Saturday, 07 November 2009
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Uh Oh: Exercise Doesn't Lead to Weight Loss
This is a guest post from Just A Guy Thing: http://www.justaguything.com/uh-oh-exercise-doesnt-lead-to-weight-loss/
If you have been logging countless hours on the elliptical machine at the gym to drop those extra pounds, we have some bad news for you. New studies reveal that the weight loss benefits of exercise may have been overstated. Diet, it turns out, is a much bigger factor in weight loss.
Before you give up the gym forever, countless researchers have found that exercise has a myriad of other heath benefits – it reduces depression, heart disease, some cancers, diabetes, and dementia, to name just a few. But when it comes to losing weight, exercise alone just isn’t the best route.
A review of recent research by the Mayo Clinic concluded that “most studies have demonstrated no or modest weight loss with exercise alone.” Other studies assigned groups of sedentary women to different amount of exercise for a year, but found that the women lost similar amounts of weight regardless of which group they were in.
Researchers believe that we overestimate the number of calories we burn while exercising – often doubling the actual calorie count. We then reward ourselves for our hard work by eating food that packs on many more calories than we have burned off.
So the lesson here is not to stop exercising if you want to lose weight. Just stop pigging out after your workout.
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Exercise and eat right. /thread
Nothing fried, nothing containing white flour, no refined sugar followed by plenty of exercise helped me get into a certain government org...
Umm... pretty sure that was well known. Simply working out will also cause you to gain muscle for some of the fat that is lost. It depends on how "fat" you are to begin with.
It's official. I'll be fat forever.
I thought that was obvious?
i agree with eomona. wasn't this obvious? you lose weight when you burn more calories then you take in. so if you decide to just exercise and eat A LOT. why is anyone surprised when you don't lose weight?
eat good foods in good proportions. exercise regularly. sleep a good amount. and take ur multivitamins and the such. it's not hard to lose weight. you just have to be consistent and disciplined.
@Imp_is_lurking@xanga -
;-; there's still hope!
i'd say exercising has 20% to do with losing weight. what you eat, 80%.
Pig out, calculate how much energy you need to burn, and then exercise that much.
@lot223@xanga - that's true =]
@lot223@xanga - exactly.
the title of this was misleading. working out can lead to results, but it does nothing if you don't pair it with a healthy diet.
Truth. Eat less, move more = weight loss
Whenever I start working out, I just gain weight and muscle like crazy. So.... yeah. Doesn't give me strong motivation to keep going.
I've heard it two ways. I've head it's absolutely split in HALF.
I've also heard it's 80/20. 80 percent what you eat, and 20 percent fitness.
I don't know what to believe anymore.
@soyeahthatswhathappened@xanga - I feel like I've been lied to.
Well, this is pretty apparent to anyone trying to lose weight, but if went and ran 5 miles everyday, I think I would get in shape in a matter of a month, without really worrying about my calorie intake.
I think it differs with what kind of exercise you're doing. Running is always the solution (I think). Run Run Run!
the message is pretty obvious, but the title is ignorantly misleading.
I would say diet is for weight loss, and exercise is for definition if we're talking about physical change.
No way. Really?
Well this is the surprise of the century.
all day about the benefits of exercise and it won’t make a real couch potato
move out the sofa. Even if we promise the sky….. The motivation has to be there
in the first place; nevertheless, sometimes we hear the bell before we get real
sick out of doing NOTHING.My personal
best motivation for exercise is the mood change I experiment after 30-45
minutes of exercise. I have been doing it over 30 year now and I still feel
like the strongest man on hearth when I finish it. I can look at the face of
any problem with some self assurance I don´t have before I leave to do my exercise.My most
important physical benefit from exercise is its anti inflammatory effects. If
you want to read more about, please visit http://www.omega-3-fish-oil-wonders.com/benefits-of-exercise.htmlBest
wishes,Alfredo E.
I say do both! You will look slimmer AND toned. And that's one hot combo.
Common sense?
Plus, when you start exercising, you gain muscle which actually adds more pounds (only in muscle form not in fat form) so sometimes you actually weigh more than you did before. People never realize that fact either...
Eat raw food ONLY, for a month and you'll loose 20-30 lbs. I've done it by accident in college (aka too broke to eat out/ and too lazy to cook... plus roomates dont get made when you steal apples or celery or cucumbers). Plus fruit/veggies are like 80% water.