Losing weight is a million times easier without exercising. amirite?

The truth is that diet is the primary factor in weight loss anyways. You cannot out-exercise a bad diet past 25-30; you have to develop a good relationship with food. Exercise has tons of amazing benefits for physical and mental health but it's not effective for weight loss.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I'm late thirties and still get in like 20 hours of biking a week. Hard to out eat that.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Biking burns between 600 and 1000 calories an hour so you burn an extra 20,000 calories a week. That's about 3000 calories a day or about 4 large milkshakes. You can definitely out eat that.

by drakemayer 1 week ago

I don't drink milkshakes like that so I wouldn't know.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I don't think anyone drinks milkshakes like that, it was just a quick comparison to show you how easy it is to consume an extra 3000 calories a day. I could look up more calorie dense foods if you want some other comparisons that you might relate with more?

by drakemayer 1 week ago

Consuming 5000 calories of fast / junk food is very easy.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

That's some crazy biking you're doing there, more like 400-600 kcal/h for normal pace

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yeah but it would go to feed the muscles worked

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Fair, but you're definitely the exception, albeit an impressive one. Anyone who needs to lose weight are not likely to start out with 20 hours of biking a week.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Even at measly 7 - 10 hours of mainly endurance training per week, out eating calories burn during high(er) volume training is somewhat difficult. Unless we're talking about mukbang levels out of control binge eating with fast foods... Which I am fortunate enough to not have problems with (though I recognize there are others out there steuggle with binge eating) Just a quip though. 20 hours of endurance training for the general folk is probably almost dentist level, probably elite amateur athlete training.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Exercise has tons of amazing benefits for physical and mental health but it's not effective for weight loss. Wait what? Exercising burns calories so by regularly exercising it´s easier to reach a caloric deficit. Also packing on some muscle increases your passive burning of calories. Not to mention the cardiovascular benefits and those to your overall metabolism. Sure diet is the most important in all of the process of weight loss (as well as weight gain) but regular exercise certainly helps a ton.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I meant that it isn't effective on its own.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I think it can certainly aid in weight-loss, but it's 30%ish exercise and 70% diet, especially in practice given people tend to overestimate their exercise

by Anonymous 1 week ago

You shouldn't exercise to 'lose weight '. You should exercise to get fitter, stronger, more flexible etc.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

People don't understand that in order to lose weight you need to eat less. Of course certain exercises will help you out but for the most part reducing your food intake will do the trick even without exercise. Personally strength exercises don't get me hungry but boy oh boy anaerobic ones will certainly increase my appetite.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

In the end weight is tied to how much calories you are getting in. Yoo can't get overweight if you don't get enough calories.

by Kathryn29 1 week ago

Exactly, the problem with lots of people is that they shove food like it's nobody's business and expect that 1 hour at the gym will make them lose 2 kilos per week.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It's not even about eating "less" it's about eating better.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I am the opposite. I find myself less hungry and more motivated to eat well when I exercise regularly.

by SuchNegotiation1904 1 week ago

Exactly my experience. I don´t know how exactly it works but I´ve found that exercising regularly reduces impulsive behaviors in me in general.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Weight when looked upon in isolation? Yes. But if you want a healthy lifestyle then you wanna build muscle when you also lose fat. Therefore you Weightloss will be not be as fast but you fat percentage will drop way faster which is much more ideal.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It totally is. Exercise spikes appetite and weight lose is all about controlling appetite and calories. The most weight I've ever lost was when I had shoulder and knee problems, couldn't work out, and counted calories. But, it wasn't healthy; I had people asking me if I had cancer. The best I can do is try to keep workouts consistent and 6 days a week.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

100%! I lost nearly 60 pounds and have kept it off for 6 years by changing the way I eat. You can't run from your fork.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Don't know why people contend losing weight and exercising as mutually exclusive. Like you might as well say losing weight is a million times easier without eating anything whatsoever

by Actual_Opportunity81 1 week ago

Replace soda with water. Eat a few more veggies and less fried stuff drowning in oil. Keep doing it for a few months. Done. Exercise has a different finality which is mostly muscle gain and only some weight loss.

by Joelleannon 1 week ago

Also reduce the amount of processed foods you eat, kick fast food out of your life, eat more whole foods, eat more protein and less sugar and saturated fats and look up different foods´ levels of satiety and pick your ingredients with that in mind. Keep doing it for a few months. Depending on the degree of your overweightness, a couple months of time might be too short of a timeframe. Generally speaking it´s better to lose weight consistently over a longer timeframe than to lose it quickly in just a couple of months. Much more sustainable. which is mostly muscle gain and only some weight loss. Muscle gain leads to more fat loss, though. Unless what you care about is only the number on the scale which you shouldn´t.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yeah you can lose everything (muscle included) by starving yourself, but you'll LOOK skinnier if you exercise even if you weigh more

by Jakenikolaus 1 week ago

Walks are best at losing weight for let's say normal people. You still burn calories but you ain't that hungry.

by Kathryn29 1 week ago

You're not wrong, I'm not sure this is even unpopular. Why do you think weight loss drugs like Ozempic are all the rage. They work and you can literally do nothing.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Starving yourself is not a path to weight loss. It's a path to having massively fluctuating weight for the rest of your life.

by herminio85 1 week ago

You're not wrong. I would only add that walking is also great activity to create fat burning conditions and give you a sense of well being as you lose weight.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

When I was working; physical labor I went down two pant sizes and gained 20 pounds. We should be more concerned with mass and less with weight. People I've known who did not excerise gained emmense mass and no small amount of weight.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I know I'm not going to eat under 1200/day and be healthy, so I lift weights to increase muscle mass and raise my base metabolic rate. Also, starvation diets only teach your body to hold onto fat.

by BriefNo 1 week ago

Being bored is a million times easier by not doing anything at all. I could speed the boredom by playing something boring, but nah. These last few "opinions" are so dam lazy....

by Quick-Low 1 week ago

This is a discipline problem. Nothing more.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Username checks out.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Exercise is proven to make you hungrier tho

by Aromatic_Hornet_8577 1 week ago

Exercise also fosters discipline which results in decreased impulsive behavior, it builds muscle so that you burn more calories even passively and it has all kinds of benefits for your mental and your sleep which also affect your metabolism. Of course you still have to adjust your diet but exercise making you more hungry is whatever since the benefits far outweigh the increased appetite.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Discipline is non transfersble but also finite. Exercise doesn't foster it, it uses it up. It's why there's so many chubby people constantly at the gym and failing to lose weight. Because not only are you hungrier after; but you have less discipline left overall. You're more likely to cave into binge eating, partly also as a reward for working out.

by Aromatic_Hornet_8577 1 week ago

Exercising generates disciple as far as exercise. Discipline doesn't carry over between different parts of life. You can't transfer the discipline of running into dieting. That's not how it works. Just like beating a video game doesn't somehow motivate you to run a marathon.

by Aromatic_Hornet_8577 1 week ago

I feel my focus in general has improved since I have to concentrate on my movement when working out.

by BriefNo 1 week ago

I don´t think that that is true at all. And how does beating a video game relate to discipline at all?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It's an analogy. It takes discipline to follow through with a video game. That discipline doesn't make you better at following through with anything else. And I don't care if you feel it's true. There's research on this.

by Aromatic_Hornet_8577 1 week ago

You right

by Mohammed76 1 week ago

Not how calories work but ok

by conroydaphne 1 week ago