Yeah, same here. We've come up with a nice foundation of really healthy and scrumptious meals, so lately we've made a point to schedule one of them on either Friday or Saturday night, and always Sunday night. That way, we're really only bad one night during the weekend and maybe a couple lunches. And I always give myself Friday lunch to have whatever I want to eat or drink. Planning the healthy meals in advance is huge, IMO. We try to plan two meals on the grill, one crock pot, and then other random ones. In fact, a healthy tasty recipe thread might be a good idea. I never thought I'd crave a quinoa enchilada bake. Spoiler My problem is I don't exercise enough right now, even though I did have a couple weeks earlier this month where I was walking three-four miles in the heat after work while listening to fantasy football podcasts. My wife is active and once she's off maternity leave, I'm going to start working out with her. Or at least that's the plan. And the beer. I will never ever stop drinking the beer.
I'm seconding what other posters have said that exercise is much more important than just for weight loss. Exercise has also shown to have benefits besides just physical but also improves mental health and overall quality of life. For me personally have found it harder to cut calories than to exercise. As someone who my main physical activity is something defines my life the bigger issue with me isn't forcing myself to exercise but trying to figure out how to get more time to exercise. Also one problem is when people look at exercise as being a specific task that can only be done at a specific time and location. There are a lot of opportunities to exercise which can be incorporated with other parts of your life. A simple thing to do is change some of your car trips to bike or walking trips. So if you need to go to the store to pick up a few things bike or walk up instead of driving. Also when I use a push mower with no motor other than myself to mow the lawn. This doesn't apply to Houston but for those who live in cold climates go out and shovel the snow instead of using a snow blower. With a few simple changes you can easily increase the amount of physical activity you do in a day.
I agree with this. Not all calories are equal and if you're getting a lot of foods high on the glycemic index the consequences to weight gain and overall health aren't that good.
No fatty but...tracking one's calories is not stupid by any means. From an educational standpoint, i think it's a eye opener for people who might think they know what and how much they are consuming. Most people don't really know what X amount of calories looks like. You're right, determining how many calories the body actually burns is an estimation but when you couple weight monitoring with calorie tracking, you can get a good idea of where you need to be. Also, you're assuming that calorie counting means not have a balanced diet. Different foods are processed differently, of course. At the basics of the argument though, if you are overweight then consuming less calories you will lose weight. I do agree that if you want to be healthy then you need to have a good diet but for most people just trying to not be fat...blind calorie cutting will work.
i hear you. Mon - Fri (at least until lunch) I have a great diet and exercise 1hr to 1/5hr a day. Then the weekend comes and brings me back to earth. On Friday morning i'm feeling great about myself. Monday on the scale, . I've convinced myself that without beer, wine, margaritas and queso....be an underwear model.
All you have to do is track your caloric intake and weight for a few weeks and do the math. It's not something you can do quickly, but it's not hard to do.
I believe he was attempting to relay the information that there may be more to health and livelihood than purely a Calorie=a Calorie, not the difficulty in calculating that Calorie in relation to weight gain or loss. Also, there is a difference between a calorie a Calorie a Joule Calorie counting has proven to be an effective method of weight loss, but not necessarily long term health (as in aging, disease, mental health, and lasting energy conversion). Tallanvor linked a youtube video where Dr. Lustig gives his take on the process of how the body breaks down carbs. There is much dissenting information, but one could "test" for themselves by consuming a carb heavy meal and judge the energy allocation until the next hunger pangs.
I enjoy exercising (soccer, basketball etc) and I enjoy eating tasty food even if it's not entirely healthy so exercising for me.
you can do that . IT wouldn't be accurate (water weight and what not). But, why would you want to know the number of calories burned if you already know how much weight you lost? What would that achieve? Calorie counting works like this. Person X eats Y calories and burns Z calories throughout the day therefore they lost (Z-Y)/3500 amount of weight. This is moronic as Z can hardly be calculated or even guessed at. Z is greatly affected by Y. Z is greatly affected by what u eat (a variable not even in the equation). Z is affected by a million other things. Calorie counters never take any of this into consideration. This was my point. Its ignorant and lazy to base any weight loss strategy off such a dumb (though correct) equation. Study biochemistry.
The water weight thing is incredibly over-blown, if you weigh yourself at the same time under the same conditions (early in the morning after a day of low-moderate carbs, before drinking anything gives the best results) water weight should be completely negligible (less than a quarter pound). Why wouldn't you want to know? Knowing how many calories your body uses is huge for losing/gaining/maintaining your weight going forward.
knowing what affects how many calories your body burns is huge. IF the goal is to study your calorie burning to better understand how your body works then that makes sense to me. That's not what calorie counters do though.
The main reason you lose weight with exercise is you can't eat while exercising. Most people eat constantly while awake.
No they make an estimate about their TDEE then count a kcal intake of 15-25% lower than that. You are saying that doesn't work for weight loss which is r****ded. If they don't lose weight they can assume the TDEE was off and lower the kcal by another 10%.
lolz. you just restated what i wrote. that is literally the equation i just wrote. ill explain it for you again since you missed it kcal intake affects TDEE....... good luck estimating your TDEE.
no anywhere near the amounts you need to cut in order to lose weight so realistically no it doesn't. You are heavy in some starvation mode fat logic now. Calorie counters need to adjust their intake based on weight loss. The more they lose the lower the TDEE. "I lost 15 pounds but that was it" solution eat even less.
Um, process: Make estimate. Measure fat loss. Adjust caloric intake to achieve desired fat loss. Repeat.
