re: Weight loss: What actual percentage is Diet/Exercise?

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Lean protein,

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Bad advice. Fatty protein is what you should be aiming for - as well as non-protein fats (e.g. take a shot of heavy cream if you are hungry).

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Weight loss

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Physiologically speaking, weight loss is almost all diet. Exercise can contribute, but it is a small factor. I have no idea of an actual percentage.

Psychologically speaking, exercise helps with diet in that someone who does the hard work isn't going to be as apt to ruin the work with a bad diet.

Good health requires both, but diet is still the predominant factor.

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It's the carbs not the fat.

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This is not true and the fact it has 13 upvotes to 2 downvotes is concerning

I lost 50 pounds despite eating 300+ grams of carbs on my workout days. Never ate more than 50g of fat during my entire 9 month cut.

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This is not true and the fact it has 13 upvotes to 2 downvotes is concerning

I lost 50 pounds despite eating 300+ grams of carbs on my workout days. Never ate more than 50g of fat during my entire 9 month cut.

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Yes, it is true. However, that does not preclude your experience from being true either.

exercise does the following:

- releases 'happy' endorphines which make you feel good about yourself which most likely translates into you feeling you are 'exercising your way to weight loss'

- increases blood flow to heart and lungs and creates/maintains muscle mass and the more muscles you have the more fat they will help burn (particulary large leg muscles)

- for me at least, cause me to not want to eat as much..who wants to pig out after they're exhausted from a 4 hour bike ride?


so there are definitely some benefits to exercise, its just not going to help you lose weight in any signficant way.

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Yes, it is true. However, that does not preclude your experience from being true either.

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Carbs are not the poison that ketotards say they are

Keto is fine for just losing weight but if you lift keto is terrible. Your muscles need the carbs and glycogen

I'm bulking now so i eat 450g of carbs on workout days. If they were poison i wouldnt be making strength gains and would not be in control of my weight gain. I'm gaining weight at a steady 0.8 pounds a week. I eat rice, beans, sweet potatoes, regular potatoes, oatmeal, fruits and veggies. All of those are carbs. None are poison.

Keto works because you do it at a caloric deficit, not because you avoid carbs. Avoiding carbs means your body has to burn fat for energy right off the bat. However any excess fat(caloric surplus) you eat will be stored as fat, hence why it onlt works eating at a deficit, just like any other diet

Running 3 miles burns about 450 calories.

A big mac has 536 calories


Alot easier to cut calories with diet, than it is with excercise

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Keto is fine for just losing weight but if you lift keto is terrible. Your muscles need the carbs and glycogen

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incorrect. everyone says this.

i competed for several years and was very competitive racing bikes..these road races were often endurance marathons..surviving surges up hills over 50-100 mile course with a crazy-arse sprint at the end.

i had no problem being competitive and moving up the ranks and getting on the podium with a low carb diet.

last years TDF winner also was a low-carb nut (the british guy) but dont let those facts change your thinking.

its like 90% diet. You can easily lose weight without exercise, but its almost impossible to do by exercise alone.