Is it just me or is the diet advice here just awful.
every single thread someone’s suggesting a salad for lunch, like that’s going to make all the difference, or keep someone full after they’re used to eating well over their calorie allowance.
someone else suggests 800 or 1200 calories a day based on no other information than that is low or they’ve heard it before.
someone always tells the op to fast
often there’s a Cambridge diet ‘that definitely worked for me until I stopped and gained two stone back’ …so it didn’t work then.
there’s an op asking how many calories they’re allowed - but giving us no relevant info like their weight, height, activity level or diet
someone says ‘just drink water every time you feel hungry’ I would be peeing like a race horse!!!
and constantly there’s people failing at these awful diets or making themselves miserable or doing punishing diets like keto ‘that are ok after you stop having a headache’
no one ever seems to talk about how to eat lower calorie meals but still feel full. No one ever talks about the health aspects.
It’s all just how we can go through hell, to fit into a dress in 4 weeks, or go on holiday or whatever other goal we’ve left entirely too late.
i say all this as someone who also wants to lose weight, but I just find this board to be a fountain of misinformation and a lack of education on the body, nutrition and health. Which for me is really unsupportive and demotivating.
can we have a place to share healthy weight loss tips, how to eat nutritious filling meals that aren’t calorie dense, enjoyable ways to exercise, and generally healthy ways we may be trying to promote a healthy lifestyle instead of a gruelling punishment we must deserve for being chubby.
at the moment it all just reminds me of my mum doing a grapefruit diet or some other fad in the 90s and being miserable until she caved and ordered a takeaway.