04/12/2022
Here's a really interesting study that outlines the truth about calories and weight loss.
In this study a group of women exercised on a treadmill until they burned a set number of calories (the researchers knew what the number was, but the women did not). After they were done exercising, the women were asked to guess how many calories they burned during the workout.
Shockingly, the researchers found that the women OVERESTIMATED how many calories they burned by 300 to 400%!
This alone was a great finding, but check out what happened next...
Once the women were done exercising, they were then instructed to go into another room where there was a buffet-style dinner set up.
The women were instructed to try to eat the same amount of calories that they had just burned during the workout.
So if you were in this study and had just finished burning 500 calories on the treadmill, the scientists would take you to a room with a buffet and ask you to do your best to eat as close to 500 calories as possible.
Get ready, because the results are shocking...
The subjects ate double to triple the amount of calories that they had previously burned during exercise!
This is worth repeating... DOUBLE to TRIPLE!
And this is just one study, but there are dozens just like it.
Research consistently shows that we are very poor at estimating calories. We constantly overestimate how many we burn working out, and underestimate how many we eat.
When left to eat as we please, our mind and body will try and convince us to overcompensate and eat more than we need.
This is why diet and exercise often fail for so many people.
If a diet is too restrictive or too intrusive on your life, then it is already doomed to do poorly.
When you add in the fact that we overestimate how many calories we burn during exercise, and underestimate how many calories we eat AFTER exercise, you can see how people can very easily end up in a positive calorie balance and actually gain weight while dieting.
Don't "guess" your calories, and don't eat back your exercise calories. Let me help you drop the weight once and for all! I will teach you the method I used to drop 60 pounds in 10 months. Comment below or send me an IM for help.