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Old 10-13-2010, 02:13 PM   #621
sabotai
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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Originally Posted by RainMaker View Post
Our weight is 90% what we eat. The sad thing is that we don't really burn a lot exercising. Most of the stats and monitors aren't accurate. If we're going for 30-60 minutes, we are probably burning 300-500 calories. Seems nice, but that's a scoop and a half of ice cream. Or a handful of cookies. Controlling the amount of calories we consume in a day is far more important than exercise.

That's what I've always heard (and I'm living proof - I've exercised a lot over the last several years, mostly eaten like crap and I'm still here), and it's also why exercising (almost) every day is so important. 300-500 sounds like nothing individually, but do it 5 times a week and it's 1500-2500, around a half a pound of body fat (3500).
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