I mean, if you aren't counting your calories and eating in a deficit, you're not going to lose weight.
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Research shows that small amounts of physical fitness during the day can be just as beneficial as a full workout
A 2019 review of 19 studies looked at this question, involving more than 1,000 participants. It found multiple, shorter “chunks” of exercise in a day improved heart and lung fitness and blood pressure as much as doing one longer session.
And there was some evidence these chunks actually led to more weight loss and lower cholesterol.
has nothing to do with eating a deficit in calories. you can workout all day everyday, but if you eat garbage mcdonalds and packaged food, you are not going to lose weight 'micro working out' or even full day workouts.
You are not making sense. If I'm a football player and use 3000 calories a day working out, I will lose weight. When you're counting calories, do you put the exercise factor in?
Yes, calories matter, but working out is usually part of it. This is because it burns calories at the time, but continues to speed up your metabolism.
Our bodies are meant to move, plus counting calories is a defeating process. I'm not saying eat crap, but try to eat healthier and move your ass.
The quality of food has little impact on weight loss. It's calories in calories out. Period.
Dunning Kruger.
Your body is so much more complicated than a function that takes calories as input and outputs an expected result. You need more than just calories, you need nutrients. A nutrient deficient person does not burn calories the same way a person with a balanced diet does.
Like just think for a second. Is the only variable of food that matters is calories, then why do you need vitamins? Why do we split calories into categories like protein, carbs, veggies, fruits, etc? Why can you get a PhD in nutrition if it's only as simple as calories in calories out?
The simple answer is it's not simple. Asserting that it is when it isn't creates some terrible narratives around exercise, diet, and body image.
Eh. Calories are... Tricky. What is a calorie? A unit of food which, when burned, will heat a gram of water by 1 degree Celsius. But your body isnt just a furnace, it's complex. And everyone is physiologically different - we aren't all running at the same efficiency (base metabolism). And not all calories are available. For example, fiber is not digestable and can't be absorbed by the digestive system and it also associates with simple sugars which also prevents them from being properly absorbed. So, eating whole fruits will result in absorbing less sugar than drinking juice which has the same total amount of sugar. Processing food - even just cooking it - makes calories more bioavailable.
For sure it can conceptually be boiled down to calories effectively absorbed and calories burned. But digging into what that actually means can actually be quite tricky.
Yeah, exactly, calories in vs calories out is just another myth that feeds the diet industry's bottom line. It's not accurate. Like bmi used to be the big thing, but that's not an accurate measurement system at all.
This is untrue. Calories in vs calories out continues to be, and will always be the center point of weight loss. It's just complicated by other factors like genetics, finding each individual calorie needs, and following diet and lifestyle patterns that are effective and sustainable.
See but I think we're both actually saying the same thing. The amount of factors that go into calories in vs calories out, essentially makes it unusable. Just looking at calories as a base whole product, not the individual piece of food and the nutrients it provides, is mad. By that rationale you could just live on oranges. They're calories, or junk food. Calories.
It's not calculable, how one individual body absorbs, processes, and then manufactures the essential nutrients it needs, from "calories". It's essentially saying how much food in vs how much food burning out. But that's not how fat is turned from fat to energy consumption, by the human body. It has nothing about the essential needs of the body.
It's a myth perpetuated by diet industry that only keeps you on the hamster wheel of weight loss and, for most people not genetically gifted, never really works. Or only works short term but then your body goes into survival mode, and stacks it all, and more, back on.
Here's a an article that might help say things better than I am. https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2023/07/05/its-time-to-bust-the-calories-in-calories-out-weight-loss-myth.html