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I think that’s completely and utterly wrong. First off, available evidence says that exercise alone for weight loss doesn’t really work. The amount of exercise
by village-idiot 8y ago
I think that’s completely and utterly wrong.
First off, available evidence says that exercise alone for weight loss doesn’t really work. The amount of exercise it takes to “burn” off an Oreo is insane. Tons of Americans start exercising every year and lose no weight.
Exercise is great for cardio strength, endurance, power, etc. but if you’re hoping to lose weight on a treadmill alone, good luck.
Second, different types of food do different things to the human body. 400 calories of sugar and 400 calories of whey protein powder will do radically different things on a biochemical level. While fine tuning the amount of food you eat might be necessary to lose the final pounds, an astounding amount of weight can be lost by changing macros and ingredients without changing calories.
Also calories are bullshit. They represent how a good burns, not how humans actually metabolize their food.
Finally, food affects how you eat. Foods affect satiety in different ways, which feeds back into how much of it you will eat. Trying to eat less of a food that doesn’t make you feel full (or is engineered to not make you feel full) is a path to exhausting your will power and failing.
- nradov 8y agoThis is false. No large scale controlled study has shown that people can lose weight by changing macro nutrients while maintaining the same caloric intake. Please cite your sources.
- village-idiot 8y agoCarefully measuring my own calories and losing 40lbs. And in the other corner we have your advice of “move more and eat less”, which given the state of America’s health right now doesn’t work at all.
- nradov 8y agoI doubt that you accurately measured your caloric intake. Research shows that most people are unable to do so. https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article-abstract/35/4/727/4812565 https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article-abstract/35/4/727/4812...
- village-idiot 8y agoI used a scale and measuring cups. I measured the cream I put into my morning coffee, and every handful of Macadamia nuts I ate. I also did not eat out, since the estimates on most restaurants for amount of ingredients and total calories/macros are wildly off the mark. And before you mention water weight, I had DXA scans done that showed both fat loss and lean tissue gain. I also did not modify my workout schedule at all.
- Diederich 8y agoWell, I just typed this into Google: study lose weight by changing macro nutrients while maintaining the same caloric intake https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/79/5/899S/4690223 https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/79/5/899S/4690223 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5639963/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5639963/ https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0057300 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... I only very, very briefly skimmed these, and am not claiming they refute your claim. Having said that, I know one person who lost a great deal of weight even while consuming more calories, over the course of a number of years, and given no substantial delta in exercise. To a first, broad approximation, it's true: people who fewer calories will tend to lose weight. But this is an exceptionally complicated topic, and I posit that most any generalizations tend to do more harm than good, if taken too deeply.