The science is in: Exercise isn’t the best way to lose weight 

I started walking 2 miles a day.....It's now been 3 months and I'm miles from home and have no idea where I am !

i hope people get that the point of the video is not to stop exercising altogether, but that exercise alone is not enough and maintaining a healthy diet is also necessary.

But, if you exercise it can improve your mood and reduce your tendency to comfort eat.

Me personally, I started losing the most weight after reading the book Woman’s weight loss secrets: the unspoken truth, a few things you are mentioning in this video are also in the book

This whole video is forgetting that increasing muscle mass also increases your resting calorie burn.

You can exercise 7 days a week - do tons of cardio. But if you over-eat you're going to gain weight. People don't realise how important diet really is.

Exercising actually makes me be more mindful of what i eat.

I want to add something that doesn't get talked about enough, and that's the importance of a healthy gut microbiome. There's some very recent research which suggests that a healthy gut microbiome and how efficiently you lose weight is strongly related. Makes sense why some people can eat everything and not gain a pound! So be sure to look after your gut health. You can do this by taking a high quality weight loss probiotic. (Just make sure it contains only the research-backed ingredients) - Fermented foods are good too such as kimchi, tempeh, kombucha etc.

“How do they stay slim? They don’t overeat.” Facts

So basically the video just explained the 20/80 rule: %20 working out and %80 eating healthy or choosing healthier options.

Agree with the vid, but the best thing about exercise is that it motivates you to eat healthier, plus it improves mental health.

Very true. I do track so I run about at least 5-6 miles a day. I didn't see much weight loss in high school, but when I went to college and had less time to eat, I rapidly lost about 15 lb in about 6 months. Exercise may build muscle, but diet matters for weight.

Anyone who’s ever done a workout on a machine or with a wearable device has realized how few calories are actually burned despite a huge physical effort.

75% of people here think that this video is against exercise 25% of people here actually know what the video is talking about

Excercise make me want to eat less, for real. I don't overeat and I feel fuller when I exercise. If I don't exercise, I lay on the couch all day and eat entire pizzas.

The real secret comes down to your diet; how many calories are you consuming vs how many you’re burning. I never really payed attention to what I ate before, but I started weighing out portions and counting calories, and it works. It really does work. The key is discipline and consistency. I started off by finding a calorie intake calculator on google and calculated how many calories I should intake to lose ‘x’ amount of weight per week. Then you stick to it. But your mindset is important too, you’re not starving yourself or depriving yourself from enjoying food, sometimes I go 2-3 days in a row over my caloric ‘ceiling’ but the key is to stay consistent, while also making sure to enjoy the foods you eat

While exercising alone won't make you lose weight, exercising energizes me, which allows me to make sane decisions about what I eat. Guys don't look at this as an excuse to not exercise because exercise is needed even if you don't lose weight

Regardless of what they say in this video, please know that exercising helps you to fight off the crave for junk food, after a good work out session, my mind is a lot stronger on staying away from unhealthy diet and my appetite for healthy food increase.

For me eating is a way to combat boredom and loneliness. I’m realizing just how empty my life is now that I’m eating less. All I needed was a job, friends or a hobby to keep me busy enough so that I don’t eat every moment of the day.

what they didn’t take into consideration is that by exercising you build up muscle which are in turn constantly burning calories and your metabolism becomes more active.

The video isn't saying not to exercise. It's saying that based on whatever studies they cite, those studies found that exercising alone does not necessarily lead to results. It is true that losing weight is as simple as calories in < calories out, and exercising increases calories out; however, human behaviour takes a toll. People tend to justify eating more, or eating worse, because they exercised. In this case, while they're increasing calories out, they're also increasing calories in. They're not saying it's impossible to lose weight by just exercising, only that it's a lot harder and requires a lot more focus and self control than most people have. Changing the way we eat and our approach to food is, in the opinion of the studies this video cites, a more sustainable and effective way to lose weight. At the end of the day, everyone needs to find what works for them.

me: I wanna lose weight mom: don't disrespect the food, it's a blessing

You'll definitely look better if you workout to lose weight vs just dieting lol..

Exercise is nothing without good nutrition. Problem is I have no idea about calories and nutrients. I tried next Leveldiet and currently its working perfectly for me. 100% recommend

This video is merely making the problem worse by discouraging exercise.

All you need to do is 100 Push ups,100 Sit ups,100 Squats and 10km running.

Lazy ass people will love this video.

I believe that exercising on its own is not very helpful in losing weight, but when combined with eating healthy and changing your eating habits it definitely boosts your weight loss journey.

Drink contaminated water Diarrhea Weight loss Boom. Mind blown

Me: I want to lose weight My mom: good at cooking

I'm gonna start smoking so I can stop, best thing I can do for myself

I’ve just turned 40 and i’m the least active I’ve been, however I’ve cut down to 2 meals a day with an 18 hour fast in between and I’m the slimmest since I was 15 years old. Very little exercise these days but just minimised the input and have had great results, just the feeling of being hungry occasionally at breakfast time. Which is not a big deal really, it just takes discipline. Good luck everyone 😊

YOU CAN'T OUTRUN YOUR FORK

So they tried to make something that has been very obvious for years now as some sort of recent scientific breakthrough? Yes, exercise plays a smaller role in terms of calorie expenditure compared to nutrition, but the offset is not as insignificant as they make it sound. The problem is the *type* of exercise, such as low-intensity cardio, that is perpetuated to be effective for calorie expenditure when in fact it's not all that great. Anyway, I research a lot and make fitness and health videos. Stuff like this irks me from time to time.

I literally had no exercise at all. Everyday go to work and walk Just normal work routine. 4.5L water a day (24hours) I eat low carb and high fat. I eat less than 1600 calories a day I have lost 14KG in the pas 3 months From 90KG to 76KG. And i still keep going until reach my ideal weight which is 65KG. Wish me luck!

I was told my whole life that exercising is the best way to lose weight, etc. While exercise is important in building muscle, improving mental health, among many other things. Dietary habits is a super overlooked part of it. I started just counting calories about 4 months ago. I went from eating and drinking whatever I wanted to a daily goal of 1500 calories. In that time, I’ve lost more than 20 pounds. It’s important to note that I was overweight so you’re current weight (compared to your target weight) will depend on your body’s ‘natural’ comfortable weight. So it might be faster, or slower for some. While 1500 calories sounds like not a lot, it’s not as hard as people think, all it really takes is for you to WANT to do it. I still eat pretty much whatever I want, but I just control my portions. Obviously some days I go over my goal, but long term consistency is key

(Diet + cardio + strength training + consistency) is the best way for weight loss.

The point of the video is that you shouldn't be surprised if you don't lose weight with exercise if you continue to eat too much (especially fast food), not that exercise is bad or useless despite what the video said, it was just to get your attention. A healthy diet is necessary for success, and I don't mean those fad diets. I mean changing the way you eat for good. If it's something that only lasts a few months the chances are your weight will come back.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAIT a minute! I'm a fitness instructor, and all my fancy textbooks/teachers/personal experience show that the more muscle you have, the higher your resting metabolism! And how do you gain more muscle? You workout! So YES, exercise helps you lose weight, just not quite the way we thought. (Seriously, I lost 30lbs through cardio. I promise it works.)

The key to losing weight or maintaining a healthy weight is to have a balanced diet, don't over eat, exercise regularly, stay hydrated and sleep at least 8 hours.

This video is kind of biased. It talks about cardiovascular exercises like Jogging, and Cycling. What they do is burn calories directly. But what they missed out was looking at High Intensity exercises like Sprinting and Lifting weights. Lifting weights builds muscle mass in your body. And this in turn increases the work your body has to put into "utilizing the muscles" and thus, increases your Resting Metabolism which happens to also be the number 1 factor in affecting the calories you burn. Not to discredit the video but they were absolutely right in saying that diet ultimately is the main issue but they shouldn't say that exercising is ineffective.

By working out your muscle mass increases which leads to an increase of your basal metabolism.

They also completely miss out the point that exercises can increase muscle mass which can significantly increase your metabolic rate. Also the amount of energy required to recover muscles after exercise is huge (often referred to as the after burn effect). It’s isn’t true to say that our Basal metabolic rate is completely outside our control. Our control of it is limited by genetics true but we can take steps to increase our metabolism. One of the best ways to do that is exercise. I don’t know why they neglected to mention that.

If you go to the gym, you can also build muscle which improves your metabolism. It's not only about burning calories but also body composition.

People with eating disorders shouldn't take this advice... People should begin eating healthy, not less

I workout out almost everyday except the weekends and I’m never hungry after a workout I lose my appetite if anything

PS you do have control of your resting metabolic rate . The more muscle mass or even mass you have the higher your rate is . Fat cells actually require energy so does muscle. So if you can control your muscle mass or reduce or increase your fat then your metabolic rate will change

exercising always makes me feel exhausted and leaves me starving at the end of it, i stopped that kind of thing and just switched to agoge diet with some movement of course everyday, like walking but not the kind of extreme exercises

I was 160 pounds and now I am 135 in just 2 months by shrinking the size of my dinner plane. I used that tea plate as my plate. The Rules: Only have 1 plate of food per meal Dont have breakfast No seconds / no stacking food Snacks: Celery Carrots Pickles First 3 days suck but after that you are not hungry and you feel a lot better.

People ask the wrong question so they never end up with the right answer... DO YOU WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT OR APPEAR THINNER?

I have found physical activity expedited the process exponentially for me. I think it doesn't matter how much you exercise if you dont reduce the calories you eat but for me doing that and getting in a minimum of 10,000 to 12,000 steps a days changed my life.

I literally came from a long workout And this is what I see😭

But working out creates more muscle tissue overtime. This muscle tissue burns alot more calories compared to the isolating fat cells, even when you are just doing nothing.

Well I did 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats and ran 10 km everyday and it got me fit in no time.

I lost 6 stone in 3 months. I did this by simply starting an exercise program that I kept up. I got with my partner and I stopped exercising. I've gained weight since I stopped. Of course dietary restrictions should also happen but exercise is a really good way to lose weight. A good example is in the English military. You eat as much food as you can. Chips, beans, high calorie foods of all sorts. People in the military don't tend to get overweight because of how much exercise they are getting. I dont agree with this science, from personal experience. Maybe someone can educate me differently about this.

A bit misleading. Diet *and* exercise are the keys to weight loss. They didn't even bother mentioning how strength-training (for muscles) will increase your metabolism.

This video obscures two crucial points about health and exercise: 1) Your basal metabolic rate is under your control, and anaerobic exercise is how you control it. This video talks about exercise as if aerobic exercise were the only kind that counted. Anaerobic exercise (e.g. weight lifting, rock climbing, etc.) will add muscle, which will raise your resting calorie consumption. 2) Weight is not the primary health risk. Body fat percentage is the primary health risk. Weight is easier and more satisfying to measure. But the fast ways of losing weight all cause muscle loss, which will sabotage your basal metabolic rate. See point 1.

Food is medicine. Many are overdosing on it.

Well, everyone's different. I went months with just dieting and limited exercise, and saw little results. I started walking an hour a day on doctor's orders, and I started seeing nearly instant results. At least a pound a week. Then I eventually started walking 2 hours a day, and the pounds started falling off. Right now I'm 60 pounds down in 7 months. (Not including the 10 from before I started exercising)

This entire video I'm just waitin for the conclusion on what to actually do.....

Even though diet is the most important part of losing weight how the hell can you call exercise "useless"? Think about it. If you eat 2000 kcal a day and go cycling for about 1 hour a day at a modest pace you can burn anywhere from 400 to 500 kcal. That's *highly* significant if you really think about it. If you do that every day and keep your diet the same it adds up. It basically reduces your daily caloric intake by 25%. That's still very significant in the long run. There aint' no magical weight loss pill that could ever do this. It's weird how they say that you "only" have control of about 30% of the calories you burn per day. How is that "only"? 30% is a big chuck and very useful to take advantage of as opposed to starving yourself. Not to mention the metabolic boost you get and the fact that you are healthier and therefore your body is going to be more efficient at burning fat.

So basically in India/Asian countries, where caloric intake(especially junk food calories) is lower and people use more public transportation, they have a built in system that keeps most of the population from becoming overweight - it's called walking. Because Americans put so much emphasis on driving everywhere for every daily need, going to the gym is completely undermined by the automobile society. We literally not only eat too much but we sit too much driving down our resting metabolism(the yellow part in the graph). Good urban design can not only save us from a life of diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity and pollution, it can lower national healthcare costs by the billions by making walking and biking normal again. Cars are great for long trips and vacation but living in a culture where I must drive everywhere and sit all the time is a disaster for our health. (See also Jeff Speck, Howard Kunstler, and any European city built before automobiles)

Eat less food, do more exercise. Unless you are a genetic anomaly or suffer from health issues you will 100% lose weight by doing those 2 things.

The big point here is: you shouldn't focus on weight loss at all, you should focus on improving your diet/exercise, change your life and the weight loss comes naturally doing one of those special "diets" or starting to run for an hour every couple days without changing anything else will fail 100%

you guys do know that strength training raises your resting metabolic rate right?

What you eat is the most important part of losing weight. If you eat unhealthy and exercise, you probably won't lose as much fat as someone who hardly exercise but eat healthy.

When I eat well, that’s when I lost calories most. Actually, just getting rid of junk food is what makes me lose weight. Exercise is not that significant but still important. The combination of both is perfect. UPDATE: I'm not saying that eating well will make you lose calories, but eating well and getting a good sleep will always help to a good quality lifestyle (sorry for my English)

basically the trick here is, if you exercise for an hour, then eat shitty food, you suck

This video seems factual enough but I hope people don't discard exercise in general because of it. Exercise can be HUGELY helpful in managing and preventing more common mental health issues- issues that are on the rise just like obesity is.

whose here during quarantine trying to lose weight 👁👄👁

Last year I purchased a 6 week gym membership that I used 5 days a week for at least an hour per day and had lost approx. 1 Kilo by the end of it. For the last 6 weeks I've been on Keto and have already lost 8 Kilos.

*A combination of eating healthy and exercising is THE best approach. Exercise not only burns calories, but it relieves stress. And stress is the reason many people over eat. Let exercise be your stress reliever. Not food.* 💗💗💗

Come on this video is filled with bad conclusions. If you have more muscle tissue you have a higher basal metabolism, and you get that by... exercising. When you exercise with high intense you can lose up to 20kcal per minute. So if you exercise for an hour 3 days a week and maintain the exact diet, you will lose fat. They say that you will not lose weight because you will be hungrier. If you want to lose weight you will need to correct your diet, so obviously it's not just the exercise. Bottom line, exercises do help you lose weight if you're actually into it and have enough discipline to correct the way you eat.

This is so true because if more people would stop feeding that hole in their faces, they would lose weight without all that exercise. I lost 36lbs just by changing my eating habits to more healthy food choices.

I have lived my whole life with a very nice body that everyone always complimented me wherever l went, could be at work, school, home, streets. Then l gained weight mostly in 2020 and I have lost my confidence and people still tell me l look good but when you know yourself u know. I felt like sharing this😩❤️loosing weight is my biggest goal right now❤️

I've lost 20 pounds in 18 days by limiting my calories to 1200 a day and working out twice a day. I feel pretty good about myself and I feel like working out everyday contributes more than anything

The point of exercise in going down on weight is to build and maintain enough muscle to burn the greater amounts of calories that you eat. It is the muscle not the exercise itself that makes you slim but you need the exercise to keep the muscle so in the end nothing much changes

they need to make healthy food just as affordable as junk food, then we could see a difference,maybe

Here's the deal: if you eat at maintenance calories, exercise can help you achieve caloric deficit. However, if you're at a surplus you need more exercise to achieve caloric deficit. But there's only so much exercise you can do. So help your body achieve deficit by limiting the calories that you consume.

all those athletes look so awesome because they eat right and don't exercise....GTFOH..

I lost 25 pounds in 8 months by #1 exercising 3 days out of the week for 30 to 40 min #2 intermittent fasting (16 hrs of not eating) I only eat from noon to 7pm #3 No beer, alcohol, processed sugar, bread, pasta & dairy (ate more salads) #4 replaced one of my meals (at times both) with a protein shake of veggies & fruits #5 drank lots of water, from 64 to 127 ounces (3 to 3.75 litters) #6 the most important part, dedication, hard work and determination!

*This video:exists.* *Chloe Ting, Alexis Ren,* *Pamela Reif:* **shakes**

Excercise gives me confidence, boost my self esteem. I think personally it's a great thing to make you feel better and release stress.

I exercise so I can eat more...

Best way to lose weight is to stop eating.

To lose weight . . . eat less and move more!

When you eat, how much you eat, and when you stop eating makes the difference. Self-discipline is key. Intermittent fasting, for me the 20:4 method makes losing weight a breeze. Lost 18.5 pounds in 2.5 months. Happy, healthier & more determined to keep going. The first 2 weeks are hard but you get through it. We’re humans, we adapt. Best of luck to anyone trying to lose weight!

I think it is important to get rid of the mindset of exercising to eat more. You should just exercise in general to keep your body healthy and have it be seen as a bonus for that day.

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY "ONLY" ACCOUNTS 10 %TO 30% IN ENERGY USE........ MAN, 30% IS A LOT!!!!!

i am bothered and unbothered by her voice, all at the same time

I used to do Crossfit and weighed 210 lbs. I quit and started doing just yoga and walking and lost 35 lbs. That proves this method presented in the video. Harder workouts aren't always better.

I can't believe I have to explain this...but okay, here it goes. If you get a gym membership and workout for, let's be generous and say 1 hour per day and it's high intensity interval training. You really break several sweats during your exercise and you're beat to hell after you get out of the gym. Of COURSE resting metabolism is still going to be the major calorie burner in your day! You just spent 1 hour out of 24 in the gym and you probably did nothing else that day! 1/24 translates to 4.17%. Now do me a favor, go and put, and let's round up for fun, 5% of your maximum effort into something. How fast is it going to get done? How well is it going to be when you're done? Or if you want something tangible how well does your phone operate on 5% battery? If you want to lose weight, you need to do more than just exercise. It's merely one component of weight loss. You need exercise, proper nutrition, rest time, and even a change in lifestyle. If you sit down all day, get up and go for a walk sometimes. After your workout, go dancing, go do some martial arts, go swimming, get a more physically active hobby. If you sit down at your job a lot, find more excuses to stand up and walk around. If you're sedentary for 95% of the day, then your body is going to be built to be sedentary 95% of the day.

We can lose weight by eating less food? What a revolutionary concept.

This video confirmed what my doctor told me a few years ago. What u eat is way more important than working out at the gym.

I’ve been through months of exercise, watching videos, reading articles, and hearing from people in real life…. I boiled it down to basically starving yourself. The effective way to lose weight. Almost all of the successful, excessive weight loss stories all came down to basically fasting long periods of time.

Losing 5 pounds a month ? That sounds pretty good. That's how much you should aim to lose.

This is somewhat inaccurate, because as your increase fitness, your metabolism may speed up. As a competitive runner, I burn less calories per mile than other people, but I can eat far more than anyone I know, still losing weight.

I lost 40 pounds by doing a 1,800 daily calorie cap and working out 3 times a week for 2 hours. Also some hard yard work. I switched to diet soda and still ate want i wanted. 5 months and I'm keeping with it.

I wonder how accurate this is. Years back I took on a very physical job. Averaging 20k steps a day, and constantly lifting, carrying, climbing ladders and stairs in a hurry, and I couldn't gain weight to save my life. Lost 50lbs while eating like a bottomless pit. Fast food, soda pop, pizza, swiss cake rolls, you name it, and when I wasn't eating, I was snacking. Still lost weight.

Wtf... I was over weight abt a year ago. During the summer I wanted to thin down so I did RU-vid HIIT workouts and went on runs, I lost 30 pounds that summer. I didn't eat less or more healthy either, just exercise. 🤔