Yet there’s a whole bunch of people who can’t understand that increasing the number of calories you burn without increasing how much you eat achieves the same result.
From a weight and calories perspective only the result is the same.
Also, dieticians would disagree with you and that’s the reason why they put much more emphasis on starting with healthy life habits first and foremost instead of reducing calories, long term one sticks the other doesn’t because it’s the difference between making your life better vs making yourself miserable.
Whilst what you’re saying is true, it’s important to recognise that you can’t out run a terrible diet.
You could eat well all week, run ten miles a day and then completely ruin it by eating and drinking 20,000 calories at the weekend.
To put it simply, it doesn’t matter if you burn an amazing 5000 calories a day if you’re consuming 5500 calories.
95% of losing weight is simply eating less, there’s absolutely no need to complicate it by telling people they must radically change their diet or that they need to dedicate themselves to regimented exercise.
In this case you’re not eating the same as you were before so it doesn’t apply to what I’m saying.
If you are eating the same as before and your weight was stable then and you add exercise to the mix then you’re going to lose weight, there’s no magic to it, it’s mathematics. If you were going to “cheat” like in your example then without exercise you would have gained weight so you still effectively lost weight by exercising.
The evidence linking excersise alone with weight loss is sketchy at best and rarely is there any significant difference between combined diet and excerise groups and diet-alone groups. Excersise alone rarely, if ever, shows any significant difference in weight loss.
Theres a reason people say “you can’t out run a bad diet” and there’s a reason its called “cardiovascular” and not “weight loss” excersise.
The idea that you could out run a bad diet was pushed by food lobby groups who wanted people to eat more than they need to, under the pretence that they can excersise it off later.
We evolved as persistence hunters. As such, the pathway for excersise induced fat burning is greatly inhibited, so as to not be able to run yourself to death trying to get food.
You managed to pick out the one study, amongst all those that disagree with you, that you think proves you point while simultaneously ignoring the literature reviews conclusions. I’m not sure what to say to something so far beyond confirmation bias.
Its not MY logic. Its the logic of the lack of evidence agreeing with your premise. Its the logic of looking at our metabolic pathways and our evolution, instead of that of food lobby groups.
Even then, you’re thinking about the release of glycogen and not fat burning/weight loss. Thats why athletes carb load, instead of keeping extra fat on them to burn off while competing. Its why people with fat on them stop due to exhaustion, despite having lots of energy they can use all over their body. Its why people have to go through so much to induce ketosis. Its why even professional marathon runners eat healthily and not too much.
Our fat reserves are for keeping us alive in an emergency, not a source of additional energy to dip into when we need it. I mean, I wouldn’t go on about logic when you’re here arguing for the idea of a species of persistence hunters who evolved to be able to run themselves to death easily.
Like most people, you wildly over estimate how many calories are burned by cardio vascular excersise, above bass rate metabolism.
80 to 140 calories per mile when jogging, even at the lower end it means that if you jog 6 miles you have your 500 calories deficit as long as you don’t eat more than you would have otherwise.
It’s. Not. Magic. If you needed 2500 calories to stay at the same weight then increasing your caloric needs to 3000 is the same as reducing your intake to 2000.
It’s about consistency, just like cutting calories, you can cut all week and fuck it all up by eating a cake on the weekend that you wouldn’t have if you weren’t on a diet.
Edit:
From your own link
There is also evidence to support the notion that individuals who are less physically active are more likely to gain weight over time than those who exercise between 150 and 300 min/week
Although exercise contributes to multiple health benefits, and most of the research suggests that it can play a role in both short- and long-term weight loss and weight maintenance, patients often have a difficult time engaging in a regular exercise program and continuing that program as a lifestyle modification.
Problem with consistency
Consistently performing exercise of a duration greater than the basic recommendations for health (150 min/week of moderate-intensity exercise) does appear to be more likely to contribute to weight loss and weight maintenance efforts over the long term
I agree, its not magic. Its you making up numbers and refusing to accept that glycogen exists. Probably because you don’t know anything about it while massively over estimating your knowledge of bio chem.
Its not 80 - 140. Its like 5 -10 at best. Again, you epically over estimate the calorie burning effect of excersise, above bass rate, that cardio does. Its why its called cardiovascular and not weight loss excersise, just fyi, due to the fundamental lack of evidence proving it to cause weight loss. Funny that…
I mean, you might have a point, if insulin and glucagon didn’t exist. However, they do. So, that ends that really. Well, it does it you understand metabolism.
There is also evidence to support the notion that individuals who are less physically active are more likely to gain weight over time than those who exercise between 150 and 300 min/week
Doesn’t mean exceraise makes people lose weight. It could also mean people who do no excersise often eat more too. They would have said this in their report themselves. Dont just read what you want to from things.
Although exercise contributes to multiple health benefits, and most of the research suggests that it can play a role in both short- and long-term weight loss and weight maintenance, patients often have a difficult time engaging in a regular exercise program and continuing that program as a lifestyle modification.
It CAN, as in, in their opinion some of the research potentially could indicate that. But its not conclusive, as I keep saying. You just read what you wanted from that.
Consistently performing exercise of a duratio er than the basic recommendations for health (150 min/week of moderate-intensity exercise) does appear to be more likely to contribute to weight loss and weight maintenance efforts over the long term
So, again, one that might “appear” to maybe actually agree with you and you ignored all the rest. Well the ones you didn’t choose to missread that is.
Even then, they’re very tentative and say its more likely, not something like “the evidence shows”, as the evidence does show that. Again again, this so far beyond confirmation bias. If you want to die on this hill of no evidence and feeling like you can out run bad diet (which would have to be true, if it worked to way you’re claiming it does), then more fool you.
Its not magic but it would be, if it worked how you seem to think it does. Behold, the magical persistence hunters who evolved to be able to run themselves to a starvation induced death.
Compared to controls without exercise, aerobic training was consistently found to be effective on weight loss, which was not the case for resistance training.7
Funny how it has an impact on weight loss even though, based on what you’re saying, exercising barely increases your caloric expense.
In this thread: A bunch of Dunning-Kruger effect
You don’t need to have a level 200 IQ or 20 years experience to work out that eating less is going to help with weight loss.
Yet there’s a whole bunch of people who can’t understand that increasing the number of calories you burn without increasing how much you eat achieves the same result.
Not quite the same result, exercise has a whole host of health benefits aside from just the weight loss.
On the other hand, for most people, given a calorie deficit target, it is often much, much easier to eat less than burn more.
From a weight and calories perspective only the result is the same.
Also, dieticians would disagree with you and that’s the reason why they put much more emphasis on starting with healthy life habits first and foremost instead of reducing calories, long term one sticks the other doesn’t because it’s the difference between making your life better vs making yourself miserable.
Whilst what you’re saying is true, it’s important to recognise that you can’t out run a terrible diet.
You could eat well all week, run ten miles a day and then completely ruin it by eating and drinking 20,000 calories at the weekend.
To put it simply, it doesn’t matter if you burn an amazing 5000 calories a day if you’re consuming 5500 calories.
95% of losing weight is simply eating less, there’s absolutely no need to complicate it by telling people they must radically change their diet or that they need to dedicate themselves to regimented exercise.
In this case you’re not eating the same as you were before so it doesn’t apply to what I’m saying.
If you are eating the same as before and your weight was stable then and you add exercise to the mix then you’re going to lose weight, there’s no magic to it, it’s mathematics. If you were going to “cheat” like in your example then without exercise you would have gained weight so you still effectively lost weight by exercising.
That’s true and I wasn’t trying to refute that point.
The evidence linking excersise alone with weight loss is sketchy at best and rarely is there any significant difference between combined diet and excerise groups and diet-alone groups. Excersise alone rarely, if ever, shows any significant difference in weight loss.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5556592/
Theres a reason people say “you can’t out run a bad diet” and there’s a reason its called “cardiovascular” and not “weight loss” excersise.
The idea that you could out run a bad diet was pushed by food lobby groups who wanted people to eat more than they need to, under the pretence that they can excersise it off later.
We evolved as persistence hunters. As such, the pathway for excersise induced fat burning is greatly inhibited, so as to not be able to run yourself to death trying to get food.
Reading it they make it clear that it’s because people end up eating more than they did before which isn’t what I’m talking about.
By your logic there’s no reason why athletes need to eat so much, their caloric needs should pretty much stay the same as if they didn’t exercise.
You managed to pick out the one study, amongst all those that disagree with you, that you think proves you point while simultaneously ignoring the literature reviews conclusions. I’m not sure what to say to something so far beyond confirmation bias.
Its not MY logic. Its the logic of the lack of evidence agreeing with your premise. Its the logic of looking at our metabolic pathways and our evolution, instead of that of food lobby groups.
Even then, you’re thinking about the release of glycogen and not fat burning/weight loss. Thats why athletes carb load, instead of keeping extra fat on them to burn off while competing. Its why people with fat on them stop due to exhaustion, despite having lots of energy they can use all over their body. Its why people have to go through so much to induce ketosis. Its why even professional marathon runners eat healthily and not too much.
Our fat reserves are for keeping us alive in an emergency, not a source of additional energy to dip into when we need it. I mean, I wouldn’t go on about logic when you’re here arguing for the idea of a species of persistence hunters who evolved to be able to run themselves to death easily.
Like most people, you wildly over estimate how many calories are burned by cardio vascular excersise, above bass rate metabolism.
80 to 140 calories per mile when jogging, even at the lower end it means that if you jog 6 miles you have your 500 calories deficit as long as you don’t eat more than you would have otherwise.
It’s. Not. Magic. If you needed 2500 calories to stay at the same weight then increasing your caloric needs to 3000 is the same as reducing your intake to 2000.
It’s about consistency, just like cutting calories, you can cut all week and fuck it all up by eating a cake on the weekend that you wouldn’t have if you weren’t on a diet.
Edit:
From your own link
Problem with consistency
I agree, its not magic. Its you making up numbers and refusing to accept that glycogen exists. Probably because you don’t know anything about it while massively over estimating your knowledge of bio chem.
Its not 80 - 140. Its like 5 -10 at best. Again, you epically over estimate the calorie burning effect of excersise, above bass rate, that cardio does. Its why its called cardiovascular and not weight loss excersise, just fyi, due to the fundamental lack of evidence proving it to cause weight loss. Funny that…
I mean, you might have a point, if insulin and glucagon didn’t exist. However, they do. So, that ends that really. Well, it does it you understand metabolism.
Doesn’t mean exceraise makes people lose weight. It could also mean people who do no excersise often eat more too. They would have said this in their report themselves. Dont just read what you want to from things.
It CAN, as in, in their opinion some of the research potentially could indicate that. But its not conclusive, as I keep saying. You just read what you wanted from that.
So, again, one that might “appear” to maybe actually agree with you and you ignored all the rest. Well the ones you didn’t choose to missread that is.
Even then, they’re very tentative and say its more likely, not something like “the evidence shows”, as the evidence does show that. Again again, this so far beyond confirmation bias. If you want to die on this hill of no evidence and feeling like you can out run bad diet (which would have to be true, if it worked to way you’re claiming it does), then more fool you.
Its not magic but it would be, if it worked how you seem to think it does. Behold, the magical persistence hunters who evolved to be able to run themselves to a starvation induced death.
You can’t argue with that kind of “logic.”
5 to 10?
Really?
https://www.acefitness.org/about-ace/press-room/in-the-news/8248/how-many-calories-do-you-burn-running-a-mile-healthline/#:~:text=A general estimate for calories,School of Medicine at UCLA.
5 to freaking 10???
Guess you haven’t done any exercise in a while buddy!
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8365736/
Funny how it has an impact on weight loss even though, based on what you’re saying, exercising barely increases your caloric expense.