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InTheEndEntropyWins t1_j9p4e5a wrote

There is a meme that you can't out train a bad diet. In terms of calories in/out it makes sense.

While diet's are best in the short term in terms of losing weight, in the long term diets very rarely work. In the long term the only people who lose weight diet and exercise.

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HKei t1_j9snrfb wrote

There’s “diet” and there’s “diet”. When talking about short term, people think of restriction based diets that are kind of framed as challenges “do X for Y weeks to get Z”. The “diet” in this “meme” doesn’t refer to that; It simply refers to how you eat habitually. You’re not going to be healthy if you eat a full size cheesecake every day and vegetables pretty much never, even if you exercise a lot.

That said, most peoples diets aren’t quite as bad as that, whereas it’s extremely common for people to never exercise at all or so rarely that it hardly makes a dent.

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