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Its a pretty well known fact that exercise alone (unless you are doing extreme athlete training) is not going to change your weight without a change in diet.

You can get healthier with exercise, but not smaller. That is almost entirely based on diet.

Just think about it; your thirty minutes of running probably burned between 300-500 calories. That one protein bar probably has about 300 calories by itself.


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r00fus10/11/2024

And that's where the GLP-1 meds come in. You get physically sick from eating your current (oversized) meal size. You don't have cravings. You can lose weight using GLP-1 even if you don't exercise strenuously/daily. However you lost a lot more if you have a regimen.

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rootusrootus10/11/2024

> 300-500 calories

Put another way, up to a pound a week of weight loss, changing nothing about your diet.

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