Health & Fitness: Worst weight loss myths you've ever heard

What are the worst weight loss myths you’ve ever heard in your life? The ones I’ve heard are:

  • Eating salads everyday will make you skinny
  • Don’t eat after 8pm
  • Carbs and fat are bad for you
  • Weights will make women bulky
  • Healthy foods are more expensive
  • Crash diets work
  • Waist cinchers can help slim your waist
  • Cutting out all snacks can help you lose weight
  • Skipping meals helps you lose weight
  • Go on a juice cleanse diet, that can help you lose weight
  • You can get abs by doing 1000 crunches in one day
  • Slim fast milkshake is the best replacement meal
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D R I N K W A T E R self-care Twitter thinks drinking water will solve anything :joy:

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While I agree that water is very essential but there’s a con about water…it can make you :poop::poop::poop::poop::poop: a lot!

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What’s annoying is that the “just drink water” club have face-filters on and makeup when talking about how they got clear skin… like isn’t that cheating?

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• only eating healthy food everyday will make you skinny
•you don’t gain weight if you only eat fruits and vegetables

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I know right! That’s proper cheating!!!

Also when girls wear waist trainers (I wear it when I work out or if I want to wear a nice dress so I don’t look like a blob), they wear waist trainers and lie about losing all the weight like in a week.

Weight loss isn’t magical. You gotta be patient and consistent!

This is why I stopped using IG because it triggered an eating disorder.

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I’m gonna have to give this a pass because it can be true :see_no_evil: I remember eating apples only for whole summer (aside from dinner) and losing weight

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The waist trainer thing is just like the SugarBearHair pills. The influencers wear hair extensions whilst saying that the pill improved their hair. Also the pill only “works” for the same hair textures.

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It actually doesn’t really matter what you eat, as long as you don’t eat too much of it. I only ate biscuits for the whole summer and lost weight :woman_shrugging:

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Influencers are the worst at giving weight loss tips. If you want actual weight loss tips, go to fitness instructors with an actual qualification!

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Exactly! This is why I follow Jameela Al Jamil because she debunks influencer weight loss and diet tips

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Don’t listen to the Kardashians as they are actually promoting body image problems and eating disorders with the products they’re selling. Kudos to Jameela Al Jamil for exposing the hell out of them!

Here’s one of my favourite fitness instructors on YouTube and he’s absolutely funny!

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That all women must absolutely lose weight. Oof.

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We all come in different shapes & sizes; same with men.

It irks me when people think that being curvy only applies to being slim af.

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And people saying that there is one way to do it, when all of our bodies are different with different ways to lose weight. Besides that, I haven’t really seen anything except for those like weight loss pill things oof.

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I don’t trust these weight loss pills. They will make you gain the weight back again!

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I think that people in general should be concerned with staying healthy rather than losing weight- if you need to lose weight than go for it! I’m trying to be more healthy, and I’ve realized that I’m actually skinny/average, but because of all the media about losing weight I feel bad about my body.

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Worst weightloss myth - that perfectly healthy people still need to lose ‘a few more pounds’.

Hear it constantly. It’s not helpful. Stop doing this. The only person you should listen to in regards to your body is yourself, and your doctor. No-one else’s opinion has any bearing whatsoever

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Ooh a similar one to that is that pregnant women right after birth need to lose the weight. Oof. JUST LET THEM HEAL IN PIECE PEOPLE.

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That. Is an. Opinion. From someone. That isn’t. Said woman. Or her doctor.

An opinion from this person, in this example, is entirely worthless

Like, you’re entitled to your opinion, even in this case, doesn’t stop it from being literally worthless

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