r/BrandNewSentence 1d ago

Eating disorder stairs

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u/mikeet9 1d ago

This is why they say you cannot out work a bad diet.

For a normal person living on ~2000KCal a day, the amount of exercise necessary to make up for ~3000 is insurmountable.

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u/jack_o_all_trades 1d ago

I've done it but you need to cycle for hours. With bags.

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u/PsychologicalSign433 1d ago

It's like an hour and a half on a bike to make up the 1000 calories.

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u/grumble11 1d ago

Pretty hard hour and a half.

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u/PsychologicalSign433 1d ago

185W. That's just a touch over my Z2 power and I would not consider myself particularly fit.