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There's a lot of food Nazi sentiment here. I eat junk food constantly because it tastes good to me and it's nerver adversely affected my training. I run 70 miles a week in addition to all sorts of other exercise. My resting pulse is 45, and I weigh what I weighed when I was in HS. I am very fit and laugh at all the people here who drone on, "you can't be fit without a clean diet." Obviously these people don't run marathons or attend them. We marathoners are notorious junk food lovers (and beer lovers).
Bottom line: if you exercise 2-3 hours a day like I do, you can eat sugar, pizza, chocolate and enjoy life. Give me ice cream over cauliflower. I don't tell anyone else how to eat or look down my nose on other people's dietary choices, but others here do this on a consistent basis.
That's because it's all about calories...you can eat junk all day long, as long as you meet your caloric intake. But if you choose healthy foods, more food is allotted,of course. And you need exercise, regardless, for your health /heart and to tone up. If you are exercising 2 hours a day, I would consume about 1700 calories a day to lose around 2 lbs, weekly.
Good luck!
I should have stated earlier, I'm a guy and I'm 22.
Also, let me just say this. In no way do I want to become a health-nut, going on a strict diet and excersizing non-stop. I'm not obese, I'm probably classified as average weight. So there's really no urgency.
I've just realized that my diet is quite atrocious, and I would prefer to eat healthier without having to do anything radical. I'm trying to limit my sugar intake to only 50 grams per day. Because honestly, cutting it out completely seems virtually impossible.
I will say though excerisizing for 3 hours a day seems extreme to me. That doesn't seem ordinary to me, seeing as there are only so many hours in the day.
Thanks so much for posting this clip--that was so eye-opening...and in my mind, answers the question, once and for all, of Why Are We So Fat?
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