Comment on Anon figures out how dieting works
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks agoIf you’re at maintenance at 2500 and start doing more physical activities you’re burning more calories.
“You can’t outrun your fork” doesn’t mean you can’t increase how much you’re burning without increasing how much you’re eating, the result is the same, in that case you’re not depriving yourself and for this reason the results tend to stick.
Source: GF is a dietitian
klemptor@startrek.website 5 weeks ago
I get it, but if homie was 150 lbs overweight then he was probably eating wayyyy more than maintenance and would’ve continued to gain if he didn’t change his eating habits.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
If someone is 150lbs overweight and sticking to that weight long term then the same logic applies, increasing the calories they burn while eating the same number of calories as before will induce weight loss because they’ll be at a deficit. They’ll reach equilibrium at some point and they could continue increasing their activity level to continue losing weight, the same thing happens with adjusting your food intake, if you eat 3500 calories to keep your weight at 300lbs and you cut down to 3000 calories your weight will go down, but you’ll never end up weighting 120lbs.
meowMix2525@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I don’t think you realize how few calories are burned by exercise relative to the amount packed into our food, especially if you eat without thinking about it. I was dancing for a while, 8 hours straight of sometimes very intensive cardio, and only burning like 1000 extra calories (according to my fitbit) on those days just to feel like shit the next day from all that work, which would definitely have driven me to eat even more if I wasn’t paying attention to my diet or able to control my impulses (which tbh I think one or the other can be assumed for someone 100+ lbs overweight).
Even the most intensive bike ride or couple hours at the gym can be eaten away in as few as 7-10 oreos. Sure if you just need to trim a pound or two to get to your ideal weight, exercise alone can do that along with many other great benefits if you can commit to it daily, but you simply cannot expect to see results if you are habitually overeating highly caloric/low nutritional value foods and do not change those habits.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
“According to my Fitbit”
Starting on a high note I see
You burn 2200 a day doing nothing and eat 2200 a day, your weight stays the same
You start jogging 3 miles a day that’s 240 to 420 calories right there, don’t eat any more than you did and you’re at 240 to 420 calories in deficit.
Don’t jog and cut 240 to 420 calories a day and you have the same impact on your weight.
There’s no magic to it, it’s fucking maths! The difference is how hard it is for the results to last if you just do it through changing your eating habits, there’s a reason why about 90% of people who go on a diet just gain their weight back, they didn’t build a healthy habit, they make their life miserable for a while and then go back to eating the same as before.