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I've commonly heard this as "you can't outrun a bad diet". As more I learn about weight loss the more I harden in my belief that obesity is more like having a

I've commonly heard this as "you can't outrun a bad diet". As more I learn about weight loss the more I harden in my belief that obesity is more like having a medical condition than it is a personality flaw. Maybe if we had more epidemiologists examining chemical/environmental/etc causal factors to the sharp uptick in obesity and less culture war/shame/"just have more discipline" about it we could've avoided a ton of medical expenditure on the medical needs of obese patients (not just diabetes but I mean larger beds/equipment, nurse injuries in moving obese patients, etc). What I don't understand is: how does the exercise paradox exist but it's also super common for an athlete to put on tons of weight immediately after stopping their exercise due to an injury or similar?

JumpCrisscross 2y ago
> commonly heard this as "you can't outrun a bad diet" It’s worse than that. If your metabolism is fucked your body could literally reduce critical functions to starvation levels before conceding and letting you burn more calories than you consume.
watwut 2y ago
> how does the exercise paradox exist Because exercising is actually burning calories. And if you exercise a lot, you will need to eat more and in a way that would make someone sedentary gain weight. People who exercise more, need to eat more and are spending more calories per day. Otherwise said "you can't outrun a bad diet" is oversimplification, exercise paradox is something that happens in some conditions and is oversimplification. And likewise, calories in calories out is oversimplification.