[quote]123watson wrote:
I do find it funny how it is always overweight unhealthy people making nutritional reccomendations.
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Yep, I’ve never had a “fit” person make a judgement about something I’m eating or drinking.[/quote]
Funny how things are, At school I have noticed that the people who have never been in a gym, eat junk and drink all the time are always making the most critiques and reccomendations.[/quote]
I think this carries over into other aspects of life as well. I’m a small business owner, and it’s always the people that have never started a business that feel justified in critiquing the way I run mine.
[quote]ethanwest wrote:
One of my girlfriend’s friends came over last night as I was finishing up my steak. She made a comment about how I eat a lot of red meat. I told her I eat steak for dinner 5-7 times a week. She said that’s too much and I should cut back. This of course coming from someone who is overweight.
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I had some girls over at the house last week and they made the same “unhealthy” comments about the Biotest supplements I have in the kitchen.
Building muscle is bad.
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I have a theory on this.
As a teen, all my friends want to build muscle and thus stock up on every supplement available in GNC (while ignoring eating properly and workout intensity). 99% will all fail to build the body they desire, and in pure jealousy will start saying “supplements and meat are bad and unhealthy” to people who are bigger; as it makes them feel bad knowing that someone succeeded in where they failed.
[quote]ethanwest wrote:
One of my girlfriend’s friends came over last night as I was finishing up my steak. She made a comment about how I eat a lot of red meat. I told her I eat steak for dinner 5-7 times a week. She said that’s too much and I should cut back. This of course coming from someone who is overweight.
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I had some girls over at the house last week and they made the same “unhealthy” comments about the Biotest supplements I have in the kitchen.
Building muscle is bad.
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I have a theory on this.
As a teen, all my friends want to build muscle and thus stock up on every supplement available in GNC (while ignoring eating properly and workout intensity). 99% will all fail to build the body they desire, and in pure jealousy will start saying “supplements and meat are bad and unhealthy” to people who are bigger; as it makes them feel bad knowing that someone succeeded in where they failed.
Just my theory though.[/quote]
I agree, I had many people and alot of them so called friends accuse me of being on steroids when i really ate a ton of steak, worked my ass off and a high protein intake with the occasional creatine cycle, on top of being blessed with genetics that responded to all of that. People refuse to believe that hard works can pay off and people out there can commit to making it happen when they don’t have the will to do it themselves.
[quote]ethanwest wrote:
One of my girlfriend’s friends came over last night as I was finishing up my steak. She made a comment about how I eat a lot of red meat. I told her I eat steak for dinner 5-7 times a week. She said that’s too much and I should cut back. This of course coming from someone who is overweight.
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I had some girls over at the house last week and they made the same “unhealthy” comments about the Biotest supplements I have in the kitchen.
Building muscle is bad.
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I have a theory on this.
As a teen, all my friends want to build muscle and thus stock up on every supplement available in GNC (while ignoring eating properly and workout intensity). 99% will all fail to build the body they desire, and in pure jealousy will start saying “supplements and meat are bad and unhealthy” to people who are bigger; as it makes them feel bad knowing that someone succeeded in where they failed.
Just my theory though.[/quote]
I agree, I had many people and alot of them so called friends accuse me of being on steroids when i really ate a ton of steak, worked my ass off and a high protein intake with the occasional creatine cycle, on top of being blessed with genetics that responded to all of that. People refuse to believe that hard works can pay off and people out there can commit to making it happen when they don’t have the will to do it themselves.[/quote]
There was an offshore resource that was doing some IT work on my team who said that (in broken english, so I’m paraphrasing) if you can make a bicep when flexing then you’re on steroids. He seriously didn’t think it was possible to have muscles if you didn’t take steroids. He also said he ran 5 miles a day but couldn’t lose weight.
My neighbor saw the word ‘anabolic’ on a bottle of MAG-10 and called my mom at work to tell her that I was doing steroids. This same person always give me judging looks when he’ll be over and I’m eating eggs or having a protein shake in the evening.
[quote]briansays wrote:
My neighbor saw the word ‘anabolic’ on a bottle of MAG-10 and called my mom at work to tell her that I was doing steroids. This same person always give me judging looks when he’ll be over and I’m eating eggs or having a protein shake in the evening.
Just ignore em and they stop (usually haha) [/quote]
Good thing your neighbor didn’t see a bottle of L-Leucine then. It states “Increases the Anabolic quality of food by up to 70%”. That could be interpreted as steroids for steroids.
Seriously, can someone explain to me why chubby, single women feel so inclined to give unsolicited diet advice to guys who lift?? I have had this happen several times at work, and need to craft a good response to put them in their place without being overt enough to generate a complaint.
At least twice was while mixing a protein shake. They said it was “unsafe”. Please advise.
[quote]Brett620 wrote:
Seriously, can someone explain to me why chubby, single women feel so inclined to give unsolicited diet advice to guys who lift?? I have had this happen several times at work, and need to craft a good response to put them in their place without being overt enough to generate a complaint.
At least twice was while mixing a protein shake. They said it was “unsafe”. Please advise.[/quote]
Tell them it’s unsafe to fuck with you…no I’m kidding. Don’t say shit…it will do no good. I deal with it all the time from people in general who have no business telling me anything in regards to nutrition. Just this week in the same day actually…I received dietary critique from a fellow employee AS he had a piece of fried chicken in one hand, and a large cup of sweet tea in the other…and sweet rolls on his plate in front of him. I was also told by a female coworker who happens to be pushing ATLEAST 4 bills…that the amount of eggs I eat is going to cause health problems…
Before…I used to get really pissed and say something back. Whether I said something back nice…like trying to inform them and spread truth…then I come off as a know it all. If I say something sarcastic, I just come off as a prick. Now, I don’t say shit for the above reasons.
At the end of the day…it really doesn’t affect your life.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Red meat is not the issue. Eating cheeseburgers while sitting on your ass and blaming it on “red meat” while you gain another 50lbs of body fat is the issue.
I hate it when I see doctors make that recommendation…but I also know the average person they are talking to does not understand the difference between “grilled steak and a potato” and "2 whoppers with mayo, some french fries, a 500calories shake and a sedentary lifestyle.
My guess is, there is way more off about your life style than whether you just eat meat.[/quote]
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You could almost say the same about the much-ridiculed admonition to eat less fat. My GF recently pointed out that most people who are being told they should avoid too much fat are not eating too much wild salmon or eggs cooked in cold-pressed coconut oil. They are living on stuff like french fries and greasy pizza. Seen from that perspective, maybe it’s not such bad advice.
Sometimes I forget that people who train hard and eat really well are not the norm. I simply filter most of the well-intentioned advice I hear because it’s not applicable.
I’ve started making some vague reference to blood sugar and/or glucose levels.
Let’s say I’m eating steak and eggs (Mmmmmm), and somebody says, “Hey, that’s a lot of protein…”
I’ll say:
“Oh, I have blood sugar levels.”
“I’m trying to lower my glucose.”
“My doctor says I have to watch my sugar.”
Most people know so little about nutrition – that they don’t even know if this response makes any sense at all – but dropping the diabetes bogyman on them usually makes them want to change the subject.
[quote]Brett620 wrote:
Seriously, can someone explain to me why chubby, single women feel so inclined to give unsolicited diet advice to guys who lift?? I have had this happen several times at work, and need to craft a good response to put them in their place without being overt enough to generate a complaint.
At least twice was while mixing a protein shake. They said it was “unsafe”. Please advise.[/quote]
[quote]fatInIC wrote:
I’ve started making some vague reference to blood sugar and/or glucose levels.
Let’s say I’m eating steak and eggs (Mmmmmm), and somebody says, “Hey, that’s a lot of protein…”
I’ll say:
“Oh, I have blood sugar levels.”
“I’m trying to lower my glucose.”
“My doctor says I have to watch my sugar.”
Most people know so little about nutrition – that they don’t even know if this response makes any sense at all – but dropping the diabetes bogyman on them usually makes them want to change the subject.
[quote]Brett620 wrote:
Seriously, can someone explain to me why chubby, single women feel so inclined to give unsolicited diet advice to guys who lift?? I have had this happen several times at work, and need to craft a good response to put them in their place without being overt enough to generate a complaint.
At least twice was while mixing a protein shake. They said it was “unsafe”. Please advise.[/quote]
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Not knowing enough about nutrtion goes for nutritionists these days too