Unpopular opinions

Love brussel sprouts - planning on them for dinner tonight!

For calorie counters it's always about calories.

The problem is the more a person educates themselves about human nutrition the less important calories become. If a person was to actually investigate IF they would soon learn it has nothing to do with calories, it's about triggering metabolic and cellular regeneration through strategic timing which also has effects on other metabolic processes that include satiety. IF basically threatens calorie counters because it challenges the foundational paradigm they’ve built their whole nutritional worldview on and why we'll continually hear, as you've repeated, it's about calories and not IF.

5:2 would be the exception, which is what I use if I want to lose weight and the reason 5:2 is the exception is because it actually addresses calories and people actually are in a caloric deficit. It isn't IF in the scientific sense but just another way to reduce calories where some find reducing calories for 2 days instead of everyday more workable.

And the status quo remains intact.

IF introduces nonlinear dynamics, like hormonal shifts, circadian rhythm, autophagy that facilitates change within the body and that threatens the simplicity of people that "count calories" Does weight lose occur only in a calorie deficit, yes, which describes quite well the forest and tree analogy.

this probably belongs in “popular” opinions but….

I do not need to scroll thirty times to reach the recipe on your cooking website. Nor do I need to read about all your other wonderful recipes, or read while you cite things that have happened while you “discovered your recipe, read your lame *kitten* cooking tips, nor suffer a dozen photos of lovely apples in a bowl, or herbs or whatever.

While I appreciate that you need to monetize your website, most of you are simply ridiculous.

And btw, your calorie counts are also typically in Fantasyland, and don’t include the cream, chocolate, vanilla sugar, sprinkles, candies or ice cream you lavish on your finished product photos, particularly those of you who claim to be calorie conscious websites.

Preach, sistah!

People spamming the threads in all topic ares with nothing more than whining, not even specific critiques or bug reports: Profitless in terms of affecting MFP, annoying to (some) readers. Double eye-roll-y when they've rage quit and only come back posting to complain.

Just leave, people. Fully delete your account so MFP can't count your ID as a user when they market advertising.

I'm not picking on you specifically J72FIT but this is a classic strawman argument where someone introduces an exaggerated claim that no one made, then dismisses it to make their own position seem more reasonable. It’s not a miracle, but it’s not trivial either.

Also in order to actually have a conversation there must be a framework where everyone is able to articulate those distinctions clearly. To me it's a paradox when people confidently dismiss IF, like you have and many others here while it appears they also refuse looking into the mechanisms. I mean you've had enough time from our past conversation to do just that but instead you decided not to bother. I can only surmise that it's uncomfortable for people who rely on simple rules like “calories in, calories out.” and where mechanisms complicate the narrative. I really don't know how else to articulate it.

Whaaat??? But I thought bananas were the reason for all the obesity in the US (citing the ubiquitous "one secret doctors don't want you to know" ads from a few years back).

Not getting enough sodium can have dire consequences that are potentially as bad as getting too much of it.

You need it to live.

I found after dropping processed foods that I was adding salt to everything because I just wasn’t getting enough from a mostly whole food diet.

I don't think it's an exaggerated claim. Many people treat IF liike it's magic. I've even scene people claim fat loss in a surplus as long as they IF. Same with low carb…

and another one: coming to aquafit in full makeup, jewelry and hair done just so is ridiculous.

Even worse is getting bent out of shape if your hair or makeup gets mussed up. In the pool. With people splashing about.

Which you aren’t doing because you’re too worried about getting mussed up. Why are you even bothering?

I get it. There’s a social aspect. But if you’re so damned worried, take your perfect coiff and full face of makeup to the delightful coffee shop around the corner.

Give me a 🤬 break.

I am so, so over the online influence-o-sphere hard-selling the idea that working out is all and only about status, looking cute (at or after the workout), getting skinny or getting jacked . . . and the commenters who dump vitriol on anyone who dares look or say anything different.

Don't get me wrong: YOU work out to be jacked or cute or whatever? Cool. Go, you. Not everyone needs to have the same goals. Our looks are not our total human value. Grow up.

(Yes, I think this relates to the aquafit in makeup post, in a small way.)