What's the worst nutrition or fitness myth you've heard?

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  • billsica
    billsica Posts: 4,741 Member
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    That eating bread will soak up all the fat and make you thin.
  • supertracylynn
    supertracylynn Posts: 1,338 Member
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    Starvation Mode! Starvation Mode! Starvation Mode!!!!!!

    Um. Really? :noway:

    If I'm going raw for a few days, getting over 1100 cals is impossible for my body needs.
  • dayzeerock
    dayzeerock Posts: 918 Member
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    "HCG works!" <<----THIS.
  • dumb_blondes_rock
    dumb_blondes_rock Posts: 1,568 Member
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    When a fad diet tells you that you
    can't eat fruit
    can't eat a certain kind of veggies
    can't eat bread, even the whole wheat kind
    can't eat fat, fat creates fat
    and the best "you need to burn everything you eat, so eat 800 cals a day and run for 5 miles"
  • dumb_blondes_rock
    dumb_blondes_rock Posts: 1,568 Member
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    oh yes....and somehow magic pregnant pee will make you lose weight.....if this is true,why do so many women have a hard time trying to lose the baby weight? all their hcg should have burnt that right up
  • Acg67
    Acg67 Posts: 12,142 Member
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    this might be my new favorite from the author of wheat belly

    "In fact, given the choice of two slices of whole wheat bread or a Milky Way bar, I'd take the Milky Way bar."

    ps i'd take the milky way bar too, but not because i think what products are worse then sugar
  • mags2504
    mags2504 Posts: 275
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    The more you cry, the less you have to pee.
    hahahahaha, gona have to try this
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,506 Member
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    This from a "doctor" (who was overweight BTW)

    Squats are bad for your knees.
    Seated military presses are bad for you back.
    Eating fast food will make you fat.

    Now granted in some cases this can be the truth, but he was saying it DIRECTLY to me. Needless to say I have a new doctor.
  • fromaquasar
    fromaquasar Posts: 811 Member
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    Oh I thought of another one

    "Why are you counting your coffees, drinks don't have calories!"
  • danacho
    danacho Posts: 115 Member
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    that excercise is fun!!!
  • Kalossus
    Kalossus Posts: 98 Member
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    1.) Dont eat after (something) PM or it all turns straight to fat.
    2.) Never skip breakfast because it slows your metabolism
    3.) Eat frequently to boost metabolism
    4.) I just gained 3lbs of muscle last week!
    5.)Carbs are the enemy
    6.) Women who wont lift heavy because they think the will look like a man. Because apparently as soon as you pick up that dumbbell you will turn into the hulk :p
    This....alllll this.
  • ShapeUpSidney
    ShapeUpSidney Posts: 1,092 Member
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    6.) Women who wont lift heavy because they think the will look like a man. Because apparently as soon as you pick up that dumbbell you will turn into the hulk :p

    I actually DID bulk up like a man when I started lifting....

    ...but then we found out I had an androgen dysfunction.









    Now I just do more reps at lower weight. Lol
  • kdouglas11
    kdouglas11 Posts: 185 Member
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    i like when people ask how'd you do it? Like losing weight is a secret?
  • maab_connor
    maab_connor Posts: 3,927 Member
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    I heard a woman say "I don't want to build muscle, I just want to tone up"

    "i do not think it means what you think it means."
  • theperfectratio
    theperfectratio Posts: 49 Member
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    2.) Never skip breakfast because it slows your metabolism
    3.) Eat frequently to boost metabolism
    Forgive my ignorance but...these aren't true? (assuming 'eating frequently' = 5-6 SMALL meals or snacks)
  • Froggy1976
    Froggy1976 Posts: 472
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    I heard a woman say "I don't want to build muscle, I just want to tone up"

    "i do not think it means what you think it means."
    Inconceivable!
  • Rae6503
    Rae6503 Posts: 6,294 Member
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    "eat 1200 calories"
  • Johnnyswife
    Johnnyswife Posts: 1,447 Member
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    Not really a myth but bad math... "muscle weighs more than fat." Uh no it doesn't. A pound is a pound.
  • jennyrider
    jennyrider Posts: 45
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    Not sure myself if this is fact or fiction...don't weigh yourself after a shower because you will weigh more due to your body absorbing the water. I guess I believe it since I weigh in prior to a shower.
  • Elanesse100
    Elanesse100 Posts: 30 Member
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    Not really a myth but bad math... "muscle weighs more than fat." Uh no it doesn't. A pound is a pound.

    Actually, muscle does weigh more than fat. However, what you are referring to is "a pound of muscle weighs more than a pound of fat". Yes, in that scenario a pound is a pound. However, muscle does weigh more than fat.

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