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Hey /fit/, I'm a little confused about the actual way I'll be losing weight. Not because I'm stupid or anything, but on one hand I'm hearing that I'm losing weight because I've limited my intake of calories, on the other I hear it's because I'm using more than I consume. Is it a case of both? I do excericize, but I doubt I'm using up more than I'm consuming (I take in about 1500 a day when my BMR says I should take about 2100). Answers please?
>> Anonymous
You'll be losing weight because you're stupid.
>> Anonymous
I'll bite.

You're losing weight because of both diet and exercise. The majority of weight loss does, in fact, come from diet, because almost nobody burns more than 800 calories a day from exercise alone unless they're a Navy SEAL or competitve athlete or something. The recommended weight loss plan is to find the calories required by your RMR, reduce that by 25% for the diet, and then burn another 25% of the calories required by your RMR through exercise.

Example: RMR requires 2,000 calories. Reduce by 25% and consume 1500 per day. Burn 25% per day and burn 500. Overall result is reducing calories by 1,000 without encountering starvation.
>> Anonymous
>>202593

Also, I know I just said to burn equal calories from diet and exercise, but prior to that I said diet is more important. What I mean is that diet is a constant and is rather simple to maintain without effort...exercise can often be a variable based on your schedule unless you're some 16 year old with no job or responsibilities outside of doing book reports.

If you have a real career or in college, those things take priority over exercise and you often end up having no time to exercise that day, or for multiple days in a row. Like, right now, I just graduated college and now I work a very weird schedule because I'm a radiologist in a hospital. I work 12 hours a day for four days straight, then have three days off. It leaves me pretty much no time to exercise during my work days and I have to fit in exercise on the off days in between my errands and social affairs. Mileage may vary...if you work a steady 9-5 job five days a week, it's obviously a lot easier to work out.

At the end of the day, at least I know dieting is still doing something for me ALL the time. The upside is that I probably cover over six miles a day from work (1 mile walk to work, constantly walking and hustling around in the hospital, climbing stairs often, and walking a mile back home).

You need to tailor diet and exercise based around what you normally do. If you're highly sedentary, it's more of a pain because you purposely need to schedule a good amount of exercise to balance it out. If you're a coal miner or a laborer in a steel mill, you're probably doing more exercise at work for 8 hours than most people do in a gym every day.
>> Anonymous
>>202593
>>202609
Thanks a lot for the answer. In all honesty, Iknow it sounded like a dumb question but hey, doesn't hurt to ask and now I know. I run for about 25 minutes at a pretty good pace every day and eat healthy, I'm not that fat at all I'm just trying to tone up. Thanks again.