Fat Store Clerk Says 'Spike is Dangerous'

Diet and Nutrition
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The only ‘problem’ is the mainstream media informed masses think that eating red meat will raise their cholesterol levels and give them a heart attack. I recently tried explaining to my mother that your cholesterol levels are genetically determined, and that the majority of it is produced by your body and it just went over her head. When I got to the fact that if you get less extraneous cholesterol from your diet, your liver will just produce more, all she could do was quote “but my Doctor says that”… and that’s when I stopped listening -lol

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]ethanwest wrote:

[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
If I had a nickel for every time someone cautioned me about all that horrible protein causing kidney damage,… let’s just say that I’d have a sh-tload of nickels.

(this is why I try to avoid any sort of interaction,… usually just saying ‘thanks for the tip’)

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This is why I hate eating with co-workers. I don’t like talking about “healthy eating” with people that have no clue, because it takes too much work to start from the beginning to explain everything. And I don’t want people wondering why I have chicken breast, vegetables, and a sweet potato every day for lunch, haha.

I also go to the bathroom to take my afternoon snack of Metabolic Drive, because I don’t want to explain myself to anyone at work.[/quote]

It gets worse the more you stand out. I don’t like eating around other people at work at all because of this…because how many fucking times do you need to ask me in one year what I am eating as if my answer will be different this time? I can only guess my eating habits cause quite a bit of conflict for people who can’t go a whole day without someone literally baking cookies in the office…but they are all constantly dieting.[/quote]

I’ve witnessed this behavior in coworkers in a professional setting. WTF gives? Can you imagine the shitstorm if a fit person talked shit about a fatties diet?

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[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
As much as I do honestly try to be patient and accepting in everyday life, there are times when I can’t help an occasional barb or two… a couple of my favorites:

-When I get dragged into GNC (usually by my friend who buys multi-vitamins there) and one of the employees (salesmen) who obviously doesn’t know diddly about training suggests to me (completely unwarranted) how great a particular product is, I just look him up and down (very obviously) and ask with a furrowed brow, “is that what you use?”

-When one of my relatives, who always seems to be struggling with their weight, dismisses my suggestions in order to espouse the latest way they’re going about achieving permanent fat loss and create the ultimate body (usually some ridiculous diet or tae-bo type of video)… “so how’s that working out for you?”

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I think GNC clones their salesmen. 13" arms and frat boy look, car salesman style… Fuck GNC

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

They make faces at my food when the truth is, my steaks taste fucking great and smell great.

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This is something hard for me to understand…

If you went to a restaurant something like steak+rice+a side of broccoli or a salad would be a very normal and tasty meal to the average person. Put it in their line of sight outside that setting and it’s health food that must be torturous to eat lol.

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[quote]Captnoblivious wrote:

[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
As much as I do honestly try to be patient and accepting in everyday life, there are times when I can’t help an occasional barb or two… a couple of my favorites:

-When I get dragged into GNC (usually by my friend who buys multi-vitamins there) and one of the employees (salesmen) who obviously doesn’t know diddly about training suggests to me (completely unwarranted) how great a particular product is, I just look him up and down (very obviously) and ask with a furrowed brow, “is that what you use?”

-When one of my relatives, who always seems to be struggling with their weight, dismisses my suggestions in order to espouse the latest way they’re going about achieving permanent fat loss and create the ultimate body (usually some ridiculous diet or tae-bo type of video)… “so how’s that working out for you?”

S[/quote]

I think GNC clones their salesmen. 13" arms and frat boy look, car salesman style… Fuck GNC
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I’m sure this is 1 in a million but this is the salesmen at the GNC I go to. Every other one in my city is fat and crushed looking. He’s a WNBF Pro along with his father and younger brother.

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[quote]Captnoblivious wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]ethanwest wrote:

[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
If I had a nickel for every time someone cautioned me about all that horrible protein causing kidney damage,… let’s just say that I’d have a sh-tload of nickels.

(this is why I try to avoid any sort of interaction,… usually just saying ‘thanks for the tip’)

S[/quote]

This is why I hate eating with co-workers. I don’t like talking about “healthy eating” with people that have no clue, because it takes too much work to start from the beginning to explain everything. And I don’t want people wondering why I have chicken breast, vegetables, and a sweet potato every day for lunch, haha.

I also go to the bathroom to take my afternoon snack of Metabolic Drive, because I don’t want to explain myself to anyone at work.[/quote]

It gets worse the more you stand out. I don’t like eating around other people at work at all because of this…because how many fucking times do you need to ask me in one year what I am eating as if my answer will be different this time? I can only guess my eating habits cause quite a bit of conflict for people who can’t go a whole day without someone literally baking cookies in the office…but they are all constantly dieting.[/quote]

I’ve witnessed this behavior in coworkers in a professional setting. WTF gives? Can you imagine the shitstorm if a fit person talked shit about a fatties diet?
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Actually in the world I want to live in it looks just like that. It would be great for people to be peer pressured into being something better as apposed to something worse for once.

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[quote]Captnoblivious wrote:
I think GNC clones their salesmen. 13" arms and frat boy look, car salesman style… Fuck GNC
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When I first began working out (way before I discovered T-Nation) I used to shop at GNC and there was a huge built guy there. I had a nice conversation with him and when I came back a month later we talked again. After he saw I was actually making progress he looked around and told me not to shop there anymore and gave me some places online to look lol. I was like 17-18 at the time.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
You never see guys saying, “Oh, I just feel like I NEED cookies!!”…unless WhiteCastle, a whole Cheech and Chong collection, and some brownies are involved.[/quote]

sounds like someone is speaking from experience. no wonder you down a whole village in one sitting.

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[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
As much as I do honestly try to be patient and accepting in everyday life, there are times when I can’t help an occasional barb or two… a couple of my favorites:

-When I get dragged into GNC (usually by my friend who buys multi-vitamins there) and one of the employees (salesmen) who obviously doesn’t know diddly about training suggests to me (completely unwarranted) how great a particular product is, I just look him up and down (very obviously) and ask with a furrowed brow, “is that what you use?”

-When one of my relatives, who always seems to be struggling with their weight, dismisses my suggestions in order to espouse the latest way they’re going about achieving permanent fat loss and create the ultimate body (usually some ridiculous diet or tae-bo type of video)… “so how’s that working out for you?”

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Mighty Stu,
Nice one!!
I have to remember that! LOL

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]CapnYousef wrote:
And this is why I love my job, where drinking a protein shake while on the register is totally normal. Hell, we get asked to try all sorts of different whey and stuff so that we can intelligently comment on them to customers. Same goes for bars and the random snack foods we sell (I would have never imagined protein potato chips).

Poor bastards, especially X.[/quote]

Honestly, I don’t get this from guys at work. If anything, they may ask what they should do in the gym (even if they never actually plan on doing it), but the women seem to be the only ones who make an issue of it as if they think I am eating so unhealthily that my steak and rice is worse than their fried chicken and chocolate cake.

They make faces at my food when the truth is, my steaks taste fucking great and smell great.

Even at where you work, if you get to the point where you stand out DRASTICALLY from your coworkers physically, that is when the hate sets in.[/quote]

[quote]Scott M wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

They make faces at my food when the truth is, my steaks taste fucking great and smell great.

[/quote]

This is something hard for me to understand…

If you went to a restaurant something like steak+rice+a side of broccoli or a salad would be a very normal and tasty meal to the average person. Put it in their line of sight outside that setting and it’s health food that must be torturous to eat lol. [/quote]

x2, I had chicken and broccoli in my friends car the other day while we were taking a long drive and he was exclaiming how bad it smelled, seems that way for any meat really. Yet when I take that exact same meat off the grill everyone says how good it smells.

I don’t even stand out, I guess you could say I have an athletic look but even I find stuff mentioned in this thread annoying. My dad’s fat friend was asking about advice on what to eat before going to the gym, yet says he eats just cereal for breakfast and trains like 5 hours later, often doing full cardio first. Just can’t take a guy like that seriously.