"You can't out train a bad diet" and "you can't out earn bad spending habits" what are some other true clichés along the same lines as these? (lemmy.world)

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Obviously you can kind of but its extremely difficult (for those pedantic commentators I foresee)

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[-] Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Then you weren't eating enough ice cream 😉 on average a mile run is 100 to 150 calories burned. Eat one pint of Ben and Jerry's and you're looking at 10ish miles to burn that off if you're not in caloric defecit. Like I said it's technically possible but by disagreeing you're really just being pedantic. If your body's ideal caloric intake should be 2000 calories to maintain your weight, eating 3000 a day (which is easy) means ten miles run a day.

[-] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 19 hours ago

I wasn't trying to be pedantic as such. It's just that I found fitness when I was on a path to trying to bring my body fat down to a level I was happier with. I had originally though "losing weight" was healthy, but then I read that being active is more beneficial than losing weight, so I thought I needed to include a bit of fitness training in there.

And then when I started running, to my great surprise, I found out that I loved it, and I kept running. I ended up SUPER SUPER in to running. And one of the things that I discovered was that after a period of trying to watch how much I eat, when my training peaked, I was often struggling to get enough calories to match my burn.

And I often joked to myself back then that if I'd have known I could have outrun my bad diet, I'd have started there :P

But in all seriousness, as you said, it's not possible to sustain. Age, injury, decreased training levels, eventually, something happens and your calorie burn returns to more regular levels, and then you're not outrunning it anymore

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