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The challenge is what is the closest hack to get around it, as most people, admittedly myself included, are not willing to exercise? Semaglutide seems to be the

• raspyberr 4y ago
  There is no hack. Exercise is non-negotiable. Our lifestyles are far too sedantry for our bodies' evolution. If you are not willing to add a small amount of exercise into your life, you are admitting that you are happy to at least have health issues later in life or at most willing to live a shorter life.
  • copperx 4y ago
    Exercise is essential for health, but not the best bet to lose weight, isn't it?
    • knicholes 4y ago
      That's right. Diet is the key to "losing weight."
      • amrocha 4y ago
        "Exercise" is a bad way to lose weight because what is traditionally considered as exercise is 30 minutes to 1 hour of high intensity activities. If you live a sedentary life, exercise isn't going to help. Passive exercise, that you do throughout the day, though, is a great way to expend calories. Walk more, bike for transport, use a standing desk, etc. That's the difference between 1500 calories and 2200.
        • Drblessing 4y ago
          > Exercise is a bad way to lose weight Exercise is not a bad way to lose weight.
    • Drblessing 4y ago
      Exercise is 100% the best bet to lose weight. For a simple empirical study, ask every person you meet/know that is fit, and nearly everyone will say they exercise. Specifically, cardio. If you're goal is to lose weight, you shouldn't touch weights until your BMI < 22. Just run or swim a few times a week.
      • timje1 4y ago
        I don't think that's as universally agreed upon as you claim. I know of plenty of women who struggled to lose weight via diet and cardio, and then turned things round when they started eating high protein and lifting weights. Diet + cardio with no strength work can put people into 'gotta make it through this famine' mode, where their metabolism slows right down to eke out the stores as long as possible.
  • drowsspa 4y ago
    Exercising is easy, most people can find an activity they enjoy doing. Eating right is a far more demanding task, and sadly that's what matters when it comes to losing weight.
    • kube-system 4y ago
      Exercising in the US is hard AF, and only getting harder. There’s comparatively little opportunity to make exercise a part of daily routine. I’m either behind the wheel or a car or behind a desk all day.
      • goostavos 4y ago
        lol. If your rationales for not exercising have made it all the way to the country itself being the problem, well.. you might want to just acknowledge that you don't want to exercise. As a counterpoint, I also live in the US and have never found making time to exercise to be some kind of insurmountable task -- even when I was commuting almost 3h/day. Exercising requires just a few hours out of your whole week
        • kube-system 4y ago
          This is true, but lifestyle is undoubtedly a factor in people’s activity patterns.
• Xylakant 4y ago
  My hack is to not own a car and commute by bike. It is exercise, but camouflages as required activity. I also try to deliberately walk instead of taking the subway regularly, even if it takes an hour or so.
  • justinator 4y ago
    This is what I do as well - money saved by no car ownership also means I don't work as much, which leads to even greater happiness.
• chitowneats 4y ago
  An early death means you won't have to suffer as long, I guess. I don't want that outcome for you but it's where you're headed.
• gloryjulio 4y ago
  The hack is to ingrain the law of physics to ur brain so that you get reminded constantly that you got to eat healthy and exercise to maintain your physical body
• JasserInicide 4y ago
  Worry about exercise later once you're at a healthy weight. You can lose it solely by watching what you eat. "Snacking" is the single worst dietary habit of the past 100 years. Eating all the time and having your insulin constantly elevated is not good for the body.
• AlbertCory 4y ago
  "if you can’t find time to exercise, you’ll have to find time to be sick." How much time for that do you have? Pushing around a walker when you're 65? Spending hours on the phone with Customer Support for some insurance issue? https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/50-years-of-running https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/50-years-of-running
• newaccount2023 4y ago
  something bad is going to happen to people who think they can just take Ozempic for the rest of their lives there's no way a drug that effective has no side effects I know people who have lost weight using Ozempic...you only lose weight...you do not become healthy...you do not gain muscle...you just are a flabby person who is less fat
  • copperx 4y ago
    Losing a significant amount of fat on purpose is becoming healthier, no ifs or buts about it.
    • kube-system 4y ago
      There are absolutely dangerous ways to lose weight that will kill you quicker than the weight.
      • copperx 4y ago
        Sure, there are edge cases. I don't know why you're fixated on those.
        • kube-system 4y ago
          Because you claimed there were “no ifs or buts”. But there are. When you lose weight, you have to be careful to do it in a safe way. Even the safest way of losing weight, diet and exercise, can kill you if done the wrong way.
    • newaccount2023 4y ago
      yes, but only to a certain extent in cases of Ozempic use I have observed - less food is consumed but it is still tending to be garbage weight is lost but I doubt there is a substantial health gain I have read that the intent was to bootstrap better habits and then stop taking Ozempic once the better habits took hold...instead people will just take it forever and keeping eating (fewer) burgers
• somenameforme 4y ago
  A general rule is that you burn about 100 calories in a mile jog. A 12oz can of Coke has about 140 calories, a quarter of a cup of nuts has about 200 calories, an apple has about 100 calories. Exercise is important for many reasons, but not for preventing obesity. Unless you're running marathons, or exercising like somebody who is, the amount of calories you will burn from exercising will in no way whatsoever compare to what you eat. If you start eating more because you go to the gym, you'll almost certainly end up gaining weight. The answer today is the same as it's been for thousands of years.
  • chitowneats 4y ago
    The critical piece you're missing is that building and maintaining muscle mass increases your metabolism greatly. Michael Phelps eats 10,000 calories a day. This an extreme example, but the principle is true for all of us.
    • ejstronge 4y ago
      Supposedly the 10,000 calorie diet of Michael Phelps is marketing vs factual. I don’t have a source for this (but happy to search if requested) but humans are not likely to be able to absorb 10,000 calories daily; I believe the maximum is a function of one’s basal metabolism but would lie around 6,500 calories for an elite athlete.
    • justinator 4y ago
      It may actually not. The hypothesis may be that building and maintaining muscle simply increases linearly with the increase of lean muscle mass. If (and these are made up numbers) one lb of lean muscle mass takes 10 cals to maintain, adding 5lbs of muscle would only increase your caloric needs be 50 cals. At 190lb, my BMI is 26.5, but I'm relatively muscular with a body fat % of around 15%. I have more than 5lbs more muscle than an average person, but my required daily caloric needs are only a few hundred cals more a day at most.
      • docandrew 4y ago
        Over the course of a year that’s a pretty significant advantage in overall calories burned, though.
• stametseater 4y ago
  Get an active hobby which you enjoy and don't perceive to be "exercise". I personally recommend hiking.
• scsilver 4y ago
  I don’t know about you but exercise is one of my most enjoyable parts of my day. Yoga, walking, biking, dancing, swimming are all really enjoyable. Don’t push yourself hard, just go through the motions.
• candlemas 4y ago
  Get an exercise bike or elliptical trainer and watch movies or tv while you use it.
• lm28469 4y ago
  > as most people, admittedly myself included, are not willing to exercise? I'll never get that, we only get one shot at life, even a few hours of exercise per _week_ will greatly increase your quality of life and healthy life span, there are no better medicine, nothing will give you your body back once it's too late. Some people on this forum will grind 60+ (even much more) hours per week at work, absolutely wrecking their body for "success" just to be shadow of themselves at 40. I see it everywhere online "after 40 everything hurt" "I can't sneak on my kids because my knees pop at every steps". What a sad state of affair... Get out there, get in shape, it's life's best cheat code, everything gets better, your body evolved for that very thing for hundred millions of years, you don't even need that much dedication or time. Learn to master your body, learn about nutrition, learn self control. Run, swim, climb, lift weight, yoga, dance, try everything and keep what you enjoy I'll always remember the day a 60+ years old climber absolutely humiliated me on the wall by effortlessly completing a climb on the first try while I couldn't even get to the half point, I was 25 and in what I though was a good shape Not exercising is like buying a high performance car and waiting for the engine check light to do an oil change. Take care of your body, once it's gone it's gone
  • justinator 4y ago
    Dopamine is well: a hell of a drug, and there's far easier ways to get it than excising. For example: video games. Our brains want the most pleasure from the least amount of effort and don't work on long timelines in the future. So, it makes sense. But I'm with you - I find that exercise works well for me as the one of the best things that makes life better. But I also avoid things like video games, drugs, too much sex with too many different partners (I keep it to one at a time) - that sort of thing, as I know it'll just throw me off.
    • lm28469 4y ago
      Exercising is like vacuum cleaning, you never want to do it but once you're done with it you're happy you've done it. Binge eating or playing video games too long has the opposite effect on me, very easy to ease into, absolute regret as soon as I'm done That's why I said it train self control, you focus on "future you", not "immediate you"
• dpkirchner 4y ago
  My #1 hack is not having low-quality, high-sugar snacks in my house. Instead of sugared soda I have flavored soda water (Fresca, specifically) and sugar-free cola. When I do indulge in snacks I don't buy bulk, I buy the small packages, even though they're more expensive per ounce. In fact, that they're more expensive is a plus. If I have to go way out of the way to binge on junk I'm probably not going to do it.
  • throw_pm23 4y ago
    That's a good hack but what's wrong with drinking plain water?
    • dpkirchner 4y ago
      I don't enjoy it, I dunno exactly why.
• rsync 4y ago
  "The challenge is what is the closest hack to get around it ..." I owe it to you to be capable of (among other things): a few minutes of chest compressions, running a mile or so for help, and dragging an adult body a few hundred feet to safety. I owe that to you and we owe it to each other. There will be no hack to "get around it". Conversely: If you can do these things, I don't care what you look like or what your actuarial table shows or what you ate for lunch.
• amrocha 4y ago
  The closest hack is living in a walkable city, and biking for personal transportation. There's a reason that obesity is not as big a problem in Europe, and even more so in East Asia.
• Balgair 4y ago
  Best hacks I've found: Get a young dog, get really into YT cooking shows. Dog will get you out and moving in any weather. They really don't understand why you're too tired for a walk this evening. YT cooking shows will show the fun side of cooking and get you to make food at home more. Then you're less likely to put so much oil/butter/sugar/etc into dishes vs. eating out. And you also get a taste for vegetables. You kinda tend to eat healthier in general-ish. Combine all that with a good sleep routine and you're pointed in the right direction. Takes about 3 months though.