What exactly does that face to do with your bonkers statement? Where is the peer reviewed data? Let me guess, you’re a bit of a chumbster and you’ve convinced yourself exercise won’t help, because you don’t want to do it?
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If I go to the gym 4 times a week and don’t alter my diet, I lose weight. If I stop going to the gym, I gradually gain weight. My job involves driving a desk. If my calories burned exceed calories consumed, my weight decreases over time. Pretty simple really.
jun 30, 2025, 5:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Not to that nutter Sam it doesn’t. He lives in alternate reality where you can burn all the calories you want but you’ll never lose weight. But don’t get him started again.
jul 1, 2025, 8:01 am • 0 0 • view
You know, if you just read the article and followed the links to all the studies you would see that I'm not a nutter. Here's another easy-to-digest article that quotes 60+ studies
jul 1, 2025, 3:35 pm • 0 0 • view
This single graph shows it. Compare the orange and turquoise lines. The people who dieted and exercised lost less weight than those who just dieted. Surely you would have expected them to lose way more? Turns out bodies are complicated.
jul 1, 2025, 3:35 pm • 0 0 • view
"So, how is it possible that a group of humans who are so active and fit could burn about the same amount of calories as those who are sedentary? Doesn't that defy the laws of physics? Yeah. Absolutely. So, we were totally shocked as well."
jul 1, 2025, 3:39 pm • 0 0 • view
You must also have been reducing your calorie intake without realising. These experiments have been repeated over and over, using doubly labeled water, and the results are as un-intuitive as they are conclusive. Humans have a daily calorie budget.
jul 1, 2025, 3:27 pm • 0 0 • view
On a personal level, l I have tested this over months. It matches my experience exactly. If I ate less one day, I lost weight the next—less than 12 hrs later. If I exercised heavily one day it made no difference to my weight the next. Weeks of going to the gym and my weight went up until I dieted.
jul 1, 2025, 3:27 pm • 0 0 • view
For a long time I told myself that I wasn't losing weight because muscle weighed more than fat. But having been very methodical about exercise and calorie counting I am now absolutely certain that exercise—daily skipping; swimming a mile & doing weights 3 times a week—made no difference to my weight
jul 1, 2025, 3:27 pm • 0 0 • view
This diagram shows it. If you can’t understand why, a peer-reviewed study isn’t going to help you.
jun 29, 2025, 8:04 pm • 0 0 • view
I guess you didn’t even read the article, then. Why would I bother getting you the peer-reviewed data if you can’t even read a decent summary of it in Scientific American?
jun 29, 2025, 8:02 pm • 0 0 • view