Exercise can only do so much. It’s great in the beginning cuz a lot of weight falls off but long term you will plateau if you don’t change your eating habits

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

So sorry OP, I firmly disagree.

This is a blatant lie


Are you a body builder

Anonymous wrote:Please do not tell other people what works for them. For a lot of us, exercise goes hand in hand with eating right. It can also improve mood, make a person feel better about themselves, and reduce the desire to stress eat. It is also much healthier to exercise than it is to just starve yourself.

Agree. Exercise helps control my eating. For example, if I'm committed to running at 5:30am, binging the night before would be a horrible idea. I can still eat, enjoy food, without restrictions. But exercise helps me control the quantity of what I eat.

And I WANT to exercise, for the benefits completely outside of weight/calories.

-- pp who lost/maintained a good chunk of weight and credits exercise much more than food

Please do not tell other people what works for them. For a lot of us, exercise goes hand in hand with eating right. It can also improve mood, make a person feel better about themselves, and reduce the desire to stress eat. It is also much healthier to exercise than it is to just starve yourself.

Exercise helps me lose weight because I feel healthier and more motivated to eat better. If I’ve just done a 30 minute peloton ride and expended 250 calories, im less likely going to want to see that work get wiped out by a snickers bar. It never ceases to amaze me how many calories are in food and how little im using with exercise. Im much more likely to overeat when im feeling lazy and unmotivated

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Then clearly you are not trying to lose weight.

Not pp, but if their total calories burned for the day (active plus resting) are over the calories consumed (even if it's an entire cheesecake) pp will lose weight.

Anonymous wrote: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.

Then clearly you are not trying to lose weight.

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

So sorry OP, I firmly disagree.

Similar here too

I actually thibk exercise helps me lose weight because of stress reduction. Less stress = less stress eating.

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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.

I run 6 miles in an hour and barely make it over 400 calories burned. How is someone burning 900?!?

Are you like 80lbs?

I'm 130lbs, and burn approx 100 calories/mile, at a 10 minute mile. An hour would be 600, plus my heart rate would be ramped up a bit after so I'd get some bonus afterburn calories. I'd generate an easy 700 (maybe 800) calories running an hour and being moderately busy afterwords (walking, doing errands, other exercises).

Walking burns next to no calories for me, though. An hour at a steady 3-3.5 mph pace would burn about 150 calories.

Anonymous wrote:100 calories a mile is a good, easy starting point, then adjust up or down for height and weight, adjust up or down for speed.

A fast, bigger runner could burn 900 calories in an hour’s run, 8-9 miles in 60 minutes is about a 6:30/7 minute mile. It’s feasible if you’re fast.

NP with a 19-20 BMI depending on the season, and I only get to 750 calories/hour (+/- 10%) running at a 6:30 mile pace. If I'm jogging more slowly it is far more common for me to be in the 600 calories/hour range. Unless the PP is huge (250+ pounds), I'd be pretty surprised at 900 calories in an hour.

I am not sure I buy this. Over the last month or so there has been a ton of studies that have come out that supports OP. But just a couple of years ago there were tons of studies saying the opposite. I think no one has the answer and every person is different so find what works for you..................

Exercise totally works for me. It’s two hours when I’m not eating (the one hour of exercising and one hour after when my hunger is suppressed post workout). And I’m def not hungrier after a workout.
I’ve lost 11 pounds in 3 months, have 6 pounds to go. I only lost weight when I started working out daily.
Diet is also important and I eat clean. But nope you’re wrong OP that exercise doesn’t matter it totally does.
Also endorphins make you happy.

Long distance runners can outrun the fork-but most people will not exercise at that level and anyone at that level probably has a good diet to start.

I have been outrunning the fork. I eat like a horse. Whatever the hell I want. I also run 40-50 miles a week at 7 min/mile pace or faster.