Stop falling for all the marketing - exercise can't be the focus to lose weight

[Anonymous]

Simple rules to live by

1. Exercise to stay healthy - change eating habits to lose weight - the average person cannot exercise enough to make a dent without changing your eating habits.
2. Don't include your exercise in any calorie allocation while losing weight - people are notorious for overestimating amount of exercise and effort and online calculators are all over the place.

[Anonymous]

Exercise including weights can increase metabolism. It also increases the quality of my sleep and reduces my stress, both things that make it much easier for me to eat an appropriate amount. It's absolutely part of the equation for weight loss and management.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Exercise including weights can increase metabolism. It also increases the quality of my sleep and reduces my stress, both things that make it much easier for me to eat an appropriate amount. It's absolutely part of the equation for weight loss and management.

It hardly does anything to your metabolism at all. You have go gain a ton of muscle to move the needle. But I eat when I get stressed, and exercise reduces my anxiety, so I do gain weight if I don’t exercise.

But ultimately I do think that we have been mislead about the connection between weight loss and exercise, and it’s unfortunate because often when people push themselves to work out for weight loss, it doesn’t happen, they get discouraged, they quit, and miss out on all the amazing benefits of exercise.

[Anonymous]

You can't outrun the fork

[Anonymous]

Irk, my sons’ ride the stationary bike when their college trainer needs them to lose weight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can't outrun the fork

I went on an hour run this afternoon. That was just under 900 calories during the workout. That will earn me a large class of wine tonight and still leave me with a calorie deficit

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You can't outrun the fork

I went on an hour run this afternoon. That was just under 900 calories during the workout. That will earn me a large class of wine tonight and still leave me with a calorie deficit

For most people, exercise just leads to being hungrier. You get hungry with our without exercise and you can have a calorie deficit with or without exercise.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You can't outrun the fork

I went on an hour run this afternoon. That was just under 900 calories during the workout. That will earn me a large class of wine tonight and still leave me with a calorie deficit

More like 400 calories burned. Maybe a little more if you ran 6 miles. Or weigh like 250 pounds.

[Anonymous]

I enjoy these preaching pronouncements. I’m going to run a couple of miles this afternoon and then eat an entire cheesecake because I earned it.

[Anonymous]

Yes I am in some Reddit groups and people get so hard on themselves when they don't exercise. I lost weight and never exercised. It's just not that important.

[Anonymous]

Yup, weight is all about food. Exercise is for health. There was a big study making that clear a couple of years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can't outrun the fork

I went on an hour run this afternoon. That was just under 900 calories during the workout. That will earn me a large class of wine tonight and still leave me with a calorie deficit

More like 400 calories burned. Maybe a little more if you ran 6 miles. Or weigh like 250 pounds.

more like 8 miles, and I trust my Garmin to be with 10% on calories burned

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can't outrun the fork

I went on an hour run this afternoon. That was just under 900 calories during the workout. That will earn me a large class of wine tonight and still leave me with a calorie deficit

More like 400 calories burned. Maybe a little more if you ran 6 miles. Or weigh like 250 pounds.

more like 8 miles, and I trust my Garmin to be with 10% on calories burned

DP, I trust my Garmin in too. Rough estimate at my height and weight (F 5’5” 130lbs), is about 90 calories per mile burned.

I agree with OP exercise is not the key to losing weight, but I definitely eat back my exercise calories while still maintaining an overall deficit. I work out a lot, and if I didn’t eat them back I’d be miserable and would probably binge out of hunger.

Right now I’m trying to lose a few “vacation” pounds but mostly I just maintain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can't outrun the fork

I went on an hour run this afternoon. That was just under 900 calories during the workout. That will earn me a large class of wine tonight and still leave me with a calorie deficit

More like 400 calories burned. Maybe a little more if you ran 6 miles. Or weigh like 250 pounds.

more like 8 miles, and I trust my Garmin to be with 10% on calories burned

100 calories a mile is a good rule of thumb.

[Anonymous]

In losing, and maintaining (5+ years) my 60lb weightloss, I credit exercise 80% and diet 20%.

So sorry OP, I firmly disagree.