Unpopular opinions

@yakkystuff ! I like roast beets. 🫜 😋

Kombucha - it’s not for everyone, I didn’t try it for the longest time and then I loved it once I tried it. There are a lot of variations..

I find strawberry glow kombucha to be my sparkling wine substitute. I like elderberry juniper as well.
There are so many varieties!

Let us know if you try and whether it’s really an unpopular opinion. lol

beets tossed in a good balsamic glaze, roasted, served with crumbled feta.

mmmmmmmmm

My overall point was generally speaking, people do IF mainly because they would rather not track…

I think people turn to the hype because it seems easier than having to track. And in most cases it is. And it also can work. Most people don't want to be bothered with tracking…

RD started our series of sessions with tracking to understand calorie needs and how much food to eat - tracking enables understanding for sure.

As I thought on this today, realized that understanding how much I am eating is truly 1 of my essential needs/goals.

However, learning/understanding how much I need and then eating that amount without tracking is perhaps my 'ultimate/desired?' goal - if possible.

I find tracking tedious, but helpful for understanding, and a good system for quantifying amount.

Hope to learn and do it with tracking when needed but not the tight tracking we started with. I don't know if I will ever be able to eat free range as desired - that 'see food, eat food like it's a feast' did not work well for me.

Something inbetween - enough. Understand and stop at enough... So, imagine 'some' tracking for a reality check may remain an essential tool, along with other tools - like food choices in a 'myplate' format or guestimating using exchanges or hand/object estimators.

I just want it to be no big deal, like using soap in the dishwasher as a tool for clean plates, using silverware and plating food so it looks nice so I can appreciate and enjoy the food.

Then put it away and live life doing other things until I ought to eat more, at ease that there will be more later… not to fret any of it.

my unpopular opinion today is……

gentlemen need to arrive on time for stretching and stay for cool downs following muscle madness cardio classes.

Don’t talk about how flexible the ladies are when you’re intentionally arriving late, and packing up weights, mat, steps and leaving the moment cool down has started.

Never fails.

Guys can be flexible, too, if they try. To wit: my hot yoga fellows. Or should I say, my hot, hot-yoga fellows? 😮

Yes! That's like saying I'm not strong enough to lift…

*couldn’t edit the typos - edit not working on app. 🙈

Menopause is definitely one of the big marketing fronts for diet and exercise programs these days, and they need us to believe that we can't possibly lose weight, gain fitness or improve our health post-menopausally unless we buy their secret supplement, diet, or exercise program. It's no surprise that lots of people believe it. Repetition will do that.

Same as age, hypothyroidism, and various other things: It's a roadblock if you think it's a roadblock.

In my view, if something is a roadblock, the only point in thinking about it is to focus on how to get over, around, through or otherwise past it. Anything else is a waste of time and energy.

Human behavior suggests that's an unpopular opinion. 😉

Apparently this is an unpopular opinion: I don't particularly get discouraged when people don't reply, or post things that have been posted a zillion times before, or post questions without enough context.

If I did feel that way, I don't think I'd keep posting? I expect people to behave like humans behave.

People are bad with technology or typing. If they're semi-new to weight loss, they don't know what information is relevant. If they're new to MFP, they don't know what's been asked before, may not know how to use the search, plus may ask an innocuous, non-embarassing FAQ-type question just to dip a toe into the Community, see if people are nice.

Maybe it's that I spent some years doing help-desk stuff in my job. People are going to people, which includes asking basic questions, and asking the same things over and over. (Sometimes the same person asks the same thing over and over. One that amused me was a guy who needed to use one of our systems about once every 4 months. Every single time, he couldn't sign into it, and would come in person to our help center and say he'd never ever signed into that system before. Every single time, we helped him sign into that system . . . repeatedly. 😆)

I can touch-type (fast). I'm decent with technology, though not superstar. I know MFP fairly well. I want to help people. I can tell people are reading because I have roughly 3 times as many click-reactions as I have posts. Every once in a while, someone tells me they appreciate things I've said on threads they've read but where they didn't post. Good enough for me.

I do get discouraged when people explicitly comment that I'm mean or otherwise negative when someone asks for advice and I offer advice. I try to be nice, mostly, at least as a starting point.

no no no no no no no. Just NO!

You’re braver than me.