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by EasyMark 601 days ago
Resting metabolism uses a -lot- of calories. You can have that hamburger, just don’t have two, no jogging necessary.
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> just don’t have two

I find this is the difficult part. I find it much easier to not eat hyper-palatable foods at all than to eat "just a little".

Sure, I probably won't eat two hamburgers in a sitting, but eating one greatly reduces the calories I can eat during the other meals of the day if I don't want to slowly gain weight.

If you eat a normal burger with high quality meat and traditionally made roll and fresh vegetables on top the overeating thing isn’t as much of an issue. I have a hard time finishing a single one let alone eating more.
"Hyper-palatable foods" was a new expression to me, but I like it. Much more reasonable than "processed".
The jogging might not be necessary for the calorie burn, but humans evolved based on movement / activity. Our great great great great...n ancestors didn't have desk jobs starring at screens.
Having two buggers and jogging is much healthier than eating one and be sedentary
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Jogging almost certainly won't burn the calories from the second burger.