Stupidest diet myths/tips you have ever heard.
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No one should say that muscle weighs more than fat, the correct thing to say is that muscle takes up less space than fat.
That doesn't really tell you anything. Something can take up less space but still weigh LESS on a scale.
How about we all just agree that its just not acceptable to use the muscle vs. fat weight theory after working out and eating good for only like two weeks, and not losing any weight yet.
Isn't that the whole reason people drag that line out in the first place? I think we can all agree that's not very likely to be the case.....0 -
"Try the cabbage soup diet... Youll be ripped in a week."
I have to admit, I actually did that one... SMH :blushing:
Me too. Got a migraine on the 3rd day, taught me a valuable lesson. Fad diets are crap.
OMG>>> It was horrble. Made me so sick. The gasses that were sneaking out of me, not only from my *kitten* either cost me more than one friend. I tried it over 20 years ago, and havent been able to eat cabbage since. BLEH!0 -
First of all.....................Stupidest isnt a word..... lol
To answer your question:
Eliminating carbs entirely is a best practice..... MmmmHmm Sure it is.
You can gain muscle over night...
Soda is acceptable as long as its *diet*.....
Diet pills work.............
It doesnt matter WHERE my calories come from as long as Im under...
You dont have to exercise..................
I can eat *healthy* at Mcdonalds..................... Going to McDonalds for a salad is like going to a *kitten* for a hug.... Riiiight...
Actually, it doesn't matter where your calories come from as long as you're under and you hit your macros (fat, carbs and proteins). I don't exclude any food from my diet. Now I'm not advocating eating McDonald's every day but I do eat it. You've got to have fun with it too. All of this extreme clean eating sounds a lot like orthorexia to me.
So............... I can eat ONLY Ice cream sundae's every single day for the rest of my life and be ripped............. As long as I stay under my calorie goal for the day? Mmmm Nope. Im not saying you have to eat squeaky clean every single day- but for general health it DOES matter WHAT you eat.
Way to twist around what she said.0 -
"I am not going to pass on an apple and sit down to a plate full of bacon."
Yea, that is what a low carb. diet is all about. Maybe you need more carbs. For that brain you were talking about.
My brains are confused... where did I say all people doing low carb eat plates of bacon and pass on apples? Your low carb diet may not be all about that. I would hope that most weren't. But there are some that do... they do pass on the fruits and the veggies and eat the plateful of steak and bacon.
How many brains do you have?
All of them.
Well that would explain a lot....can I please have mine back??0 -
gotta say HCG probably takes the cake for me.
What's HCG? I prob know but can't for the life of me figure it out!0 -
You are talking MASS which is NOT weight. A pound of fat and a pound of muscle weigh the same thing... a POUND.
Not true, the difference between mass and weight is that mass does not take into account gravity (ie, you weigh less standing on the moon, but you have the same mass).
And yes, a pound of X weighs the same as a pound of Y. The argument is that if you say X weighs more than Y, it's stupid to assume you mean you're comparing a pound of X with a pound of Y to see which weighs more.0 -
>Everyone that I know who uses that phrase means that regardless of the reading on the scale, if you have improved your muscle to fat ratio by dropping fat and or increasing muscle, your body will take up less physical space.
And everyone else just loves to argue on the internet...lol.0 -
I can tell you what my favorite diet is....
Drooling over Acg67...
The more you look, the more calories you burn picking your jaw up!
Wozers. bravo, mi amigo. bravo...0 -
"I am not going to pass on an apple and sit down to a plate full of bacon."
Yea, that is what a low carb. diet is all about. Maybe you need more carbs. For that brain you were talking about.
My brains are confused... where did I say all people doing low carb eat plates of bacon and pass on apples? Your low carb diet may not be all about that. I would hope that most weren't. But there are some that do... they do pass on the fruits and the veggies and eat the plateful of steak and bacon.
How many brains do you have?
All of them.
Well that would explain a lot....can I please have mine back??
Could you also give me back the 10 mins I have wasted sitting here reading stupid bickering about grammar?0 -
I sincerely and utterly believe that if you only eat food off someone elses plate you will lose weight because the calories in that food belong to them and therefore don't count towards your daily calorie allowance.:bigsmile:
I am not very popular at work anymore. :noway:
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I can tell you what my favorite diet is....
Drooling over Acg67...
The more you look, the more calories you burn picking your jaw up!
Wozers. bravo, mi amigo. bravo...
here here!0 -
Ohhh thank god, i was about to cry. LOL.>Lol its cool if you think i have the inability to type sweety and thank you so much for pointing that out
But if it makes you feel better please do continue. 
LOL... that wasn't in response to you. But good to know nonetheless-eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.0 -
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Totally agree with this... I've lost 117 lbs (on a 1200 calorie diet). I had almost no muscle tone when I started, and have MUCH larger and stronger muscles now... I get that it's probably because I had so little muscle to begin with, but some people CAN build muscle on a deficit!!You can't build muscle on a calorie deficit.. Really? I've been eating at a calorie deficit for most of this year and I can sure as sh** lift heavier weights.. I've also lost 18 pounds.
Nope, you can just actually see the muscle after losing the fat
Yeah i dont think you can build muscle at a dificit, although thats my opinion. Im simply thinking about it in this way: Muscle burns more calories than fat and therefore needs more calories to stay intact..? any opinions?
Yes look up, I think it's called "Burn fat and build muscle" somthing like that, anyhow, if you are burning fat as part of your calories being used to build muscle it can be done.0 -
Gosh folks. Pretty sure this was supposed to be a fun, silly, amusing thread, not a chew everyone out thread! I'm gonna go now. My head hurts from reading everyone's arguing.0
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"I am not going to pass on an apple and sit down to a plate full of bacon."
Yea, that is what a low carb. diet is all about. Maybe you need more carbs. For that brain you were talking about.
My brains are confused... where did I say all people doing low carb eat plates of bacon and pass on apples? Your low carb diet may not be all about that. I would hope that most weren't. But there are some that do... they do pass on the fruits and the veggies and eat the plateful of steak and bacon.
How many brains do you have?
All of them.
Well that would explain a lot....can I please have mine back??
Sorry - nope. I am on the zombie diet. I stock up on brains. High protein... low carb.0 -
>Did you put an 'e' at the end of a word even if its not mean to be there? If so, then why are you crying about it?. I did have a lot of 'LAUGH OUT LOUDS' in my comment, showing the fact that im not trying to be rude, so end of conversation.
It's amazing how defensive people get when they attempt to call someone out, only to have their opinion undermined by their inability to type.
Wow, now see we all need to be as perfect as you so our opinion will count. Ok folks anyone that misspells a word, of makes a typing error, you might as well stop offering opinions or even facts, because if you are not perfect you don't count.
Nice. you must be a politician, never answer a question just attack the person asking the question, a democrate too I guess.
I started to take your reply to heart, I really did. But then I noticed you misspelled "democrat". It's that testy silent "e" again. Perhaps your keyboard needs a good cleaning.0 -
Totally agree with this... I've lost 117 lbs (on a 1200 calorie diet). I had almost no muscle tone when I started, and have MUCH larger and stronger muscles now... I get that it's probably because I had so little muscle to begin with, but some people CAN build muscle on a deficit!!You can't build muscle on a calorie deficit.. Really? I've been eating at a calorie deficit for most of this year and I can sure as sh** lift heavier weights.. I've also lost 18 pounds.
Nope, you can just actually see the muscle after losing the fat
No, I can FEEL how large my muscles are under the fat, and they are bigger than they were when I started... I do know a thing or two about my own body... ;-) i realize that IN GENERAL it's true, but there are some obese people that are extremely inactive (like I was), and when they start lifting REAL weight, they will gain muscle, even if they're on calorie deficit...0 -
Totally agree with this... I've lost 117 lbs (on a 1200 calorie diet). I had almost no muscle tone when I started, and have MUCH larger and stronger muscles now... I get that it's probably because I had so little muscle to begin with, but some people CAN build muscle on a deficit!!You can't build muscle on a calorie deficit.. Really? I've been eating at a calorie deficit for most of this year and I can sure as sh** lift heavier weights.. I've also lost 18 pounds.
Nope, you can just actually see the muscle after losing the fat
Yeah i dont think you can build muscle at a dificit, although thats my opinion. Im simply thinking about it in this way: Muscle burns more calories than fat and therefore needs more calories to stay intact..? any opinions?
Yes look up, I think it's called "Burn fat and build muscle" somthing like that, anyhow, if you are burning fat as part of your calories being used to build muscle it can be done.
If you are morbidly obese yes because you are using fat stores as energy (calories) to build some muscle, but the gains are still VERY minimal.0 -
Actually cutting down on soda consumption would work. Its not such a stupid idea after all. There are a lot of calories and sugar in soda. So unless it was diet soda she was drinking then cutting down on soda consumption is a good idea. I have a few friends that did this very thing and lost weight because cutting out the soda was reducing their calories significantly.0
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First of all.....................Stupidest isnt a word..... lol
To answer your question:
Eliminating carbs entirely is a best practice..... MmmmHmm Sure it is.
You can gain muscle over night...
Soda is acceptable as long as its *diet*.....
Diet pills work.............
It doesnt matter WHERE my calories come from as long as Im under...
You dont have to exercise..................
I can eat *healthy* at Mcdonalds..................... Going to McDonalds for a salad is like going to a *kitten* for a hug.... Riiiight...
Actually, it doesn't matter where your calories come from as long as you're under and you hit your macros (fat, carbs and proteins). I don't exclude any food from my diet. Now I'm not advocating eating McDonald's every day but I do eat it. You've got to have fun with it too. All of this extreme clean eating sounds a lot like orthorexia to me.
So............... I can eat ONLY Ice cream sundae's every single day for the rest of my life and be ripped............. As long as I stay under my calorie goal for the day? Mmmm Nope. Im not saying you have to eat squeaky clean every single day- but for general health it DOES matter WHAT you eat.
Way to twist around what she said.
My words were twisted in the first place. I never said "extreme clean eating" was the answer or the only way to be. I futher never said that you have to "exclude" foods from your diet. It is a fact that to be HEALTHY it does matter WHAT you eat- period. I never referred to "losing weight".0 -
To take this in a different direction:
'Back in the day' I had a friend that refused to have ice cubes in any of her beverages b/c she had been told that ice makes you gain weight.0 -
Stupid diet myth: you MUST HAVE carbs to exercise and feel energetic. Tell that to the Inuit.
You know that fat we are all trying to lose? You think your body holds onto it for decoration?
We burn fat for energy!
Very efficiently, too. I can hike up a mountain on scrambled eggs just fine, thanks.0 -
Totally agree with this... I've lost 117 lbs (on a 1200 calorie diet). I had almost no muscle tone when I started, and have MUCH larger and stronger muscles now... I get that it's probably because I had so little muscle to begin with, but some people CAN build muscle on a deficit!!You can't build muscle on a calorie deficit.. Really? I've been eating at a calorie deficit for most of this year and I can sure as sh** lift heavier weights.. I've also lost 18 pounds.
Nope, you can just actually see the muscle after losing the fat
Yeah i dont think you can build muscle at a dificit, although thats my opinion. Im simply thinking about it in this way: Muscle burns more calories than fat and therefore needs more calories to stay intact..? any opinions?
Yes look up, I think it's called "Burn fat and build muscle" somthing like that, anyhow, if you are burning fat as part of your calories being used to build muscle it can be done.
Not unless you are an overfat beginner or coming off of a layoff.
http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/adding-muscle-while-losing-fat-qa.html0 -
My head feels heavy but I could have sworn it looked smaller this morning.. maybe I'm building muscle up there?0
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gotta say HCG probably takes the cake for me.
What's HCG? I prob know but can't for the life of me figure it out!
From what I've read on these boards it's some type of drug containing a hormone made from pee (either from pregnant horses or pregnant women I think ???) that you take while eating < 500 calories to lose weight.
Personally I'd have to take some type of speed just to have the energy to sit upright on only 500 calories, but some ppl say it works.0 -
there's no arguement that I would gain more muscle if I wasn't at a deficit... The arguement is against blaket statements that say "noone can do this" or "everyone can do this".... Just pointing out that there are ALWAYS exceptions... :-D
Totally agree with this... I've lost 117 lbs (on a 1200 calorie diet). I had almost no muscle tone when I started, and have MUCH larger and stronger muscles now... I get that it's probably because I had so little muscle to begin with, but some people CAN build muscle on a deficit!!You can't build muscle on a calorie deficit.. Really? I've been eating at a calorie deficit for most of this year and I can sure as sh** lift heavier weights.. I've also lost 18 pounds.
Nope, you can just actually see the muscle after losing the fat
Yeah i dont think you can build muscle at a dificit, although thats my opinion. Im simply thinking about it in this way: Muscle burns more calories than fat and therefore needs more calories to stay intact..? any opinions?
Yes look up, I think it's called "Burn fat and build muscle" somthing like that, anyhow, if you are burning fat as part of your calories being used to build muscle it can be done.
If you are morbidly obese yes because you are using fat stores as energy (calories) to build some muscle, but the gains are still VERY minimal.0 -
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Not unless you are an overfat beginner or coming off of a layoff.
http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/adding-muscle-while-losing-fat-qa.html
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So...for a woman to get toned then she must eat a surplus of calories and train like a beast? Because a person of a normal weight as you said cant gain muscle on a calorie deficit?0 -
"I am not going to pass on an apple and sit down to a plate full of bacon."
Yea, that is what a low carb. diet is all about. Maybe you need more carbs. For that brain you were talking about.
Obviously you have no idea what a low carb diet is or these comments would not be stated.
A low carb lifestyle consists of eating WHOLE foods in the form of proteins, fats, vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds. Some low / controlled carb lifestyles such as Atkins you will add back in dairy, grains, legumes later as you move up the carb ladder.
Please stop with the nonsense or it will be reported, the smart alleck comments are not going to be tolerated as there are MANY of us here that are on Low Carb Lifestyle plans because we have PCOS, Diabetes, Thyroid disorders or even epilepsy.
Stop making the comments to put others down, especially when you are spouting a bunch of nonsense.0 -
Totally agree with this... I've lost 117 lbs (on a 1200 calorie diet). I had almost no muscle tone when I started, and have MUCH larger and stronger muscles now... I get that it's probably because I had so little muscle to begin with, but some people CAN build muscle on a deficit!!You can't build muscle on a calorie deficit.. Really? I've been eating at a calorie deficit for most of this year and I can sure as sh** lift heavier weights.. I've also lost 18 pounds.
Nope, you can just actually see the muscle after losing the fat
Yeah i dont think you can build muscle at a dificit, although thats my opinion. Im simply thinking about it in this way: Muscle burns more calories than fat and therefore needs more calories to stay intact..? any opinions?
By that logic everyone would lose all their muscle before fat? I don't care what people think I know what I've experienced. I can lift weights that are twice what I could in January. I have been weight training. I can do squats and lunges until I'm bored (without weights - they're in some of my videos).. so IMO this is just false. I'm also a science major and I've taken various biochemistry courses.. very little is set in stone.. this probably has a lot to do with genetics and diet0
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