Exercise Sucks and You Won't Lose Any Weight From It

this person is wasting his or her time

Thank God we can stop with all this nonsense.  Exercise doesn’t do sh*t.  Every time you go for a run or lift weights or do pilates or whatever, it just makes your body want to get fat again so that you can preserve warmth and energy for the lean seasons.  Remember the last time you did exercise?  What did you do right after?  You ate four waffles with your godd*mn hands you were so hungry.  So hungry that using a fork put an unacceptable time delay between the waffles being outside your body versus inside your body.  TIME has just finished an analysis of why exercise doesn’t work for weight loss:

“In general, for weight loss, exercise is pretty useless…”  BAM.  There’s more.  

…says Eric Ravussin, chair in diabetes and metabolism at Louisiana State University and a prominent exercise researcher. Many recent studies have found that exercise isn’t as important in helping people lose weight as you hear so regularly in gym advertisements or on shows like The Biggest Loser — or, for that matter, from magazines like this one.

The basic problem is that while it’s true that exercise burns calories and that you must burn calories to lose weight, exercise has another effect: it can stimulate hunger. That causes us to eat more, which in turn can negate the weight-loss benefits we just accrued. Exercise, in other words, isn’t necessarily helping us lose weight. It may even be making it harder.

Well, that’s all I need to hear, but if you’re not convinced:

A standard 20-oz. bottle of Gatorade contains 130 calories. If you’re hot and thirsty after a 20-minute run in summer heat, it’s easy to guzzle that bottle in 20 seconds, in which case the caloric expenditure and the caloric intake are probably a wash. From a weight-loss perspective, you would have been better off sitting on the sofa knitting.

So you see, if you spend all day at home typing things about hookers and nipple slips on your computer for the internet to read, eat a 16 oz. steak and an orange soda for dinner, and then get your day’s exercise by walking down the street to the nearest bar that has a drink special, you will be as fit as I am.

Source: TIME.

4 Responses to “Exercise Sucks and You Won't Lose Any Weight From It”

  1. independent thinker says:

    see wit sh#t like this, no wonder this is the fattess country on the planet…. don’t lesson ppl get ur a$$ up and do some exercise NOW……<3

  2. Kevin says:

    All my fat cousins [who look like this woman] keep yappng about the new diet they’re starting ‘next week’, while they stuff their faces with junk food.

    Disgusting.

  3. Zach says:

    Or maybe exercise DOES work if you have any mental discipline at all to control your hunger…everyone fucking knows exercise makes you hungrier. Surprised any sort of legitimate source would condone these idiotic results. Oh really? If you eat a bunch extra after exercising you won’t lose weight? How fucking revealing.

  4. kopid says:

    Running 20 minutes only burns 130 calories if you run a 20 minute mile. The majority of people will do at least 2 miles, so if they have some water instead of gatorade, they burn calories.

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