It depends on the activity. I can't exercise or clean unless I'm watching TV or YouTube. But I've tried the whole exercise while gaming thing, and it doesn't work for me at all. Listening to audiobooks while doing literally anything else is also impossible.
In the context of weight loss, exercise is used primarily for calorie control anyway. Tho people who don’t know that can uptick calories to make up for the exercise and lose nothing or even gain more. Which obv you know but maybe someone out there is struggling with that
Wasn't there a dietitian or something that wanted to prove a point so they ate nothing but burgers for 6 months and they actually lost a lot weight because burgers are not really particularly good quality food. They're also super ill, so it's not an advisable diet strategy.
Funnily, I’ve done the same thing. I lose weight really easily so way back before I developed a strict calorie schedule I would eat a lot of fast food and snacks like chips for time/calorie efficiency but still be underweight. Weight is basically all calories, but looking good at specific weights usually requires exercise.
Had elevated cholesterol though, so can also confirm it’s not great for you. It may have been fine if I was exercising as well, but I never ate as poorly as he did to make the point so I only got close.
If you're eating a lot of protein and not lifting, it's gonna get stored as fat.
Muscle also burns extra calories at rest, though it's more like 6 calories per pound per day. But if you put on 20lbs of muscle over the course of a year, that's an extra 120 idle calories burned, which is not a number to scoff at.
Well, it becomes unrealistic at some point. Consuming calories is sooo much easier than burning them. I think that's the basic message. Losing weight is mainly controlled by what you shove into your feeding hole. Of course doing sports is essential for a healthy life, so you should absolutely do that too.
Yeah I've been losing weight recently, and a 5k Run burns about 500-600 calories for someone my size. That's a shit load of effort, and not something an overweight person is likely able to do every day. But 600 calories is like a single big mac (just the burger). There's only so many calories you can reasonably burn in a day, but there's practically no limit to how many you can eat (none that you're likely to find without making yourself sick at least)