What is a Diet Myth You Totally Bought Into? --

Yup, jumped on all the bandwagons too.

One myth I see here quite regularly is that carbs make you gain weight. The only true part is that we tend to overeat them, which means we overeat the number of calories we need to maintain or lose weight. In general terms, a calorie is a calorie.

The only real truth to that is that when on a low carb diet our glycogen stores are being kept low, and our bodies will take any opportunity to build them back up where they should be, and that takes some water to keep it in solution. So, one will see a bit of water weight gain if they boost their carbohydrate intake, and then it will drop off if you go back to where your diet was, but it doesn't make any difference to our fat stores. It's like always driving around with your car's gas tank between 1/4 and 1/2, and then agonizing over its' sudden weight gain when you fill the tank. It's also why most people need to overshoot their goal weight by a few pounds - to accommodate tha****er weight gain as their diet returns to something more normal. It's the diet that does it and not the carbs - people on a normally balanced diet don't see significan****er weight gain from carbohydrates because their glycogen levels are already normal.

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Stranger every day!

Two words: Rice Cakes.

HAHAHAHAHA. I ate the styrofoam cakes -- the caramel flavored ones -- like they were going out of style. Often slathered in about 500 calories worth of peanut butter...

How wasn't I losing weight!!!????

I ate JARS of peanut butter on rice cakes thinking I was doing a good thing. I can remember how the rice cake stuck to your lips when you bit into it. It was so devoid of moisture it seemed to take a bit of your lip with it once it was pried off.

Remember how much shelf space they took up in the store at the height of their popularity? Rows and rows of tasteless hockey pucks of punishment for being overweight.... Shame on you, Quaker!

Sometimes when I was being super healthy -- I would add apple slices or honey to the peanut butter...

The only thing those disks are good for are as packing material for glassware or as coasters.

Or for fattening up America --- Maybe GlaxoSmithKline and Quaker were in cahoots together -- Type II Diabetes for all!!

I had a rice cake phase where I added fat free cream cheese, cucumber slices and lox to the ranch flavor rice cakes. Totally tasted like a lox bagel. HAHAHA not.

I am being watched at work because I am laughing so hard at this thread.