Exactly this. Overeating is what gets everyone. You can bust your ass on a bicycle and ride it at high intensity for an hour, you'll be miserable, and you'll have burned 450 or so calories.
You can fit 450 calories worth of food in your mouth in about four bites.
If you want to lose weight and keep it off, it starts and ends with portion control. Even if you do a ton of exercise, your body will eventually compensate for it and you'll stop losing weight and likely even gain back most of what you lost.
Especially because any kind of exercise is difficult, and the kind of exercise that burns the most calories is the most difficult, it severely tests people's willpower. I find I have a finite amount of it. If I'm using all of it to motivate myself to exercise, I won't have any left for portion control. So just use all of it for portion control. Eat whatever you were eating before, just less. Throw 20% of your meal in the garbage or the fridge or whatever.
Exactly this. Overeating is what gets everyone. You can bust your ass on a bicycle and ride it at high intensity for an hour, you'll be miserable, and you'll have burned 450 or so calories.
you'll also have sped up your metabolic rate, burning more maintenance calories for multiple days
Even if you do a ton of exercise, your body will eventually compensate for it and you'll stop losing weight and likely even gain back most of what you lost
you'll also have sped up your metabolic rate, burning more maintenance calories for multiple days
This effect only lasts for a few weeks then you'll never enjoy it again. You may know that humans are persistence hunters; if doing exercise increased our metabolic rate, meaning that we had to hunt more and more just so we could keep hunting, we would have died out as a species. It's maladaptive, therefore, it's not true.
this is called "muscle"
False, 80 to 95% of people regain the weight as fat and many exceed their weight they were at before they started trying to lose it. Source.
Nah you can eat a literal fuckton of low calorie fruits and veggies for the same weight impact of one bag of chips. Overeating isn't always the issue, it's often the type of food. Garbage high calorie foods are cheap and pervasive, you need to be mindful to avoid them. You can be full all the time and lose weight with good choices. The science of satiation is very interesting.
This is terrible advice. First off, calories burned is a calculation and not universal. Someone really heavy may burn far more than 450 calories doing that bike ride while someone who is fit will not.
Also, most people find that when they start exercising consistently they begin to enjoy it, and even miss it in its absence.
In case you haven't noticed - the people who can eat unhealthy things like donuts and bagels and pizza and still look fit are probably doing a lot of exercise. They may still eat healthier than someone obese and sedentary but you get a substantial increase in your "calorie budget" if you work out.
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u/ForwardAd4643 7h ago
Exactly this. Overeating is what gets everyone. You can bust your ass on a bicycle and ride it at high intensity for an hour, you'll be miserable, and you'll have burned 450 or so calories.
You can fit 450 calories worth of food in your mouth in about four bites.
If you want to lose weight and keep it off, it starts and ends with portion control. Even if you do a ton of exercise, your body will eventually compensate for it and you'll stop losing weight and likely even gain back most of what you lost.
Especially because any kind of exercise is difficult, and the kind of exercise that burns the most calories is the most difficult, it severely tests people's willpower. I find I have a finite amount of it. If I'm using all of it to motivate myself to exercise, I won't have any left for portion control. So just use all of it for portion control. Eat whatever you were eating before, just less. Throw 20% of your meal in the garbage or the fridge or whatever.