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Fitness and diet myths that just won't go away
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"I''m not losing, I seem to be gaining..."
"Well, you know, muscle weighs more than fat, so..."
Grrrrrr.......a pound of muscle weighs as much as a pound of fat, it just takes up less space!10 -
dreamer12151 wrote: »"I''m not losing, I seem to be gaining..."
"Well, you know, muscle weighs more than fat, so..."
Grrrrrr.......a pound of muscle weighs as much as a pound of fat, it just takes up less space!
At least I get what people are trying to say here. If they phrased it as "A cubic foot of muscle weighs more than a cubic foot of fat", then that would be correct.
The bigger myth is when people say things like this after a poster says they started lifting/exercising a week ago. "Oh, it must be muscle gain!" Yeah, right, that's it.7 -
dreamer12151 wrote: »"I''m not losing, I seem to be gaining..."
"Well, you know, muscle weighs more than fat, so..."
Grrrrrr.......a pound of muscle weighs as much as a pound of fat, it just takes up less space!
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Seriously. If it were toxic and poison, wouldn't we die shortly after consuming?3 -
dreamer12151 wrote: »"I''m not losing, I seem to be gaining..."
"Well, you know, muscle weighs more than fat, so..."
Grrrrrr.......a pound of muscle weighs as much as a pound of fat, it just takes up less space!
A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
Same people who are afraid of getting "bulky"...1 -
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Correct. Cardio does in fact burn calories, but, unless you remain in a deficit you will not burn fat. How anyone could "disagree" with this is beyond me...0 -
But, but, what if the machine says I’m in the FAT BURNING ZONE?!?9 -
LOL when the point you really want to argue about is 5 pages back, and you’re like “dang, you’re just lucky I wasn’t here in March!!”....this is really interesting reading and thank you to everyone for helping make it!!!3
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Seriously. If it were toxic and poison, wouldn't we die shortly after consuming?
well, not immediatly - but "fast food is fast track to the grave" , apparently.
(This is a myth, not something I am stating or agree with)
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slightly different but
The idea that EVERYONE needs to be low/lower sodium for health.
No.
My husband and his high BP need to be lower sodium. Me? I went low sodium with him for a week then fainted. Turns out me salting everything is self-medicating. My normal BP (and it is normal for me/not dangerous, I have seen a doctor) is low.
And I should just eat the salt.
(Fun corollary: Spouse thought for ages he didn't eat much sodium because he didn't *ADD* salt - and grumped and grumbled that it wasn't fair he was the one with high pb where I was dousing my food in salt. Turns out he's wrong. He was eating a metric ton of sodium in things like canned soup and deli-meat and tv dinners. Surprise, darling.)
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Ok so I have one to add. Blending vegetables destroys the fiber, so your green vegetable smoothie is as bad for you as a juice.
LOL, my super amazing blender can’t even destroy the ice cubes completely, let alone the fiber.8 -
Ok so I have one to add. Blending vegetables destroys the fiber, so your green vegetable smoothie is as bad for you as a juice.
LOL, my super amazing blender can’t even destroy the ice cubes completely, let alone the fiber.
Something in a blender and something juiced isn't the same. A juicer actually does remove all the pulp - and spit it out separately. different thing.5 -
wunderkindking wrote: »Ok so I have one to add. Blending vegetables destroys the fiber, so your green vegetable smoothie is as bad for you as a juice.
LOL, my super amazing blender can’t even destroy the ice cubes completely, let alone the fiber.
Something in a blender and something juiced isn't the same. A juicer actually does remove all the pulp - and spit it out separately. different thing.
Yes - I think that was maybe the point of the PP? I, too, have seen people write in posts here that smoothies are bad because the fiber is destroyed (in a context where it seemed pretty clear that they weren't confusing blending with juicing), or that blenderizing dramatically changes the GI of the food. I guess the latter is *possible*, I don't really know for certain . . . but it makes me wonder if the people saying that actually chew their food, or just swallow it in chunks? 😉8 -
Like snakes, LOL. The next diet advice will be to swallow Whole Foods whole....3
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There already is a 'snake diet' out there - I won't post a link to it, but you can google it... basic concept is that snakes only eat every 2-3 days so we should also... just nope!3
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Thought of this thread while standing in line at the grocery store yesterday...one of those thin, newspaper-like magazines had a headline that read, “lose 45 pounds in 10 days”. I would only need another two, maybe three, days to meet my goal! I guess I should’ve bought it!4
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wunderkindking wrote: »slightly different but
The idea that EVERYONE needs to be low/lower sodium for health.
No.
My husband and his high BP need to be lower sodium. Me? I went low sodium with him for a week then fainted. Turns out me salting everything is self-medicating. My normal BP (and it is normal for me/not dangerous, I have seen a doctor) is low.
And I should just eat the salt.
(Fun corollary: Spouse thought for ages he didn't eat much sodium because he didn't *ADD* salt - and grumped and grumbled that it wasn't fair he was the one with high pb where I was dousing my food in salt. Turns out he's wrong. He was eating a metric ton of sodium in things like canned soup and deli-meat and tv dinners. Surprise, darling.)
I have a relative who has literally glared at me for using salt when I cook because it's "so unhealthy." I too have low blood pressure and always have. We don't eat a lot of the kind of things that come with a lot of sodium either, so I'm not particularly alarmed for my husband or kids. But you'd think I was dumping it on to kill them on purpose.
I do probably lean towards the "clean eating" side of the spectrum for various reasons, at least as an 80/20 deal, but salt is normal. Good. Societies have risen and fallen over salt. A lot of our words use the Latin "sal" - salad, salary, etc. It also makes food delicious.2 -
The concept that is usually stated oversimplified - carbs is your primary fuel. (neither in amount of calories burned for avg daily activity, nor in majority of time, nor in used first)
Side confusion then follows - you have to use up carbs first to start using fat. (ratio used as mostly fat from resting state to mainly carbs when anaerobic)
Or other side confusion - Keto will cause you to be fat-adapted and start using fat first and ketones usually thrown in there somewhere. (already burn fat mainly no adapting required, brain using about 10-15% of daily calories as carbs and can go to ketones though, but ketones not produced fast enough for intense exercise)1 -
Fat weighs more than muscle! A pound is a pound. The volume that it takes up in your body is the difference.2
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