Comments on: You Can’t OutRun Your Fork! http://nerdfitness.com/blog/2009/07/15/you-cant-outrun-your-fork/ Level up your life, every single day. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Stevehttp://nerdfitness.com/blog/2009/07/15/you-cant-outrun-your-fork/comment-page-1/#comment-462 Steve Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:41:12 +0000 http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/?p=2332#comment-462 Shhhhh Evan you're blowing my cover! I'm trying to scare people away from the bread bowl. Hahaha, you bring up a great point though, and one I should have made clear in the article. I'll make the adjustment in the blog to reflect the difference when factoring your BMR. Still though, "an extra hour a day" is impossible for many people, and most don't even get that exercise to begin with, let alone 3-4 hours of it! The balancing act for sure. The thing to take away from this is that unless you have all the time in the world to exercise, it's much easier to just not eat the crap so you don't have to worry about hours of exercise. Touche salesman, Steve Shhhhh Evan you’re blowing my cover! I’m trying to scare people away from the bread bowl. Hahaha, you bring up a great point though, and one I should have made clear in the article.

I’ll make the adjustment in the blog to reflect the difference when factoring your BMR. Still though, “an extra hour a day” is impossible for many people, and most don’t even get that exercise to begin with, let alone 3-4 hours of it!

The balancing act for sure. The thing to take away from this is that unless you have all the time in the world to exercise, it’s much easier to just not eat the crap so you don’t have to worry about hours of exercise.

Touche salesman,

Steve

]]> By: Stevehttp://nerdfitness.com/blog/2009/07/15/you-cant-outrun-your-fork/comment-page-1/#comment-4112 Steve Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:41:00 +0000 http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/?p=2332#comment-4112 Shhhhh Evan you're blowing my cover! I'm trying to scare people away from the bread bowl. Hahaha, you bring up a great point though, and one I should have made clear in the article. I'll make the adjustment in the blog to reflect the difference when factoring your BMR. Still though, "an extra hour a day" is impossible for many people, and most don't even get that exercise to begin with, let alone 3-4 hours of it! The balancing act for sure. The thing to take away from this is that unless you have all the time in the world to exercise, it's much easier to just not eat the crap so you don't have to worry about hours of exercise. Touche salesman, Steve Shhhhh Evan you’re blowing my cover! I’m trying to scare people away from the bread bowl. Hahaha, you bring up a great point though, and one I should have made clear in the article.

I’ll make the adjustment in the blog to reflect the difference when factoring your BMR. Still though, “an extra hour a day” is impossible for many people, and most don’t even get that exercise to begin with, let alone 3-4 hours of it!

The balancing act for sure. The thing to take away from this is that unless you have all the time in the world to exercise, it’s much easier to just not eat the crap so you don’t have to worry about hours of exercise.

Touche salesman,

Steve

]]> By: Evanhttp://nerdfitness.com/blog/2009/07/15/you-cant-outrun-your-fork/comment-page-1/#comment-461 Evan Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:25:42 +0000 http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/?p=2332#comment-461 I think your calculations are a bit off! The day you described totals up 3700 calories (based on the numbers in your chart), but even that doesn't accurately reflect the exercise you need to do to burn it. First calculate and subtract your basal metabolic rate - for instance, for me it works out to ~1950 calories a day burned just staying alive. So if I ate like that my surplus would be 3700-1950 = 1750 calories a day. That's 3-5 hours of working out (based on the numbers in your chart) in order to induce a calorie deficit (weight loss) for the day. Now even 3 hours a day is still unrealistic for most people, so it shows that diet can have a big impact - skip the dominos breadbowl for lunch and my surplus for the day would drop to 250 calories. Doesn't seem like much to worry about, but if you run a small surplus like that every day it adds up to over 25lbs of weight gain a year! Now add in 1 hour of daily exercise and that surplus can become a deficit of 200+ calories a day, with a corresponding weight loss of 20lbs a year. So it's a real balancing act, but getting the diet right does mean that you don't need ridiculous amounts of exercise to get in/stay in shape. I think your calculations are a bit off! The day you described totals up 3700 calories (based on the numbers in your chart), but even that doesn’t accurately reflect the exercise you need to do to burn it. First calculate and subtract your basal metabolic rate – for instance, for me it works out to ~1950 calories a day burned just staying alive. So if I ate like that my surplus would be 3700-1950 = 1750 calories a day. That’s 3-5 hours of working out (based on the numbers in your chart) in order to induce a calorie deficit (weight loss) for the day.

Now even 3 hours a day is still unrealistic for most people, so it shows that diet can have a big impact – skip the dominos breadbowl for lunch and my surplus for the day would drop to 250 calories. Doesn’t seem like much to worry about, but if you run a small surplus like that every day it adds up to over 25lbs of weight gain a year! Now add in 1 hour of daily exercise and that surplus can become a deficit of 200+ calories a day, with a corresponding weight loss of 20lbs a year. So it’s a real balancing act, but getting the diet right does mean that you don’t need ridiculous amounts of exercise to get in/stay in shape.

]]> By: Evanhttp://nerdfitness.com/blog/2009/07/15/you-cant-outrun-your-fork/comment-page-1/#comment-4111 Evan Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:25:00 +0000 http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/?p=2332#comment-4111 I think your calculations are a bit off! The day you described totals up 3700 calories (based on the numbers in your chart), but even that doesn't accurately reflect the exercise you need to do to burn it. First calculate and subtract your basal metabolic rate - for instance, for me it works out to ~1950 calories a day burned just staying alive. So if I ate like that my surplus would be 3700-1950 = 1750 calories a day. That's 3-5 hours of working out (based on the numbers in your chart) in order to induce a calorie deficit (weight loss) for the day. Now even 3 hours a day is still unrealistic for most people, so it shows that diet can have a big impact - skip the dominos breadbowl for lunch and my surplus for the day would drop to 250 calories. Doesn't seem like much to worry about, but if you run a small surplus like that every day it adds up to over 25lbs of weight gain a year! Now add in 1 hour of daily exercise and that surplus can become a deficit of 200+ calories a day, with a corresponding weight loss of 20lbs a year. So it's a real balancing act, but getting the diet right does mean that you don't need ridiculous amounts of exercise to get in/stay in shape. I think your calculations are a bit off! The day you described totals up 3700 calories (based on the numbers in your chart), but even that doesn’t accurately reflect the exercise you need to do to burn it. First calculate and subtract your basal metabolic rate – for instance, for me it works out to ~1950 calories a day burned just staying alive. So if I ate like that my surplus would be 3700-1950 = 1750 calories a day. That’s 3-5 hours of working out (based on the numbers in your chart) in order to induce a calorie deficit (weight loss) for the day.

Now even 3 hours a day is still unrealistic for most people, so it shows that diet can have a big impact – skip the dominos breadbowl for lunch and my surplus for the day would drop to 250 calories. Doesn’t seem like much to worry about, but if you run a small surplus like that every day it adds up to over 25lbs of weight gain a year! Now add in 1 hour of daily exercise and that surplus can become a deficit of 200+ calories a day, with a corresponding weight loss of 20lbs a year. So it’s a real balancing act, but getting the diet right does mean that you don’t need ridiculous amounts of exercise to get in/stay in shape.

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