is just the amount of heat released when the food is burned to ashes. It has very little to do with how your body breaks down, assimilates, uses or excretes food."
The bolded section is partly true. Today's calorie counts did originate by literally burning foods to ash and measuring the heat that was released. However, that data is combined with an enormous amount of further research which does account for how a body breaks down, assimilates, uses, and excretes that food. While not perfect, the calorie counts used today are darn good estimates backed up by a whole lot of actual science.17 -
Kathryn247 wrote: »"I've been so inspired by your weight loss that I decided to do the mung bean soup diet." WHAAAAA???
or
"I can't eat more than 6 almonds or I gain 5 pounds." SRSLY?
Gotta watch out for that seventh almond.24 -
This was a while ago now, but I still remember the coworker who would routinely stop by my desk to tell me my diet soda was awful for my health. He was on his way to the back entrance for his cigarette break He'd also get completely trashed at happy hour every Friday.
A friend recently told me she finally gave up her small orange juice with her breakfast because sugar was causing her to hold onto belly fat, while holding a big bottle of POM Wonderful juice. When I asked about it, she said... superfood. I nodded and smiled.
You're giving me horrid flashbacks of something I've mentioned on MFP before:
The chiropractor who gave a presentation on "digestive health" at my breast cancer support group (!) and told us - among other things - that everyone would be better off giving up sugar, gluten and dairy; but that honey was really good for you because it's a superfood; but artificial sweeteners were the worst because your body reacted like they were sugar; and agave was kind of OK because it wasn't a superfood like honey, but was natural.
Literally. Said. All. Those. Things. In. Consecutive. Statements.28 -
anthocyanina wrote: »hippiesaur wrote: »I just saw this comment on a fitness related website.
"You know calories are mostly fictitious? The number from the food label is just the amount of heat released when the food is burned to ashes. It has very little to do with how your body breaks down, assimilates, uses or excretes food."
The bolded section is partly true. Today's calorie counts did originate by literally burning foods to ash and measuring the heat that was released. However, that data is combined with an enormous amount of further research which does account for how a body breaks down, assimilates, uses, and excretes that food. While not perfect, the calorie counts used today are darn good estimates backed up by a whole lot of actual science.
I know that part is actually true, but this person just tried to convince others that CICO never works because "that's not how your body works" and "your metabolism slows down and you will store fat if you eat less". I just didn't quote these as well..
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My mom thinks certain foods "help" people lose weight in an almost magical way, like "oh I always lose several pounds if I switch to English muffins instead of bread"...or "prevent" one from losing weight, "I can't lose weight if I have any ice cream at all".
She's never pressured me about my weight loss but when I hit my first big plateau in a huge loss she was like, "Maybe more bananas? I know you were having bananas a lot when you were losing". Like it was ALL due to the magic of bananas!
I know a lot of people who really subscribe to the idea that if you simply eat organic, non-GMO, etc, you will be at a healthy weight. Most of them aren't at a healthy weight though. Same with my friend who is a huge believer in full fat dairy and bone broth for all health woes, but she's always ill with colds and flu and random infections. I'm not disputing those things necessarily but it's just interesting to me how much that some people will preach the benefits of something when they aren't reaping said benefits!
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From a Keto guru (self appointed) in a weight loss support forum (not MFP) “As long as you eat Keto you don’t have to count calories and you will lose weight.” Almost no one lost weight in the group and usually ones who did were told that they were doing Keto wrong.
“CICO doesn’t work, you have to follow the whole 30 diet or you’ll never lose a pound”
“If you don’t cut out (fill in the blank food) you’ll never lose weight”
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I told a friend that I don't do a whole lot of smoothies (referring to restaurant smoothies mainly) because I'm a fast drinker and feel like I don't even enjoy it, just slurp it down...so I'm more satisfied with regular food than a smoothie. She said, "But with smoothies, it's not actually the calories of food, it's just the calories of juice because it's all compressed".
Wha?! In talking further I realized she truly believed this to be true. She regularly gets this smoothie with nut butter and protein powder in it (along with her sandwich) and she's not a calorie counter but she is trying to lose weight. Sometimes I just have to exit those conversations.19 -
My step-mother emphatically believed butter did not have fat. Fat to her was only the stuff that came off of an animal. I used to get so stressed about going over for dinner because her food was served with a heavy dose of guilt.
Imagine a heavy set old lady with a thick Russian accent swearing up and down that the cream sauce had no fat in it: it’s ONLY CREAM AND BUTTER. THERE’S NO FAT!
She’d also promise there wasn’t any dessert but then after pressuring me to eat a second portion of breaded fried chicken with cream sauce over everything she’d pull out dessert and say, “This isn’t dessert, it’s just pudding!”
She’d pout if I didn’t take a bunch of cream sauce-laden leftovers home with me. My solution finally was to take the food and throw it out when I got home. It made me feel ill to eat it the first time, and I hated throwing if out, but it was either that or fight over cream sauce. Every. Week.
Crap. Did this turn into a rant? She had a bunch of crazy ideas about food. ☹️😒
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