Worst Weight Loss Myths

[TigerCheer2009]

Just a fun little thread designed to dispel the worst weight loss myths. Not a debate thread, please know, but FUN!

Mine are:
Crash diets work
A brownie and a Diet Pop cancel each other out

 

[johde]

You need to be hungry all the time when your dieting.

 

[TigerCheer2009]

Good, thanks!

there have GOT to be more!!!!

 

[disneymom3]

If something is fat free or sugar free it doesn't matter how much you eat of it. It's healthy afterall, right?

 

[plutosmyfav]

Calories don't matter if you are doing low carb!

 

[pearlieq]

Diets are only temporary--once you're done you can go back to "normal"

Also, the cabbage soup diet is a healthy and effective way to lose weight (seriously, the first time someone told me about this I thought they were pulling my leg...)

 

[TigerCheer2009]

Awesome! Keep it going. Sunny- I believed yours at one time! Thanks!

Disneymom-my brother, the wrestler, believes that! Thanks!

Pearlie-I don't like cabbage soup! Thanks!

 

[pixiedust23]

Ok flame suit on....people who think atkins is healthy. It's not people. Just wait til all that fats starts clogging up your arteries and the heart attacks start a-coming! Just b/c the guy who came up with diet is an MD doesnt make it a safe and healthy lifestyle!

 

[Honu]

Ok flame suit on....people who think atkins is healthy. It's not people. Just wait til all that fats starts clogging up your arteries and the heart attacks start a-coming! Just b/c the guy who came up with diet is an MD doesnt make it a safe and healthy lifestyle!

ITA. Lower carb is ok, Atkins is not. Sadly, I'm predicting an upcoming onslaught of kidney failure due to this plan.

Favorite diet myth - You can lose weight by just taking these pills, and not change your eating habits. Don't we all wish!

 

[pixiedust23]

Ahh if you get lipo then you'll never get fat in that area again. OOO big big myth. The lipo takes out some fat cells. And though no new fat cells will grow there, the remaining fat cells will increase in size and then you will be fat there once again!

 

[TigerCheer2009]

Pixiedust: Thanks for your reply. I agree with bits and pieces of the diet, but I love my carbs WAAAAAY too much! One of my actually healthy looking teachers thinks she needs lipo! Should I tell her that it probably isn't worth it?
Honu: I agree with the diet pill myth!

Keep it Going!@!

 

[DoeWDW]

Eating healthy means cutting out as much fat as possible because all fats are bad for you. Big myth!!

 

[karynnix]

If you eat standing up, the calories and fat go straight to your feet. (Wouldn't you rather have big feet than huge hips??)

Weigh yourself at night after a big meal and then again in the morning before you eat breakfast and be AMAZED at how much weight you lost overnight while sleeping!!

Keep all of your tempting snack foods way up high on a shelf or the fridge. Calories are afraid of heights.

 

[TigerCheer2009]

karynnix-They are? I'd rather have big feet, personally!
Doe-yup! My skinny teacher who thinks she's fat believes that too!

It's anazing how many there are! Thanks!

 

[s&k'smom]

If you put this exercise belt around your tummy it will help make it go flat (remember that product, they finally took it off the market).

But the diet coke, brownie cancelling each other out is true.

 

[bicker]

Just a fun little thread designed to dispel the worst weight loss myths.

Hmmmm... great thread! Let's see... what has my experience taught me?

Myth: You have to lose weight using the a program you can stick with for life.

Myth: Exercise is optional. (And once folks get over that myth, they move onto this myth: The only exercise I need to do is aerobic exercise.)

Myth: Liquid diets are always unhealthy and never work.

Myth: You don't have to worry about your weight until you have a problem. (Yeah, right -- just tell that to my MRI!!!)

Myth: All doctors know everything about nutrition.

Myth: Natural foods are always better than artificial.

Myth: I can eat as much of _________ as I want because it is a good _______.

Myth: Psychology and sociology don't matter. (Or the converse myth: The biological science doesn't matter.)

Myth: It worked for me so it'll work for you. (Or: It didn't work for me so it won't work for you.)

Myth: I don't need to keep track; I can do it in my head.

 

[plutosmyfav]

Myth: I don't need to keep track; I can do it in my head.

I keep hearing this one at WW meetings and the people who tend to say it aren't losing!!!!!

BTW, I'm from Burlington, MA, too!

Sunny

 

[bicker]

BTW, I'm from Burlington, MA, too!

Sunny

Howdy neighbor!

 

[s&k'smom]

Hey from the North Shore!

 

[lab_girl]

Myth: If I exercise I don't have to watch what I eat. Because you CAN'T be a FAT 'in-shape' person.


.....HUGE Myth...from a 'chubby' 1/2 marathon runner !