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activity levels almost certainly. uni it's not impossible you were walking over 12k steps a day. that's 3-400 calories over the average american's daily steps o
by valec 3y ago
activity levels almost certainly. uni it's not impossible you were walking over 12k steps a day. that's 3-400 calories over the average american's daily steps of 4000.
- missedthecue 3y agoThat's also completely canceled out by enjoying a single 32oz soda. Walking a lot and having a bad diet rarely even each other out. And it's so easy to cancel it out I don't think most people realize. A brisk 2km walk burns less calories than are consumed when eating two regular Oreos.
- mathgeek 3y agoWhile this is certainly an argument for “how do I lose weight” the relevant part here is that the asker wondered why they started gaining weight, which makes a reduction in daily calorie burn relevant if caloric intake remained roughly consistent. That is a lot of ifs, naturally.
- MattRix 3y agoI wouldn’t be surprised if most thin people who claim to eat lots of junk food actually just eat a lot less regular food. In other words, they don’t eat many calories, but the calories they do eat are junk.
- _Algernon_ 3y agoThis. Plenty of times I've been to lazy to make dinner and ate 200g of chocolate and a coke in a single sitting.
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- glouwbug 3y agoThe American dream
- IsoldesKnight 3y agoPretty sure if it was the American dream, it would be 7oz of chocolate.
- _Algernon_ 3y agoI believe for this to be the American dream, you have to do this in addition to dinner.
- cykros 3y agoI assume you mean a bar mostly consisting of dairy and sugar with a bit of chocolate -- making a meal out of actual high quality dark chocolate adds up, but can hardly be considered junk food. <3 my 90% dark Lindt chocolate bars -- between those and all the bacon I've been eating this year the pounds are falling off.
- tails4e 3y agoI would say this was partially true in my case. While I ate badly, I didn't eat huge portions regularly. I also didn't eat breakfast regularly then (and often don't now either). In college we got fish and chips takeaway once it twice a week,and while it was definitely the worst kind of junk, I would be full quicker than others. That said, I regularly put away a quarter pointer, portion of chips, fizzy drink and a cheese and onion pie (deep fried cheese basically, and amazing). And not an ounce of fat on my body.
- Fricken 3y agoStrava tells me I burned 3,3000 calories this morning on my (4 hour)100km bike ride. About the equivalent of drinking 2 cups of melted butter, or eating 50 pounds of lettuce. When I'm doing exercise like that regularly it's hard to eat enough.
- ses1984 3y agoThat’s more than an order of magnitude more calories burned than walking 12k steps.
- lrem 3y ago25km/h is the regulatory max speed of e-bikes around here and you averaged that. Most people would take years of training to get to the point of being able to exercise like this.
- carstenhag 3y agoReally depends on the bike. It's way easier to achieve this on a racing bike than on a trekking/city/mtb
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- tomjakubowski 3y agono, they wouldn't
- missedthecue 3y agoHumblebrag? Almost 100% of humans are incapable of doing a four hour 100km bike ride without a lot of prep and training. Nevermind doing this daily.
- jeffbee 3y agoWhile true, the energy expense doesn't really scale with speed, so if a couch potato got up and decided to do 100k in, say, 8 hours, that's around the same amount of energy. NB nobody would be able to do this without ingesting a substantial amount of food during. If you didn't start eating hourly after about 1-2 hours in, you'll "bonk" or run out of glycogen.
- BobbyJo 3y ago32oz is a ton of soda tho.. Even when I was a teen at 6'4", 32oz of soda would be a sickening addition to a meal.
- missedthecue 3y agoPerhaps you're not American, but Gallup reports that among those who drink soda in the USA the average daily amount is 31.2 oz
- TeMPOraL 3y ago32 oz, if I'm converting correctly, is a little shy of 1 liter. If so, that isn't a big amount really, especially daily.
- BobbyJo 3y ago> among those who drink soda > average Two factors in your statement that lead me to believe 32oz is still a boat load. What's median and 75th percentile? I imagine the distribution here is non linear across the soda drinking population.
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- antisthenes 3y agoDepends how it's measured. 16oz of store-bought soda is not the same as 16oz of restaurant soda, at least 30% of which would be ice. I wouldn't trust Gallup to report with nuance.
- username135 3y agoThats so gross
- paulpauper 3y agoIt is even worse than that. The conversion rate of activity to net calorie loss is not 1 to 1 . It can be zero or even negative, at least based on my own experience and other people. You see people on Reddit subs do 10k steps and tons of walking, hardly lose any weight. It's all about not overeating.
- nradov 3y agoWalking is great for many reasons, but 10K steps isn't much. It would be silly to expect much weight loss from that. And most people significantly understand their caloric intake.
- tonyedgecombe 3y agoOne of the problems is people naturally adjust their activity levels after exercise. After a two hour bike ride they will spend the evening on the sofa. It seems we naturally adjust without consciously thinking about it.
- jabradoodle 3y agoIf you think drinking a litre of soda is no big deal I would encourage you to rethink. 400 calories with no nutrition is a lot.
- Viliam1234 3y agoAs a student, I used a bus to get to school. As an adult, I walk by foot, more than an hour a day. Also, I didn't exercise in my youth, and I do now. Yet, it is now that I am fat.