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[–] [email protected] 98 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Yup, that's the problem. If you run 5 miles you burn about 500 calories. Hardly enough to make up for even the fries in the meal. A lot of people overestimate calories burnt and underestimate calories consumed.

A bit of exercise every day is good for your heart, lungs, circulatory system etc. but it won't make up to overcome an otherwise sedentary lifestyle if you don't change your diet.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yep I've lost 30kg and by far the biggest thing that allowed me to achieve that was to start counting my calories. At first that's all I did, only later I started to introduce weight lifting and exercise to prevent losing too much muscle and to start making them stronger and more visible.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Weight training also helps considerably, as while it doesn't directly burn as many calories as intense cardio, bigger muscles require more calories to maintain, so by building muscle you're increasing your resting calorie consumption

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Totally. Also while you may not burn as many calories during the session itself compared to the same time doing hard cardio, your muscles stay "activated" for up to 48hrs after the session, continually making you burn more. And then like you said eventually once you have bigger muscles your daily expenditure is higher at all times.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Exactly this, like obviously you should exercise, but when it comes to losing weight it’s really the diet that matters most.

I actually, within the span of about a year, went from 280 to 179 lbs through diet alone, I literally did no exercise. I’m 6’ btw.

Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t exactly recommend that, without exercise you’ll also be losing tons of muscle. But my point is that diet is incredibly powerful.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's the diet only in the sense that if you're not careful you will just eat the extra that you're burning, but if you keep eating the same and start being active when you weren't, we can say that it's being active that made you lose weight.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sure, we can say it, people try to convince themselves of lots of things.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Input stays the same

Output changes

Me: "What changed? The output."

You: "Sure, your can convince yourself of that"