Exercise Good but not for Weight Loss

kshama2001 wrote: »

catstratch wrote: »

Anybody who counts calories would know that. Burns 200 kcal on a 30' jog, that is barely my snack.
But it gets me out of the house, makes me happy so I don't emotional eat. And it makes me feel healthy so I'm less likely to go drinking, or eat unhealthy.

Yup, when I get the happy hormones from exercise, I'm not prone to seeking them from food.

Lots of reason to exercise.

Now when I'm bored or stressed, I go out for a walk/run outside. All the fun and no guilt afterwards!
Also, I think exercise reduces my appetite, not increase it like they said in the video.

Personally, (as a workout-a-holic) I lose more weight when I take a rest week. My appetite is WAYYY easier to control. But ifl working out so....

Exercise kills my appetite. I don't think I would be losing 2-3lbs per week if I stopped going to the gym 3 days per week... but it isn't what I rely on to lose the weight. The deficit in my food is.

Diet is the most important thing to weight management.

Yeah, that's pretty non-revolutionary news. All this article is saying is that it's super-easy to out-eat your exercise calorie burn (or wipe it out by being less active in daily activities to compensate for tiredness or somesuch).

I'm active because it's fun, and it makes me strong, which is useful throughout my daily life. I know some people don't like being active, but I just don't understand that - stronger, lowered stress level, healthier, fun . . . why would I stop doing something that has all those benefits?

But I've been very active for a dozen years, while remaining obese. I've only lost weight (60+ pounds) and gotten to a healthy weight by eating less, over the past year. (That's been completely worthwhile, too - significant joint pain reduced to trivial, normal cholesterol/triglycerides, normal blood pressure, more . . . wish I'd done it years ago.)

ernestrodgers82 wrote: »

godlikepoetyes wrote: »

Well, I get REALLY hungry when I move a lot, but I get to eat more, so win win.

Now that's what I thought until reading this article. You DON'T get to eat back your calories. You really have to stay within your daily calorie limit regardless of exercise in order to not gain weight instead of losing it. I suppose if you're ultra careful with measuring your food but I'm not that disciplined on portion sizes. It's like @catstratch said in their post.

On days that I walk a lot, I eat back most of my exercise calories earned (usually around 400 calories above my calorie goal), and I'm still losing more than 2lbs a week.

If you log accurately, eating back exercise calories is what you're supposed to do.

ernestrodgers82 wrote: »

godlikepoetyes wrote: »

Well, I get REALLY hungry when I move a lot, but I get to eat more, so win win.

Now that's what I thought until reading this article. You DON'T get to eat back your calories. You really have to stay within your daily calorie limit regardless of exercise in order to not gain weight instead of losing it. I suppose if you're ultra careful with measuring your food but I'm not that disciplined on portion sizes. It's like @catstratch said in their post.

Some diet tracking web sites don't intend you to eat back exercise calories, but MFP is designed to assume that you do. But it also assumes that you're tracking your food accurately, which does mean paying attention to portion size.

I ate back pretty much all my (carefully estimated) exercise calories while losing 60+ pounds, and am doing the same now that I'm in maintenance. But I track my eating carefully, too, and strive to remain active (with routine stuff) outside of formal exercise, rather than letting that decrease.