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sonichu posted...

I walk 2 hours a day most days and also will do an intense 15-20 minute workout where I can hardly walk and sweating bullets afterwards for a bit and I cant drop weight to save my life

You mentioned nothing about how you changed how you ate. Doing 2 hours of walking and a short intense workout will do nothing if you increased your calorie intake from 3000 from before to now 5000 or whatever excess calories you did to "compensate" for all that exercise you're doing.

This is flawed logic.

Or even if you didn't even eat more the amount of calories walking 2 hours a day and 15 minutes of exercise is nothing to make a significant noticeable difference in the short term (long term assuming you don't change how you eat, you'd probably lose about 10-20 pounds in a year actually). If you did it for a month and quit no wonder why you didn't notice. This shit needs math breakdown to make people understand how hard it is to lose weight and easy to gain it.

Let's say you did a "week" of this. You walked for 2 hours that probably means you burned 100-300 calories an hour. Let's say 200 per hour. That's 400 total.
Then you did 15 minutes of exercise. One hour of exercise FOR ME can burn up to 1000 calories. It's hard exercise, I cycle for two hours or so at a pace of 20 mph (not fucking easy I worked my ass up to this point.) I sweat profusely, literal puddles of sweat form around my stationary bike. But let's say you "achieve" that state of burning calories. 250.

So in ONE day you burned 650 calories. Let's say you do this for 6 days of the week and take a nice break on Sunday or whatever. That is 3900 calories total.
Assuming you've changed NOTHING about your diet and your diet is on MAINTENANCE calories which can be 2000-2500 calories. You will lose about 1 pound A WEEK, on the assumption that one pound of weight is 3500 calories. However...let's say on sunday you have that cake you've been eyeballing, or you have a couple of extra snacks maybe 200-400 calories extra and sunday you do eat that cake. 2700 calories burned total if you count those extra snacks you need to take to feel "energized" after working out. ASSUMING you keep it that way. And then that cake on sunday? 1000 calories easy. Then you're down to 1700 burned total for the week. You do this every week and notice you've barely lost 1 or 2 pounds after a month of "hard work." IF you kept this up for a year, you'd actually notice you're losing weight but everyone wants RESULTS NOW. If I didn't lose 5-10 pounds IN ONE MONTH the diet and exercise ARE A SCAM. You totally can do it. I know I've done it. You down to bike for 2 hours everyday and make sure you eat only 1500 calories while feeling like you're starving? Maybe eating just a bit more and promising to keep under 2k calories? I know a lot of people can't. That's "too hard." Losing 10-15 pounds in a month legitimately isn't fucking easy. It's HARD. You're going to feel like you're always hungry, you want more. But guess what getting to that obese state didn't happen over a month either. It took hard work eating all those extra calories over a long period of time to gain that weight again over a long period of time. So if you want to lose weight, you're going to have to eat even less calories or exercise HARD over a long period of time to lose that weight over a long period of time. If you want to lose it "fast" you REALLY have to ramp up how much exercise you do AND cut significant amounts of calories. There's no other shortcuts to it. Unless you're vomitting your calories out or take in parasites, but that's all harmful to the body.

This is why when people say they exercise I don't believe it. Walking does shit. If you want to eat like a fat fuck you better bust your ass off at the gym. And that means LITERAL hours cycling or running or some other shit to compensate for all the shit dieting you're probably doing. Trust me I've done this before. I still eat like trash, I just weigh my food now and eat what I can afford to eat. If I feel hungry? Too fucking bad should've biked for 2 hours today and then maybe you could've had that big mac or those doritos you want, but you don't NEED IT. That feel of hunger doesn't go away. You really need to find a way to get around it or like I surprisingly found out. Having a lot of protein in the morning 30+grams through eggs, protein powder, cheese whatever, makes a significant difference to not feeling that "hunger." Water can stave it off, but mentally that feeling of hunger over and over chips away at you and you break back into that feeding frenzy habit mentally.

Jupiter posted...

You can even lose weight without going to the gym. I was going to the gym like 3-5 times a week (mostly weight training because I wanted more muscle tone) for a few months in 2022. Like 4-5 months. Lost 0 pounds I think. Maybe 2-3 at most. I dropped my gym membership since I got tired of going. Decided to do 100 pushups daily (then eventually every other day since I know you aren't supposed to do daily like that). Decided to start drinking a smoothie and eating a sandwich for dinner. Dropped 20-25 pounds over a few months. My triceps looked ripped. Those were the only changes I made. Pushups daily or near daily and then smoothie + sandwich for dinner.

Sounds like you drastically reduced your caloric intake and that smoothie you were taking helped you feel full enough to make it to dinner time. The exercise helped a bit however. Just a bit, but really your diet put in the work there.