Eating vs. Working Out - 80/20?
Someone once told me that when you're trying to lose weight, what you're eating has 80% influence over your weight loss success, and working out is the other 20%. Meaning you can't workout every day and then eat supersized McDonald's meals every meal and still expect to lose weight.
What do you guys think?
for me that sounds about right. when i try to lose weight i can do it by eating about 1600 calories a day, but i get much better results when i exercise too. but i don't think i could ever do it the other way around.
I love the quote, "You can't outtrain your diet." If it were just about exercise, I'd be sooooooo thin! I love to run and play sports! Always have! Yeah me! (my daugher watches a tv show where the character says that 
)
BUT, I'm so careless about what goes in my mouth! I have GOT to watch intake or I don't lose and can even gain, even though I'm very active!
Yep, I think it's 80/20!
80% food 20% workout...it's true....
if your not eating well you aren't going to lose weight....it's common sense. eating has a larger impact on your caloric intake/deficit than working out.
I've heard 75/25 myself.
Original Post by slayer1982:
I've heard 75/25 myself.
come on, everyone knows its 78.687/21.313.
Original Post by amethystgirl:
Original Post by slayer1982:
I've heard 75/25 myself.
come on, everyone knows its 78.687/21.313.
Lmao!!
Ive actually heard 60/40. Hm. But yea I completley agree. Thats why I dont bother with exercise too much (though I know I should)
I read somewhere that if I eat clean without exercises, I will end up being skinny fat. Is that true? I mean I have started to put my focus on the diet more than my workouts. I hope I am right.
I think it's more like 100%/100%.
Without diet nothing whatsoever happens; but without exercise as well you're not going to be very happy about what happened.
Of course! What on EARTH was I thinking!?!
Original Post by amethystgirl:
Original Post by slayer1982:
I've heard 75/25 myself.
come on, everyone knows its 78.687/21.313.
Maybe that's true, but I lose weight when I adjust my exercise routine rather than my diet. I can eat whatever I want (I guess it helps that I prefer healthy foods to being with) and lose weight just by adding a little bit of exercise.
80/20 is what our exercise physiologist told us (class at gym). I would imagine that's not an exact number, and that it could vary some person to person.
That 20% exercise, however, buys me be a few more calories. It's the difference between a sustainable deficit or not.
Prolly more like 90/10.
Original Post by ninetypercent:
Someone once told me that when you're trying to lose weight, what you're eating has 80% influence over your weight loss success, and working out is the other 20%. Meaning you can't workout every day and then eat supersized McDonald's meals every meal and still expect to lose weight.
What do you guys think?
I don't get it. What is an 80% influence?
Original Post by amethystgirl:
Original Post by slayer1982:
I've heard 75/25 myself.
come on, everyone knows its 78.687/21.313.
haha @ that.
Original Post by jcl76:
Maybe that's true, but I lose weight when I adjust my exercise routine rather than my diet. I can eat whatever I want (I guess it helps that I prefer healthy foods to being with) and lose weight just by adding a little bit of exercise.
That's b/c of your age and the fact that you are not much overweight. I think the closer you are to goal weight, the more careful you need to be to eat enough and create your deficit (and keep it at or under 500) primarily through exercise. Your body doesn't want to let go of the last few lbs of "famine insurance," so it requires a different approach.
Original Post by melkor:
I think it's more like 100%/100%.
Without diet nothing whatsoever happens; but without exercise as well you're not going to be very happy about what happened.
So true!
People keep coming up with numbers based off the energy balance charts for what your RMR vs. activity is; for most people 70% of your daily energy expenditure is from your RMR, 20% from your agtivity and 10% from the TEF.
It overcomplicates things. It's just calories in vs. calories out for weight management, and whether you create a deficit through diet or exercise doesn't matter to your weight loss.
The quality of your loss, what kind of tissue is used up is affected by your exercise or lack of it; and the kind of exercise you do makes a vast difference in your rate of fat loss - if you've got the calorie deficit going.
Without dietary intervention to create a calorie deficit, nothing whatsoever will happen; people tend to increase their intake to match their increased expenditure unless you start counting something.
Well, okay, if your name is Eddie Potter and you burn more calories in a day than most people do in a week this does not apply to you, but for most of us the deal is you can't out-train your diet. Says so right up top in the FAQ, as a matter of fact ;)
Original Post by melkor:
People keep coming up with numbers based off the energy balance charts for what your RMR vs. activity is; for most people 70% of your daily energy expenditure is from your RMR, 20% from your agtivity and 10% from the TEF.
It overcomplicates things. It's just calories in vs. calories out for weight management, and whether you create a deficit through diet or exercise doesn't matter to your weight loss.
The quality of your loss, what kind of tissue is used up is affected by your exercise or lack of it; and the kind of exercise you do makes a vast difference in your rate of fat loss - if you've got the calorie deficit going.
Without dietary intervention to create a calorie deficit, nothing whatsoever will happen; people tend to increase their intake to match their increased expenditure unless you start counting something.
Well, okay, if your name is Eddie Potter and you burn more calories in a day than most people do in a week this does not apply to you, but for most of us the deal is you can't out-train your diet. Says so right up top in the FAQ, as a matter of fact ;)
I DO WHAT I WANT! ROFL!
60% of the time, 80% / 20% works - every time.
Original Post by wildnine00:
60% of the time, 80% / 20% works - every time.
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