Well good luck running for 24 hours to burn off the 2k calories you just ate
Out of curiosity, how many calories do you think you need everyday just to survive?
2k? I must be having light snacks.
Back when I was doing high intensity interval training in college I would regularly hit ~2k calories burned a day. Few things satiate the kind of hunger that gives you like a burger
If you're actually trying to manage your weight, do not increase your physical activity. Reduce how much you eat.
Most sites say running burns around 60 Calories/km or 100 Calories/mile. The average person burns 2,000 Calories a day by existing. If you ran a 10k every day, then you'd be using 2,600 Calories a day.
The difference in effort between "existing" and "runs a 10k every day" is massive, but the difference in Calories burned is equivalent to a large fry from McDonalds. So would you rather run a 10k or just take the fries out of your order?
I mean, it's weird to encourage people not to increase their physical activity if they're trying to manage their weight.
While it's true you can't out-train a bad diet, exercising, even for just 30 minutes every other day will go a long. Running a 5k will take about half an hour depending on your fitness level and will burn a good 350 calories or so, more if you're overweight. Do that 3 times a week and that's the equivalent of a about 2 meals you've burnt off (or one really unhealthy meal). Plus getting outside and exercising is good for your mental health.
Until u realize that person is eating 3x the cals they burned as soon as they're done running cuz now they're hungry from running.
It’s more complicated than that. Decreasing calorie intake can also decrease your basal metabolism, whereas exercise can increase it.
For some people exercise is more effective than simply eating less.
And then comes the fun part where your body, built for pure energy efficiency and nothing else, will try to offset burned calories by subconciously moving less throughout the rest of the day
Physically I agree with you, but psychologically it is much easier to control what I eat when I regularly go to the gym because when I work out and eat too much it feels like I am wasting my time there. So even if I only burn 300 kcal, I feel like I am taking care of my body and pay more attention to what I eat over the day.
If you eat junk, even if you exercise a lot, you will get fat. See sumo athletes.
Sumo, while fat, are also extremely muscular though. They're not just eating junk food, they usually have specific diets.
canned peaches and cottage cheese
Sumo wrestlers don't eat junk, they just eat an insane amount of calories. But the actual food is very healthy and balanced.
I'm doing the bare minimum to not get fat.
