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Your links are terribly long, do you have anything specific to show that exercise won't help you lose weight?
by coryl 11y ago
Your links are terribly long, do you have anything specific to show that exercise won't help you lose weight?
- DanBC 11y agoYou can look at Cochrane collaborations. These show that exercise alone doesn't do much for weight loss. Most people who exercise and who need to lose weight overestimate the calories they lose from exercise and underestimate the calories they get from food, and so they end up not doing enough exercise and then thinking they can have a food treat. Exercise is almost always a good idea. It just shouldn't be pushed as something primarily for weight loss.
- true_religion 11y ago> they end up not doing enough exercise and then thinking they can have a food treat That's why for most people "diet and exercise" during weight loss, means eating less and exercising more, without any treats to balance out the exercise.
- sageabilly 11y agoSo it's almost if, in addition to exercising, these people need to track their calorie intake accurately. Truly groundbreaking.
- DanBC 11y agoYou missed the point that, for weight loss, counting calories + exercise is no better, and may be worse, than just counting calories.
- coryl 11y agoThe basic physics of this doesn't make sense. If you hold calorie intake as constant, and then increase energy expenditure through exercise, then the energy has to come from somewhere. What I think you're saying is that getting overweight people to exercise may yield mixed results because of their lack of discipline or other human psychological factors. But to suggest that exercise doesn't help with weight loss goes against the laws of physics.
- DanBC 11y agoLook it up. There have been plenty of studies. You should recommend exercise because it's healthy. You should be careful when recommending exercise as a weightloss measure because we know it doesn't help people lose weight. Your comment about laws of physics is true, but misses the point that exercise makes it harder for people to maintain food changes, and it's food changes that are most important for weightloss.
- duaneb 11y agoThey aren't different processes. Eating is calorie intake. Exercise is burning calories. The "counting calories" necessarily involves taking into account both. if you live an extremely sedentary lifestyle, you need to eat fewer calories. The more you exercise, the more calories you can intake.