Is it better to eat more and burn more or just to eat less?

wnbrice

I exercise more to make up for my laziness in exact measurements for things.

I aim to eat a fixed 2000ish everyday regardless of exercise.

So I might get a scoop of hummus and not feel like getting an exact measurement, so it might be about 35 calories over. Or there might be an average amount of calories in a serving but it varies from portion to portion. So some days it will have more, others it will have less.

I burn 600 minimum 6 days a week with 4 days breaking 1000. While still eating at near the 2 pound deficit mark.

Might not work for others but I am happy with it so far.

imarlett

My dietician says its just best to eat less.

indrani1947

If this is a lifestyle change it has to be something you can live with permanently, I need to exercise to be able to have a healthy sustainable diet 80% healthy 20% indulgence (whatever takes your fancy). Exercise also improves your health, fitness and makes you feel good. Choose something you know you can live with for the rest of your life ..

avababy05

Weight loss is 100% diet, fitness is 100% exercise. You can lose weight by eating less, you will increase fitness by moving more. Loseing weight thru diet you will look good with your clothes on, lose weight with exercise and you will look good with your clothes off.

Google the term "skinny fat". You can lose weight just by eating less but what your goals are will determine how you go about doing it.

Exercise is any movement, many discount or belittle the power of walking. You burn as many calories walking a mile as you do running a mile so don't think of walking as not exercising. It's the same, running just gets you to the same point faster.

Wrong you burn more calories running than walking!!!

nope! you burn the same amount of calories running a mile vs. walking a mile. walking just takes longer!
Running burns more calories per minute, yes, but that's not what he's saying.
I absolutely agree that people underestimate the power of walking! Get a pedometer and hoof it instead of taking the train/bus/elevator (love my Fitbit, by the way). Torches calories all day long. I burn more calories on days when I walk a lot than the days when I just work out really hard for an hour (which is most people's fitness routines!)

Lost 45 pounds strictly walking.I've since started intervals of running and walking plus added weights because my body wanted more of a challenge as it got in better shape.

But to answer the question,eating more is always better ( aren't we all here because we like to eat?) then not so do that exercise!

stackhsc

nope! you burn the same amount of calories running a mile vs. walking a mile. walking just takes longer!
Running burns more calories per minute, yes, but that's not what he's saying.
I absolutely agree that people underestimate the power of walking! Get a pedometer and hoof it instead of taking the train/bus/elevator (love my Fitbit, by the way). Torches calories all day long. I burn more calories on days when I walk a lot than the days when I just work out really hard for an hour (which is most people's fitness routines!)

nope, you burn more by running per mile as well as per minute. Your body motions are exaggerated when running and the effort to rebound and spring is greater. again old school thinking was that it was the same and admittedly its not a huge difference but you definitely burn more running than walking for the same distance covered.

http://www.runnersworld.com/weight-loss/how-many-calories-are-you-really-burning-0?page=single for the numbers part scroll down to a page or so to what the numbers show from the study

stackhsc

It's true! You burn the same amount running vs. walking per mile. If you run, you can get it done faster, though.

no you dont, see here http://www.runnersworld.com/weight-loss/how-many-calories-are-you-really-burning-0?page=single