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Weight loss is almost 100% about calorie control, the exercise is just a great bonus.
In the context of weight loss, exercise is used primarily for calorie control anyway. Tho people who don’t know that can uptick calories to make up for the exercise and lose nothing or even gain more. Which obv you know but maybe someone out there is struggling with that
Wasn't there a dietitian or something that wanted to prove a point so they ate nothing but burgers for 6 months and they actually lost a lot weight because burgers are not really particularly good quality food. They're also super ill, so it's not an advisable diet strategy.
Yeah, I think in response to supersize me.
Funnily, I’ve done the same thing. I lose weight really easily so way back before I developed a strict calorie schedule I would eat a lot of fast food and snacks like chips for time/calorie efficiency but still be underweight. Weight is basically all calories, but looking good at specific weights usually requires exercise.
Had elevated cholesterol though, so can also confirm it’s not great for you. It may have been fine if I was exercising as well, but I never ate as poorly as he did to make the point so I only got close.
Resistance training is also meant to help a lot.
If you're eating a lot of protein and not lifting, it's gonna get stored as fat.
Muscle also burns extra calories at rest, though it's more like 6 calories per pound per day. But if you put on 20lbs of muscle over the course of a year, that's an extra 120 idle calories burned, which is not a number to scoff at.