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This entirely depends on the amount and duration of the exercise. If you're just going to the gym for 30 minutes a day, sure your body (and your diet) are going

This entirely depends on the amount and duration of the exercise. If you're just going to the gym for 30 minutes a day, sure your body (and your diet) are going to adapt to that pretty quickly. If you're doing 4-6 hours of sustained low intensity effort then you will lose weight unless you significantly increase your calorie intake. The "problem" with exercise and weight loss isn't that exercise doesn't work, it's that most people can't fit enough exercise into their schedule (or won't sacrifice their average amount of screentime for it).

hombre_fatal 3y ago
Of course, now we're talking about real transformation rather than something you can just sprinkle on top of your current life. I think the only way to see it is that your lifestyle up until now is responsible for the body you have, so you need to transform into a person you currently aren't to have the body that you don't. There really doesn't exist (Current lifestyle) + (Small lever you can pull) = (Body you want). That said, large transformation doesn't mean it's hard or needs to be approached in baby steps. You really can wake up tomorrow and become 6:00am-runner guy, no-eating-out guy, treadmill-at-standing-desk guy, 2000-calorie guy.
- nullindividual 3y ago
  > 2000-calorie guy. 800 works pretty well.
nullindividual 3y ago
I can't find anything that agrees with your statement. I can find counters: https://www.vox.com/2018/1/3/16845438/exercise-weight-loss-myth-burn-calories https://www.vox.com/2018/1/3/16845438/exercise-weight-loss-m... > "You work hard on that machine for an hour, and that work can be erased with five minutes of eating afterward," Hall says. A single slice of pizza, for example, could undo the benefit of an hour's workout. So could a cafe mocha or an ice cream cone. https://www.vox.com/2016/4/28/11518804/weight-loss-exercise-myth-burn-calories https://www.vox.com/2016/4/28/11518804/weight-loss-exercise-... Note that I do not discount the other health benefits exercise brings, and everyone should get in as much as humanly possible with the schedule they're working with. Our bodies are so incredibly efficient with calories that exercise is simply not an effective way to lose weight. Calories in, calories out are all that matters. Don't expect to lose weight with a 2000 calorie diet. It took me 15 miles with a 3000' elevation gain to burn 2500 calories -- a nearly 7-hour hike. A single day's worth of calories burned in a largely unreasonable amount of time for nearly all adults.
- throwaway4aday 3y ago
  Whatever, agree to disagree because I've lost weight this way without changing my diet. Obviously adding 6 pizza slices per day to counter balance your energy expenditure is going to prevent you from losing weight, I'm pretty sure I said "without changing your diet" though.
  - nullindividual 3y ago
    They're not talking six slices, they're talking one slice to undo a workout. Not sure where you invented six from. You're free to debate scientific evidence, but it stands stronger than an anecdotal statement.
    - throwaway4aday 3y ago
      one slice is roughly equal to one hour of walking in calories. I said you need 4 - 6 hours per day of walking equivalent workout so 4 to 6 slices of pizza to counterbalance that. Of course, it's hard to eat pizza while you're exercising so it'd be a challenge to keep the weight on.

hombre_fatal 3y ago

Of course, now we're talking about real transformation rather than something you can just sprinkle on top of your current life. I think the only way to see it is that your lifestyle up until now is responsible for the body you have, so you need to transform into a person you currently aren't to have the body that you don't. There really doesn't exist (Current lifestyle) + (Small lever you can pull) = (Body you want). That said, large transformation doesn't mean it's hard or needs to be approached in baby steps. You really can wake up tomorrow and become 6:00am-runner guy, no-eating-out guy, treadmill-at-standing-desk guy, 2000-calorie guy.

nullindividual 3y ago
> 2000-calorie guy. 800 works pretty well.

nullindividual 3y ago

I can't find anything that agrees with your statement. I can find counters: https://www.vox.com/2018/1/3/16845438/exercise-weight-loss-myth-burn-calories https://www.vox.com/2018/1/3/16845438/exercise-weight-loss-m... > "You work hard on that machine for an hour, and that work can be erased with five minutes of eating afterward," Hall says. A single slice of pizza, for example, could undo the benefit of an hour's workout. So could a cafe mocha or an ice cream cone. https://www.vox.com/2016/4/28/11518804/weight-loss-exercise-myth-burn-calories https://www.vox.com/2016/4/28/11518804/weight-loss-exercise-... Note that I do not discount the other health benefits exercise brings, and everyone should get in as much as humanly possible with the schedule they're working with. Our bodies are so incredibly efficient with calories that exercise is simply not an effective way to lose weight. Calories in, calories out are all that matters. Don't expect to lose weight with a 2000 calorie diet. It took me 15 miles with a 3000' elevation gain to burn 2500 calories -- a nearly 7-hour hike. A single day's worth of calories burned in a largely unreasonable amount of time for nearly all adults.

throwaway4aday 3y ago
Whatever, agree to disagree because I've lost weight this way without changing my diet. Obviously adding 6 pizza slices per day to counter balance your energy expenditure is going to prevent you from losing weight, I'm pretty sure I said "without changing your diet" though.
- nullindividual 3y ago
  They're not talking six slices, they're talking one slice to undo a workout. Not sure where you invented six from. You're free to debate scientific evidence, but it stands stronger than an anecdotal statement.
  - throwaway4aday 3y ago
    one slice is roughly equal to one hour of walking in calories. I said you need 4 - 6 hours per day of walking equivalent workout so 4 to 6 slices of pizza to counterbalance that. Of course, it's hard to eat pizza while you're exercising so it'd be a challenge to keep the weight on.