Oh Crone, you're the bestest! It may take me awhile, but I've got to start now with my biggest, uglies pet peeve of a myth:
Myth One: "Muscle weighs more than fat"
No it doesn't... take a pound of muscle and a pound of fat and put them on a scale.
they both weigh one pound!!!!!! A pound of muscle takes up less room than a pound of fat (a lot less), but sorry folks, a pound is a pound is a pound regardless if it's fat, muscle, lead or feathers....
Myth Two: "Skinny = Healthy"
Heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, etc. are all invisible. Look how healthy Darryl Kile looked (the 33 year old baseball player who just died in his sleep this weekend).
Myth Three: "Electrocute yourself into great looking abs"
Uh, no. Do I really need to even go into this?? The amount of electricity you'd need to really "work" your muscles would be unbearable. Save yourself the money.
Myth Four: "Any diet that claims you can loose 10 pounds in 48 hours"
Yea, if you drank nothing but flavored laxatives for 2 days you'd loose 10 pounds - but would you
really want to lose weight that way? Besides, as soon as you eat again it's going to come right back in the form of fluid, food, waste, etc.... Dangerous stuff.
Ok, that's all I can think of right now.... sorry if some of this seems sarcastic, but I'm soooooo sick of the industry (name any ol' industry) taking advantage of people, feeding off of desperation. It just frosts my cookies.
Terri