This one is actually sort of true. I ate out everyday (some times 3 times a day) while I was overseas and I walked everywhere I went and didn't gain a pound.
Also I used to eat a lot, but I walked everywhere I went and I lost weight without realizing it. It is just you have to walk a lot each day.I wouldn't be having such a problem with weight now if I was somewhere I could walk without being bothered. I need to find my Lindsey Sansone DVD, I love her walking workouts.

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When I was dieting several years back, I was bringing lots of healthy veggies with me for my work lunch. As I was noticeably losing weight with my diet and exercise, a coworker decided to jump the bandwagon and go on a diet too. Atkins was all the rage at the time, and she decided that the key was to focus on meat and cheese.

She harped on me incessantly one day that I didn't know what the heck I was doing with my food (despite already having lost 40 pounds) as she proceeded to dive into her Burger King Whopper.

loving this thread ladies!

the weirdest one i heard was that you should drink icy cold water, because when it hits your stomach, your body has to warm it up before it can be any use, so it burns calories getting it to the right temperature!!!

This thread is marvellous and should be enthroned somewhere.

Unfortunately I don't have anything to share: the only dieting tip I've recently (fsvo "recently") received was to drink grapefruit and lemon juice first thing in the morning. Something about shrinking the stomach and making you feel full quicker. I tried it for a while and actually quite liked the taste But I've no idea if it worked!

Eat after 8, gain weight. Also, I recently got an article from a very well respected friend that had the same 'honey and vinegar' in water before every meal, bed, just bathe in it and you'll lose weight deal..
My friend said last week 'just eat every 3 hours', I said, 'heck, I'll eat evey 15 minutes if it'll help me lose weight'..lol

Jennifer

Dumbest, from my skinny husband, "you don't poop enough, if you went 3 or 4 times a day, you'd be skinny like me!"

Best, from my Dad, the best exercise you can do it to push yourself away from the table.

When I told a friend that I was having alot of trouble staying on my diet, he replied "Just eat like a normal person".

this isn't bad advice, just condesending and infuriating "just lay off the sweets" (and he actually winked at me when he said it)... I wanted to punch him in the face

Great advice. Dad always knows best.

The WORST weight loss idea was from my friend in HS, she used to say that she could lose like 5 lbs a day by spitting in a cup while watching TV and not swallowing it... umm hello dehydration and a whole slew of other issues.

omg, spitting in a cup?!?!?! that is awesome!

Who knew saliva was so calorie ridden!!

That's funny.

Angie

These are so great! I love the jogging will mess up your uterus - ha.

I knew a girl who tried to get me to go on a diet that he dad had told her to use. He told her to eat only tuna and apples. Nothing but tuna and apples. Ummm, no.

I was recently told that I should just only eat one kind of food per day. Like a day of dairy, a day of meat, a day of starches, a day of veggies. Also no.

My all time favorite that I've been told though is that I'm just not breathing properly, if I would just breathe properly I'd lose all the weight in no time. I'm not even sure how it was he thought I was supposed to breathe because I flat out told him he didn't know anything and walked away.

The advice I can't stand is the wise advice of those who have lost 10, maybe 20 lbs max in thier lifetime. Skinny girls who literally just have to buckle down for a few weeks and bam, at goal weight.

They think it's a matter of just depriving yourself for a bit and bam results. They've never had 100 lbs staring them in the face and a good year plus of weight loss to "look forward to". And they make it sound so easy.
That gets to me more than the stupid...drink a cocktail of pickle juice and lemons every morning and you'll lose 5 lbs a day lol