When I was talking to my father about losing weight, I described to him about the concept of my eating less calories than I was burning. And he told me that kind of scientific reasoning is obvious. Then he proceeded to tell me about when he was at his healthiest weight, how much exercise he was doing then. It was obvious he felt that one got into a burning calories mode through exercise.
Even when I didn't care about my overweight self, my mother would make comments about how I should come over to use the treadmill at the same time she would ask me if I wanted to finish off the leftover pasta in the fridge.
When I decided to get healthier last year, I decided to join a gym. I figured I'd get into the habit of exercising regularly and then the good eating decisions would naturally follow. I had no idea the amount of work that goes into properly monitoring one's eating versus calories burned, and I grossly overestimated how much working out would go towards losing weight.
I only have my own personal anecdotal evidence to this, but my suspicion is that the general population overwhelmingly believes losing weight is tied to exercise. I see this often on this subreddit of people frustrated at their scale because they've been going to the gym for weeks and haven't lost a single pound and have even gained a few. I just saw a post where someone was devastated that someone would be shocked to see a fat person exercising, as if it wasn't a common perception of people that exercise = weight loss.
I love exercise, it helps my mental health so much and I make smarter decisions about every aspect of my life when I exercise. In that way, it helps me lose weight. But I don't lose weight through exercise.
If you frequent this sub often and you've been at this weight loss routine for awhile, you probably know that weight is lost in the kitchen. I know that if I run a mile this afternoon, and then go out and eat 3 pizza slices afterwards, I've more than cancelled out the caloric burn I did from the run. But does the average person know this?
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