Anonymous wrote:Not horrifying. Your body wants to keep you alive. Can you imagine how much harder it would be for humans to survive if we burned 1,000 calories from a half hour walk?

An evolutionary perspective, courtesy of the Smithsonian:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/we-burn-just-half-calories-compared-other-mammals-180949353/#:~:text=They%20measured%20metabolic%20rate%20using,primates%20burn%20so%20little%20energy.

Anonymous wrote:According to the iPhone Health app, walking 3 miles only burned 100 calories. That’s not even a can of soda! It says 8 miles burned 600 calories, which is still depressing. That’s not even a restaurant-size dessert.

If these estimates are in the ballpark of accuracy, no wonder it’s so hard to loose weight. How DEPRESSING!

That sounds kind of low. What was your pace and what do you weigh? I only weigh 102 and according to Apple I burned 170 calories walking 2.3 miles at a pace of 15 minutes 20 seconds per mile.

Anonymous wrote:According to the iPhone Health app, walking 3 miles only burned 100 calories. That’s not even a can of soda! It says 8 miles burned 600 calories, which is still depressing. That’s not even a restaurant-size dessert.

If these estimates are in the ballpark of accuracy, no wonder it’s so hard to loose weight. How DEPRESSING!

Switch to seltzer.

And as far as the common misspelling of lose/loose, I always tell people the best way to remember the difference is that you should "lose an 'o' to lose weight"

Anonymous wrote:You can't go by the Health app. You need a watch that looks at heart rate and your stats.

It's LOSE weight, not LOOSE weight, JC.

yeah i lost weight but now have loose skin

Anonymous wrote:Not horrifying. Your body wants to keep you alive. Can you imagine how much harder it would be for humans to survive if we burned 1,000 calories from a half hour walk?

So you are telling me I can’t cancel out my ultra venti Frappuccino by walking to my car? Here I thought my Apple Watch helped me justify that.

Back to the drawing board I guess.

Ugh. Every marathon runner is running off of fat in their body until it has to hit the “emergency reserves” of glucose stores. Fat is the primary source of energy for everyone on this planet. Everyone needs fat. You have more fat stores than Glucose/glycogen stores.

If you use your glucose stores in a race your body will spend days (burning fat days after a race) to replenish glucose stores. That is why runners stay so lean - their bodies are always burning fat even when they are not running.

To lose weight you need to stop adding to your fat (diet) and your body will convert your fat to energy to live.

Exercise just can help accelerate that process and make maintaining your goal fitness level more likely.

Not horrifying. Your body wants to keep you alive. Can you imagine how much harder it would be for humans to survive if we burned 1,000 calories from a half hour walk?

Anonymous wrote:You can’t outrun the fork!

You actually can, but you need to be training for a marathon.

You can't go by the Health app. You need a watch that looks at heart rate and your stats.

It's LOSE weight, not LOOSE weight, JC.

Huh? Eat less.

I don’t exercise to burn calories but to build strength and balance.

To lose weight with exercise is very complicated and walking or running a few miles won’t do it unless you already have the metabolism of a trained athlete.
A balanced endurance training program will yield the best mitochondrial development over time. This in turn will improve our fat oxidation ability and our performance. But think more like biking 20-30 miles a day for low impact endurance. Or walking 5-10 miles a day.

As most people do not have that ability to do almost every day programs like sprint intervals to hit extreme reaction that makes you destroy old mitochondria and replace it with new ones that will oxidize fat more efficiently.

Below sprint/extreme level is what everyone calls HIIT which is not as intense as sprint training but works almost as well if done without hurting yourself and giving your body enough time to recover.

Most non-athletes or people really out of shape should not jump into sprint training without an ambulance parked next to them.

HIIT can be more toned down, like orange theory or whatever on line.

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Anonymous wrote:You mean they're accurate? Because I've found that most calories counters on exercise equipment severely overestimate the calorie burn.

The best part of these caloric meters to get relative caloric output. So you can see how much is spent in walking v running v sitting and typing.

That's true, but I didn't know this at first...

Anonymous wrote:You mean they're accurate? Because I've found that most calories counters on exercise equipment severely overestimate the calorie burn.

The best part of these caloric meters to get relative caloric output. So you can see how much is spent in walking v running v sitting and typing.

You mean they're accurate? Because I've found that most calories counters on exercise equipment severely overestimate the calorie burn.

Losing weight is all about what and how much you eat, OP. Exercise, in that context, is about preserving muscle mass.