Trooper wrote:
WTB wrote:
Unless you eat insane amounts of cheese, I think the exercise alone will make you lose weight.
Exercise is an extremely inefficient way of losing weight, out of the 2000 calories a male should be eating on a daily basis on a weight controlling diet, an hours moderate to hard exercise every day will expend about 300-400 calories.
Diet is the the best way to lose weight.
That's not strictly true. I'm not denying that dieting is a good way to lose weight, but going from no exercise to walking miles on your lunch hour whilst not changing anything else about your lifestyle will make you lose weight, simple as that. Also, a recent study showed that whilst you do lose X calories during the actual exercise, you actually lose further calories (in fact, even more than you did during the exercise) over the course of the next 24 hours as a result of having your heart rate and metabolic rate increased. It was on the BBC a few months back. Experiments and everything. So yeah, you lose 300 calories going for a run, but then you lose a further 400* or so over the next 24 hours. Scientific fact. I wish I had a link to the video to prove it.
But anyway, exercise is definitely not "extremely inefficient". That's a myth purveyed by people who've looked at the data - someone burning 400 calories going for a run - and saying "hey - you can lose more calories than that by simply dieting!" as opposed to doing any science to work out if it's actually true.
*That's on top of the calories you'll burn anyway just by existing, smart arses.
edit: it's called EPOC or Excess post-exercise oxygen consumption.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_pos ... onsumptionQuote:
EPOC is accompanied by an elevated consumption of fuel. In response to exercise, fat stores are broken down and free fatty acids (FFA) are released into the blood. In recovery, the direct oxidation of free fatty acids as fuel and the energy consuming re-conversion of FFA's back into fat stores both take place.[2][3][4]
That's the key bit of information ^
On this documentary I watched, they found that the people they tested were, as I said above, burning x during the actual exercise and then pretty much 1.5-2x during the subsequent 24 hours. So basically, the "you only burn 300 calories going for a run" argument is false. I mean, it's correct in that you burn that amount
on the actual run, but as a result of that run you actually burn nearly double that amount afterwards.