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Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin
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| Aug. 09, 2009
| By John Cloud
Posted on 08/17/2009 10:30:29 AM PDT by BellStar
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I tried to tell this to all my friends when I lost a lot of weight 4 years ago. Yes I walk 3 to 5 miles 5 days and left weights 5 day's a week for Health . Weight loss IT'S THE FOOD
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posted on
08/17/2009 10:30:30 AM PDT
by
BellStar
To: BellStar
There is a difference between being thin and being in shape.
If you want to get thin, do like some women, smoke a pack a day.
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posted on
08/17/2009 10:33:46 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
To: BellStar
When I was overweight, I could run flat-out for pretty much as long as I wanted, above the recommended heart rate. Never lost weight doing it. Running is way overrated.
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posted on
08/17/2009 10:35:14 AM PDT
by
Tublecane
To: BellStar
Both help. Exercise and diet together are my secrets to having a youthful, lithe, strong body in my mind forties. One without the other has never brought long term results as much as the combination. This article is really lacking a full spectrum picture. I love how you mention ALL the exercise you did and then said it was the food. It is about calories in and calories out. They work together. Your comment is a good example.
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posted on
08/17/2009 10:36:04 AM PDT
by
GOP Poet
To: Tublecane
“When I was overweight, I could run flat-out for pretty much as long as I wanted, above the recommended heart rate”
I meant to add: on those eliptical machines in the gym. I find it somewhat more taxing to run on the real ground.
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posted on
08/17/2009 10:37:26 AM PDT
by
Tublecane
To: Perdogg
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posted on
08/17/2009 10:37:40 AM PDT
by
GOP Poet
To: BellStar
I'm a personal trainer and as such I'm on a lot of e-mail lists from various experts. There are two guys that did a video called 'you can't out train a bad diet'. It shows one guy gunning it on the treadmill (Craig Ballantyne) why the other guy stands next to him eating a pizza. In the time it took the eating guy to consume 800 calories, the treadmill guy had only burned something like 42 calories.
Here it is:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQbuzsY_34Q)
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posted on
08/17/2009 10:38:48 AM PDT
by
tsmith130
To: BellStar
Diet and exercise go hand in hand. Trying to lose weight on just one or the other usually gets minimal results.
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posted on
08/17/2009 10:39:00 AM PDT
by
Free Vulcan
(Resident Obama: Not a President, not a Citizen, living here but from somewhere else...)
To: BellStar
Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin
Exercise and eating less will. I'm living proof.
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posted on
08/17/2009 10:39:41 AM PDT
by
mysterio
To: tsmith130
That is probably one of the best ways to demonstrate the differnce between reducing intake and burning intake.
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posted on
08/17/2009 10:41:47 AM PDT
by
Eagle Eye
(Kenya? Kenya? Kenya just show us the birth certificate?)
To: Perdogg
If you want to get thin, do like some women, smoke a pack a day.
OR
Do what the hollywood celebs do.....snort coke..
To: Tublecane
Rush Limbaugh said it best when he was dieting, and I paraphrase: You don’t lose weight by exercising. You lose weight by consuming fewer calories than your body burns.
If your weight is stable and you start running a couple of miles a day, without changing your diet, you WILL lose weight. This goes for working out as well. And if you build muscle with these activities, your body will be consuming more calories for the simpler reason that muscle consumes calories, and the more muscle you have, the more calories you consume, all other things being equal.
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posted on
08/17/2009 10:44:37 AM PDT
by
RobRoy
(This too will pass. But it will hurt like a you know what.)
To: mysterio
More accurate: Why Exercise ALONE Won’t Make You Thin
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posted on
08/17/2009 10:45:23 AM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: Tublecane
Running is way overrated.
I will also absolutely wreck your knees. Sled pulls, tire flips, sledge hammer work, sandbags, heavy bag work is the best cardio anyone can do.
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posted on
08/17/2009 10:46:22 AM PDT
by
randomhero97
("First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow!" - Ash)
To: BellStar
I have a great piece of exercise equipment in my house. I love it. Use it every day. Its do enjoyable I will get on it for several hours at a time.
What is this wonderful piece of equipment you ask? I shall tell you.
The Couch Machine!
Its like Bowflex, but better!
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posted on
08/17/2009 10:46:34 AM PDT
by
Phantom Lord
(Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
To: BellStar
I notice the meat of the article goes counter to the headline. Most of their exercisers eat, and eat junk, after the exercise. Yes diet is an important part of the equation, but exercise CAN help you drop weight as long as you don’t take the diet soda drinker approach (”I exercise/ drink diet soda so now I can eat that extra BigMac and apple pie”). It’s got to be part of a whole body whole mind whole life change.
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posted on
08/17/2009 10:48:03 AM PDT
by
discostu
(Somehow mister reliable was not where he was supposed to be)
To: BellStar
Spot on.As Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said when he was part of the fitness commission -”If you want to lose weight - don't feed the food”. However, besides the calorie intake, exercise is essential.I bike over 100 miles a week and lift also but if I want to drop weight I cut back the food intake.
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posted on
08/17/2009 10:48:50 AM PDT
by
Apercu
("A man's character is his fate" - Heraclitus)
To: Tublecane
When I was overweight, I could run flat-out for pretty much as long as I wanted, above the recommended heart rate. Never lost weight doing it. Running is way overrated.I've been running 1000 miles a year for 15 years. I started out at 205 pounds and I quickly brought my weight down to 165 pounds which I have maintained.
I still eat like a pig.
To: tsmith130
There are always exceptions.
Have you seen Michael Phelps “diet”.
He chows down about 12,000 calories a day and most of it is junk food because, if you tried to eat 12,000 calories of salads, you would probably explode your stomach.
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posted on
08/17/2009 10:49:17 AM PDT
by
staytrue
To: tsmith130
Most people have no idea what their exact caloric intake is and absolutely no idea what the macro-nutrient breakdown is for what they eat throughout the day.
I’ve gained weight while weight lifting and I’ve lost it rapidly while weight lifting. It all depends on knowing what your body’s metabolic rate is and knowing exactly what you’re eating.
It really is basic physics at work, but you have to do your homework to be successful at controlling body compostion.
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posted on
08/17/2009 10:49:58 AM PDT
by
Brett66
(Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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