Weight Loss Thread

ronne

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Every single source of calorie burn/expenditure on every single app/smart device/exercise bike/whatever is VASTLY overestimating how many actual kcal you're burning during a cardio session.

Pedaling on a stationary bike for half an hour is not burning 250kcal. Unless you're a semi-professional athlete your calorie burn is not even something you should be paying attention to if you want to lose weight. You just need to eat less - the exercise is to improve your health in other ways.
 
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I'm just confused what your point is? No need to take it personal man.

If you just want us to be more aware that it is difficult for fat people to stop eating, and it's an addiction, thats fine, I agree. I don't understand what you want.

Sorry that hurts your feelings man, it's not the intent.
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All I'm annoyed by is the weirdly selective lack of inference. I'm attempting to discuss, not compel, but this isn't on topic anymore, so I'll stop shitting up the thread with it.
 
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ronne said:
Every single source of calorie burn/expenditure on every single app/smart device/exercise bike/whatever is VASTLY overestimating how many actual kcal you're burning during a cardio session.

Pedaling on a stationary bike for half an hour is not burning 250kcal. Unless you're a semi-professional athlete your calorie burn is not even something you should be paying attention to if you want to lose weight. You just need to eat less - the exercise is to improve your health in other ways.
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yeah, thats also a thing. I've tried to look into getting concrete answers how they are calculated, and not found good answers. seems to be time+heartrate calc. but im not sure. and yeah, questions of body weight/muscle mass, etc...

but for the second part. eating less/cal in is a lot easier to measure yes. but, building muscle dramatically increases daily calorie burn. it burns calories during the activity, it burns calories for 3 days after rebuilding muscle tissue, and burns calories from just maintaining the muscle.

And no, dont need to even go crazy. 20m/day. squats, lunges, planks, pushups. will burn calories like crazy.
 
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Caliane said:
yeah, thats also a thing. I've tried to look into getting concrete answers how they are calculated, and not found good answers. seems to be time+heartrate calc. but im not sure. and yeah, questions of body weight/muscle mass, etc...

but for the second part. eating less/cal in is a lot easier to measure yes. but, building muscle dramatically increases daily calorie burn. it burns calories during the activity, it burns calories for 3 days after rebuilding muscle tissue, and burns calories from just maintaining the muscle.

And no, dont need to even go crazy. 20m/day. squats, lunges, planks, pushups. will burn calories like crazy.
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Again, once you start tracking it, you can figure this shit out.

Go look at what I posted. On memorial day (May25th or so) I hopped on the scale and was 218. Heaviest I've ever been. Not having it. Decided I was getting back to tracking calories and getting back to lifting. I do pull/push/legs/rest. So I lift 5-6 days a week. Each day is 7 exercises, let's call it average of 3x12 for sets (compounds are less - 5x5 or 4x6, but most accessories are in that neighborhood).

I work in a warehouse. I walk a lot. I don't do labor anymore because I'm in management, but I walk the entire building multiple times a day. I walk the yard multiple times a day. So right around may 20th is when I decided to get back to serious about my health.

I track all my food on almost every day. (App says 52 days in a row now). I hit most workouts (had to take a 3 day break a week ago because I was exhausted, but that's it). I weigh myself at the same time and at the same condition every day (after the morning piss, before I eat/drink anything).

Yes, you can see large fluctuations in my weight, but the trend line tells the story. The trend line + your calorie intake gives you an idea of your expenditure. Is it a perfect? No. Does it need to be? No. You just need a fucking ballpark. Maybe I'm at 2600, and maybe my tracking is off by some vegetables here and there. But it doesn't matter, because I know how much I burn, and I know how much I eat, so I know how much I need to eat to lose weight. Period. And as you can see from the data, it's doing exactly what it's supposed to be doing. I'm eating less than my expenditure and I'm losing weight.

Like I said, it's not complicated. You just need to put in the effort
 
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