Why do people ask me this?

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Now I have lost enough weight where most people can tell. EVERYONEs first question is "Atkins?, South Beach?, Cutting Carbs?," I roll my eyes and say, "uh, no. I put my butt on a treadmill". Its so sad that this is how people think. My friend just went to the doctor and told him to loose 20 lbs. He is 27 and has high blood pressure. I asked him what type of workout plan the doc gave him and he said this "south beach" diet. The damn doc didn't even tell him to walk or anything. What a joke! He's no doctor. The guy is 27, and I ski with this guy all of the time. He can walk/run. Why didn't the doc tell him to cut down on junk food, and workout a few times a week. Nope, he gives him a fad diet. :(
 
because doctors dont know much about nutrition or exercise henerally speaking. and get used to the questions, most people opt for surgery or a fad diet to try and lose weight these days. fast food nation, sadly.
 
They ask you that because people automatically assume your lazy and didn't bust your butt to get where you are. They ask me that all the time too. "What kind of diet did you do", I always answer, "the get off my a** and change my lifestyle diet".
 
Ppl keep looking for quick fixes....they don't wanna get off their asses and work. They think they can lose 10 lbs a week and keep it off, then they're at Denny's eatin steaks and eggs and ****. It's like the commercial where the guy weighs himself, runs around the room once and re-weighs himself and it's the same....ppl want fast results but won't do what it takes to get them.
 
SRV524 said:
It's like the commercial where the guy weighs himself, runs around the room once and re-weighs himself and it's the same....ppl want fast results but won't do what it takes to get them.
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LMAO - That commercial always cracks me up :D
 
thats why if you go to any bookstore, there is a section about fitness maybe 5 feet wide, and a section about diets about 5 sections wide.

i wonder what kind of obesity numbers we will have when low carb is no longer the fad...and everyone is eating carbs again, only with a crawling metabolism...
 
i kinda look at it as a personal thing, staying in decent shape. the masses are a lost cause, IMO. and most people dont care, anyway - they want cheap fatty food, and loads of it. i'm just happy to not be in that rut that so many have made for themselves.
more power to everyone here who cares enough to physically be the best they can. :)
 
LiveFromNY said:
i don't know..........when people ask me how i lost the 25 lbs, i say, uh, diet and exercise. cuz that's what it was!
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But they expect you to say atkins, south beach or whatever. It boggles their mind that some of us take pride in busting our butts to get where we are in our weight loss journey. They expect us to take the easy way out.
 
I've lost 70 pounds in just under a year, and people say some of the dumbest things to me, like asking me if I'd been sick or had bariatric surgery. One old wrinkled lady told me that I looked like somebody let all the air out of me. The nerve of some people. :(
Don't be too quick to knock the Atkins diet - that's how I lost my weight, and I feel and look better at 30 years old than I did at 15. Combined with exercise, it is pretty much what any nutrition specialist would tell you to do anyway.
I partially agree though, that he should certainly be exercising, while also monitoring and controlling his carb intake.
 
Atkins is slowly progressing towards a more sensible (read as: less retarded) diet in practice, though the mania over carbs is REALLY annoying and very unwarranted.

Back in the 70's, it was a no carb diet. This caused a lot of controversy. Some people got hurt driving their cars and then passing out at the wheels from lack of energy. Don't forget, too, that carbohydrates are what solely power the brain -- so the Atkins diet breeds more Atkins dieters (no offense MrsZR7). Because of these problems, it faded from popularity by the end of the decade.

Nowadays it's geared more towards LOW CARBS, and they don't say you can eat disgusting oily foods as long as you control your carb intake (or at least that's what I gather from people I know on Atkins) - making it not unlike the Zone diet, which is pretty much just a balanced one. Hopefully, if nothing else, Atkins has made people take a closer look at what they're eating.

Eventually it comes down to good eating and activity, and any "named diet" isn't going to be any better -- except in the sense, perhaps, that it bothers to combine all the dieting information into one resource.
 
another one that gets me wondering, is Oprah, and Dr. Phil now have "Diet Stuff". I can see how Dr.Phil could tell people why they binge eat, or eat because they are sad. But nutrition and working out,.... why would you listen to him. Im sure he got his info somewhere, but I think its just a marketing thing to make a dumpster full of money
 
I don't get dr. phil with diet stuff.....the guy's overweight and chunky himself, and he has a diet plan....ugh.
 
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