cr0ft
Living Legend
Every single study (and common sense) tells us that what you eat and drink is the only important factor for weight loss.
If you chow down on a giant bag of candy for instance you've just sucked in something like 1000 kcal. To work that off with exercise, you're looking at literally two hours of hard hard work. Exercising burns fairly little even for a lot of work.
The point being that if you want to lose weight, you do it 100% by regulating your caloric intake. Exercise on top of that can help you lose faster and become more healthy.
But I'm no featherweight myself (sedentary job and a sweet tooth, neither helps) but I think the best thing to do is to keep track of everything you eat. And it's helpful to just run something like https://www.myfitnesspal.com/ for a week while eating normally and entering absolutely every speck (and sip) that passes your lips, because then you start getting a greater appreciation for what you actually eat.
Most people who gain weight lie to themselves without even knowing it. Hard to do when you have the data right there.
As for diet, generically I'd say to eat more lean protein and far less carbs. Fish and chicken is great, beef is ok, pasta and rice and potatoes and bread suck and actual sugars are a no-no. The body can soak up carbs so much easier that you naturally eat less when you eat lots of protein.
If you chow down on a giant bag of candy for instance you've just sucked in something like 1000 kcal. To work that off with exercise, you're looking at literally two hours of hard hard work. Exercising burns fairly little even for a lot of work.
The point being that if you want to lose weight, you do it 100% by regulating your caloric intake. Exercise on top of that can help you lose faster and become more healthy.
But I'm no featherweight myself (sedentary job and a sweet tooth, neither helps) but I think the best thing to do is to keep track of everything you eat. And it's helpful to just run something like https://www.myfitnesspal.com/ for a week while eating normally and entering absolutely every speck (and sip) that passes your lips, because then you start getting a greater appreciation for what you actually eat.
Most people who gain weight lie to themselves without even knowing it. Hard to do when you have the data right there.
As for diet, generically I'd say to eat more lean protein and far less carbs. Fish and chicken is great, beef is ok, pasta and rice and potatoes and bread suck and actual sugars are a no-no. The body can soak up carbs so much easier that you naturally eat less when you eat lots of protein.
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