The Exercise “Myth” for Weight Loss
Why is it so hard to outrun a bad diet? You can burn off 350 calories an hour while exercising, but most drinks, snacks, and other processed junk foods are consumed at a rate of about 70 calories a minute.
Stay tuned for the next video: The Secret to Weight Loss Through Exercise ( ).
My previous videos on diet versus exercise are The Role of Diet vs. Exercise in the Obesity Epidemic ( ) and Diet vs. Exercise for Weight Loss ( ).
How Much Should You Exercise? ( ) Check out the video.
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Diet=more important always..by far.
Yess!
Great video/info. Thank you 🙏
You can’t outrun a fast fork.
Yep. I believe it takes around an hour of intense exercise to burn off one Snickers bar. Exercise should always be part of your life for cardiovascular benefits and to maintain strength and bones though.
Too funny!!
I ended up getting a fat tire since I missed the fork in the road.
I meant flat tire, not the nut behind the wheel.
😂😂😅 I like that ✋🏻 high five 😅
I think you simply cant burn calories as fast and easily as you eat them. You can eat a 3000kcal pizza in 30 mins but you cant realistically burn 3000kcal in 30 mins.
After a heavy workout or even just 3 miles of brisk walking (walking to work), I am ravenous. It’s like my body knows it needs extra energy. It’s not a simple task to avoid my impulses. So I eat more. At least after a heavy leg day, it probably helps with gainz.
Same. Whenever I get heavy into running I gain a lot of weight. It’s so hard to resist food after a three hour run, and sometimes it feels like I can’t stop. Like I’m in some kind of frenzy
This is such an important video. Almost everyone I know over-estimates the importance of exercise and underestimates the importance of diet.
Gyms are very good at marketing themselves. As are junk food and drink companies.
Exactly
I don’t think gyms are particularly at fault. I see a lot of people who want to lose weight jump to trying to lose it via exercise even it’s not at a gym. I think it’s a cultural thing. I’ve even seen older and newer doctors who weren’t familiar with it. This is basic science information that needs to be taught in PE class in school.
All major recognized forms of exercise are important for body maintenance and quality of life and more and more as you get older. and I will always advocate for it with proper guidance from someone like a PT. I’ve also seen too many people injure themselves from doing too much too fast whether they’re looking for gains or weight loss.
But I would never recommend it as the primary method for weight loss.
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It’s all part of diet/fitness culture. It’s all about selling high intensity workouts to people that are confused about both exercise science and nutrition.
@@rhoharane It is cultural, to a large extent. Think of movies with training montages, for instance. People believe fast transformations are possible, if a person works “hard” enough. And yet when it comes to exercise, it turns out that the harder the training, the less effective it often is at building the capacity to burn body fat sustainably. That’s why actual elite endurance athletes don’t train that way, most of the time.
It doesn’t help when every single show on weight loss involves bringing in a personal trainer and pairing them up in the gym with the person who is trying to lose weight. The trainer then becomes a main character in the show, where if they even have a dietician, that person is featured only briefly. Shows like the Biggest Loser try to teach us that we need to quit our jobs and live in the gym 10 hours a day for 6 months. I can see where the myth comes from.
Secret Eaters and Supersize vs Superskinny were 2 shows that focused on what people were eating and drinking.
Although the nutritional advice was, at times laughable, in terms of how outdated it is now.
But yeah, there does seem to be a lot of shows that push becoming a gym bunny over becoming a greengrocer’s aisle bunny.
Yeah and what shows like that don’t show you is the extreme food restriction and use of stimulants and other weight loss drugs to achieve the desired results. There was a lot of behind-the-scenes doping on that show.
The exercise programs people do to lose weight typically aren’t sustainable either. Not that they can’t physically continue, but life gets in the way as well as boredom.
I’ve had people say to me “you must exercise a lot” because I’m not overweight. I don’t exercise anymore than they do though I’m probably on my feet more. And I’ve had lots of overweight people tell me they are overweight because they haven’t been exercising. They completely dismiss my comment that we are what we eat.
Diet is a more emotional subject for many people. Nobody likes what they eat criticized, for the most part.
Diet trumps exercise! Been there!!!!
Do both
I agree that diet is the key to weight loss. I run 80-100 miles a week and if I don’t keep my diet in check, I will gain weight
@@mabawsaRyou should run not walk
@@simonb.8868Running can increase cortisol
80-100 miles a week? Whoa that’s impressive.
@@VIpanfried He’s probably exaggerating, that’s two marathons, if he’s running that much he’d have to be fairly slim even on a junk food diet
@@leonardodavinci7425 No that’s pretty standard for a runner. That’s probably only 10-12 hours of exercise per week.
Most people I know they exercise so they can give them an excuse to eat. No one really wants to lose weight…we all just want to eat.😂
Those of us that follow this channel and the Dr Greger books want to eat delicious food that’s relatively healthy.
I’ve just knocked up a cannelini bean, celery, cucumber, tomato, grape, spring onion, parsley, mint, lemon juice, sumac salad. I’ll be doing red lentil with grated carrot, chilli, garlic, ginger, cumin, fenugreek flatbreads / pancakes to go with it…
Yeah I used to know a couple of professional runners who said they run so they can eat what they want. But runners still get heart disease all the time. You can’t outrun that.
Lots of videos try to explain how focusing on calories ONLY is inacurrate and they try to carefully show its really a delicate balance of multiple risk factors.
But most viewes of those videos will walk away thinking that calories NEVER matter.
Because that’s what their cravings want them to justify.
Can’t out train a bad diet. Been there.
2 hrs a week is considered “active”! HAHAHAH.
The most common symptom I get with colds and flu is loss of appetite. I’m more likely to loose a pound or two while feverish and vomiting than chopping wood and eating from the garden in the summer. I’ve also noticed ditching a coat in the winter can shave off a pound. Because you’re body has to burn extra energy to keep you 98 degrees
Exercise is SO very important for many things, but abs are made in the kitchen. Boom.
always struggled with weight and struggled at the gym. Got on a WFPB diet in November last year and lost about 10kgs since then. Also gave up counting calories too. I simply eat as much as I want now.
💯 Me too, I stopped counting long time ago, started just paying attention to content. So much easier and feel better.
You’re lucky. I went WFPB in 2017 and I still have to count calories to lose any weight. Otherwise I’m just as fat as I was before. And no, I’m not eating vegan junk food. It’s just super hard for me to lose weight.
It is the best kept secret that once you start eating whole plants, it is nearly impossible to overeat. Because my exercise level is so high, I sometimes struggle to consume enough calories.
@@m0L3ifyI’m sorry to hear that. I’ve been wfpb for 7 yrs now and sometimes can’t eat enough. Our bodies really don’t like to lose weight, some folks have a much harder time, and some foods are just not worth eating. Avoid oils, just stop using them, they are not a whole food. Eat high nutrition, low calories. Beans beans beans! Lentils, cruciferous veggies. 1T flax seed daily. I think what helped me most in the beginning was the daily dozen app. Use it and see how it goes. You’ll figure it out.
We’ve seen signs like this in Europe in the malls. For example, we saw one on the staircase next to the elevator comparing how many calories you would burn in terms of a food by taking the stairs. While it is an innovative way to teach about food, it certainly comes with its own set of problems, including encouraging disordered eating.
We always have to think about the unintended consequences of new approaches!
I want those walking labels on everything!
Thanks for reminding me of this. I needed to “UP” my grocery shopping game❗️👍
i had a pair of parents come through a grocery store the other day. (i know we’re wfpb, but this happened in the meat section) their kids were asking why there’s blood in meat, if it had any use and the parents responded, “yeah, it has essential nutrients like iron” which the kids then asked “what’s iron?” and they literally didn’t know, so I let them know it’s a mineral. so i think just the average person in america has next to no practical knowledge about diet at all.