5 Myths - Myth 5 Exercise

Learn more at http://www.theharcombediet.com . Exercise is good for you and makes you feel great but it will not help you lose weight says Zoe Harcombe

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[vellerb]

(3) It's just, I imagine, difficult to some to take it all in, given it would need a whole life of misconceptions to take aside.

And all of you with the rudest comments - what I try to do, if I don't understand something, first just try and _listen_, then try to _understand_ what's been said, then try and think about it - not all you ca't understand at first is non-sense.

[ZoeHarcombe]

@vellerb

Hi there - thanks so much for your support & lovely comments. I was pretty upset at the time - not least because I was trying to help people not get attacked! I left the comments up because I think they say more about the writers and their characters!

I do start by saying exercise is a great thing to do, but it does complicate weight loss! My easiest clients to help walk the dog - they don't train for 3 hrs & need loads of carbs.

Thanks again - Zoe x

[ChunderChunk]

does it? Exercise is great for you, of course it is, but you don't need to go mad in the gym, just move more. Genetics plays a huge part too.

Watch Penn and Teller's bullshit about exercise v genetics, even the people selling the idea that anyone can have a fitness model body admits that genetics plays a huge part.

As for your abuse, you're only like that because someone's come along and challenged your firmly held beliefs, and people, now more than ever, can't accept that so they lash out.

[ZoeHarcombe]

Hi there - many thanks for your support! I also saw the Time Mag article and loved it. I will check out the Penn and Teller - thanks for that.

I came to see the abuse over this video as the equivalent of having been set upon by anorexics if I dared suggest they may not need to starve! It will attract anger, as there is good evidence that exercise is addictive.

This isn't the group that I'm trying to help anyway - it's the 250+lb who need to stop eating junk!

Best wishes - Zoe

[slomo788]

She also said it can help you get toned, i.e. build muscle/lose fat.

Exercise can indeed help you burn fat, but not significantly enough to even notice it, unless you change your diet.

She clearly overemphasized the importance of diet over exercise, but this emphasis is necessary imo. This video was not really targeted at you. It's for the idiots who "work out everyday for months but can't seem to lose anything because of bad genes," but always seem to forget the disgusting 4000+ cal diet.

[razerfish]

She's right about this. You can't out exercise a bad diet. I sometimes bike 50 miles and my calorie watch tells me I've burned about 1600 calories. It takes me about 7 hours on my bike to go this far (I'm a slow rider), but I can scarf down that much in calories in about 5 minutes with some pizza, wings, and a desert.

[sumbarine]

Look Excercise can & does contribute to a calorie deficit(therefore it helps to lose weight).You walk 20 minutes,you killed 200 calories.Are you gonna lose a pound after a day,no.If you remain active you will kill calories & as they add up along with healthier eating you will lose weight.Your body kills calories 24/7. For a woman 1,200 calories on average are burned by doing nothing but breathing,pumping your heart,kidneys working.Ad movement on top---walk,rake leaves,gardening,calories burn

[sanka118]

i think Zoe is right in what she is saying about exercise alone is not the answer, the reason being with most people who have a weight problem its not the small amout of exercise they do but how much they eat or the quality of food they eat. there for its a dietary problem and that need to be looked at. but i do think exercise is very important and should be used in conjunction with a healthy diet. With the two combined weight loss is achieved alot quicker.

[psalas0378]

Actually, every one is different. Some people have faster metabolism than others, like me. Some people can exercise and eat whatever they want and still keep the weight off, and some can't. Just follow the Jeet Kun Do philosophy towards life. It teaches to keep whatever works for yourself, and discard what doesn't.

[XOMartha44]

Thank you, Zoe, for setting the record straight: exercise doesn't reduce weight. weight. In fact, over-exercising can bring on cravings for more food. I have been in an eating disorders group for nineteen years and took - and kept off - over a hundred pounds. I just lost another fifteen pounds this year when I became a vegetarian. I haven't touched white, brown sugar or corn syrup in nineteen yrs. Brisk, fun exercise tones and feels good, period. Also: cook at home more than dining out!

[vellerb]

(2) All I want to say, what you say makes total sense to, I think, lot of us, as you patiently try to explain how the human body _actually_ and really works.

[vellerb]

Dear Zoe, I hope the rude and seriously dull comments on here didn't hurt you (too much, as I can imagine they did anyway). I think it's just some of your watchers can't understand the whole concept, and as they only "hear" sentences out of the whole thing, they can't help themselves but argue, and in a very dull and hurtful way, too.

[mokugin81]

i cant belive how rude r the comments some of u made!! its just non sense!!! Very Very Bad Language towards someone lovely clever intelligent and polite as Zoe!!! If I Was Her i would have deleted all your rude comments!! Calling u all Animals would be an isult to them!!!