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yeah i think for me at least, that has been true. when trying to lose weight i notice i can lose a pound a week with diet and exercise as well as diet alone. maybe inches are gone though so i dont know. i force myself to work out regularly though just because i know i should do it.
it sucks how i am never one of those people who can lose 2 pounds a week. i lose weight so darn slowly!
It is total BS. I personally have lost 20+ lbs with JUST exercising. My food type and amount stayed the same while I worked out and STILL lost the weight.
Apparently the OP doesn't know how to read. The article states that people barely lose weight because they eat more after they work out.
Exercise will keep you healthy and help you lose weight as long as you have a proper diet consisting of healthy choices. Diet is probably the biggest reason why people are fat.
I hope an overweight person doesn't read this article and gives up on their weightloss goal, that would be sad.
Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin - TIME (http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1914857-2,00.html - broken link)
I have always known this. I am an 6'0 athletic young male who could eat all the fast food in the world and throughout my life I have always by been anywhere from 155 to 170 lbs. There is only one way to lose weight and that is basically not to eat. If you are destined to be overweight or obese you should accept it, unless you go on a major diet that consists of not eating anything. When a woman bears children, naturally she gains big time weight. Unless she does not eat anything, she is pretty much going to be overweight or obese for the rest of there lives.
The only thing exercise is good for is to build up your stamina and endurance. You exercise to stay in shape not to lose weight. So if you are a woman who weighs 250 lbs and if you think working out or exercising would help you lose pounds you would be extremely disappointed.
You are either destined to be you natural size based on genetics and/or other factors. Most people who try to escape what they are will be disappointed greatly with there results. I say this is the curse for all the the things human beings have done in the past.
Two things IMMEDIATELY invalidate this article for me.
1) "I don't think most people would appreciate that, wow, you only burned 200 or 300 calories, which you're going to neutralize with just half that muffin."
Anyone with common sense and a serious focus on nutrition and health, DOES understand this. He assumes that everyone is an idiot.
2) "After all, doesn't exercise turn fat to muscle"
You have GOT to be kidding me.
This is simply one man's bent logic to justify sitting around on his arse. More power to him. I will stick with my workouts, thank you very much.
Is the OP out of his mind???!!! I know forum rules says you're not supposed to personally attack posters, just respectfully disagree to their ideas but come on!! He's just really stretching it!
Is the OP out of his mind???!!! I know forum rules says you're not supposed to personally attack posters, just respectfully disagree to their ideas but come on!! He's just really stretching it!
I have now seen this article posted here on CD three separate times. I am sure it is making the rounds all over on various other forums. Unfortunately people give credence to such nonsense by posting it, and there will be a few folks that will grant themselves permission to become a couch potato (marshmallow) because of it.
Those of us that know better, simply will ignore it.
Well its the truth. To lose weight you eat less than your activity level. People use the excuse they can't lose weight because they can't workout all the time. " I dont have time to workout"
I am sure we have heard that one before.
One of the ways people go about weightloss is "I will just workout" ignoring the fact that whats on the plate matters too.
I thought the "brown fat" factoid on rats was interesting too!
I have to wonder why we have so much of it in youth ourselves and it just goes away with adulthood?
I also thought that the study on showing HITT kidstyle (lol) makes kids healthy just as much as long term exercise.
and
"Because exercise depletes not just the body's muscles but the brain's self-control "muscle" as well"
(from time article)
From what I got out of it:
You do not need to kill yourself in the gym to lose weight
You can not ever think the gym cancels out a bad diet
Working out can change your mindset for the good or bad, so watch for that
I dont know why people are getting all ignorant about it..I mean really...
I think its giving anyone a good reason to do ANYTHING but sit there and not try something.
I think exercise does matter, but some folks ideal weight is heavier than others. I like the body fat analysis approach.
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