“You think people need more cardio, while others think people need more weight training. If you can’t even agree on what kind of basic exercise is best for weight loss, why should anyone believe you when you say exercise is even necessary?”
> Have you *never* read any diet blog online and seen how *much* disagreement there is over what diet works and what does not? There is FAR more disagreement between the “low carb” and “low fat” camps than there could *ever* be over cardio vs strength. There are many who don’t even think that calories matter, but rather carbs or whether the food is processed or not. By the same token, we can’t say which diets work if the “Paleo” does not agree with “Vegan.” Most people agree that cardio is better for fat loss, while resistance is better for muscle gain. There are literally diets “wars” but there are no “wars” within the exercise camp.

Nonetheless, exercise is still not efficient, for reasons I’ve already pointed out.

>> However, when you keep it up for a couple to a
>> few weeks, you will gradually lose weight, and at
>> one point you will even just drop about ten pounds
>> within a week. Then, your body will start becoming
>> healthier.

If you keep dieting, you’ll also lose weight.

> when you keep dieting without exercise, you have to keep lowering the number of calories you ingest, because dieting slows metabolism. A rigorous exercise program slowly increases the amount one can eat and not gain weight. I have slowly been able to increase the number of calories that I can eat and not regain weight. That is why I also count calories- I want to be careful in increasing them. At least 95% of the people who take the just dieting approach regain their weight because their metabolism has been slowed down by the dieting and therefore they regain weight very easily. Over 90% of the persons in the National Weight Loss Registry who have successfully kept off their weight made exercise a priority from the start of their weight loss process and they also continue exercising throughout their maintenance period.

>> Encouraging people to just eat less is incredibly
>> dumb. People should be encouraged to eat right and
>> excercise. Then the body will take care of itself.

Telling people to eat less is exactly what people need, because people are eating too much.
>That depends. I was not eating that much before I lost my weight. Actually, people CAN lose weight without eating less and exercising more. The trick is just not to eat more because one exercises. My metabolism had slowed down and therefore just eating less would make my metabolism slow down even more. People who gain weight very easily are not at all helped by the approach you suggest. A person with a slow metabolism should be more encouraged to exercise more, not eat less, but certainly more sensibly. Studies DO show that intense exercise that really raises the heartrate does increase calorie burn after the exercise is performed. Men burn more calories than women because men have more muscle mass. Younger people have more muscle mass than older persons, therefore they can eat more. Therefore, increasing one’s muscle mass DOES raise one’s metabolic rate.