What's your weight loss pet pieve?
I have a couple
1. My roommate LOST weight by not thinking about calories and only eating when she was hungry. She would eat until she's full, and just stop. And this would account to like, 1200 calories. She's like, 5'5" and 108 right now. She went abroad last spring to Spain and she was 115 then.. she said that was when she would constantly thing about weight. It pisses me off how losing weight can come natural for her!
2. When eating a SMALL piece of cheesecake takes an hour of vigorous running on the elliptical to redeem myself.
3. When losing water weight isn't actually fat.
Reason: 4/14/08: Stickied. 4/21/08: Unstickied
Original Post by themonbon:
1. People who ignore the built in spellchecker on this site and continue to spell poo poo wrong because they are effing lazy or just stupid.
the spellechecker that apparently is not working on my browser )safari for mac)!
Original Post by sammykay24:
It makes me feel good when people notice I have lost weight, but the compliment is fine.. let's not get too excited! I especially hate it when there are people around, because then the spotlight is all on you.. sometimes, I just want to blend in with the crowd and mind my own business.
2 former colleagues who are skinny, knowing you are dieting, seeing you at a party and yelling across the room HEY! SKINNY! YOU HAVE LOST A LOT OF WEIGHT (when you are still the fattest person in the room)
My biggest is one I've just found recently.
Women who think just because I'm a man.. I can eat anything I want.. sit on my a$$ and still lose weight. I see it over and over and over on these threads. Lemme be the first to tell you.. maybe SOME men.. but not ALL men. (I'm sure there are women out there that are the same way) I bust my hump losing weight and it shows, while my wife can have 3 kids and shrink to a weight BELOW her pre-pregnancy weight in no time flat, while eating basically what she wants. ;O)
Love ya ladies muah!
when people say "loose" weight instead of "lose". loose is like when you're pants have a little extra room :P
when people say "loose" weight instead of "lose". loose is like when you're pants have a little extra room :P
When people correct other people's grammar while making errors of their own (you're = you are, your = possessive of you).
I'm so sorry, I just couldn't resist! And I'm totally with you -- "loosing weight" bugs me too. "To loose" as a verb means to release or let loose, as in "loosing the hounds after the foxes"; I just picture all these dieting people flinging pounds of yellow fat into the air, far and wide, and that's just not a pretty image.
Original Post by jds17:
But oh so LOL hilarious!
I absolutely HATE when a fat friend loses a whole bunch of weight then starts calling me and every other fat person they see FAT!!!
WHAT IS UP WITH THAT?
They were overweight and they know what it is like for a person in those shoes yet they have gotten to a place where they think it is okay for them to past judgement on others who are overweight and call them FAT.
AND it just rolls off their tongue like it was normal or easy to say!
The nerve of some folks!
the rapper Missy Elliot (who became famous for being big) lost some of her former fans who saw her as a role model after she did this very thing (since losing a lot of weight she started being mean to other overweight people, even in her lyrics)
God, I hate that.
(or the ones who start looong rants about why they can not do it.)
1. Those that analyze my food choices and bark at me 'thats all you're going to eat?' where I want to say back 'and you're going to eat all that?'.
2. Those that tell me 'oh you're thin, you don't need to watch what you eat' when I pass on the office cake. I don't want you cheap cake. If I want to eat cake, I'll eat the good gourmet stuff.
They didn't know the prior me. I was FAT.
Oh and:
3. Heavier than me people who spark off about fad diets they once went on and had so much success with. But then something happens in their life and they stuff their faces again.
4. People that make excuses why dieting worked for me but won't work for them. OBVIOUSLY age is the #1 weight loss secret. "oh you're young, it's easy for you".
No.. no it's not easy. It took a LOT of will power. I've lost 173 pounds. 173 pounds doesn't just poof be gone. Asses :)
i just wanted to say....I LOVE THIS THREAD. y'all are absolutely cracking me up. most of my pet peeves have already been mentioned. the biggest one is the lack of nutritional information everywhere, but i think we've come to a general consensus on how much that blows.
my pet peeves:
1. where my weight comes off. my arms, neck, face and the TOP of my midsection have gotten smaller. but oddly enough not the BOTTOM of my midsection or my thighs. so my love handles look bigger than ever before because i have a spoon shaped abdomen. i'm proud of the weight i've lost and i know for a fact my love handles haven't gotten bigger, but it's ANNOYING.
2. people who are surprised when they find out i'm on a diet, and then tell me they can't tell that i've lost any weight. i don't care if you can't tell!! i have!! lie to me about it if you don't see it!!!
My weight loss pet peeves:
1) is that all you're eat?! (I'll maybe just have a bagel, or just cereal, etc, but we eat at a dining hall, so everyone else stuffs their plates with eggs and sausage and bacon and french toast and then just doesn't eat it all... sorry, that doesn't work for me)
2) People who tell me not to drink diet coke... sorry, I like the taste, and that its has 0 calories
3) The fact that my boobs shrink first, my stomach last
4) That BC pill makes it so much more difficult to lose weight. :-/
And last but not least, and often repeated....
5) The fact that some places simply don't have nutritional information available. YOU ARE THE REASON AMERICA IS SO FAT! I garuntee that if you started putting down 1500 calories for a big mac and fries (don't correct me here, I'm guessing) that people would think twice about eating it...
Ok, I already replied once but I have another one to add:
- not being able to find ANY bagels at the grocery store that do not have corn syrup in them!!! I know I can find them at Trader Joes, but it is SO annoying that I have to shop at like 5 different stores to get the right foods!!! Our regular store has a natural section too....but no sugar free bagels.!!! ARGGGH
Going to the gym for 1 1/2 hours a day, 5x a week, eating the right kinds of food and the "supposedly" right amount of calories, and seeing ABSOLUTELY NO PROGRESS! no weight loss, no inches lost, nada, nothing.
try counting calories
Its like, so I cant have say, one mini muffin, even thought I have had less of other things to account for it and burned the extra calories.
But no one ever think sof that. Its like oh you are on a diet, you cant possably eat anything other than salad.
Also people who know nothing about fitness / nutrition telling you what you are doing wrong.
Something else to add
-When my friends tell me "a couple bites of that cupcake or brownie won't hurt."
Yeah right.. that one bite is 50 empty calories!
1. When your roommate say's they'll support you losing weight, but then they come back and bring cakes, muffins, etc. home and eat it in front of you, then leave you some.
2. Eating out - anywhere you go, everything seems to be pumped chalk full of fats and sugars.
3. When I go jogging in my neighbourhood, there is only one "sidewalk-ed" road that connects my area to the next, which means that I have to run there and back on the same landscape.
4. Gaining back weight that you've lost - one step forward, two steps back.
5. It's already been said, but again - skinny people who obsess about their weight, even though they know that they're skinny. (ex. my friend who's 5'1" and 90lbs who says she needs to watch her weight. She is a wrestler, so weight classes are very important, but when it disturbs you enjoying your lunch, it makes everyone feel like a whale.)
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