Taubes said this a while ago. It is about diet.... you can't outrun a dodgy diet.
however it is worth reading what mc has to say
josef also has something to say....
however it is worth reading what mc has to say
josef also has something to say....
a) exercise makes you hungry so you end up taking in more calories after you exercise because you overestimate how much you burned and
b) you justify eating more because "muscle burns more fat calories than fat".
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how's the toe?
i just don't buy taube's argument on exercise and that's why folks overeat: they underestimate how many calories they've burned.
Phooey.
Hormones released during exercise leave
us sated after a workout
BUT
folks who are already overweight likely have over-eating habits: eat for a variety of habits and homeostatic responses.
AND
we are sold all the time on eating around workouts:
during a workout recovery drink
after workout recovery drink
before a workout drink
very little is said about doing this relative to our needs/calories burned.
poor folks at the gym didn't come up with these arguments about muscle and fat burning and post workout recovery.
this whole focus on diet vs exercise is relevant to make the point diet first, but we still have to come up a level: why is diet so hard?
and help with that.
we are creatures of habit for a reason :)
mc
ps
there's also lots of ways to add in exercise - i'm really sick to the teeth of folks tauting this the "one true way" to best workout for fat loss too. once we start to get a handle on metabolism and its rich complexity the best we can do is say that well doing this we found that. The more studies i read the more difficult it becomes to support Generalizations regarding practice beyond some pretty high level points.
1) change is hard; change is pain - it's rewiring and we happen to do that change via lots and lots of practice.
2) to move is good; to move more is better on a ton of levels. anything more than that is sweating the details
3) michael pollen, while i don't agree with a lot of what he's said has a lovely summery: eat food, mostly plants.
i'd say generally speaking that if you want to lose weight:
- change is hard: prepare for change before attempting it :)
- eat less; mostly plants
- move more - it doesn't have to be huge. start with mobility
- more will come
- be patient with yourself: we have the rest of our lives to get this right :)
sorry for the rant
hope the foot's ok and that ya got a chance to see the sun while it was out on the weekend
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Effects of exercise and restrained eating behaviour on appetite control.
Martins C, Robertson MD, Morgan LM.
Division of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences, Faculty of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK. C.Martins@surrey.ac.uk
Obesity is a global epidemic; increased consumption of energy-dense food and reduced physical activity levels are likely to be the main drivers. Previous cross-sectional research has shown that sedentary males, unlike their active counterparts, are unable to compensate for previous energy intake (EI). Using a longitudinal design a 6-week exercise intervention was found to improve short-term appetite control, leading to a more 'sensitive' eating behaviour in response to previous EI, both acutely at a test meal and for the next 24 h. Although the mechanisms whereby acute and chronic exercise improves short-term appetite remain unknown, post-ingestive satiety peptides are likely to be involved. Acute exercise was found to increase postprandial levels of polypeptide YY, glucagon-like peptide-1 and pancreatic polypeptide but to have no impact on ghrelin, suggesting that exercise can trigger physiological changes in satiety hormone secretion that could help in appetite control and weight maintenance. In the context of an increased availability of highly-palatable food, dietary restraint may be increasingly important. Although restraint has been associated with abnormal eating behaviour, in the laboratory no counter-regulation was found in restrained eaters when presented with a buffet meal 60 min after a high-energy preload or when a pasta-meal was presented 3 h after preloading. Although restraint was not found to impact on polypeptide YY or TAG, lower postprandial glucose and insulin plasma levels were observed in restrained eaters, together with increased feelings of fullness. In conclusion, short-term appetite control seems to be favourably modified by exercise, while the impact of restraint on appetite seems to be more complex.
mc
the toe is improving. The bruising is gone and it is OK for walking but I gave Krav Maga a miss this week - it is still very sore if it gets banged