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by jaegerpicker
2762 days ago
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Most exercise based weight loss isn't about the actual exercise it's about the changes the intense exercise makes to your body that causes you to burn more calories while resting. Exercise often tunes your body to burn calories at a higher rate as you gain muscle and / or increase muscle health which requires more energy to support even while resting. So while you don't NEED exercise to lose weight it certainly is a super important part of weight lose for most people. |
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Contestants on an extreme weight loss television reality show saw their resting metabolism drop after a rigorous program of exercise.
>The group as a whole on average burned 2,607 calories per day at rest before the competition, which dropped to about 2,000 calories per day at the end.
Six years later, calorie burning had slowed further to 1,900 per day, as reported in the journal Obesity.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/6-years-after-the...
Another recent study showed that diet effected metabolism.
>a large new study published on Wednesday in the journal BMJ found that overweight adults who cut carbohydrates from their diets and replaced them with fat sharply increased their metabolisms.
After five months on the diet, their bodies burned roughly 250 calories more per day than people who ate a high-carb, low-fat diet
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/well/eat/how-a-low-carb-d...