Comment by dpark
3 years ago
> If you start exercising at the same time, you are throwing your body drastically off current balance and it’s probably much harder to find a new one.
This is for sure a [Citation Needed] claim.
Exercise has been shown in numerous studies to be health protective and also to be muscle maintaining.
I would love to know why you think exercising is not a net positive. I expect that greater than 99% off doctors, nutritionists, dieticians, and anyone else involved in human dietary health would agree that you should start exercising now if you are not already exercising, regardless of your diet (and absent specific contraindications).
The point is don’t try to change everything at once. I am not questioning health benefits of sports. But change of diet is a big change - not only biologically, but also mentally, logistically, practically, financially, etc. Change of exercise is equally massive change. It’s kinda logical that trying to juggle too many things at once is more likely to fail.
This is an entirely different thesis. You said that starting diet and exercise together is harder in terms of your body finding balance. Now you’re talking primarily about logistics and mental impact.
I wrote biologically and mentally as first two points, these concern your body.
With diet you need to find what to eat, how much, how often, so that you’re not hungry, grumpy, tired, sick, etc. and still consistently lose weight. It’s gonna take a couple of weeks for your body to adjust.
Exercise will also drastically affect your hunger, tiredness, etc. It’s gonna be harder to find new balance (or rather dysbalance with consistent weight loss) when you can’t really read which changes in your body are caused by diet and which by exercise. Higher chance of disappointment and quitting.
I’d say just change diet, find what works for you consistently, add exercise only a few weeks later, tweak diet accordingly.