While exercise is great if you want to live a long, healthy life, you can’t outrun your diet. Literally all you gotta do is eat fewer calories than you consume, and you will lose weight. That’s all there is to it. (But yes a variety is always better than just eating less of the same thing if you want to be both thin and healthy.) They make calorie counting apps to help you with this.
If you want to get really obsessed you can weigh your food for more accurate calorie numbers, but I’ve found that simply scanning the barcodes on the boxes or taking a picture of the final meal is usually accurate enough (so long as you log every ingredient in the dish).
It is true that diet is directly responsible for the vast majority of weight regulation, but exercise is just as important in an indirect manner. 99% of the time you aren’t going to burn enough calories to make a significant difference, but regular exercise has significant effects mentally, several of which contribute to make people much more likely to keep on a diet. IIRC, there was a study that showed it being a bigger factor in weight loss, because people who diet without exercise are far more likely to drop the diet, while people who start with just exercise are more likely to pick up and stick with a diet later.
Calaries in and calories out can be a useful tool, but it isn’t a silver bullet. I also think that it’s important for people to remember when setting a caloric goal that they need to be realistic in the amount of weight that they’re going to lose per month.
It’s also important to remember that what a healthy weight and size is is bigger than what the media often portrays it to be. Both the social and television. When all he needs to look at all those tabloid pictures of celebrity women sitting down in swimsuits while they’re going, “Whoa! Look how fat this person is now!Are they gregnant?” . The reality is that individual may still be relatively skinny. It’s just the pose therein. The angle that the camera is taking it and the lighting are just revealing A normal human body With organs.
Obviously there does come a point where someone is a little too big. This is true. But that line is more variable health-wise than a lot of people think.
CICO is real - I don’t think anyone could dispute that in good faith - but it doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
What you’re eating (and what your food is eating) has such a profound impact on how you think and feel. If you’re trying to form an actual food lifestyle for the long run, you at some point have to go beyond calories and look at macro ratios, consider fiber, prebiotics, micronutrients, inflammation etc.
I’ve found avoidance of overprocessed foods allows my body to be healthy on an intuitive eating style diet. I think the core of most people’s problems is they don’t consider just how much of their diets is mouth entertainment causing their brain to rewire food signaling.
While exercise is great if you want to live a long, healthy life, you can’t outrun your diet. Literally all you gotta do is eat fewer calories than you consume, and you will lose weight. That’s all there is to it. (But yes a variety is always better than just eating less of the same thing if you want to be both thin and healthy.) They make calorie counting apps to help you with this.
If you want to get really obsessed you can weigh your food for more accurate calorie numbers, but I’ve found that simply scanning the barcodes on the boxes or taking a picture of the final meal is usually accurate enough (so long as you log every ingredient in the dish).
It is true that diet is directly responsible for the vast majority of weight regulation, but exercise is just as important in an indirect manner. 99% of the time you aren’t going to burn enough calories to make a significant difference, but regular exercise has significant effects mentally, several of which contribute to make people much more likely to keep on a diet. IIRC, there was a study that showed it being a bigger factor in weight loss, because people who diet without exercise are far more likely to drop the diet, while people who start with just exercise are more likely to pick up and stick with a diet later.
A good run gives you wiggle room for a deficit, though, if you’re trying to shed. It’s a few extra pieces of chocolate you can eat.
Calaries in and calories out can be a useful tool, but it isn’t a silver bullet. I also think that it’s important for people to remember when setting a caloric goal that they need to be realistic in the amount of weight that they’re going to lose per month.
It’s also important to remember that what a healthy weight and size is is bigger than what the media often portrays it to be. Both the social and television. When all he needs to look at all those tabloid pictures of celebrity women sitting down in swimsuits while they’re going, “Whoa! Look how fat this person is now!Are they gregnant?” . The reality is that individual may still be relatively skinny. It’s just the pose therein. The angle that the camera is taking it and the lighting are just revealing A normal human body With organs.
Obviously there does come a point where someone is a little too big. This is true. But that line is more variable health-wise than a lot of people think.
Sure you can, but it involves regular long distance triathlons and training for them, not running 2k once a month.
CICO is real - I don’t think anyone could dispute that in good faith - but it doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
What you’re eating (and what your food is eating) has such a profound impact on how you think and feel. If you’re trying to form an actual food lifestyle for the long run, you at some point have to go beyond calories and look at macro ratios, consider fiber, prebiotics, micronutrients, inflammation etc.
I’ve found avoidance of overprocessed foods allows my body to be healthy on an intuitive eating style diet. I think the core of most people’s problems is they don’t consider just how much of their diets is mouth entertainment causing their brain to rewire food signaling.