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Something i have personal experience with -- I knocked off 80 pounds a few years ago. Diet controls mass. Exercise controls fitness. They're mostly[0] decoup
by hprotagonist 9y ago
Something i have personal experience with -- I knocked off 80 pounds a few years ago.
Diet controls mass.
Exercise controls fitness.
They're mostly[0] decoupled. This is not intuitive to reason about.
[0] there are some interesting things in difference in metabolic rates of tissue types, but it doesn't really matter much for mere mortals.
- szemet 9y agoExcercise also changes body composition. It is usually missing from these articles - people are so much conserned about sheer body weight. Even if one didn't lose weight may look much slimmer, just by having lower fat percentage... People with low enough body fat (especially taller people) can be rather slim even with BMI over 25...
- hprotagonist 9y agothat’s what i meant about fitness.