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Bahamababygirl

Is linedancing good for weight lost?

jemhh

Eating in a calorie deficit is good for weight loss. Physical activity is good for fitness.

Bahamababygirl

jemhh wrote: »

Eating in a calorie deficit is good for weight loss. Physical activity is good for fitness.

Then whyare we counting the calories of food and how much we burnt each day ?

PaytraB

Linedancing may or may not be good for weight loss; depends on a lot of other things.
However, when I linedanced on a weekly basis, I was in super good shape. If you dance through the evening, you'll notice a change in your body over time.

rileysowner

Bahamababygirl wrote: »

jemhh wrote: »

Eating in a calorie deficit is good for weight loss. Physical activity is good for fitness.

Then whyare we counting the calories of food and how much we burnt each day ?

Because a calorie deficit is important for weight loss. Too big of a calorie deficit, however, has long term negative consequences. So we count calories and exercise burns to 1) make sure we are in a calorie deficit; 2) To make sure we don't have too big of a calorie deficit. That is why generally it is better to look at exercise as good for fitness. While you can establish a calorie deficit through exercise, research is tending toward that being less effective overall than controlling food/drink intake.

If you like line dancing, it is probably a pretty good way to increase your activity.

estherdragonbat

We count calories to know whether we are in a surplus, deficit, or maintenance. It's not 100% accurate, but you can get a good approximation.

Burning calories through exercise increases your deficit, giving you more calories to play with. And it improves fitness. But generally, folks who just exercise without trying to reduce calories don't lose weight. From what I've been reading on these forums, they may recomp—gaining muscle while losing fat, but not actually losing weight. Or they may gain (probably my old mindset; a little trick I call 'kidding myself'. In other words "I just took the stairs instead of the elevator and puffed my way up to the fifth floor. I can totally have a donut now!").

It is possible to be in a caloric deficit through exercise alone, but it's much harder.

L1zardQueen

I tried to out run my fork, the fork won.

TimothyFish

Not if it takes place in a bar.

Bahamababygirl

Hmmm interesting

eaglebtg

I believe any movement burning calories and enjoying it at the same time would make it a good way in my opinion.

Bahamababygirl

Agree totaly!

lorrpb

If you burn 100 calories, it doesn't matter what activity you do to burn it. At least 80% of weight loss is from the kitchen, 10-20% from the gym (exercise).

Bahamababygirl

True!