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• belltaco 3y ago
  Losing weight is way more about diet than exercise. The body gets really efficient at doing repetitive motions and starts burning fewer calories for the same actions.
  • imgabe 3y ago
    Moving will always burn more calories than not moving.
    • belltaco 3y ago
      Not necessarily. > In 2016, Pontzer and colleagues published a study putting forward the constrained energy model: Energy expenditure does increase with more activity, but only to a point. Once physical activity gets really high, the body will adjust other components of the metabolism to keep your daily energy expenditure within a narrow range https://physiqonomics.com/biggest-losers/ https://physiqonomics.com/biggest-losers/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/07/study-office-workers-burn-as-many-calories-as-hunter-gatherers/260384/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/07/study-off...
      • imgabe 3y ago
        99.9% of people do not need to worry about reaching a “really high” level of activity where it will stop burning more calories.