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I always thought I need to exercise [more] to lose weight. Wrong. For all practical purposes, to lose weight you must change what you eat.
by tapanjk 4y ago
I always thought I need to exercise [more] to lose weight. Wrong. For all practical purposes, to lose weight you must change what you eat.
- dennis_jeeves1 4y agoGreat one. Not many people know this, or will even think it's nonsense. Exercise is overrated. What you eat is really, really important.
- timeon 4y agoIt is just calories in calories out. Exercise may help with that. Depends how much you eat.
- qu4z-2 4y agoExercise is great for a pile of things, to be fair. Losing weight is just not one of them.
- gardenhedge 4y agoIf you eat to lose weight and keep that up for a long time you will end up weak if you do exercise
- hinkley 4y agoYou can lose weight exercising, if you’re willing to give up 3 hours a day to do it. Actors are getting paid to work with a coach who is putting the through weight or strength regiments that are a part time job. It works for them because it’s all they’re doing. If you want to walk or bicycle three hours a week then no, you aren’t going to lose weight from exercise. You can burn a couple thousand calories in a day by walking or biking or running, but it’s going to color your whole day.
- balaji1 4y agoNice one. also if you see extremely fit adults, it is mostly because they were extremely active/fit during their teens. (note: inverse won't be true, active teens might get unfit later). Their current diet or current activity has nothing to do with it.
- rjmunro 4y agoIs that causation or just correlation? Isn't it likely to be at least partially genetic - if you have "fitter" genes you are going to be fitter both as a teenager and as an adult?
- OJFord 4y agoIt has a lasting effect on metabolism - i.e. in terms of 'calories in, calories out' as someone else put it, raising the rate at which calories 'go out' at rest.