Does exercise make it harder for you to lose weight?

[liv]

Originally Posted by stacy3477

This reminds me of the article last week stating that low-fat diets will make us live longer based on scientific studies on chimps (sorry, I don't have the link). EXCEPT, they ignored any chimps in the "low-fat" category that died of natural causes! Science doesn't quite work that way. Be cautious of stories like this...

No kidding. There is such a disconnect between what the science and researchers are saying and what and how it gets reported in the press. I never usually read stuff like this at all. It is usually crap and sensationalism. I do sometimes look up the studies they claim to be basing these ridiculous stories on though.

No wonder most people think low carb is unhealthy and dangerous because what they know about it comes from newpaper stories like this. Journalists pretty much spin it their way. I think I have yet to see a story about Atkins without a picture of a plate of bacon and eggs swimming in fat. Like that is what we eat all the time.

[jgurl1026]

"My elliptical says I burn 810 calories an hour, but I also know that my elliptical overstates the burn rate by 50% or more."

Does anyone have a CORRECT health calculation in which you can figure out what you are truly burning during certain activities? I've seen many online.. but how accurate are they...?

[phil h]

In my experience I have a lot of documented wt loss with diets.All kinds of diets but very low carb has shown to be the one I can stick with as it addresses hunger so well.As far as exercise alone,I can honestly say I have never lost any substantial weight.Heavy exercise with low carbs stimulates my appetite considerably.Exercise such as a 4 mile walk has little if any effect on my hunger.I lift quite a bit of wts and have to be careful not to over do it.Funny, I can do a lot of body wt exercises such as burpees,pushups,pullups without a problem.I think the article is somewhat accurate in that heavy exercise may be counter productive if you are trying to lose wt.Think I will stick with walking and body wt exercises and lift heavy with few reps on occasion.Amazing what squats holding a 25lb plate to your chest and pullups will do.For the ladies pullups might be too hard to do but try reverse pullups.Will tone up those arms very quickly.And we have all seen what burpees will do when we see those prisoners in remarkable shape.