Phrases that drive me crazy on CC

1. Starvation mode - this has been complained about a million times before. Yes you need to eat enough calories and not operate at too high of a deficit - yes it will slow your weight loss and possibly make you plateau. Starvation mode isn't a scientific thing and it's not the answer to everything.

2. "Will this make me gain weight?" Short answer: unless the question is "will eating 500 calories over my maintenance everyday make me gain weight" - the answer is no. Eating a cupcake will not make you gain weight. Eating a little too much on one day will not make you gain weight. You know how one day of eating and working out won't make you lose weight? Gaining weight is the same. One day of overeating will not make you gain weight. It's one thing to be upset about a mess up - it's perfectly understandable, but no one isolated incidence will gain weight. You gain weight because of poor habits, not because you went out to dinner once and got something fattening.

3. "I've eaten 700 cals today and I can't eat another bite or I feel like I'll throw up". You are not stuffing yourself silly on 700 calories. It's not a lot of food. And if you really couldn't stomach that much food without feeling like vomiting, you probably wouldn't be overweight.

4. "Omg such a bad binge today, I had a cookie for desert" - That's not a binge. If you were hungry and you ate something to fill you up - you didn't binge. When did you binge? If you didn't need food, didn't want food, got upset or emotional about something and stuffed yourself with anything in sight to cope with it.

5. "I gained 2 pounds yeseterday!" - No you didn't. You are retaining water because of excess sodium, you didn't poo yet today, you may be getting your period soon, your muscles are swollen from lifting, it could be any number of things but I can almost guarentee you that unless you ate 10,000 calories and laid in bed then you did not gain 2 pounds of fat yesterday. 

That felt good :-P Anyone else want to rant?

Original Post by ducklingerthank:

For breakfast a coffee? What about some food? Coffee isn't a meal. Yes, some people drink massive full cream syrupy coffees and you have to count the calories but coffee isn't a meal.
For lunch two boiled eggs? Not a meal. It's part of a meal. Boiled eggs go with toast or in a sandwich for example.
For that dinner to be 250-300 calories, either you're counting wrong or it's a ridiculously small portion.

2 soups and a sandwich, now THAT'S a meal...

No i wasnt :) the thing is... i never know how much i am eating till the end of the day when i sit on my pc to write everything down... and the reason i cant eat so much is because i am lying around at home all day.. if i were going out more often or... or had some activities to do i am sure i would eat more... but you know when you are lying around doing nothing all day you dont really feel too hungry either..

dont worry about me though... i spend one whole day at a water park two days ago.... today i was skiing.... so i ate well,  i added ice cream and chocolates to my days as well to be at least 1200 cal or have a deficit less than a 1000 or be 500.

the thing is... i never know how much i am eating till the end of the day when i sit on my pc to write everything down... and the reason i cant eat so much is because i am lying around at home all day.. if i were going out more often or... or had some activities to do i am sure i would eat more... but you know when you are lying around doing nothing all day you dont really feel too hungry either..

dont worry about me though... i spend one whole day at a water park two days ago.... today i was skiing.... so i ate well,  i added ice cream and chocolates to my days as well to be at least 1200 cal or have a deficit less than a 1000 or be 500.

riff - if you are lying around at home all day, why don't you log stuff before the end of the day, so you can know where you are going to be.

Original Post by amethystgirl:

riff - if you are lying around at home all day, why don't you log stuff before the end of the day, so you can know where you are going to be.

 Yes, or plan a day ahead. At night go ahead and figure what you are going to eat the next day and make sure it adds up to the amount of cals that you are shooting for.

OK, going back to which terms are annoying- I have to take a deep breath when read the phrase "my e.d."

I feel for anyone who suffers with eating disorders and understand people struggle with it for a lifetime. What I don't get is why people have to claim it like it's their personal token to hold on to forever. It doesn't have to be part of your identity, does it?

Instead of saying "I almost gave in to my e.d,"- why can't one just say point blank "I almost threw up my food again last night" or "I was tempted to starve myself again today" ???????