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Exercising but Gaining Weight

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Re: Exercising but Gaining Weight

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Post by adventured »

sytelus wrote: post #15

Anyone with even a rudimentary training knows this fact: Exercise don't help you loose weight. Even the heavy routines burn minuscule amount of calories that would be compensated by just couple of slices of bread. Exercise helps you build cardio and/or muscle strengths which is very different than loosing weight. The only sure shot way of loosing weight is diet control. Just stop eating simple carbs (aka white floor/…

Exercise can easily help you lose weight.

Scenario: you weigh 300 pounds, your weight is fairly stabilized, and you have relatively little muscle and are mostly fat.

You're going to lose a lot of weight just by adding muscle through exercise in that case. The added muscle will burn a lot more calories resting, and with a non-inflating calorie intake, your new burn rate from the new muscle and exercise will start eroding your weight.

There, I just proved exercise can help you lose weight.

Re: Exercising but Gaining Weight

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Post by MrMember »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #40
mbrameld wrote: post #32

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Or a 12 oz soda and 4 Reese's Cups.

People don't account for the calories in drinks properly, I'd rather not use an example with soda. So yes seven Reese's Cups (well 6.8) will make up an entire meal. That's a bit much for a snack. The fact that three sodas can be an entire meal is a different problem (you can drink that much without even realizing you ate) with a pretty easy solution.

I started trying to lose weight recently and have been counting daily calories. It's astounding how much easier it is to clock in at a reasonable number if you cut out all liquid calories. Soda may taste delicious but it does absolutely nothing to fill you up and has a ton of calories.

Re: Exercising but Gaining Weight

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Post by toomuchtodo »

monksy wrote: post #43
toomuchtodo wrote: post #33

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And if PubMed isn't your cup of tea, just head over to https://www.reddit.com/r/keto , unless you think those ~125K subreddit members are just lying. Not all calories are the same. I myself lost almost 40lbs on the keto diet (~200 to start, now around 160lbs). 31, male, sedentary IT worker. NO EXERCISE. I eat everything except carbs (fruit, beer, anything with sugars).

Beer and alcohol has quite a lot of sugar.

My typing mistake. Those items I listed were what I don't eat.

Beer has quite a bit of sugar, but hard alcohols do not.

http://www.thespartanwarrior.com/post/6355061720/lowcarbvsal...

Re: Exercising but Gaining Weight

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Post by therobot24 »

phlosten wrote: post #5
teen wrote: post #3

Running on a treadmill for an hour is about 600 calories. Eating an extra snack before bed can easily be that. To be calorie deficient and lose weight, it is so much easier to eat less than to exercise more. On top of that, exercising more can stimulate your appetite... leading to over eating. Basically you just have to be vigilant with not eating too much. I don't think counting calories is important, but 3 small me…

I made massive changes to my diet a few months ago, after being diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. The doctor said diet and exercise needed. Trying to keep it simple I didn't worry about the exercise, just changed the diet, the weight started falling off easily, as long as I ate regularly and kept my carbs to what was required. I started riding to work this week. I am so god damn hungry right now. I think if you are rea…

going to the gym by yourself - kind of boring and would rather do the things you suggested (walking around, ride bike, etc), however going to the gym with a buddy/significant other is fun and often more productive than your original suggestions

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Post by letstryagain »

prostoalex wrote: post #25
letstryagain wrote: post #19

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> Dr. Atkins has challenged people to gain weight Where can I read about this?

This should open up the same book I linked up above http://books.google.com/books?id=Xdm40JUD9HwC&pg=PA310&lpg=P...

I've read Gary Taubes and I do have that book but I can't find this section. Which page is it on?

Re: Exercising but Gaining Weight

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Post by prostoalex »

letstryagain wrote: post #55
prostoalex wrote: post #25

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This should open up the same book I linked up above http://books.google.com/books?id=Xdm40JUD9HwC&pg=PA310&lpg=P...

I've read Gary Taubes and I do have that book but I can't find this section. Which page is it on?

Hmmm, I'm on Kindle, so that's no help. It's towards the end of "Fattening Diets" chapter, if you scroll dow a bit through Google Books preview.
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