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Fourth, I'm not sure I understand your sentence: "If a person is working out properly and at a high enough level to burn fat they will actually increase their caloric intake due to the need to fuel their body." I think maybe you meant to say increase their "caloric needs" or "caloric deficit?" Again, you don't need a minimum intensity level to burn fat. That's actually backwards. The more you spike your intensity level, the more your body will attempt to digest carbohydrates instead of fat. In any case, cardio isn't the best way to spike an increase in caloric need. Your metabolism does peak for a short period after engaging in cardio exercise. Some studies say it stays elevated for 30-90 minutes. But it peaks for even longer after strength training or HIIT, with some studies showing an elevated metabolism for a day or more. If you have limited time to exercise, you will get a significantly larger weight loss benefit from strength training than cardio.

Again, I'm not anti cardio. I just think dieting and weight training/HIIT are both significantly more important for weight loss.[/quote]

you do not need to run a caloric deficit to loose weight.  most people have no idea that when the loose weight, they are loosing lean body mass due to the fact they are not exercising.  You are born with a certain # of fat cells, unless you are active or have a high metabolism your fat cells will increase in size.  Think of a bubble getting larger.  To reduce them, your body needs to "burn " the fat, it isn't actually burring it but it is reducing the size of the fat cells.  For your body to get to that point you need to be doing a minimum # of aerobic exercise where your heart rate is at least 80 of your max hr.  until you are at that level, and most people do not reach that level because they think 30 minutes is enough you are not doing anything -there I agree but if you are working out properly, and once your heart rate is up and stays up for at least 30 minutes above the80% you will start to reduce the fat cells.

dieting is a marketing tool, most of us trainers encourage our clients to eat more healthy and more of it because it isn't the good high quality foods that are making them fat.  [/quote]

This is just not true. And if you're a trainer, you should probably know how to spell lose. [/quote]

The notion that you do not have to run a calorie deficit to lose weight is completely contrary to weight loss science and common sense.  Of course you do.  Your genes may affect how much of a deficit you have to create, or how hard it will be for you to create it, but if you don't burn more calories than you bring in, you absolutely cannot lose weight.  [/quote]

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