alt Hacker NewsEeeh. Exercise doesn't spend enough energy for high calories foods to be worth it. If you want to lose weight that is. A donut is a lot of exercise and muscle building leads to a small but not sufficient calorie spend. The majority of calorie spend still comes from the organs and general body maintenance
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> Exercise doesn't spend enough energy for high calories foods to be worth it. If you want to lose weight that is.
Tell that to all the lean 150 pound / 68kg runners stuffing their faces with high calorie foods all the time.
Yes, the literature on this bad. It's even worse than that. Metabolic adaptation means you may think you burned 400 kcal with a long run according to the tracking app, but maybe your body, on net, only burns 100-200 kcal, so this throws off the math.
endurance athletes are laughing