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There's a third choice: "I need to do X until Y to reach my goal on time." No negatives, no positives... Simply facts. This is more what the article is su
by wccrawford 15y ago
There's a third choice: "I need to do X until Y to reach my goal on time." No negatives, no positives... Simply facts. This is more what the article is suggesting.
However, dieting is a different animal. You aren't building something. You don't have hands-on control of the situation. The best you can do is alter some metadata and hope the right outcome occurs. Less food, more exercise... You can't actually say 'If I jog for 10 more minutes, I'll lose .2 lbs." It just isn't measurable like that.
- xiaoma 15y agoIt is measurable, but it's not as easy as in your example. A single 4-5 hour long run burns a pound of fat (and uses many times that much water) for a moderately fit man. If effort isn't made to regain that fat, it's gone. In general, I think an hour for .2lbs of fat is probably a good bet. Running is one of the greatest fat burning exercises there is, and it also protects muscle and bone density in a way that pure dieting won't. But most people vastly, vastly underestimate the amount of work it takes.