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Originally Posted by Sly
What you are proposing is absolutely unrealistic.
Calories Burned During Exercise, Activities, Sports and Workouts
You say you don't eat that good, realistically you probably do 2000-3000 calories a day in intake. Then you go out and you exercise pretty heavily, much more than the average person does. You are a very active person so the food that you eat does not matter so much.
Most people cannot spend 2-4 hours a day doing a heavy workout/activity routine, which is what would be needed in order to "eat whatever you want." The answer for most people is to control intake because countering intake with proper output is extremely difficult.
Had Rochard been eating 1800-2000 calories daily during those overweight times that he had, he would not have been overweight, despite having no time for basic exercise, let alone 2-4 hours of mountain biking. |
I realize that most people can't do what I do, but I was making a point that it's intake vs what is burnt.. Think about this.. I'm looking to do an AT through hike next summer and through hikers usually burn up to 5k calories a day.. They aren't jogging, biking or doing heavy exercises but hiking and carrying a heavy pack.
Any person with working legs can walk.. You don't have to do crazy exercises routines to lose weight, you just have to burn excess calories.. Also people can walk miles a day or bike them even if working full time. It's just a matter of how much they want to do it...