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Originally Posted by The Yen Man
For sure it's ultimately calories in calories in (laws of thermodynamics after all), but I'm not sure I agree that just working out 2-3 times a week and you can eat whatever you want. Doesn't work for me at least. A regular session of steady state moderately intense cardio burns about 600 calories per hour. A donut is roughly 270 calories. So that means it would take me 27 minutes to burn off a donut. If I gorge myself and eat 3 (and I easily could), you're looking at an hour and a half of cardio just for those 3 donuts.
If you're weight training, it's even worse as you're really only burning at most like 200 calories in an hour gym session. That's a lot of exercise to burn off just one donut. Like others have said, you can't outrun a bad diet.
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More along the lines of the breakfast example that was given. If you took the high end of all the numbers (800 cal) I would still have roughly 2000 calories for the rest of the day to just meet my caloric burn for the day. If you do any exercise you need even more.
I mean yah, I can’t eat 25 donuts a day and think I’ll stay what I am.