The exercise is not (primarily) for weight loss. It’s so your body doesn’t feel like a useless sack of potatoes the whole day. So you’re not out of breath when picking something up from the ground. The weight loss is unfortunately primarily achieved in the kitchen.
At least, that’s my experience. But maybe if you used to not move at all it makes a big difference. I lost weight when I changed my diet for the better, and I gain weight whenever I slip up significantly. But when I stopped running 15km per week (for health reasons) I didn’t really gain a significant amount, maybe a kg (accounting for noise). I did become a useless sack if potatoes though, so I’m back in the grind.
Your body keeps a set calorie usage target that it will adjust to. So over long times it will normalise to using a set amount. New exercise will burn extra energy initially, but you then adjust to doing it.
Diet changes have best effect, exercise is needed to stop you losing muscle mass.
“build it at the gym and show it off in the kitchen”
The only way excercise significantly contributes to weight loss is by building more muscle mass, particularly lean muscle, that burns more calories at rest.
Since your resting metabolism is a bit more than half of the calories you burn in a day, making it larger adds a notable chunk to the “Out” side of “calories in < calories out”, in some cases making it so the out side is capable of being larger than the minimum a person needs to eat to be healthy.
By happy coincidence, it also makes it easier to excercise, makes you feel better and be healthier, and helps with awkward panting.
The exercise is not (primarily) for weight loss. It’s so your body doesn’t feel like a useless sack of potatoes the whole day. So you’re not out of breath when picking something up from the ground. The weight loss is unfortunately primarily achieved in the kitchen.
At least, that’s my experience. But maybe if you used to not move at all it makes a big difference. I lost weight when I changed my diet for the better, and I gain weight whenever I slip up significantly. But when I stopped running 15km per week (for health reasons) I didn’t really gain a significant amount, maybe a kg (accounting for noise). I did become a useless sack if potatoes though, so I’m back in the grind.
I think your experience is correct.
Your body keeps a set calorie usage target that it will adjust to. So over long times it will normalise to using a set amount. New exercise will burn extra energy initially, but you then adjust to doing it.
Diet changes have best effect, exercise is needed to stop you losing muscle mass.
“build it at the gym and show it off in the kitchen”
The only way excercise significantly contributes to weight loss is by building more muscle mass, particularly lean muscle, that burns more calories at rest.
Since your resting metabolism is a bit more than half of the calories you burn in a day, making it larger adds a notable chunk to the “Out” side of “calories in < calories out”, in some cases making it so the out side is capable of being larger than the minimum a person needs to eat to be healthy.
By happy coincidence, it also makes it easier to excercise, makes you feel better and be healthier, and helps with awkward panting.