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what would you rather do ?

inkedyouth
inkedyouth Posts: 11
edited January 5 in Fitness and Exercise
would you rather lose 500 calories per day via cardio ?

or 500 calories per day via nutritional deficit ?



i train weights 5/7 days per week and find it easier to do it this way ...

plus i hate cardio ......not even once

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  • FitBeto
    FitBeto Posts: 2,121 Member
    I hate cardio, but I love food.

    This is too hard. But I would take the deficit and just sleep in later.
  • FullOfWin
    FullOfWin Posts: 1,414 Member
    Through diet. Cheaper and saves time. And yeah, I don't like cardio.
  • Siege_Tank
    Siege_Tank Posts: 781 Member
    Both. eat at -500 from TDEE and then not eat back ze cardio calories =)
  • StaceyJ2008
    StaceyJ2008 Posts: 411 Member
    I'd rather do the cardio
  • Erienneb
    Erienneb Posts: 592 Member
    Seeing as I have a lot to lose, I have a deficit from both. I never eat back all of my cardio calories, and never any from lifting because even though I have a HRM I don't trust it for that.
  • _BETSY_
    _BETSY_ Posts: 6
    cardio....I love to eat : )
  • Denise1224
    Denise1224 Posts: 150 Member
    Cardio!! I like it ... I can turn on the tunes and just get lost for a while not think about all the "stuff" that stresses me out LOL
  • snowbike
    snowbike Posts: 153 Member
    No brainer for me - cardio.
    Releases all those happy drugs :D

    Also my cardio is mostly out on the mountain bike getting dirty and having fun.
  • inkedyouth
    inkedyouth Posts: 11
    so its pretty one sided on the cardio front.....
  • FullOfWin
    FullOfWin Posts: 1,414 Member
    Maybe a lot of those of us who don't like cardio are too lazy to reply
  • VanessaHeartsMasr
    VanessaHeartsMasr Posts: 727
    I vote for the cardio. I love me some cardio. It clears my head and my soul too. It's not just burning calories.
  • slhamby
    slhamby Posts: 5
    I did the eat less calories thing through my 20's and 30's and it mostly worked when I could stick to it, but now in my 40's, it doesn't work anymore. I can eat 900 calories and I don't lost any weight.

    Start exercising when you're young and NEVER STOP! I wish I had!
  • wibutterflymagic
    wibutterflymagic Posts: 788 Member
    The exercise. I love to eat too much, plus unless you have a calorie intact allowance of over 1500 taking a deficit of 500 isn't a good idea.
  • inkedyouth
    inkedyouth Posts: 11
    I vote for the cardio. I love me some cardio. It clears my head and my soul too. It's not just burning calories.

    my weight training is very intense .....im a body builder so i eat clean and rain very hard...

    i just find cardio mind numbing ......you find the opposite to be true....

    my brother in law runs 1 hour a day ...he loves it .....i run to the train station ...hate it
  • NocturnalGirl
    NocturnalGirl Posts: 1,762
    Hmm both... I guess out of the two, cardio.
  • FullOfWin
    FullOfWin Posts: 1,414 Member
    I guess it's easier for men to do diet since we can be at a deficit at a calorie level that would be beyond a safe bulking level for most women.
  • n0ob
    n0ob Posts: 2,390 Member
    I guess it's easier for men to do diet since we can be at a deficit at a calorie level that would be beyond a safe bulking level for most women.

    Yeah, I hate cardio. Definitely diet for me...but anything under 3000 is a cutting diet for me.
  • Erienneb
    Erienneb Posts: 592 Member
    I guess it's easier for men to do diet since we can be at a deficit at a calorie level that would be beyond a safe bulking level for most women.

    I think this is valid. A lot of the women on my friend's list struggle to eat at a deficit because it puts them super low. I'm almost 6' tall, I can be at a 1000 a day deficit and still eat 1800 calories haha.
  • jackr88
    jackr88 Posts: 13
    http://www.memecreator.org/static/images/memes/781281.jpg
  • FullOfWin
    FullOfWin Posts: 1,414 Member
    781281.jpg

    Fixed what would have been a strong first post
  • FullOfWin
    FullOfWin Posts: 1,414 Member
    I guess it's easier for men to do diet since we can be at a deficit at a calorie level that would be beyond a safe bulking level for most women.

    Yeah, I hate cardio. Definitely diet for me...but anything under 3000 is a cutting diet for me.

    Yeah I'm not sure at this point, but with as much as it has taken for me to gain, I'm thinking 2500ish might put me to -500
  • BrianSharpe
    BrianSharpe Posts: 9,248 Member
    781281.jpg

    Fixed what would have been a strong first post

    LMAO!

    I'm an unapologetic runner but as far as I'm concerned it's whatever floats your boat......
  • DanaDark
    DanaDark Posts: 2,187 Member
    Eat fewer calories. You can actually eat MORE and consume fewer calories... just depends what you are eating.
  • ohheyy125
    ohheyy125 Posts: 295 Member
    I'd rather do half and half, 250 calorie deficit 250 calories burned..

    But if I had to chose..

    A few months ago I would have said calories because I was a lazy bum

    But now, I'd say burn it, because I love food.
  • jesswait
    jesswait Posts: 218 Member
    I would feel more accomplished losing it by cardio, but I am happy to lose it either way.
  • iqnas
    iqnas Posts: 445 Member
    Cardio.

    Just so I can eat more :)
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    Since I'd be hangry if I just eat 500 calories less, and happy as a cat in a puddle of sunshine after a 5 mile run... cardio.
  • jackr88
    jackr88 Posts: 13
    I seriously couldn't work out how to show that picture .. how did you manage it?

    I created the meme nice and quick and then spent about 15mins not knowing how the hell to make it show..
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