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au contraire - endless exercise forces their body to canibalize their metabolism and shut down reproductive/hormonal systems as they don't have enough energy to burn on them.

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Everyone who exercises should read this book. Basically when you "burn" calories, you're generally not increasing the number of calories your body is consuming in a day unless the amount of exercise you're doing is abnormal. If you run 4 miles a day every day, your body adjusts and no longer burns extra calories. But your exercising so your muscles do need fuel. This means it's even more important to only eat nutrient dense food when you're exercising so you can refuel without overeating.

This author's tag line is "There's no way to earn the doughnut" which basically means exercise does not give you permission to eat junk food. It paradoxically might make junk food even worse for you.

Exercise is really important for you health. But for your weight, it only has a marginal impact compared to your diet. Some research indicates that it's almost completely irrelevant

I’ve interacted with him on Twitter and suspected these views would be found in this book. Glad I don’t have to read it. Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy https://www.amazon.com/dp/0525541527/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_Q0JG5Y9CCKBYCHP3P516

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Not so sure about that. That claim is mostly untrue.

I agree with the first half of what you said but if it was as simple as calories in calories out then practically everyone would be the size they want. People burn about 2,000 calories a day. Period. It doesn’t matter how much you exercise (source and people with eating disorders who consume way less then they should can also fail to lose any weight (source . I’m currently a month post op from weight loss surgery so I am acutely familiar with nutritional science and weight loss