The Exercise Lie 🏃🏻‍♀️

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Morning Blobbies!

Derd running

Exercising does NOT work.

And it's because your body is sabotaging you.

Lemme explain lol.

So imagine you’re trying to lose some weight.

Derd

Everybody knows that all you gotta do is burn more than you consume… easy right?

So you do this… consistently for a long time…

Derd treadmill

Aaaaaand… nothing changes.

Derd infront mirror asking himself if he is fat

What gives?

Well, look at these two people:

You’ve got you, an average joe:  

Vs one of the Hadza tribe dudes from Tanzania.

Derd hunting

Who walk an average of 9 kilometers a day, hunting animals, collecting water, stuff like that.

Who do you think burns more calories?

Trick question!

You both burn pretty much… the exact same!  

(Give or take a hundred calories)

See, your body does this weird thing where, depending on how much you exercise you do, it adjusts how much energy it burns.

Meaning you could just be sitting around ALL day and you will burn pretty much the exact same amount of calories as the ultra active Hadza people.

And this isn't just a genetic quirk of the Hadza, it's true for EVERY human!

This is possible to overcome, though…

If you tryhard and exercise like crazy, without eating more, you WILL start to lose weight.

Derd treadmill

But it doesn't last long.

Eventually, your body starts adapting and burns fewer and fewer calories each day.

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Derd treadmill

Until after a few months, you're back where you started…

Derd disappointed

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Reece, Henry & Dylan 🌈

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