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PM-ME-SOMETHING-GOOD t1_jdwlbyg wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Study Suggests Wild Blueberries Help Burn Fat. Results showed participants burned notably more fat after consuming wild blueberries. For example, fat oxidation rate rose by 19.7%, 43.2%, and 31.1% at 20, 30, and 40 min after cycling. by Wagamaga

Yeah exercise is a lot more important for your mental and physical health than it is for your weight. If you look up calories lost by exercising you quickly realize it's not really going to help you with that. But it might make you a more disciplined, healthy person who is more easily able to enjoy their life and do the things they want, which helps with the mental battle of weight loss.

I think the only other thing besides caloric restriction that's effective is probably stimulant/appetite suppressant use.

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joshrice t1_jdwq58f wrote

Depends on the exercise and for how long. I can burn over 6-800 calories per hour cycling - and this is measured by a power meter, not just some estimation based on heart rate or something. Even for someone more casual 3-400 calories is a pretty substantial deficit.

Diet absolutely has the biggest effect though. You can't out-exercise a bad diet.

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PigeroniPepperoni t1_jdws3lh wrote

I mean exercise can absolutely use up a ton of calories. 40 minutes of moderate-intensity cycling is probably burning 500ish calories. Maybe that doesn't sound like a lot but it's basically a 25% increase in calories burned for an average(ish) person. Ignore the fact that exercising can make maintaining a calorie deficit psychologically more difficult since you'll probably end up really hungry after.

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PM-ME-SOMETHING-GOOD t1_jdwxrkb wrote

That last sentence is pretty important. But your numbers check out and that's crazy surprising to me. Most of the cardio exercises I had looked at were nowhere close to that, or I was completely misremembering.

TIL

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PM-ME-SOMETHING-GOOD t1_jdwpakc wrote

Yeah pretty much, it might raise your metabolism too depending on the substance. But if you're able to meet your calorie goals then it's not necessary and it's probably not good for you to use drugs like that for weight loss anyway, especially without medical supervision.

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