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Its a pretty well known fact that exercise alone (unless you are doing extreme athlete training) is not going to change your weight without a change in diet. Y

Its a pretty well known fact that exercise alone (unless you are doing extreme athlete training) is not going to change your weight without a change in diet. You can get healthier with exercise, but not smaller. That is almost entirely based on diet. Just think about it; your thirty minutes of running probably burned between 300-500 calories. That one protein bar probably has about 300 calories by itself.

r00fus 2y ago
And that's where the GLP-1 meds come in. You get physically sick from eating your current (oversized) meal size. You don't have cravings. You can lose weight using GLP-1 even if you don't exercise strenuously/daily. However you lost a lot more if you have a regimen.
- satellite2 2y ago
  If his weight is stable then his meal size is probably in the norm. That's the hard part of losing weight. Only a small sustained calorie excess will make you gain weight but you need a large sustain calorie deficit to lose it. And your brain and body will fight as hell against this.
rootusrootus 2y ago
> 300-500 calories Put another way, up to a pound a week of weight loss, changing nothing about your diet.
- cortesoft 2y ago
  Right, but the exercise made OP eat a protein bar, which has about as many calories as you were burning in exercise.
  - rootusrootus 2y ago
    The exercise made OP eat a protein bar? I feel like you just inadvertently explained why dieting is not the answer.
- ironman1478 2y ago
  Speaking from experience, that assume that you are currently maintaining your weight. I think a lot of people are gaining weight slowly, so burning those calories actually just keeps you at your existing weight, not decreasing it. It's also really hard to not overeat after working out, especially if you do something like swimming, which makes you just so hungry. The hunger reduction is I'd like to try ozempic. I am active (I swim 3-4k yards hard 2-3 times a week and surf once a week + walking generally), the hunger I have after swimming is so huge I just can't not eat something huge, even though I drink a ton of water and do all the other things people say to do to not get hungry.
  - sensanaty 2y ago
    I've been a lifetime swimmer, so I can relate. There's a reason a lot of swimmers and waterpolo players gain tons of weight as soon as they stop training. Usually if you can fight through the "hunger" it'll calm down in its own after about an hour or so in my experience.

r00fus 2y ago

And that's where the GLP-1 meds come in. You get physically sick from eating your current (oversized) meal size. You don't have cravings. You can lose weight using GLP-1 even if you don't exercise strenuously/daily. However you lost a lot more if you have a regimen.

satellite2 2y ago
If his weight is stable then his meal size is probably in the norm. That's the hard part of losing weight. Only a small sustained calorie excess will make you gain weight but you need a large sustain calorie deficit to lose it. And your brain and body will fight as hell against this.

rootusrootus 2y ago

> 300-500 calories Put another way, up to a pound a week of weight loss, changing nothing about your diet.

cortesoft 2y ago
Right, but the exercise made OP eat a protein bar, which has about as many calories as you were burning in exercise.
- rootusrootus 2y ago
  The exercise made OP eat a protein bar? I feel like you just inadvertently explained why dieting is not the answer.
ironman1478 2y ago
Speaking from experience, that assume that you are currently maintaining your weight. I think a lot of people are gaining weight slowly, so burning those calories actually just keeps you at your existing weight, not decreasing it. It's also really hard to not overeat after working out, especially if you do something like swimming, which makes you just so hungry. The hunger reduction is I'd like to try ozempic. I am active (I swim 3-4k yards hard 2-3 times a week and surf once a week + walking generally), the hunger I have after swimming is so huge I just can't not eat something huge, even though I drink a ton of water and do all the other things people say to do to not get hungry.
- sensanaty 2y ago
  I've been a lifetime swimmer, so I can relate. There's a reason a lot of swimmers and waterpolo players gain tons of weight as soon as they stop training. Usually if you can fight through the "hunger" it'll calm down in its own after about an hour or so in my experience.