Grrrr! Nutrition mistakes people make!
Are there any nutritional mistakes people make with their food that bother you? Like for example, it makes me go CRAZY whenever I see someone (namely members of my family) peel the skin off an apple. WHY? I tell them that's the healthiest part of the apple, but they don't believe me!
Also, are there any nutritional mistakes that YOU used to make?
As another example, I used to pour out the 'water' that was always on top of my cottage cheese and yogurts, I had no idea that was whey protein. 
Original Post by mcjeffery:
When people eat some iceberg lettuce and a couple slices of tomato and say "well, I got my veggies in..."
When people try to lose weight by eating salads for everymeal.
When people skip breakfast.
When people don't drink water.
When people don't eat nearly enough food to sustain.
When people replace eating food with drinking alcohol.
BTW, these are all things at one point or another I've been guilty of
Live and learn.
Oh, the last one bugs me for sure - replacing food w/ alcohol. So many of my friends will starve themselves the entire day just so they can get piss-drunk at some party.
If I eat at mcdonalds its to get a yogurt parfait or maybe a diet soda for my homemade sandwich, It always irks me when this obese person will be like........I'll have a Big Mac with Large fries and a medium chocolate shake.................and a diet coke. Like the soda is gunna help at all at this point lol
Original Post by talli11:
Oh my gosh! Just yesterday I poured out a little of the water off my cottage cheese! then I realized wait a second... according to the nutritional info, it's pretty much all protein... so I don't want to pour out my protein...so this morning i just stirred it a little!
What annoys me is people thinking fruit-on-the-bottom yogurts are the healthiest type... and people who think deep-fried vegetables or salads drowning in ranch are healthy..
oh and like xfruitbat said, eating a single meal a day.
And I never used to look at the sodium content of things, when I did, that kept me from buying a lot of food. Now I buy no-salt-added cottage cheese (they usually have 400 mg in just half a cup!), and I actually prefer it sweet anyway.
I like this thread =]
Where do you find no salt added cottage cheese?? I love cottage and would eat it everyday if it wasn't for the high sodium content. THanks!
Original Post by driscoll62090:
It always irks me when this obese person will be like........I'll have a Big Mac with Large fries and a medium chocolate shake.................and a diet coke. Like the soda is gunna help at all at this point lol
Some people prefer the taste of diet. And as bad as their order might be, adding in 600 calories from a regular coke would make it worse.
Original Post by driscoll62090:
If I eat at mcdonalds its to get a yogurt parfait or maybe a diet soda for my homemade sandwich, It always irks me when this obese person will be like........I'll have a Big Mac with Large fries and a medium chocolate shake.................and a diet coke. Like the soda is gunna help at all at this point lol
I used to prefer the taste of Diet Coke over the regular kind.
And the yogurt parfait has almost the same amount of sugar as an ice cream cone.
Eating white rice and white bread and skipping breakfast annoy me. Also people who eat only a small amount of junk food( less than 1100 calories) and claim to be 'naturally thin'- yeah right! More likely they are... naturally starved! Eating only a bag of chips and two candy bars might make you thin, but it's not a healthy habit.
This wasn't an annoying mistake, but rather a rather sweet one. Decades ago when there was little awareness of gluten intolerance, we were going to a BBQ and a friend told me not to bring rice cakes as he'd found wheat free buns for our hamburgers.
At the BBQ, he proudly presented us with....sesame seed buns. Of course we couldn't eat them, but I was still touched that he'd tried.
i hate when i'm with my friends and we are like eating peanuts or guacamole or something.. and they look at the fat content and like FREAK OUT and they're like wow this is sooo bad for me, look at all this fat! and i try to tell them that peanuts and avacodeos have lots of the good mono and poly fats, but they tell me there's no such thing as "good" fats. UGH lol
Some I'm guilty of:
Skipping breakfast or just drinking coffee, under the false belief that it would help me lose weight
Believing a multivitamin was a sufficient replacement for fruit and veggies
Thinking a fat calorie was worse than a carb or protein calorie (what weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?)
Thinking things like Fiber-One bars are healthy because they have a lot of fiber
Drastically underestimating how much cereal is in a serving (have you ever actually measured out a half cup? It's hardly anything!)
Trying to win the battle in a week instead of over long periods of time eating well and exercising (I once worked out about 3hrs a day for a week thinking I could lose like 5-6lbs in that time--I actually GAINED weight doing this and felt exhausted and totally unmotivated afterward
A few pet peeves:
My mom serving up ear corn slathered with butter and calling it healthy
People who constantly comment on what I've packed for my meal (oh look at you, you're so healthy. But at least my food tastes good!)
People who constantly comment on any part of my nutrition / training plan, not because they actually care, but because they feel threatened by what I am doing (even though I NEVER tell them what to eat, or how much)
Original Post by dakotad555:
People who constantly comment on what I've packed for my meal (oh look at you, your so healthy. But at least my food tastes good!)
that's awful!! healthy food taste good too!
but it is true that if one eats only junk, then healthy food SEEMS bland and unsatisfying. which is too bad for them :)
Mostly guilty of too much white flour
-white flour bao zi/jiao zi
-animal crackers
-white bagels(if I don't go shopping for the bread, my dad comes back with plain bagels and....plain bagels with cheese -__--)
-white rice
-my parents eat white noodles too, but I am not as fond of noodles and hardly have them.
Original Post by amh042:
This wasn't an annoying mistake, but rather a rather sweet one. Decades ago when there was little awareness of gluten intolerance, we were going to a BBQ and a friend told me not to bring rice cakes as he'd found wheat free buns for our hamburgers.
At the BBQ, he proudly presented us with....sesame seed buns. Of course we couldn't eat them, but I was still touched that he'd tried.
Aawww that's cute lol! I would feel touched as well :)
I used to think that a ham and cheese sandwich was a pretty good lunch to have, whether it had 1 slice of each or 10. somehow in my head it seemed just as healthy to put an entire block of cheese and ham in a sandwich, as long as it was just one sandwich
oh and my mom once bought cookies she thought were healthy because they were gluten-free. calories were more than the average cookie though!
When my mom says she wants to lose weight, so when we go out to a restuarant she orders a wrap, or a ceaser salad. When I try to tell those items are still super high calorie and suggest something else she gets angry.
But I'm still the one who has to hear her complain about her weight everyday. uuuhhrrgg.
cryshubbard, 2 brand of cottage cheese which are offered with no added sodium are Lucerne (Dominicks or Safeway store brand) and Deans. But not every store carries them. You have to check the labels to make sure you're getting the unsalted.
I work in a breakfast restaurant....my biggest current one is people who make 'yetch' noises when their friends order wheat bread. Or people who eat fifty slices of toast with everything. Also, ordering off the 'diet' menu and then asking for extra butter. Asking how many calories in a pancake and then smothering it in sugary syrup.
And a super specific one, people who have a ton to say about how much, what, and when I eat like they have any idea. And they are unchanging and I've succesfully lost 50 lbs.
Also, the 'Atkins is the only way to lose weight' people. I work with one of them. She says, 'Ewww....toast? Thats full of carbs! I'm gonna have a hamburger, wtih an egg on it, with a lb of bacon it, and a diet soda. And a waffle, since its the weekend.'
Ug.
I'm have been vegetarian all my life and am generally really healthy. I rarely get sick but if I do the first thing people do is blame it on me "depriving my body of the nutrition it needs from meat" SO FRUSTRATING!
I can't stand when people jump on whatever bandwagon happened to roll into town on any given day. They hear one report about something and they're all over it.
Also, when people rave about things because they're low-calorie, low-fat, and high fiber, and then I look at the ingredients list and it's a mile long. People would be so much better off eating things they can pronounce.
It's people's decision. I hate most vegetables, I binge when I'm sad, and I'm still not through my love affair with diet soda, so who am I to judge? We can't be perfect. It's okay to eat stupid once in a while.
What DOES bother me: When thin people think that they know more about nutrition and weight because they're thin.
Once this very thin girl sitting across from me at lunch said that if you ate badly, you just need need to eat better the next day, citing how she had eaten an entire tube of oreos yesterday! Ugh. This happens all of the time. Young people, and particularly active ones, seem to have no idea about nutrition or why they're thin. Also, exercise will not get you all the nutrients you need, so no, you can't eat whatever you want if you join the volleyball team.
The organic people also bug me. Organic DOES NOT equal healthy. Organic cookies? Guess what? Still cookies. Furthermore, I can accept that pesticides and such hurt the environment, but you still haven't proven they do a thing to people's bodies. I actually don't care what chemicals are in my body if they don't hurt me or anyone else.
