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No. 40343
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>For the first part, you are merely nitpicking at that point. I never mentioned the basal metabolic rate because that is a given. It's essential for people to be alive in order to control their weight, so why bother even mentioning it? You might as well go through the process of cellular respiration or how humans being endotherms can lose weight by simply standing in an environment which is clearly out of their thermal neutral zone via shivering or sweating. But then, that would cause harm to the body at that point, wouldn't it?
I went into it because it was important to my point. Everything you do burns energy, just to different degrees. That leads to the idea of there being no definite cut-off point to where exercise starts counting. I've heard myths like that before, and what you were saying sounded similar.
>You know what I meant by 'start burning calories.'
I didn't before.
>1) It's not about eating more and exercising more, it's about calorie intake and calorie burning. i.e. You eat a Twinkie. You can a lot of sugar from it, but hardly any nutritional value. Yet you still need to burn off that extra glucose since not all of it can be converted into energy. Especially energy that lasts long.
But sugar is "nutritional value." Some amount will be lost in the process, but it can be stored as glycogen, or converted to fat. I don't really see what you're saying, because the idea of the twinkie's glucose being burnt off means you're already considering it to be an energy source. It'd actually be better if it couldn't be converted into energy, you'd just get rid of it a few hours later.
>2) Gaining weight via muscle mass also takes a balance of calorie intake and calorie burning, but extraneous exercise is a must in this case. Pushing the body to one's limits in order to break down their muscle in order to regenerate them into a stronger form is a given when building muscles. Of course, eating lots of protein must be contributed too, otherwise, you'll be doing more harm than good.
The reason people put on weight simply by eating more is because the fat they put on actually puts more strain on their muscles. In other words, by having more fat, they're exercising more. I didn't mean to imply that you can become a bodybuilder just by eating more. I only meant to imply that people shouldn't worry too much about the notion of muscle loss when they lose weight, because it's inevitable, and they did the reverse to begin with.
>3)Breakfast is important to jump-start your body. You need the energy in order to get your body going. That's all I will say about that.
I disagree.
>Now tell me, in the situation you just mentioned where someone is starving, how can glycogen be stored if their is no extra glucose aka food of ANY kind to work with? If anything, the release of glucagon is more practically, thus trying to increase the blood glucose levels.
When did I say glucose would be stored when someone was starving? Rather, I said their glycogen stores would be the first to go. People often experience dramatic weight loss on the first few days of a diet, because they've lost glycogen and the water that is stored along with it. Water weight loss, it's usually called.
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