[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]schultzie wrote:
It seems that the whole vegetarian diet for body composition and health movement is one of the most damaging trends to young females today. I work with a large amount of 17-22 year old girls, and more than half of them have some degree of anemia. Not to mention they are either way underweight, or overweight with below average muscle mass. All of them have problems with energy and have various degrees of mood swings, which I know can be a result of their cycles, but shouldn’t be an excuse to let it run rampant.
Almost every day they ask me about diet advice. I used to tell them in depth of what to do but honestly now, I just tell them to follow the government food guide. It’s not even close to optimal, but compared to what they are doing now…
If they seriously just made sure to get ~80g of protein a day, which is absolutely nothing, they would feel so much better. I don’t even care if its 80g of soy nuts and tofu.[/quote]
I would go as far as to say women in general are “food ignorant”. I had one of the assistants at work make a HUGE issue about the amount of fluid I was drinking as if it would kill me. She was referring to the half gallon of MAG-10 I was drinking throughout the day. You see, because I am trying to build or maintain muscle, this automatically made how I eat “bad” in their minds. She literally asked, “is drinking that much water healthy”…in a tone signifying she thought it wasn’t.
You see, half a gallon of water = bad…if you are trying to build muscle.
Me eating the literal same meal for lunch 99% of the time of 1lb steak+rice+vegetables = bad…because I’m really muscular.
Mind you, these are the same women who literally made a habit of going out once a week for PIE and who bring so many baked goods to work that you would think the break room was the storage room at Dunkin Donuts.
These same women fasted all of last week because they all got fat over the holidays.
But me…the guy who has the same meal everyday is the one who is eating so unhealthy they need to basically have an intervention.
This right here is why I try to avoid even discussing how to eat when in a group of women.
They are now into a routine of missing lunch completely (no solid food at all) but drinking pureed fruit as their meal everyday…BECAUSE OF HOW HEALTHY THAT IS.[/quote]
A girl im friends with is overweight and wanted to lose some weight. I welcomed her to come with me to the gym at our college and she automatically said no gyms are gross and all the people sweat on the machines eww!! I told her they have a bleach solution and paper towels and everyone wipes down the machine after using it…and you can wipe it before you use it… but she still refuses to go. She never ended up doing anything.
The same girl also got into an argument with me when I was watching tv and a biggest loser commercial came up for a nutrition bar that was almost identical to a snickers bar except the snickers bar had about 20 less calories and less sugar. She refused to believe the trainers on biggest loser suck because the people on the show lose weight when theyre commonly over 40% bf and carry 50lbs of water weight. so girls suck… but guys are usually just as bad