Whats the biggest weight loss myth you have ever heard/read?

I've told everyone, and I've never heard anything remotely like "that's the easy way." Thankfully, because we'd have some words if I did. But here's what I do hear:

• Oh, I've heard of that!
  
• Oh, I've seen that on TV!
  
• I saw a show about that, do you know that girl that was on the show?
  
• How much have you lost?
  
• Do you feel better?

...anda host of others.

And sorry, I diverged, I know. But the "Oh, I've heard of that" cracks me up.

Here are some other fads I've heard of or been involved with:

• Chromium picolinate. Take two caps for breakfast, two for lunch, and eat a regular dinner (and in fine print, you will note that a "regular dinner" is defined in the enclosed diet program). So let me get this right. Taking these pills is supposed to make me lose weight, but I'm only allowed to eat one meal a day, and it's under a strict diet? Couldn't I take... oh... air, which is free, and get the same results? Couldn't I swallow a bug and lose the same amount of weight? Or a piece of banana rind?
  
• Here's a whole list of foods, and eating only these foods you can have as much as you want because they take more calories to chew than they have. I'm sorry, they're were healthy foods, but eating 10 lbs of anything is going to make you fat.
  
• Sex burns a lot of calories, so have sex every day when you're dieting. Ok, so it's a good rule, but don't do it for the caloric burn because you just don't burn all that much.

The biggest myth is all the "miracle" diet pills. So many empty promises.

A lady at work asked me how I was losing the weight and when I told her I had the lapband she looked crestfallen. She said "oh, I thought you were doing it on your own". I really think she wanted me to reveal some easy, effortless, magical thing like "I am taking 3 XYZ pills a day".

LOL Jack!!!

It was pretty trippy!

ROTFL....I love all of these! But I still side with Jack.

I am now telling people how I am loosing weight and I swear if one more persons says "oh the easy way" this chick will get getting her fills in jail for murder....I can not stand anymore of it!!

I would rather have 15 kids all natural, all at once!

BUT I do love my band and would do it all over again....lol..

I so agree, I am reading these and cracking up at most of them, because i think most apply to me or I have at least thought about them. LOL

But, from start to finish of getting the band, it will be 14 months, extensive test and dr appointments, and will have to continue to work for the rest of my life for this to really work - so can someone explain how this is easy? :biggrin1:

What about if you exercise you turn your fat to muscle or if you stop exercising all your muscle will turn to fat. How stupid can people be? Fat is fat, muscle is muscle.

Although I have a male friend who was a keen cyclist, he had hugely muscular thighs. Then he grew up, had kids, bought a house in a suburb he could afford and had to catch the train to work - he also married a wonderful friend of mine who was/is obese. Over the years he's become morbidly obese - the size of his legs, WHOA. He's retained all the muscle and laid fat down over the top, and I'm not kidding, he actually has trouble walking, cant get one thigh around the other. He would have the hugest legs I have ever seen.

Anyone remember Starch Blockers? They were tablets that came out in the 70s.

Yeah, they don't work.

One my mom just said to me comes to mind: "Why have surgery? Just pretend you had surgery and loose the weight that way." Um, yeah. If that worked, I'd weigh a hundred pounds less than I do.

OMG that's funny Marjon & Bruce! By the by... I started noticing commercials on tv the day of my surgery. I've seen three different ones several different times. Very exciting!

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Bruce, that drug is Xenical. Did you happen to notice that this very week they are starting to sell this drug, at half strength, over the counter? They call it Alli (pronounced ally). I'm sure that the next big marketing plan will be to sell it in a combo pack with Clorox.

It's sad now people will do anything to lose weight even if it doesn't work. Lord knows, I did the same. I think the lap band is going to become incredibly popular over the next 5 years.

Holy crap.. this made me laugh so hard I hurt my port site (7 days post op) but it was worth it. AT first I thought you were going to say you wrapped yourself in celophane to sweat it out.....

I kid you not, I once sat in my bedroom for hours as a 16 year old with red cellophane taped over my eyes because I read that it curbed your appetite.

Don't forget my personal favorite stupid diet...the hot dog diet...

Day 1 - 9 bananas

Day 2 - 9 eggs

Day 3 - 9 all-beef hot dogs

Day 4 -- 3 bananas, 3 eggs, 3 hot dogs -- in that order, of course!

I just googled 'hot dog diet' and I found a ton of crazy websites with people swearing by this thing. My favorite of all, though, is this site that spoofs the diet. It's a hoot!

http://www.watchmeeatahotdog.com/diet.php

Make sure to click the links like ' the reason we are fat is because of the SUN' and the 'why it works' part. Too funny!

Don't forget my personal favorite stupid diet...the hot dog diet...

Day 1 - 9 bananas

Day 2 - 9 eggs

Day 3 - 9 all-beef hot dogs

Day 4 -- 3 bananas, 3 eggs, 3 hot dogs -- in that order, of course!

I just googled 'hot dog diet' and I found a ton of crazy websites with people swearing by this thing. My favorite of all, though, is this site that spoofs the diet. It's a hoot!

http://www.watchmeeatahotdog.com/diet.php

Make sure to click the links like ' the reason we are fat is because of the SUN' and the 'why it works' part. Too funny!

You know, I was trying to remember that exact diet and I couldn't remember the final item, bananas. I was going to post this earlier but couldn't remember all of it. I remember doing this to lose that last five pounds in high school.

Yeah, now I just outed my age, eh?

That the band can be adjusted and tightened ad infinitum.

Some may not realize this but there comes a point where you just can't go tighter. So in our zeal to spread the word that the band is superior to gastric bypass (and I agree-it is), let's not forget that adjustability does have its limits.

Vinegar - take one tablespoon in the morning and one in the evening to burn fat

I did this one morning - and I even like vinegar - but I almost died. My insides burnt all day - needless to say I didn't follow thru with it that evening.