• Delphia@lemmy.world
    83·
    11 months ago

    I know a dude who did this with a standing desk and an exercise bike when WOW was huge and he put on 20kg in a year.

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      104·
      11 months ago

      Playing wow while cycling is a level of multitasking even adhd people would struggle to pull off.

      • Delphia@lemmy.world
        34·
        11 months ago

        Think less “Tour de france” and more “sunday boardwalk cruise” just trying to not let the pedals stop moving.

          • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
            31·
            11 months ago

            I have sympathy for people with significant mental or health issues, but most of them are just fucking weak and would rather eat a tub of ice cream than have a nice/healthy body.

            A healthy diet is more than just not eating unhealthy food. It’s about having the right balance of nutrition and that’s quite difficult in our world. Especially if you don’t have a lot of money. Or have other dietary restrictions.

            Also no one wants sympathy they just want you to not be an arrogant prick.

            • RealFknNito@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4·
              11 months ago

              Macros are for people with too much time or who have a nutritional deficiency diagnosed by a doctor. At 400 pounds I got a full time job that requires me to be on my feet for over seven full hours. First month was agony. Changing nothing else, still eating garbage, I’m steadily losing weight. If I even glanced at my calories and made a change or two I’m sure I’d speed it up but after fucking with macros and getting nowhere, calories really are the biggest and probably only thing you NEED to be aware of.

              You don’t need to go from living in bed eating pastries all day to fitness God and gymrat overnight. Start with a walk, get your feet used to being a little sore. Cut some junk down and increase protein consumption. Step by step, make positive and sustainable changes. Sustainable. Dont eat cardboard and think you can maintain that. Look for something healthy you enjoy eating even if it’s not perfect.

              I still eat muffins and chocolate milk in the morning and I’m losing weight. We got this guys.

              • RealFknNito@lemmy.worldEnglish
                5·
                11 months ago

                Hey boss, I’ve been fat all my life. Was a thick baby, they almost had to break my shoulders to get my out. Part of my issue is my thyroid, the other is I’m a super taster and healthy shit tastes bitter and ungodly awful. As a kid I avoided it and continued being big and I’m almost 30. I’ve only briefly known what being skinny felt like after a strict diet I hated. I got severely depressed and buried my feelings in food. As a fat person losing weight again, I have no respect for you. You’re an entitled prick who had the fortune of a coping mechanism and biology that allowed you to probably grow up skinny and developed a lifestyle to keep you that way. It’s fucking hard to do that when you’re overweight or have biological obstacles.

                Sincerely, fuck off, from a fat person.

          • NightoftheLemmy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            5·
            11 months ago

            I don’t know why people are downvoting you. I feel the essence of what you said is true. I am weak and that is why I put on a lot of weight. Not because I didn’t exercise. But because I chose to eat tasty shit over healthy shit.

          • bpm@lemmy.ml
            1·
            11 months ago

            Something that took me a while to realise is that you don’t necessarily need to be eating rubbish food to gain weight, just too much. I think there’s this stereotype of the guy chugging down sugary drinks all day with his greasy burgers in between handfuls of sweets, but that’s not the case for most people.

            What was a big help for me was getting a food scale, and working out what size portions I should be eating - particularly for carby things like rice and pasta I found I was way off on my estimates of what a decent serving should be.

        • frogfruit@sh.itjust.works
          16·
          11 months ago

          It depends on the activity. I can’t exercise or clean unless I’m watching TV or YouTube. But I’ve tried the whole exercise while gaming thing, and it doesn’t work for me at all. Listening to audiobooks while doing literally anything else is also impossible.

    • 50MYT@aussie.zone
      21·
      11 months ago

      I did it during covid / work from home times.

      Every time I was in a boring work meeting I just got on the spin bike. Lost 6kg.

      Probably because I stopped eating all the pastries at work.

        • thrawn@lemmy.world
          10·
          11 months ago

          In the context of weight loss, exercise is used primarily for calorie control anyway. Tho people who don’t know that can uptick calories to make up for the exercise and lose nothing or even gain more. Which obv you know but maybe someone out there is struggling with that

          • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
            8·
            11 months ago

            Wasn’t there a dietitian or something that wanted to prove a point so they ate nothing but burgers for 6 months and they actually lost a lot weight because burgers are not really particularly good quality food. They’re also super ill, so it’s not an advisable diet strategy.

            • thrawn@lemmy.world
              4·
              11 months ago

              Yeah, I think in response to supersize me.

              Funnily, I’ve done the same thing. I lose weight really easily so way back before I developed a strict calorie schedule I would eat a lot of fast food and snacks like chips for time/calorie efficiency but still be underweight. Weight is basically all calories, but looking good at specific weights usually requires exercise.

              Had elevated cholesterol though, so can also confirm it’s not great for you. It may have been fine if I was exercising as well, but I never ate as poorly as he did to make the point so I only got close.

        • Clbull@lemmy.world
          1·
          11 months ago

          Resistance training is also meant to help a lot.

          If you’re eating a lot of protein and not lifting, it’s gonna get stored as fat.

          Muscle also burns extra calories at rest, though it’s more like 6 calories per pound per day. But if you put on 20lbs of muscle over the course of a year, that’s an extra 120 idle calories burned, which is not a number to scoff at.

        • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de
          10·
          11 months ago

          Well, it becomes unrealistic at some point. Consuming calories is sooo much easier than burning them. I think that’s the basic message. Losing weight is mainly controlled by what you shove into your feeding hole. Of course doing sports is essential for a healthy life, so you should absolutely do that too.

          • bitsplease@lemmy.ml
            2·
            11 months ago

            Yeah I’ve been losing weight recently, and a 5k Run burns about 500-600 calories for someone my size. That’s a shit load of effort, and not something an overweight person is likely able to do every day. But 600 calories is like a single big mac (just the burger). There’s only so many calories you can reasonably burn in a day, but there’s practically no limit to how many you can eat (none that you’re likely to find without making yourself sick at least)

  • kamen@lemmy.world
    51·
    11 months ago

    I honestly expected “now whenever i want to watch TV i have to sit on the treadmill instead”. Disappointed. I want my money back.

  • ryn@lemmy.ml
    11·
    11 months ago

    I’m already underweight, so I probably need the opposite for a while.