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Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight... nojay March 6 2017, 13:13:05 UTC
Clicking on this link brought up a suspicious "You should upgrade Firefox" box. I did NOT click "OK"...

It's kind of obvious that exercise doesn't reduce weight or fight obesity. It's a good idea for other reasons but not for sustained weight loss (meaning fat loss -- losing skeletal mass or muscle mass is a bad thing generally).

We tend to eat today like there will not be food tomorrow and in the Western world generally there is always food tomorrow which we then eat as well because there might not be food the day after.

The solution, the only solution to losing weight is to eat less and that means accepting hunger pangs as a normal part of everyday life rather than as a valid reason to empty the fridge. Eating "better" foods like cabbage and broccoli rather than deep-fried pizza and chips helps but only if you don't eat too much in the first place.

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RE: Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight... andrewducker March 6 2017, 13:27:15 UTC
Huh, i didn't see that box. But then I block ads, so I wouldn't expect to.

I agree that exercise is still good. But, for me, the hunger pangs only last a few days when I cut down my intake. So long as I don't eat sugar/simple carbs (which give me cravings) after a few days of less food my body adapts and I'm fine with it.

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RE: Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight... nojay March 6 2017, 14:16:31 UTC
I block ads as well but I've locked this older version of Firefox (45.0.1) down to prevent updates since the most recent versions make some essential-for-me plugins stop working. It might have been the Liner page rather than the Vox article itself wanting me to ugrade, I don't know. Pale Moon displayed the page OK. I don't know if the Firefox pop-up might have tried to carry out an upgrade if I clicked OK, it wasn't very informative on that score.

Hunger pangs are a Me! Me! Me! thing, intrusive and annoying for a while but your body stops shouting at you after a time and/or you learn to ignore them in the sense of not regarding them as important.

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RE: Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight... bugshaw March 6 2017, 14:28:43 UTC
Hmm, it's a getliner link, they've maybe scraped the original Vox article? You can read it here:
http://www.vox.com/2016/4/28/11518804/weight-loss-exercise-myth-burn-calories

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Re: Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight... theweaselking March 7 2017, 19:12:52 UTC
I was just here to say that's almost exactly what happened and provide that link.

GetLiner doesn't "scrape" the page per se, they display it in a way that lets people mark up and highlight things, then share the article with their highlights.

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RE: Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight... octopoid_horror March 6 2017, 18:30:03 UTC
Some of the best advice I saw was that if you want to lose weight (or gain weight), change what you eat. But if you want to change what shape you will be in after you gain or lose weight, that's what you can do with exercise.

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RE: Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight... mair_aw March 7 2017, 15:40:45 UTC
I got ads but I got the box. It seemed to be saying I should upgrade firefox with the "underline" add-on, although in fact I could see all the underlines in the article. *shrug*.

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RE: Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight... mair_aw March 7 2017, 15:41:42 UTC
*have ad blocker

(sorry, just emerging from afternoon nap...)

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RE: Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight... momentsmusicaux March 6 2017, 15:23:50 UTC
I suspect I'm pretty much always hungry. I'm honestly not entirely sure.
For instance, I didn't think I was right now, but now I've typed the above, I feel kinda peckish. If there was food nearby like a bag of crisps or biscuits I could totally go for those. I just don't have them around, and like you say, I accept that the feeling of 'I could go for some nibbles right now' is just background.
But at social events where there's food on tap, like buffets, or social evenings where there are bowls of snacks, I just eat and eat and eat.
I only ever feel full for more than an hour or so after a really big meal, three courses at a restaurant sort of thing.

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a_pawson March 6 2017, 18:05:56 UTC

Hunger is a weird thing. I tend to only want food when I am hungry. If I had a large lunch for example, I have no desire to eat for the rest of the day. Left to my own devices, I tend to only eat once per day.

My OH is the opposite. She wants food at certain regular times of the day regardless whether or not she has recently eaten. If we were to have a late lunch at say 4pm (rather than the more usual 12.30), by 6pm she craves dinner because that is the time her brain thinks she should eat again regardless of how much food was eaten earlier.

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momentsmusicaux March 6 2017, 20:51:37 UTC
I am like your OH, apart from that I wouldn't manage that long until lunch at 4pm -- by about 1.30 I'd have chewed off a table leg or had a meltdown or something.

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