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by dyarosla 3182 days ago
Just wanted to point out- 350 cal/hour is inaccurately low for even light exercise, and exceptionally low if you are overweight.

Properly doing exercise and keeping at it won't result in joint pains or aches, and may also uplift your mood due to endorphins+more.

IMO your reasoning for avoiding exercise should be revisited.

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It's not inaccurately low at all. You're basing your estimate on perfect/ideal scenarios, I'm basing it on the kind of thing the average overweight person trying to lose weight does when they spend an hour in a gym. They walk on a treadmill or they do more intense things with a lot of breaks in between.

Also, there is no proper form of exercise for an obese person that won't cause pains or aches, it doesn't exist. We might just be coming from different backgrounds and talking about different body types here.

> Also, there is no proper form of exercise for an obese person that won't cause pains or aches

Swimming. Doing laps is a great calorie burner too.

> and may also uplift your mood due to endorphins+more.

there's very little evidence for this, other than a very short lasting boost.