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I would not call it a misconception but simplification. Otherwise it is a very surprising article.
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From the paper "Replacing one hour of rest with exercise that raises the metabolic rate to seven times that of resting by, for example, jogging, removes an additional 39 g of carbon from the body, raising the total by about 20% to 240 g. For comparison, a single 100 g muffin represents about 20% of an average person’s total daily energy requirement. Physical activity as a weight loss strategy is, therefore, easily fo…
The question is whether the body spends any energy outside of that hour after exercising (e.g. by growing muscle, etc.) than it would otherwise. That would make exercise more effective when considering longer periods of time.
For anyone coming straight to the comments looking for an answer to the question: it turns into CO2 (and a bit of water) and you breathe it out. When you realize that you have to breathe out all the weight you lose, I think it gives you a bigger appreciation for how difficult weight loss can be.
2 pounds a day. That's how much CO2 you breath out, and the hard limit for weight loss. You can lose more than that, (see boxers before a weigh-in), but that's all water loss, and is temporary. And, with a strong likelihood of death.
For anyone coming straight to the comments looking for an answer to the question: it turns into CO2 (and a bit of water) and you breathe it out. When you realize that you have to breathe out all the weight you lose, I think it gives you a bigger appreciation for how difficult weight loss can be.
1. being fairly strict with calorie intake - though I have gone over my limit a whole bunch of times
2. upping my running game - 80km+ most months
3. being diagnosed asthmatic (after 40 years of merely "you've got shitty lungs, sorry") and prescribed a morning+night inhaler
Dieting isn't new to me, I've been a fat bastard all my adult life. Previous attempts at losing weight have involved doing (1)+(2) and each time I lost weight and got faster. But with the diagnosis at the start of this year, and despite a higher calorie allowance, I've smashed my PBs at various distances - multiple times - and lost more weight (NB. because I started higher; I'm not at a record low, yet). So it seems pretty intuitive to me that "I'm better at breathing" has played a hell of a part.
Observations from Figure 1, "Responses of a sample of doctors, dieticians, and personal trainers to the question “When somebody loses weight, where does it go?”" 0 doctors were willing to admit they didn't know. 0 dieticians thought sweat was involved. Those results seem unsurprising. Only dieticians correctly answered CO2.
From doctors, this should not happen.
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Exercise makes more sense! Breathing hard == losing weight!
It's easier to eat less calories than exercise.
I love stuffing myself full of food, and I suspect others enjoy this too. Knock yourself out with as many carrots as you can have. Eat a full pound or two of cauliflower.
For anyone coming straight to the comments looking for an answer to the question: it turns into CO2 (and a bit of water) and you breathe it out. When you realize that you have to breathe out all the weight you lose, I think it gives you a bigger appreciation for how difficult weight loss can be.
So does that mean that sitting on the couch is more environmentally friendly than exercising?
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Have you tried it? I did, it's easier only for some time. After you lose about 6-7% of your body weight it's very hard to eat less, your whole behaviour changes.
I tried it - I lost nearly 25% my weight (down from 132 kg to 101 kg) over this year by eating less and walking on foot a lot more. Eating less is certainly having a lesser effect than it did at first, but I'm still losing weight bit by bit.
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I thought ants were what made short work of the wood. Something about formic acid? Do you know more - I need to reset my ignorance.
No sorry. Maybe it was both? The documentary just told about the fungi.
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Have you tried it? I did, it's easier only for some time. After you lose about 6-7% of your body weight it's very hard to eat less, your whole behaviour changes.
Is there statistics for this? I recently dropped 20% of my bodyweight, but didn't find that my behaviour changed at all. If anything as the routines set in it became easier.