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I think it really sucks that not everyone has access to exercise. Some folks are injured or disabled, some are just too big, and some folks just don't have anything enjoyable around them/the means.
If people had an outlet burn 500+ extra calories a day that they really enjoyed and had the time to do, we could make a very significant dent in obesity.
All I'm saying is that fitness ought to be fun.
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Exercise is a smaller part of the weight loss puzzle than people tend to think. 500+ extra calories is a lot of exercise. But it can make life better in general, because endorphins are awesome.
Weight loss starts in the kitchen. And the human body isn’t designed to lose fat. It’s designed to store it for when it can’t get any food. So it will fight you tooth and nail (or more accurately fat cell and gut bacteria) to cling to the fat.
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But it can make life better in general, because endorphins are awesome.
You're supposed to get endorphins from exercise? I must have been doing it wrong.
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500 calories is about 40 minutes of running for me, if it weren't for my running injury I'd be doing that about 5 days a week or like an hour bike ride on road (which is what I do now at zone 1/2). I think a lot of people are capable of working up to that, but that's totally dependent on if they like it.
I was thinking more of maintaining fitness from youth and not weight loss. And out of highschool I don't think this is like a crazy amount of exercise (one of my friends was running 100 miles a week in highschool, that's crazy).
But if people have a fun way to stay active, that they enjoy doing. I don't think obesity would be a big problem. I think encouraging a healthy lifestyle starts from childhood and I think access is a big part of that.
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500+ extra calories is a lot of exercise
And it's like one cream-filled donut on the food intake side of the equation.
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But exercise, especially strength training, helps the work you do in the kitchen by raising your BMR.
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Depending on your current size, 500 calories really isn't that much if you are doing something you enjoy. OTOH, exercise often makes you feel hungrier, so if you aren't simultaneously watching that, then it doesn't help.
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This is probably the worst part mentally about chronic joint pain for me. i want to be active, I want to lose weight, but I'm sitting here maxing out what I can physically handle just doing my everyday stuff. On a GOOD day I get about 3k steps in and I'm feeling it for days after. It's so goddamn demoralizing.
Then in my case I'm also taking care of my partner whose health has been declining and 3 autistic kids. It feels like I'm barely keeping up.
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You are incredible.
You might not feel like it, but you are handling so much! I have no advice, I’m sure you know your situation best, but I’m rooting for you!
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Not to be the people in the joke, but I've got arthritis too and for me the missing piece was swimming. Much lower impact and localized pressure.
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Gotta drop a W for you. You're doing more than most people.
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I have severe osteoarthritis in one knee and one shoulder. As of right now, I'm still able to bicycle 25-50 miles a day, but I'm terrified of eventually reaching a point where I can't do any sort of cardiovascular exercise. I know that I'm going to swell up and die in a very short time.
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One of my favorite quotes:
“Before you criticize a man, you should walk a mile in his shoes. That way if he gets angry, you're a mile away... and you've got his shoes!"
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How did he hear you criticize him from a mile away? Text? Phone call?
Remember folks, if someone asks to borrow your shoes right off your feet then he walks a mile away, he's about to criticize you.
(I know am dork. This is how I have fun on a Saturday night.)
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I think the way ozempic works should have made it pretty clear that for a lot of people, it's really not that easy. If they (the people who say that it's easy to lose weight) had any empathy or basic amounts of trust in science.
We've also known for a very long time about a gene in rats which causes them to produce the same hormones as a starving rat even when eating adequate calories, causing them to overeat. Rats without this gene self-regulate their calorie intake when free-fed kibbles. They're living proof of how not every member of a species is identical in how their body handles energy intake and expenditure. If you reduce the calories these rats are able to consume, they become greatly distressed, just like how some humans do when dieting.
Twin studies also prove the heritability of BMI.
Is there something like ozempic we can give people to give them empathy or trust in science? Way too many people can't do that on their own.
Yes, actually! But we don't have enough trip-sitters.
A good education? But as they say, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.