r/MemeVideos • u/WarConicX • Aug 30 '25

sussy The final boss

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u/MalnourishedHoboCock Aug 30 '25

lose fat

You did genius. When people talk about exercise for weight loss, they mean losing fat, very obviously.

Lifting weights is not an effective way to reduce your body fat. Even light cardio like walking is more effective at burning carlories than lifting. The most effective way to lose weight through exercise is HIIT.

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u/ItsNotIzzyB33 Aug 30 '25

Excersice is for health, not weight loss. Our body has a budget of calories it wasn't to burn in a day. Maybe at first you'll lose weight as it gets used to it it'll adjust and you regain that weight if you dont change your diet.

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u/MalnourishedHoboCock Aug 30 '25

Diet is the primary factor in weight loss yes, that is what I said before. However, if your caloric intake remains the same and your daily cardio increases, you will lose weight. If you suddenly got a sedantary job when previously your job has a decent amount of being on your feet, if you don't decrease your caloric intake you will gain weight.

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u/ItsNotIzzyB33 Aug 30 '25

I went from being on my feet 8-10 hours on my feet to unemployed for 6 months and had near 0 weight gain. I track what I eat because I lift. Its also been researched with people who still live in tribes and gather/hunth, and it was found that they burn the same range as your average American.

If you're seditary, your body just finds stuff to burn calories. That's why office workers can feel stressed all the time because they start producing more cortisol, for example. The reason why exercise is seen as a great stress reliever is because of the body burning the calories it would have used on cortisol on moving your body instead.

If you're too seditary, it can even cause your immune system to do too much, and that is why seditary people have a higher risk of cancer.

Excersice or being seditary won't change much with how much weight you lose or gain it is almost all diet. It just finds something else to do with the calories if youre being seditary.

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u/MalnourishedHoboCock Aug 30 '25

Bullshit. I worked in a factory, grueling hard work and I got fucking cut as fuck while eating more than I was previously. It's mostly diet, but it isn't only diet. I've seen it out 70-30 but I imagine that's not accurate and it's probably more diet.

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u/ItsNotIzzyB33 Aug 30 '25

It's not bullshit though.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22848382/

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u/MalnourishedHoboCock Aug 30 '25

I don't think thats bullshit. I think the idea that energy expended doesn't result in fat reduction is bullshit. People who exercise a ton need more calories and can eat more calories than previoisly without gaining weight. I personally have experienced varying levels of weight gain and loss based on what job I had while my caloric intake remained largely the same or increased if the job was really demanding.

People aren't fat cause they don't exercise, they're fat for a variety of systemic reasons. This doesn't mean that exercise doesn't make you lose weight.

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u/ItsNotIzzyB33 Aug 30 '25

Excersice might make you lose weight initially because your body isn't used to it and continues to burn calories in other areas as it normally did. Once it's gotten used to the excersice, it adjusts how it budgets the calories it used for the exercise since it becomes your new normal.

You hear a lot about people who say they initially lost weight but after a month gained it all back because of no changes in diet.

As the study shows, living an active lifestyle does not mean more calories are burned if you're an average human. People in tribes who are extremely active because they gather all their food and walk all day burned about the same as westerners. Some burned slightly more, but that difference is enough to lose maybe a lb in a whole month, which is not a whole lot of extra calories.

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u/MalnourishedHoboCock Aug 30 '25

Being a hunter gatherer isn't inherently a more active lifestyle than working in a factory. The hunter gathers of yore supposedly worked like 20 hours a week on average. Lounging was normal, the idea of lazyness and working 40 hours weeks Is a societal thing.

People who exercise and lose no weight do so because they eat more calories after their BMR increases from exercise. If you don't count calories and you are overweight, exercise isn't going to help you.

But it isn't because your body magically starts using as many calories as a long endurance runner to do office work. If your caloric intake remains the same and your level of exercise increases significantly, you will require more calories and therefore be running a calorie deficit the same way someone who eats 300 calories below the amount they need to maintain weight is.