How Important Is Exercise For Weight Loss?
If you’d asked me a decade ago what was the best method of weight loss, if I choose only exercise or diet, but not both, I would have said exercise all day. That is, increase exercise, lean body mass, and so forth, to create a caloric deficit vs reducing calories if I could only choose one. That conclusion appears to have been wrong, and I’m here to explain why. On the surface, that appears to turn a sacred cow of the fitness world on its head, but in retrospect, I think we knew it all along. Hey, someone said “you can’t out exercise a bad diet” and that’s essentially true. Who ever said it, just didn’t realize just how true it is.
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How Important Is Exercise For Weight Loss?
Diet. I lost sixty pounds in five months, and sadly put it all back on...but I didn’t work out once.
I just removed sugar from my diet and was smart about where carbs came from. I gorged myself on vegetables, eggs, and lean red meat. I guess I was relatively low carb, because I didn’t eat much bread or any pasta.
But the weight melted off. Granted I have a lot of muscle mass left over from playing sports at a medium high level...which means I needed more calories to just exist.
When exercising or running? LOL it would have taken years without a dietary change.
Diet to fit in clothes that make you look good, and exercise to look good naked.
How Important Is Exercise For Weight Loss?
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tb-av
So where is a good calorie counter online?
I don't know what to think about diet or exercise. I mean you have to eat but you don't have to exercise. So if you exercise at lot you will probably be naturally healthy otherwise you wouldn't be able to exercise continually. So let's say you eat, because your have to, pizza, pasta, cheezeburgers, key lime pie. You will probably have to increase your intake but also burn it off and generally be healthy.
If you look at young guys that hike the Applachian Trial, they eat crap and lose weight. Not sure how healthy they look at the end other than legs but that's generally what happens. What I have heard but do not know for sure is the older guys don't lose much or any weight. They also probably have a better diet.
When I was in my mid 30's I ran, biked, martial arts, also worked outdoors a bit like building decks or painting etc.. I was basically on the Pritican diet ( high carb ). I never tried to build up bulk muscle so not sure how that would have gone but I was in good shape. My recovery from exercising was typically just a few minutes and I was ready to go do something else.
About 15 years ago I started lifting weights and was doing pretty good but didn't lose weight. Totally different diet. Had to stop for a variety of reasons. Now I have a bad diet and get almost no exercise... but when I do exercise or say spend a whole day ( 12hrs ) of yard work or such. I feel good. Eating good means for a couple days I feel no different. Now I'm at 165 and would ---love--- to lose 20 pounds but I just can't seem to figure out what to do.
I don’t know about online, but the correct answer is My Fitness Pal on your smartphone. There’s a lot of bad data in it but you can look for the verified counts.
Everyone loses weight on the trail. Hiking 20 miles a day for four months or so has that effect.
The reasons you eat like crap on the trail are that you’re usually broke, and you’re trying to eat the most calorically dense foods you can that you can carry easily.
I made it over a thousand miles on the trail and stopped because of Lyme. Granted it was well over a decade ago.