Comment by it_does_follow
3 years ago
If you train for endurance sports you'll definitely lose weight without much attention to your diet.
For example, with marathon training, once you start to hit the 6 plus mile your daily run eats up over 1,000 calories.
Near the end of your training your long run days become over 2,000 calories, and even your easy runs becomes 1000+.
That's essentially an entire extra meal, and you're running 5-6 days a week.
If you're just going to the gym for 30-45 minutes, 3-4 days a week, diet will be essential to losing weight. But if you're running 1 hr + a day and 2+ hrs at least once a week it's hard to get enough calories.
This would be nice if 1hr+ a day would not be 5% of your conscious life.
It's time that you can use for important things like meditation and consolidating your thoughts, as well as synthesising Vitamin D if it's close to noon and you're not especially far from the equator.
Most people watch tv for 4-5 hours per day and it's far from the only time waster out there.
Something went wrong when very moderate volume of exercise (1 hour per day) is seen as a huge time commitment.