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> Most of weight loss actually happens in the kitchen, not the gym This isn't really true. Or it doesn't have to be. If you look at people with high muscle ma
by consteval 2y ago
> Most of weight loss actually happens in the kitchen, not the gym
This isn't really true. Or it doesn't have to be.
If you look at people with high muscle mass, you'll notice something. They eat a lot. Like... a lot.
Michael Phelps famously ate close to 10,000 calories a day. Now granted, he swam a lot. But did he burn 8,000 calories a day swimming and hitting the gym? No.
When you have more muscle, you burn more calories. Always, even when you sleep. So while a 20 minute run might only burn 150 calories... how many did you burn by running 20 minutes every day and building up leg muscles? Now it's harder to tell.
- AtlasBarfed 2y agoYeah, if you burn 1,000 extra calories per day exercising (which is a lot of exercise for beginners but not that much for people training for anything major like a marathon) you can certainly do more with exercise than with diet. Personally I always used exercise, then you don't need to starve yourself, and you get all the benefits of hard exercise. But it's a discipline either, and hard for your typical weak-willed average first worlder.
- the_real_cher 2y ago> hard for your typical weak-willed average first worlder First worlders have jobs and good economies as a consolation prize I guess.