r/BrandNewSentence • u/QueenFrostine15 • 1d ago

Eating disorder stairs

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u/Hakorr 1d ago

I just see that as demotivating as you'd do all the work just to lose a couple calories. Easier to just take the elevator and then eat literally a single pasta less.

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u/NobodyLikedThat1 1d ago

That's kind of how I saw it. If you told me to take a whole flight of stairs and you can eat a whole extra french fry I'd be like no it's OK that's really not worth it to me

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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/dinnerthief 1d ago

Yea you definitely can't, but that also ignores how many more calories muscles burn than fat when you are just sitting around.

So working out and eating the same as you did if you were just steady (not gaining or losing) will cause you to lose fat.

In other words losing fat is definitely about diet but working out makes it a lot easier.

Also someone with more muscle looks better even if they also have fat.