omg noo ur gonna gain weight eating that pudding u need to eat this hEaLtHy pudding made with full fat coconut milk and raw sugar and avocado!

 

ugh .... good response. hahahahahah

 

my mom's kinda like this lmaoo. she's not pretentious but she is a consistent dieter but doesn't really take cico into account so her weight is basically always the same/or she gains. she always gives me suggestions on what to eat, how to eat, when to eat etc. and it's all just so wrong it's kinda frustrating

she's always going on about how i should eat nuts bc they're a good source of protein and i need more protein since i don't eat meat. i track all of my intake and i know i get enough protein for my size/activity level and nuts aren't even a good source of protein for the amount of calories like????? i could eat 60kcal (10g) of almonds and get 2.2g of protein and still be STARVING or i could eat like 60kcal (120g!!!) of an eggwhite omelet and get 7x the amount of protein and be relatively full for a couple hours

 

Ugh, yes. People think "healthy" and "low cal" are the same things and it's like.. bruh, honestly the "healthy" options seem to be higher cal most of the time, whether at restaurants or pieced together meals of individual items. I always gain when I try to eat ~healthy~; like a can of grilled chicken breast with light mayo, an avocado, and some skinny pop popcorn seems like it should be low cal but it winds up being like 650 cal?? People just don't realize.

And it's one thing to simply not realize, and another to start acting superior over what's ultimately willful ignorance. Cringe.

 

I mean, there are definitely some perks. My sister is over here eating broccoli and tuna (which makes sharing a bathroom a joy /sarcasm) while I'm eating my Halo Top and almond croissants and occasional treats without the fear of her stealing them. O The fact that I'm the one losing weight is honestly just icing on the cake.

 

"keto is magic! calories dont count on keto!"
i just always imagine natural carnivores like lions and other apex predators starving to death because, ,,,no carbs(

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I mean, there are definitely some perks. My sister is over here eating broccoli and tuna (which makes sharing a bathroom a joy /sarcasm) while I'm eating my Halo Top and almond croissants and occasional treats without the fear of her stealing them. O The fact that I'm the one losing weight is honestly just icing on the cake.

OMG. Me.

My dad is doing keto/low carb and gets excited over having popcorn once a week. Yeah ok, I'm just gonna sit over here and lose weight while enjoying my chocolate croissant thanks.

I literally bought croissants last week, and offered him one to be nice. He just Sniffed the box and then said he couldn't eat them cause carbs. I felt kinda bad after. He must be where I get my willpower from cause those things smelt freaking incredible.

 

Lmao. That’s how my stepmother is. She believes bizarre things like oil is healthy and so that means you should drown, yes drown, everything you eat in oil to the point that it’s slippery and soaking wet. She also believes that boiling white rice eliminates both the calories and starch in it making it as “healthy” as brown rice. Just dumb as fuck. That’s why she’s been on a diet for over ten years and hasn’t lost weight but gained drastically AND now has high cholesterol, prediabetes, and possible heart disease despite eating “healthy”.

 

My parents have been moving through fad diets my whole life haha. It's shocking. Atkins, paleo, vegetarian (here in the fad list as it had nothing to do with ethics fyi, but to do with how much weight they thought it'd help them lose... Which doesn't apply if you eat tonnes of junk) and then no fat, then no carb high fat, then no fruit, then Opti-fast... And there I was repeating over and over they could have whatever they wanted, they just needed to know their TDEE! Nope. Next was lemon water with every meal to 'negate' the fats 🙄

 

People who don't believe science and facts can gtfo my life

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God this could apply to so much

 

Ohoho- these people are the worsstt. But It's also 10x more satisfying when you lose 20Ibs and they're sat there like 'how am I not losing as well?? '

Especially if they're the type to rub your eating habits in your face. <_<

 

i don’t argue with those types of people anymore because they never accept the facts, so instead i revel in the knowledge that they’ll get fatter doing their stupid diet and ill lose weight following CICO

 

i don't argue with those types of people anymore because they never accept the facts, so instead i revel in the knowledge that they'll get fatter doing their stupid diet and ill lose weight following CICO

I feel so guilty when I think like this but so true. I also ha e learned don't bother trying to educate even if the person is a close normally super open friend. (I have a fairly heavy set friend who honestly needs to lose weight for health but when I tried throwing a couple sentences of fixing her keto idea OMG I have NEVER seen her get defensive and almost hostile.) It quickly turned into I just shut up because I realized she was not going to listen sigh*** people go on a keto diet and suddenly their a damn diet guru

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I feel so guilty when I think like this but so true. I also ha e learned don't bother trying to educate even if the person is a close normally super open friend. (I have a fairly heavy set friend who honestly needs to lose weight for health but when I tried throwing a couple sentences of fixing her keto idea OMG I have NEVER seen her get defensive and almost hostile.) It quickly turned into I just shut up because I realized she was not going to listen sigh*** people go on a keto diet and suddenly their a damn diet guru

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This. I would say diet is one of the most sensitive issues with people. They jump onto any fad diet trend and proclaim it the only way to be healthy/lose weight and will get ridiculously defensive if anyone disagrees or even mentions CICO. This only lasts until the next big trend comes along.

I don't have much of a filter so it's hard for me sometimes to not say anything and let people live in their willful ignorance. I keep learning the hard way, lol.

Edit to add: It wouldn't be so bad if they would stop telling me things like "Oh, you're eating that? (1 oz pasta with veggies, <200kcal) I just can't handle so many carbs... I'm going to eat a salad instead because I'm trying to lose weight. (not-even-keto huge lettuce-cheese-meat-ranch soup concoction with only a "few" (ton) of croutons/wonton strips at 1000+ kcal)

Or "I can't eat apples, they have too many calories and aren't good for dieting. That's why I eat celery even though I hate it." Proceeds to drink my daily intake in wine every night.

 

OMG. Me.
My dad is doing keto/low carb and gets excited over having popcorn once a week. Yeah ok, I'm just gonna sit over here and lose weight while enjoying my chocolate croissant thanks.

I literally bought croissants last week, and offered him one to be nice. He just Sniffed the box and then said he couldn't eat them cause carbs. I felt kinda bad after. He must be where I get my willpower from cause those things smelt freaking incredible.

My co-worker does low carb diets frequently.
I lost more weight eating 80/100 g but I feel bad hearing her announce her diets😃

 

The people in my life that ignore CICO only ignore it because of massive misinformation. I mean, the diet industry wouldn't be as profitable if it was as simple as CICO, right?

I think most people who've bought into all the fad diets have a hard time believing/accepting that there isn't some magical formula that only a select few diet gurus know about and that at the end of the day it comes down to personal responsibility and willpower not to have that candy bar unless it fits into your calorie budget for the day. It's just easier to blame diet failures on the diet itself, etc.

 

I love that all of these responses allude to the fact that the diet industry has done an incredible job of creating "magic diets" when there already is one...CICO. I've never seen my weight respond as predictably as when I started tracking everything I put into my mouth. In a sense, it's super liberating. I know that if my weight goes up, it really is just water weight and natural fluctuation. I can order McDonalds and eat some fries shamelessly because I know that mathematically, I can't gain any weight from even the worst of Big Mac or cheeseburger if I physically haven't consumed over 1200 calories (or whatever limit you set for yourself).

Sure, it takes willpower, but once you get to the world of maintenance, you kind of get the best of all worlds: you get to eat the food you want (you just have to plan for it!) and you get to love the body you wake up in every day.

Dieting isn't some magic secret.

Weigh your food, count your calories, check your scale. It's all just math.

 

My mom does this, bless her heart.

She has had so much trouble losing weight since she had my youngest sibling, now she's on keto and puts butter, cream and coconut oil in her coffee

She's definitely losing weight, but I think that's more because she doesn't snack on whatever is available, plans her meals to be way more inclusive of water-dense veggies and stays off the wine lmao

TBF as long as people are finding something sustainable, enjoyable and cheap-ish I'm not too mad about it. Some people are simply not in the right mindset to be told that their behaviour is what causes their own suffering.

Psychology is a science too, yall.

 

I feel so guilty when I think like this but so true. I also ha e learned don't bother trying to educate even if the person is a close normally super open friend. (I have a fairly heavy set friend who honestly needs to lose weight for health but when I tried throwing a couple sentences of fixing her keto idea OMG I have NEVER seen her get defensive and almost hostile.) It quickly turned into I just shut up because I realized she was not going to listen sigh*** people go on a keto diet and suddenly their a damn diet guru

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debating about weight loss with keto advocates is basically a death wish, they don't seem to understand that you can only lose weight while you're in a deficit so there's really no need to cut out macros. they refuse to believe that you'll still drop the pounds regardless of whether your diet is high in carbs or fat. you're friend sounds like every other person who breathes and preaches keto, i never did understand why they get so offended when you gently mention that keto isn't the only way to burn fat, it's like they consider eating less than your body burns is a strange unheard of concept. tbh i don't think they'll ever get their heads out of their asses enough to understand the basic science behind weight loss, so whatever, let them pile on the pounds while they tell you all about their amazing new keto diet that is the answer to ending obesity

 

I feel so guilty when I think like this but so true. I also ha e learned don't bother trying to educate even if the person is a close normally super open friend. (I have a fairly heavy set friend who honestly needs to lose weight for health but when I tried throwing a couple sentences of fixing her keto idea OMG I have NEVER seen her get defensive and almost hostile.) It quickly turned into I just shut up because I realized she was not going to listen sigh*** people go on a keto diet and suddenly their a damn diet guru

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Not fair lol I do keto. Im also aware that it doesn't suddenly give me permission to pour grease and cream on everything tho. Calories still count. I did it for 15 years while also restricting fat-just not as much as carbs. Never cheated. Never binged once or ate anything unplanned which I cannot say for the years prior to that. Stayed reasonably thin with BMI hovering around 14.3. Went off the rails for a year after my dad died and couldn't handle any food that had any bulk in my stomach whatsoever and ate nothing but a few snack size bags of Welches fruit snacks every day which, per CICO should have meant I lost weight. Nope. Gained 40 lbs. when I realized how fat I had become I literally threw all the candy away instantly and was back on the horse. That being said I know it's not the only way for EVERYONE. I will say that I personally could never have quit BP cold turkey any other way

 

Not fair lol I do keto. Im also aware that it doesn't suddenly give me permission to pour grease and cream on everything tho. Calories still count. A lot of morons see it as an excuse to eat all the fat they want and dip everything in butter and wonder why they stay fat. I did keto for 15 years while also restricting fat-just not as much as carbs. I'd have a splash of cream in my coffee maybe, but very little and certainly never did that nasty butter-coffee thing🤮 Never cheated. Never binged once or ate anything unplanned which I cannot say for the years prior to that. Stayed reasonably thin with BMI hovering around 14.3. Went off the rails for a year after my dad died and couldn't handle any food that had any bulk in my stomach whatsoever and ate nothing but a few snack size bags of Welches fruit snacks every day which, per CICO should have meant I lost weight. Nope. Gained 40 lbs. when I realized how fat I had become I literally threw all the candy away instantly and was back on the horse. That being said I know it's not the only way for EVERYONE. I will say that I personally could never have quit BP cold turkey any other way

 

Not fair lol I do keto. Im also aware that it doesn't suddenly give me permission to pour grease and cream on everything tho. Calories still count. I did it for 15 years while also restricting fat-just not as much as carbs. Never cheated. Never binged once or ate anything unplanned which I cannot say for the years prior to that. Stayed reasonably thin with BMI hovering around 14.3. Went off the rails for a year after my dad died and couldn't handle any food that had any bulk in my stomach whatsoever and ate nothing but a few snack size bags of Welches fruit snacks every day which, per CICO should have meant I lost weight. Nope. Gained 40 lbs. when I realized how fat I had become I literally threw all the candy away instantly and was back on the horse. That being said I know it's not the only way for EVERYONE. I will say that I personally could never have quit BP cold turkey any other way

the difference is that you acknowledge calories are an important factor while doing keto, yet many people who do keto insist calories don't matter and you could eat 5000 calories and still lose weight because they don't consist of carbs. i have nothing against the actual diet, if it works for you go for it, but the people who think it's the ,,only,, way to lose weight are the ones a lot of people complain about, they're just tone deaf and ignorant. also sorry abt your father, but CICO works for pretty much everyone unless you're the less than 1% of the population which suffers with a disease that alters your weight loss enough to make a difference

 

This is exactly me vs my whole family lmao
My mom and sister are food purists 80% of the time
And constantly nagging me about my diet
Whilst they oversaturated their food with tahini hummus and grass fed butter
Smh
Like yeah nutrients are great but if I'm gonna allow myself 100cals worth of junk leave me alone