The problem is not lack of exercise, it's excessive eating!

jvprimarolo5
jvprimarolo5 Posts: 2
edited November 15 in Fitness and Exercise
Contrary to popular belief and fitness industry marketing claims, your body weight and composition is not largely determined by your level of physical activity. According to a 2013 article on the role of activity in obesity risk in the International Journal of Epidemiology, “…energy expenditure in activity appears to be playing no role in either causing or moderating the obesity epidemic…” Instead, they claim, the problem had more to do with a reduction in both the cost of and the time required to obtain and/or prepare food. In other words people don’t get fat because they’re inactive or lazy, they get fat because they eat too much.

Energy expenditure in the gym is also extremely over estimated. The cardio equipment at most gyms provide you with the amount of calories you burned in the workout on the display. What is not calculated into this reading is your BMR. For example, your body burns a certain amount of calories per hour regardless of activity. Say your BMR is 60 cals bet hour; you climb on your cardio equipment and burn 150 calories. After deducting what you would have already burned without exercise, you only burned 90 excess calories. Now you go and grab your favorite well deserved iced coffee after the workout and your in the hole 150 calories; making your workout useless.

At the end of the day, it's about limiting your caloric intake. You cannot exercise your way out of a bad diet!

I'll be posting lots of useful dieting and exercise tips so stay tuned!

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  • Camo_xxx
    Camo_xxx Posts: 1,082 Member
    I am going to go with..... Duh.

  • pittsingersg
    pittsingersg Posts: 29 Member
    Camo_xxx wrote: »
    I am going to go with..... Duh.

    Lol. Yea... This guy! :lol:
  • sofaking6
    sofaking6 Posts: 4,589 Member
    I wonder what OP is selling?
  • branflakes1980
    branflakes1980 Posts: 2,516 Member
    And then he appeared, like the rainbow brought on by a ray of sunshine after a storm, and all was right with the world!
  • Michael190lbs
    Michael190lbs Posts: 1,510 Member
    branflakes1980 wrote: »
    And then he appeared, like the rainbow brought on by a ray of sunshine after a storm, and all was right with the world!

    That was hilarious

  • beemerphile1
    beemerphile1 Posts: 1,710 Member
    It isn't one or the other, both are a factor.
  • branflakes1980
    branflakes1980 Posts: 2,516 Member
    Gadget1968 wrote: »
    branflakes1980 wrote: »
    And then he appeared, like the rainbow brought on by a ray of sunshine after a storm, and all was right with the world!

    That was hilarious

    :wink:

  • farfromthetree
    farfromthetree Posts: 982 Member
    THIS...I gotta bookmark!
  • never2bstopped
    never2bstopped Posts: 438 Member
    Sharing this jewel on a cal counting site seems redundant....
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
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    Although I do think it's a combination of both. Not necessarily "exercise" but just activity levels have decreased. That combined with how easy/cheap it is to eat 2000 calories in about 5 minutes from your local convenience store is the issue.
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