Kaye's Days

I learned something interesting today: If you want to lose weight, exercise is almost useless.

That explains a lot, really. Unfortunately, a lot of the comments on the Reddit post are conflicting, with some claiming there’s such a thing as “starvation mode” and others claiming that as long as you eat less, even next to nothing, you will lose weight. That doesn’t shock me either. I’ve never gotten straight answers from people about this subject.

Since I don’t give two cents about being “bulk” and my end goal is having my bathroom scale read a lower number when I step on it, I’m not someone exercise is any good for. I only wish I knew that before I went to the gym. That’s time and money I could save. Some comments say “lose weight in the kitchen”. That’s easy. Outside of school and work, I spend most of my time in bed. If all I have to do is cut my (already small) diet in half, my bedroom is close enough (literally; my bedroom is next door to the kitchen).

Basically, diet is for weight loss and exercise is for fitness. I’m not interested in the latter, only the former, so my previously mentioned goal of joining the gym (which I erased from the post after learning this) is a farce. The upside is I paid only a dollar to join due to a promotional offer the gym has going until the 15th of this month, so I lost very little.

That said, I give this diet idea six months. If that darn scale reads in June what it’s reading in January, there will be a lot of rage.

EDIT: According to another doctor (even doctors don’t agree?), this “busted myth” is a bust. Myth six. Apparently, exercise helps you not regain the weight you lose from dieting. Now, how is that not a significant contribution to weight loss and why didn’t someone say that to begin with?!