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> The most accurate title would be "Don't exercise in order to earn the right to eat junk food later". Which is the meager point they're actually making. Excep
by thedz 10y ago
> The most accurate title would be "Don't exercise in order to earn the right to eat junk food later". Which is the meager point they're actually making.
Except that's not the only point the article makes. You might disagree with the title, but the article does attempt to back it up.
Many paragraphs are dedicated to explaining why for many people, exercising might actually be harmful to their weight loss goals, due to how we tend to overestimate how many calories were burned and other factors (such as studies showing that the body may attempt to balance energy output in other areas).
In that sense "Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight" is precisely the thesis that the article is trying to support. You might disagree with it, but I don't really think its egregious clickbait. Even if the title is meant to be catchy and provocative. They clearly state why exercising could be detrimental to weight loss goals for some people.
Things that the article title doesn't say:
- You should never exercise to lose weight
- Exercise is bad for you
- You can only lose weight by dieting
- paulsutter 10y ago> exercising might actually be harmful to their weight loss goals, due to how we tend to overestimate how many calories were burned The actual number of calories burned exercising is unaffected by our mental estimates. Thinking you earned the right to eat junk food is the problem, not exercise.
- epimetheus 10y agoExercise makes me ravenous, I'm certainly not the only person for which that is true. Swimming is the worst offender, IME. I can be vigilant, but even knowing that I didn't burn enough calories to counterbalance that meatball sub I want to get after my workout, doesn't help all that much in keeping me from actually buying it anyway. This is similar to the problem of calories in = calories out. Dieting isn't a chemistry equation where you just need the numbers to balance it, it's psychology and in some cases physiology (leptin levels, etc), and that part of it is tricky.
- brashrat 10y agoyou can put your hunger to work for you, but you need to remind yourself that, if you carry extra pounds, hunger is what weight loss feels like. That ravenous feeling if you can keep it going, that right there is the success. celebrate it, and stop killing it.
- philsnow 10y agoThe feeling of hunger itself is not the thing that's causing you to want to eat more. The aversion to the sensation is what's doing that, but you have control over the aversion.
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoThere is "I'm hungry" and then there is "If I don't eat something, I'm going to crash." It is not success, it means something is really imbalanced in your diet, and if you have the mental power to successfully ignore it, well, isn't that just an eating disorder?
- ethanbond 10y agoThat's no more of an eating disorder than the inverse: not having the mental power to acknowledge and respond to it appropriately. Anyways, parent comment didn't say to starve yourself. It said to learn to be okay with being a bit hungry. Instead of learning to be okay with the feeling of hunger, people learn to be okay with the equally unpleasant feeling of being stuffed.
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoGrand parent's comment was about feeling ravenous during swimming, not just "hungry." Diet is not as simple as eating less food, since you are eating less, you need to make an extra effort to ensure your body is still getting what it needs.
- biot 10y ago