Sun, May-19-19, 11:47
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Senior Member
Posts: 15,075
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Plan: mostly milkfat
Stats: 190/152.4/154
BF:
Progress: 104%
Location: Ontario
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Originally Posted by bkloots
My N=1 experiment tells me that I've always been at my lowest weight when I was doing what I consider a huge amount of exercise: running or jogging, weight training, spinning, and other strenuous cardio routines, four or more days a week.
Now into my 70s, I continue a regular routine of resistance exercise--mostly for flexibility, leg and back strength. It isn't the "calorie burning" I used to do. Walking helps when the weather cooperates--but it's clear how discouraging "too cold," "too hot," and "pouring rain" can be. I doubt that a return to "goal weight" will be one of the results.
So, yes, exercise enhances a weight management effort. But like all sustained health practices, it takes commitment and time we can't always muster.
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I'd argue that even when effective, exercise is as much a symptom as an effective tool. If I force weight loss through calorie restriction on any plan, my energy levels plummet. When things are working on a particular plan, I'll find I have more energy at a given calorie intake than if I were eating the same calories on some other "diet" like the SAD for instance. Taubes has made the observation that exercise increases appetite--I think there's an exercise times diet times current body weight that plays in there, if I'm a bit heavier and eating a diet that's a bit less insulinogenic than I've been eating, I find the increase in appetite diminished or absent.
Commitment and time--I'd add, and drive. Not drive as a virtue, but in the sense of basic drives, like appetite, sex etc. Feeling the need to go for a walk, to get out and do something, rather than forcing yourself. We tend to find time for stuff like that, as opposed to something that takes "discipline."
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