“But there aren’t any calories in sour cream.”
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Waitress at a restaurant tells me she is well versed in Gluten Free foods. But when I asked her if the soy sauce they use is made with wheat, she gave me a strange look and said, (seriously, I can't make this up) " What does wheat have to do with gluten?"
Uh... check please!
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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. ☹️😒
I believe it was Mean Girls that taught us that butter is a carb.
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When people say “Sucralose and other artificial sweeteners are fine for you” yea, no they aren’t lol105
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I once briefly worked with a group of women who were obsessed with various fad diets. Apparently the entire office had been cycling through all of them since the mid 90s (this was in 2013). I tried to block out most things they said about nutrition but a few gems stuck in my head.
One lady claimed that you can eat anything once a week because your body forgets what that food is and takes more calories to process it.
Second coworker tried to tell me my boyfriend (now husband) couldn't be vegetarian (pescetarian but she said veg) because he was muscular and rode his bike a lot. She said he had to be "sneaking bacon" and I thought it was a mildly offensive joke but no. She thought he was eating meat secretly. She was serious.
Third woman only ate dinner. No breakfast or lunch. Now, don't get me wrong, that would probably work out fine for some people. But she whined ALL DAY about feeling sick and hungry and she said that her doctor told her if you just eat once a day it doesn't matter how many calories you have - even if that means you eat 3,000 or more calories. She swore by this. She wasn't particularly overweight but she wanted to lose weight. It was odd.
Another chick spent about $10 at McDonald's every morning on different breakfast items and then threw about 2/3 of the food away as she concocted her ideal breakfast to suit her diet plan. This included picking blueberries out of her yogurt parfait. Every day. I wanted to ask why she didn't buy the components from a store and make it herself. But when I spoke to her, she just talked to me about her diet(s). Actually I can see some MFP-ers doing this (the McDonald's part) and I sorta get it. But in the crazy dieting office it just seemed nuts.16 -
seltzermint555 wrote: »I once briefly worked with a group of women who were obsessed with various fad diets. Apparently the entire office had been cycling through all of them since the mid 90s (this was in 2013). I tried to block out most things they said about nutrition but a few gems stuck in my head.
One lady claimed that you can eat anything once a week because your body forgets what that food is and takes more calories to process it.
Second coworker tried to tell me my boyfriend (now husband) couldn't be vegetarian (pescetarian but she said veg) because he was muscular and rode his bike a lot. She said he had to be "sneaking bacon" and I thought it was a mildly offensive joke but no. She thought he was eating meat secretly.
I WISH my body would forget! Lol
Regarding secret meat eating: On a week-end visit to Home Depot several years ago, my husband and I came across the husband of a friend of mine who was chowing down on a Big Mac meal with a giant soda in the parking lot. He looked super guilty and asked us not to tell his wife!
The wife makes lots of hippy-ish health food that are gluten free, fermented, very low sugar, and new-agey. When our group of friends have potlucks, her husband and two kids go overboard eating the sugary, gluten-ey cakes and breads and other things that she doesn’t make at home. They do this in front of their mom/wife, who gets frustrated. I imagine she’d be super disappointed by his secret MacDonalds meals, but there are worse things to keep secret I suppose.
Not accusing your husband of similar, it’s just a funny story.
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seltzermint555 wrote: »I once briefly worked with a group of women who were obsessed with various fad diets. Apparently the entire office had been cycling through all of them since the mid 90s (this was in 2013). I tried to block out most things they said about nutrition but a few gems stuck in my head.
One lady claimed that you can eat anything once a week because your body forgets what that food is and takes more calories to process it.
Second coworker tried to tell me my boyfriend (now husband) couldn't be vegetarian (pescetarian but she said veg) because he was muscular and rode his bike a lot. She said he had to be "sneaking bacon" and I thought it was a mildly offensive joke but no. She thought he was eating meat secretly.
I WISH my body would forget! Lol
Regarding secret meat eating: On a week-end visit to Home Depot several years ago, my husband and I came across the husband of a friend of mine who was chowing down on a Big Mac meal with a giant soda in the parking lot. He looked super guilty and asked us not to tell his wife!
The wife makes lots of hippy-ish health food that are gluten free, fermented, very low sugar, and new-agey. When our group of friends have potlucks, her husband and two kids go overboard eating the sugary, gluten-ey cakes and breads and other things that she doesn’t make at home. They do this in front of their mom/wife, who gets frustrated. I imagine she’d be super disappointed by his secret MacDonalds meals, but there are worse things to keep secret I suppose.
Not accusing your husband of similar, it’s just a funny story.
That is hilarious to me, too! It reminds me of a friend who talks a BIG talk when it comes to eating & cooking super healthy, organic, etc, and then when I'm at her house her preteen son and teen daughter will "out" her by saying things like "MOM! Can I have the rest of the Doritos?" or "I think that Chick-Fil-A from earlier made me sick". Just funny!
I'd laugh if my hubs WAS sneaking meat, though. He has eaten pescetarian for about 20 years, long before I met him. If my former coworker saw the other men in his family I think she would "get it", they're all HUGE dudes, very large, heavy, and muscular like they're all in the Highland Games. He's just inclined to have that body type and the fact that he's a bit leaner than most of them is in part due to his diet (though I personally think more the overall healthy-ness of it than the fact he doesn't eat meat).10 -
seltzermint555 wrote: »<snip>
One lady claimed that you can eat anything once a week because your body forgets what that food is and takes more calories to process it.
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I think this must be the flip side of the myth (oft-seen around MFP) that once your body gets used to doing an exercise, it burns so many fewer calories that you have to switch your exercise routine in order to keep losing weight.
(A myth funded by Beachbody and their ilk, I swear.)
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seltzermint555 wrote: »I once briefly worked with a group of women who were obsessed with various fad diets. Apparently the entire office had been cycling through all of them since the mid 90s (this was in 2013). I tried to block out most things they said about nutrition but a few gems stuck in my head.
One lady claimed that you can eat anything once a week because your body forgets what that food is and takes more calories to process it.
Second coworker tried to tell me my boyfriend (now husband) couldn't be vegetarian (pescetarian but she said veg) because he was muscular and rode his bike a lot. She said he had to be "sneaking bacon" and I thought it was a mildly offensive joke but no. She thought he was eating meat secretly.
I WISH my body would forget! Lol
Regarding secret meat eating: On a week-end visit to Home Depot several years ago, my husband and I came across the husband of a friend of mine who was chowing down on a Big Mac meal with a giant soda in the parking lot. He looked super guilty and asked us not to tell his wife!
The wife makes lots of hippy-ish health food that are gluten free, fermented, very low sugar, and new-agey. When our group of friends have potlucks, her husband and two kids go overboard eating the sugary, gluten-ey cakes and breads and other things that she doesn’t make at home. They do this in front of their mom/wife, who gets frustrated. I imagine she’d be super disappointed by his secret MacDonalds meals, but there are worse things to keep secret I suppose.
Not accusing your husband of similar, it’s just a funny story.
Too on-point not to share here, even though it's so old there's no live video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_4yfQyWH4Y 2 -
I'm always amused when people are trying to lose weight and they look at their MFP calorie goal and go "it wants me to eat how many calories?? I could never do that". It's like "well ya used to eat more because that's how we got here in the first place".47
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The whole keto "logic" that you can't get fat eating fat/you are burning fat because you eat fat/eat fat to burn fat/blah blah blah...whole denying physics of kcals-in vs. kcals out is disturbingly a common belief
Yes, butter, cream cheese, olive oil, coconut oil, etc. will make you fat if you consume enough...there's no magical bypassing of physics simply because one is in a state of ketosis17 -
I haven't any dieting gems to share - but, boy, do I get some people with crackpot anti vaccination or Dr Google ideas.
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My best friend in jr high and high school's mom insisted that you should not eat cheese because it goes right to the butt. This was the '80s and people thought that was bad. I now think she should start the Kardashian cheese diet.10
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Kathryn247 wrote: »"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?
Gotta watch out for that seventh almond.
What if you throw out almond number 7 and go straight to 8??14 -
"Counting calories doesn't work. You have to work out." - Courtesy of my hubby who's surprised I'm still losing weight doing CICO and impatiently waiting for me to plateau so he can say he was right.
"All you have to do to lose weight is start juicing."
"You should try herbalife! I've lost 8 pounds in a week."
"I don't need to count calories. I do intermittent fasting."
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You should use olive oil for cooking, because it has less fat than butter.
Olive oil: 99.9% fat
Butter: 81% fat12 -
stricklee11 wrote: »
"You should try herbalife! I've lost 8 pounds in a week."
I used to get this all the freakin' time when I was down about 80 lb from my heaviest & losing actively with MFP - and usually from women who had always been thin, or women who had always been very overweight and still were.
Also, they always say this like it would be better to lose 8 lb in a week than in four or six or however many weeks. I don't get it.
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From a co-worker and friend that I work out with, where she hasn't lost much weight in over 3 months.
"Blueberry Pancakes only have 80 calories in them including the butter and syrup"
"eat 6 small meals so your metabolism stays active otherwise you'll not lose anything"
"having 1 day where you eat anything you want and in any quantity resets your body for the following week" each and every week
I try to explain CICO and how I weigh my food to the gram now but to her the food database on Fitbit is king and you don't need to weigh anything.5 -
emilysusana wrote: »emilysusana wrote: »“Evil carbs” — My wine-guzzling uncle says this on the regular.
I hope the woo is for my uncle and not me!
I keep clicking in to this thread and immediately forgetting it's a call out thread and wanting to woo everyone
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jackslovely wrote: »
"Blueberry Pancakes only have 80 calories in them including the butter and syrup"
Oh, man! I wish!!!10 -
I get a conversation like this with some frequency.
Wannabee: I have started a diet and someone told me you have been on one and I should talk to you.
Me: Yes - I am on a diet.
Wannabee: I have a personal trainer and a dietitian I am working with. What are you doing?
Me: I have been following a very low carb diet, and I watch calories.
Wannabee: That will never work. You will just lose water weight.
Me: I have been doing it since 2016. I guess I have lost over 130 pounds of water weight.
Wannabee: You will never keep it off.
Me: I have been in maintenance since last July, but it could all come back any day I guess.
Wannabee: If you want to really lose weight you have to have a personal trainer and a dietitian.
Me: Thanks - I will remember that.49 -
I get a conversation like this with some frequency.
Wannabee: I have started a diet and someone told me you have been on one and I should talk to you.
Me: Yes - I am on a diet.
Wannabee: I have a personal trainer and a dietitian I am working with. What are you doing?
Me: I have been following a very low carb diet, and I watch calories.
Wannabee: That will never work. You will just lose water weight.
Me: I have been doing it since 2016. I guess I have lost over 130 pounds of water weight.
Wannabee: You will never keep it off.
Me: I have been in maintenance since last July, but it could all come back any day I guess.
Wannabee: If you want to really lose weight you have to have a personal trainer and a dietitian.
Me: Thanks - I will remember that.
Sounds like someone is unhappy they spent so much money.18 -
arilukaszewicz1 wrote: »When people say “Sucralose and other artificial sweeteners are fine for you” yea, no they aren’t lol
They aren't? Why not?34 -
I get a conversation like this with some frequency.
Wannabee: I have started a diet and someone told me you have been on one and I should talk to you.
Me: Yes - I am on a diet.
Wannabee: I have a personal trainer and a dietitian I am working with. What are you doing?
Me: I have been following a very low carb diet, and I watch calories.
Wannabee: That will never work. You will just lose water weight.
Me: I have been doing it since 2016. I guess I have lost over 130 pounds of water weight.
Wannabee: You will never keep it off.
Me: I have been in maintenance since last July, but it could all come back any day I guess.
Wannabee: If you want to really lose weight you have to have a personal trainer and a dietitian.
Me: Thanks - I will remember that.
This is annoying, and I just had to respond so that I could comment with 🙄.
A co-worker of mine regularly comments on how good I look and has repeatedly asked how I do it. I tell her I count calories, and explain that I go to the gym/walk/bike. She then seems disappointed, and the repetitive questioning suggests she’s waiting for me to reveal some easy magical part that I’ve previously omitted.
I then get to hear her list of current reasons why she’s as heavy as she is. the last time our boss brought treats (cookies: 165 calories each) same coworker pressured me to have more than one cookie “because I deserved it.” Erm, no.11 -
BAHAHAHA!!!!! There are so many gems in this thread, but so far this one is my favorite.My all-time favorite. A colleague of mine and his wife were on a fad diet (keto, Atkins, something?) and was bragging about some weight loss. I said I had lost 30 pounds fairly recently, too. How? I said, by counting calories and exercising.
"That's not how you're supposed to do it."13 -
I get a conversation like this with some frequency.
Wannabee: I have started a diet and someone told me you have been on one and I should talk to you.
Me: Yes - I am on a diet.
Wannabee: I have a personal trainer and a dietitian I am working with. What are you doing?
Me: I have been following a very low carb diet, and I watch calories.
Wannabee: That will never work. You will just lose water weight.
Me: I have been doing it since 2016. I guess I have lost over 130 pounds of water weight.
Wannabee: You will never keep it off.
Me: I have been in maintenance since last July, but it could all come back any day I guess.
Wannabee: If you want to really lose weight you have to have a personal trainer and a dietitian.
Me: Thanks - I will remember that.
Was the 130 pounds you already lost fake??
Congrats on losing 130 lbs. by the way!
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I used to work in an office of women and a few of them did multiple fad diets. In the middle of that I was doing an MFP like program but with a different app but basically CI/CO. When asked how I'm doing it I said easy, I eat less and move more. The cabbage soup diet, the egg diet, I don't remember all of them but they were all failures. Granted they had 15/20 pounds to lose and I had a lot more but but still: eat less - move more.5
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I have taken 67 lbs off in the past 8 months.
Someone told me that I lost my weight "the wrong way" because I eat too many calories, and nobody could lose weight eating that many calories (1600 a day).
Several people have told me that I "won't lose any weight eating more than 20 carbs a day." I eat about 75 to 120 carbs a day.18 -
RelCanonical wrote: »I'm only get the typical ones around these parts.
"I'm doing low-carb, so I only eat whole wheat bread." She also had a short period of "I'm eating no carbs" and ate roasted potatoes for lunch. I think she believes that only white bread and pasta contain carbs.
"I only lose weight when I cut out carbs." Different lady. She is on a constant cycle of water weight loss and gain. Same five pounds over and over.
I'm allergic to wheat and you wouldn't believe how many people tell me that I should be able to eat whole wheat! And I've also heard, "This isn't wheat. It's white bread." What do these people think white bread is made out of, anyway? Ground white? It's all wheat in one form or another!25 -
Co worker recently bought in a fruit tray and 4 boxes of cookies after complaining about her weight. Because she needed to balance out the cookies with fruit.
Hubby once said we need to stop eating fruit and drink juices and smoothies instead because liquid is better than solid.7
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