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Sc00ter@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

My wife is one of these consumers. She shes all these influencers pushing working out products and she uses everything she can get her hands on. Then she wonders why when she trains for, and runs a full marathon, she doesnt lose any weight. Well you take thousands of calories of supplements… just run

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Lodespawn@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Yeah you can’t run off a bad diet, you do need to make sure you are getting enough protein aligned with your goals, and some fats, but outside of that, you just need to eat less than you burn.

Running might help increase the deficit a bit, or give you some extra food, but you’re probably going to struggle to cover thousands of additional calories.

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- DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  And now they’re pointing at that guy who was taking in absurd amounts of calories from meat per day, because they don’t realize he had a nutritional deficiency that meant most of it wasn’t getting processed.
  
  You can do a similar thing on rice, as it happens, because rice doesn’t contain enough B1 and you develop beriberi.
  
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- Funky_Beak@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Right. I walk like 5km a day and I lost 30kg. Secret eat less than you burn.
  
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- trashxeos@lemmygrad.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The short version of that: it’s nearly impossible to out exercise poor diet but much less difficult to out diet poor exercise. (obviously, you still need exercise, but you don’t need to train like an olympic swimmer to lose weight if you make better dietary choices)
  
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blandfordforever@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Yeah but supplements are fun and sometimes delicious. Running is neither.

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- undeffeined@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I like Lyle McDonalds advice on running: Don’t, unless you’re being chased.
  
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- eighty@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  running is sometimes fun (the rush you get from beat your PB) and let’s you eat things that are delicious. I’m in a perpetual calorie debt because I run so much and I’m poor 😭
  
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- Lodespawn@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’m not sure supplements are ever fun … but they can help with getting enough protein if you’re lifting or an additional energy boost via creatine … protein powder can taste nice but you need to watch out for macros if it’s too delicious, I’ve never had a nice creatine.
  
  Or by fun do you mean preworkouts? I think there’s limits to preworkout value when what you really need for workout energy are easily digestible carbs over caffine or other cruft.
  
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