It depends on what & how much food you consider to be a healthy diet.
If you consume more calories than you are burning then you will put on weight. Its the 2nd law of thermodynamics – you can’t destroy or “lose” food energy – it has to go somewhere, the somewhere usually being gut, a*ss & thighs.
The more calories you burn through exercise – even walking is exercise – the more food you can eat without changing bodily proportions. However, the more sedentary you are & the older you get, the more your body’s metabolism slows down (means it burns energy more slowly, there by reducing the amount of food that you can eat with no gain.)
So it’s a question of balancing food intake against energy use. Type of food (i.e. does it contain fats or sugar?) will also be a factor. The more fats & oils, or sugar the higher it is in calories & the less you can safely consume.
Here’s the deal. You use energy (burn calories) just by living, & even if you dont go to the gym, you probably walk around or something other than lie in bed. You can look up these numbers (numbers of calories burned per hour of activity per pound of weight). People’s “metabolism” burns different amounts even if you do just lie in bed, & this you have to estimate.
When it comes down to it, if you burn the same number of calories as you eat, you stay the same weight. One thing to do with out worrying too much about numbers is to see how much you weigh, eat whatever you think is okay, & then weigh yourself & see if you go up or down, but it’s normal to fluctuate around 5 pounds. Then, if it goes up beyond that, try to eat fewer calories or walk more, or consider exercising. Okay, hope that makes sense.
I am a healthy eater but when I stop exercising I gain weight. = however, most people I meet are not the same way. I am young (17) & so my metabolism should still be pretty quick…I think it is just because of my body type. I have friends who eat crap & dont exercise AT ALL…so it just goes to show that everyone is different.
No.
Different things work for different people. The general agreement is that 500 calories less per day then what your body needs to maintain, will make you loose weight. You could eat less, work out to burn them, or a combination of the two.
Also eating healthy doesn’t always mean you’re eating smart. I see a lot of people saying “I eat healthy, no meat, no milk, no sugar.” this is wrong wrong wrong. Limit fatty meats, drink skim or fat free milk, & limit sugar. Don’t cut them out. they all play a role in how your body works.
The key to weight loss is to burn more calories than you take in. It would take you longer to gain weight, but eventually you would begin to gain weight if you dont burn off what you take in.
May 9th, 2010 at 3:41 am
It depends on what & how much food you consider to be a healthy diet.
If you consume more calories than you are burning then you will put on weight. Its the 2nd law of thermodynamics – you can’t destroy or “lose” food energy – it has to go somewhere, the somewhere usually being gut, a*ss & thighs.
The more calories you burn through exercise – even walking is exercise – the more food you can eat without changing bodily proportions. However, the more sedentary you are & the older you get, the more your body’s metabolism slows down (means it burns energy more slowly, there by reducing the amount of food that you can eat with no gain.)
So it’s a question of balancing food intake against energy use. Type of food (i.e. does it contain fats or sugar?) will also be a factor. The more fats & oils, or sugar the higher it is in calories & the less you can safely consume.
May 9th, 2010 at 5:50 am
Here’s the deal. You use energy (burn calories) just by living, & even if you dont go to the gym, you probably walk around or something other than lie in bed. You can look up these numbers (numbers of calories burned per hour of activity per pound of weight). People’s “metabolism” burns different amounts even if you do just lie in bed, & this you have to estimate.
When it comes down to it, if you burn the same number of calories as you eat, you stay the same weight. One thing to do with out worrying too much about numbers is to see how much you weigh, eat whatever you think is okay, & then weigh yourself & see if you go up or down, but it’s normal to fluctuate around 5 pounds. Then, if it goes up beyond that, try to eat fewer calories or walk more, or consider exercising. Okay, hope that makes sense.
May 9th, 2010 at 5:54 am
I am a healthy eater but when I stop exercising I gain weight. = however, most people I meet are not the same way. I am young (17) & so my metabolism should still be pretty quick…I think it is just because of my body type. I have friends who eat crap & dont exercise AT ALL…so it just goes to show that everyone is different.
May 9th, 2010 at 12:10 pm
No.
Different things work for different people. The general agreement is that 500 calories less per day then what your body needs to maintain, will make you loose weight. You could eat less, work out to burn them, or a combination of the two.
Also eating healthy doesn’t always mean you’re eating smart. I see a lot of people saying “I eat healthy, no meat, no milk, no sugar.” this is wrong wrong wrong. Limit fatty meats, drink skim or fat free milk, & limit sugar. Don’t cut them out. they all play a role in how your body works.
May 9th, 2010 at 3:14 pm
The key to weight loss is to burn more calories than you take in. It would take you longer to gain weight, but eventually you would begin to gain weight if you dont burn off what you take in.
May 9th, 2010 at 7:05 pm
You will probably remain the same weight, depending on how drastically you change your diet.
June 6th, 2010 at 12:29 am
Thanks for the post. I am about 50+ pounds overweight. Any good ways to cut down the fat?