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Commitments time for the next year. New desk job and long commute messed up my habits and now I weight about 10-15kg more than I would like to. Also my lifts (very decent but not overly high number) haven’t increased during this time at all. So it’s almost entirely fat that I put on. Any suggestions? Is it sensible to try to get an ozempic prescription for a relatively little amount of weight like this? I am not doing so far with losing weight via simple self discipline.
Something I've never seen mentioned but am curious if it works for others is choosing to only walk to the grocery store. It seems to align a lot of things the right way, and seemed to help me lose weight. It's basically the only exercise I do and fitbit says I'm burning like 1500 calories a day (not sure how accurate that is). But you do buy less groceries, and what you do buy you are carrying back all the way, and you also generally are making more trips since you can only carry so much.
Dedication-wise I think it's nice as well because you only have to stick to one choice, instead of a bunch of different will-testing choices.
Edit: Forgive me, I am a noob at calorie counting, so scanning through walking calories burned online, with weights etc. I think it should be around six hundred for my particular route.
I don’t have a car and already walk or cycle everywhere unfortunately so not much I can improve in this regard
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Active calories or total calories per day including your basal metabolic rate? Burning 1500 calories is typically a couple hours of running, much more for walking.
Yeah I edited with what I think is a better estimate, I don't know where the app is getting calories from, possibly just adding to some baseline. Never really bothered double checking the number since I was losing weight anyway but now I know!
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I doubt you're burning anywhere close to that amount walking to and from the grocery store. There is no 1-1 relationship between calories burned with exercise and the "CO" in CICO. Just because the app says you burned 400 does not mean you can eat a 400 calorie cookie and not gain weight. Or that you will lose .1 pounds. it's impossible to know. Research shows that the body compensates by burning fewer calories after exercise.
Perhaps if you're already active enough to be in the plateau regime.
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How far’s the grocery store lol?
Man's going uphill both ways, on Mount Everest. Skookum would be proud.
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