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if you exercise 5+ days/week you dont have to worry about diet. its often the other way around that many people strugle with eating enough to gain weight/muscle

by z3t4 10y ago

if you exercise 5+ days/week you dont have to worry about diet. its often the other way around that many people strugle with eating enough to gain weight/muscles.

3131s 10y ago
Especially so if you combine weight training with something anaerobic like sprinting. I still follow a few basic dietary heuristics like not eating packaged foods, no sodas, and having the core of my diet be vegetables with lots of healthy oils, but past that I eat as much as possible and I am very, very lean at 82 kg.
CalRobert 10y ago
This is pretty much completely untrue. Anecdata, but I thought if I exercised like crazy I could eat terribly and be fine. I was wrong, and remained massively obese. When I started actually tracking my intake and eating healthier I lost massive amounts of weight, without any change in the exercise routine. It's been 10 years and I still have to watch my calories like a hawk if I want to stay below obese (I've quit trying for not being overweight, though that would be nice). I swim 1250 meters a day. Previously I've cycled 24 miles a day, or run 30-45 minutes a day, depending on what worked best with my work/home situation. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/sep/19/exercise-dieting-public-health https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/sep/19/exercis...
- pc86 10y ago
  > When I started actually tracking my intake This is the key point. Eating healthy is absolutely a good idea and helps you perform better but most people eat a lot more than they think they do. When I started exercising I lost 50 pounds over a year and a half or so without a single change to my (absolute garbage) diet. Saying you can work out 5x week and eat anything is idiotic, but the key to weight loss is to track your calories, not to eat healthier. You should eat healthier for other reasons.
  - CalRobert 10y ago
    Your comment seems inconsistent though - am I missing something? Not eating excessively is a big part of eating healthy. For someone who is prone to overeating this counts as worrying about one's diet, I'd say.
    - pc86 10y ago
      I generally take "eating healthy" to mean the composition of the food is good. Little sugar, not an excessive amount of salt, mostly fruits and vegetables with some starch and protein. If you eat 3,500 calories of the above every day you are probably going to gain weight. If you eat 1,400 calories a day of fast food you probably won't, but it's hard to say that the latter is healthy.
- z3t4 10y ago
  What's your calories at, before and now ?

by z3t4 10y ago

if you exercise 5+ days/week you dont have to worry about diet. its often the other way around that many people strugle with eating enough to gain weight/muscles.

3131s 10y ago

Especially so if you combine weight training with something anaerobic like sprinting. I still follow a few basic dietary heuristics like not eating packaged foods, no sodas, and having the core of my diet be vegetables with lots of healthy oils, but past that I eat as much as possible and I am very, very lean at 82 kg.

CalRobert 10y ago

This is pretty much completely untrue. Anecdata, but I thought if I exercised like crazy I could eat terribly and be fine. I was wrong, and remained massively obese. When I started actually tracking my intake and eating healthier I lost massive amounts of weight, without any change in the exercise routine. It's been 10 years and I still have to watch my calories like a hawk if I want to stay below obese (I've quit trying for not being overweight, though that would be nice). I swim 1250 meters a day. Previously I've cycled 24 miles a day, or run 30-45 minutes a day, depending on what worked best with my work/home situation. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/sep/19/exercise-dieting-public-health https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/sep/19/exercis...

pc86 10y ago
> When I started actually tracking my intake This is the key point. Eating healthy is absolutely a good idea and helps you perform better but most people eat a lot more than they think they do. When I started exercising I lost 50 pounds over a year and a half or so without a single change to my (absolute garbage) diet. Saying you can work out 5x week and eat anything is idiotic, but the key to weight loss is to track your calories, not to eat healthier. You should eat healthier for other reasons.
- CalRobert 10y ago
  Your comment seems inconsistent though - am I missing something? Not eating excessively is a big part of eating healthy. For someone who is prone to overeating this counts as worrying about one's diet, I'd say.
  - pc86 10y ago
    I generally take "eating healthy" to mean the composition of the food is good. Little sugar, not an excessive amount of salt, mostly fruits and vegetables with some starch and protein. If you eat 3,500 calories of the above every day you are probably going to gain weight. If you eat 1,400 calories a day of fast food you probably won't, but it's hard to say that the latter is healthy.
z3t4 10y ago
What's your calories at, before and now ?