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There are three types of people: thin people, overweight people, and temporarily thin people. If you are overweight, then you are overweight. If you are thin, then 1) you are thin or 2) you were overweight, you lost weight but you are almost certain to put it back on.
"One of the most widely accepted, commonly repeated assumptions in our culture is that if you exercise, you will lose weight. But I exercise all the time, and since I ended that relationship and cut most of those desserts, my weight has returned to the same 163 lb. it has been most of my adult life."
"But like many other people, I get hungry after I exercise, so I often eat more on the days I work out than on the days I don't. "
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Originally Posted by Charles
Personal trainers are a waste of money. People know how to exercise; They know the right stuff to eat and the right amounts too. Lack of information is not a problem. In fact, ever notice overweight people are the most knowledgeable when it comes to food composition, calories, carbs, etc?
"All this helps explain why our herculean exercise over the past 30 years — all the personal trainers, StairMasters and VersaClimbers; all the Pilates classes and yoga retreats and fat camps — hasn't made us thinner."
"But the past few years of obesity research show that the role of exercise in weight loss has been wildly overstated."
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Originally Posted by Charles
Exercise has very little to do with weight control. For every five calories you burn exercising, you become six calories hungrier.
"In general, for weight loss, exercise is pretty useless," says Eric Ravussin, chair in diabetes and metabolism at Louisiana State University and a prominent exercise researcher."
"The basic problem is that while it's true that exercise burns calories and that you must burn calories to lose weight, exercise has another effect: it can stimulate hunger."
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Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin - TIME (http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1914857,00.html?xid=rss-topstories-cnnpartner - broken link)
i agree that when we exercise we are more hungry.
Here's the trick. You should be having some type of protein shake when you are done working out. A protein shake will deliver the right combination of protein and carbs to enhance muscle recovery and growth after the workout. Ah Ha! if you retain and grow muscle from working out and drinking a protein drink then you will burn more calories thruout the day (because we all know that muscle burns calories). Plus, if you are doing the right amount of working out, you will burn more calories than the shake anyway. With the combination of these two things, you will burn a lot more calories by working out and having a protein shake than you will if you just don't work out.
there are a couple great products on the market
http://www.shaklee.net/susanrahn/prodNutSportsTips#after (broken link) (see post workout section)
Cinch (http://www.cinchplan.com/susanrahn/realyou/products - broken link)
i agree that when we exercise we are more hungry.
Here's the trick. You should be having some type of protein shake when you are done working out. A protein shake will deliver the right combination of protein and carbs to enhance muscle recovery and growth after the workout. Ah Ha! if you retain and grow muscle from working out and drinking a protein drink then you will burn more calories thruout the day (because we all know that muscle burns calories). Plus, if you are doing the right amount of working out, you will burn more calories than the shake anyway. With the combination of these two things, you will burn a lot more calories by working out and having a protein shake than you will if you just don't work out.
there are a couple great products on the market
http://www.shaklee.net/susanrahn/prodNutSportsTips#after (broken link) (see post workout section)
Cinch (http://www.cinchplan.com/susanrahn/realyou/products - broken link)
great point obviously you know what your doing!!! Right on!
For anyone that believes the nonsense in this post, you go right ahead and stop with any exercising. Please stay out of the gym. I would appreciate a few more free weights and benches being available.
Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin - TIME (http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1914857,00.html?xid=rss-topstories-cnnpartner - broken link)
Yet another I stopped reading this rag. I imagine someone out there struggling with his weight will read this article and decide to stop exercising out of fear that it'll make them hungry and eat more. In a country where two thirds of adults are overweight and where very few get sufficient exercise, an article that even slightly discourages exercise should be condemned.
What happened? Did the big pharma companies who pay for ads in Time and on CNN lean on Time-Warner to discourage exercise so they can later push their weight loss drugs?
Next time you read anything about weight loss, ask yourself who wrote it, what their motivation is, and what potential conflict of interest do they have.
For anyone that believes the nonsense in this post, you go right ahead and stop with any exercising. Please stay out of the gym. I would appreciate a few more free weights and benches being available.
Didn't we JUST have this discussion in a similar thread, in a related forum??
Anyways, how about we not even look at it that way. How about the simple fact that exercises improves our body's natural functions overall, making everything easier, from something as simple as getting up and putting the laundry away, to running out to the street after your dog gets loose.
I think it the focus wasn't always so much about the end result, the reflection in the mirror, or the way those pants fit, we might appreciate things a bit more for other reasons. Exercise has intrinsic value that for me, has nothing to do with weight loss or rock hard abs. :::shrug::::
As I said in the other thread, I lost weight JUST BY exercising. SO pffft on that. Sixty pounds, I did not imagine it. I ate the same, the only thing I changed was my sedentary lifestyle... and I watched my fat intake JUST a little... by no means was there any extreme food focus though.
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