Why can’t we eat and lose calories.. LOL
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To add on to what others have said already, putting on muscle at the gym is a long term investment for weight loss as muscles are greedy af when it comes to calories. The more muscle you have, the higher your baseline metabolism is.
Makes me think less of how hard it is to stay thin and more how incredibly efficient our bodies are when exercising.
Why can’t we eat and lose calories.. LOL
you can. Eat celery. Not with ranch not with peanut butter…just celery. It actually has negative calories so to say because it costs your body more than it offers
Just want to point out that while an activity may consume an estimated amount of calories, the real calories required to do the activity, plus repair and recover from depleted stores of different biochemistries is never accounted for but necessarily required.
Take for example, running a marathon. It might say… burn 3kcal on paper. But the subsequent rebuilding and repair of damaged tissue is gonna to use wayyyy more than that.
If you let your car idle in the driveway all day, it’ll go through half a tank of gas without moving a mile
Humans are extremely energy efficient. Running and walking is extremely energy efficient method of movement for humans. Our bodies evolved to do it. How to move around you need a fairly small amoutn of your cells; however every single cell in your body has to use energy to stay alive. That is what it really boils down. Everything from digestion to breathing takes quite bit of energy and you do it way more than runing.
If you truly want a form of exercise that burns lots of energy, go swimming. Our bodies aren’t meant to swim. We don’t have naturally bouancy, nor can you rest against anything in water. When you stand with the correct posture your all your body needs to do is to hold the head on top of the spine, spine straight, and legs straight and you transfer your whole body weight down to your heels. After that it is just minute adjustments for balance. However in water, you have nothing to transfer your body weight to, if you stop moving and adjusting you sink. Because in water all parts of your body has equal resitance against movement, all of your muscles will have to engage to adjust your body.
However humans can drop the calorie requirements dramatically. In high stress situations like in a cold environment and low food supply your whole body will just basically start to be in a form of hibernation. However you will also start to gain weight as body wants to put everything it can in to reserves.
Also, humans are built to eat once a day or even less, and that’s with running and hunting included, so for efficiency that’s the baseline and everything else is highly optimized.
Absolutely agree, you need 2000 calories if you are grown up man with 8 hours of Manual labor. This data was collected in 60-70th. Nowadays office/home workers need only around 1500 calories.
The sole purpose of breathing is to provide the oxygen to burn stuff. You breathe faster while working out, but the additional number of breaths taken compared to sitting around is relatively small, especially when considering a full day vs an hour of working out.
Most of the calories you burn go toward basic life/maintenance. Making new proteins, moving molecules around in your cells, cell division, all that stuff. This is happening constantly in your entire body and needs a ton of energy.
Running is actually quite easy for your body and is only a little bit of extra energy on top of all that, so it only requires a few extra calories relative to what you burn just to survive the rest of the day.
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