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They walk more. That's it. That's the secret.
Portion sizes are a factor too!
I dont feel like they are. Traveling France and Italy a couple years back, I found myself not finishing meals much more regularly that I do in the states, Even though I was eating a bit more because I was walking 5+ miles a day.
Maybe i was in part over ordering due to language, or menu expectations. Maybe some of thw places I was in were touristy and over doing it to match 'american portions'
But for instance, i got breakfast that was 'oefs en cocotte de compagne' at a café a couple blocks from the louvre, far enough to not be in the tourist trap surrounding area anymore.
It was massive- 4 shired eggs with a generous amount of mushrooms and gruyere, served with 4 pieces of toast. And I confirmed with the waiter that that was not a shared portion....
France doesn't really do restaurant breakfast, that dish is a main. Breakfast is coffee and a croissant if you're having it outside the house, otherwise it's brunch.
Yeah european breakfast is mostly just a cigarette and a bowl of creme
Yeah, I mean brunch checks out. It was like 11:00 it was still a huge serving of a verrry rich dish though.
Nobody has ever had this kind of breakfast in France. Normal breakfast here is coffee and maybe the last of yesterday's baguette.
Jesus, I top out at half that and I'm an absolute lardass, les that I used to be but still
I can do my weekly shopping without having to get in the car. Because in Europe everything's all mixed together rather than zoned into miles of endless residential, that you have to drive for 25 minutes in order to leave to get to the big shopping mall was it's one million car parking spaces.
i walk 10 minutes (1.0 km) to the second-nearest grocery store (because that has cheaper and better-quality food) and i'm already living pretty far out on the city borders.
And also didn't replace all the fat in their food with sugar processed from corn.
Fat doesn't turn into fat when you eat it - it turns into sugars, which then turn into fat. Eating sugar just takes one step out of the process and makes your body work less (and therefore burn less calories) turning it into fat.
You can't outrun your diet.
calories in, calories out. Use more than you eat and weight goes down. Eat more than you use and weight goes up. It's an oversimplification, but it's not wrong.
It's very wrong, if only for the simple reason that not all calories are the same. Eating 1000 calories worth of protein will not have the effect as eating 1000 calories of HFCS.
Please stop parroting this piece of reductionist misinformation that is used to sell us ultra-processed foods.
What you said is an explanation of why what I said is an oversimplification. It's an efficiency variable, just makes the math slightly more complicated, doesn't change the formula.
I mean, you can, but it takes a lot of running to expend the calories taken in with a pretty typical American diet, especially when you account for the increase in appetite exercise typically brings.
But it is possible. If you can burn 2000 calories on a single run, that's a lot of room to maneuver to fit your macros while eating a significant amount of junk food.
you'd have to run over 3 hours to burn 2000 calories.
a 20m run usually burns like 200-300.
Depends on weight and speed, of course. According to the standard calculators floating around, a 200 lb (91 kg) person running a 10k in an hour is burning about 960 calories per hour. And that's a casual/comfortable pace for runners.
People aren't gonna be able to get off the couch and suddenly be able to burn 1000 calories per hour, but that's probably a pace within reach for most people within a few months of training.
There are easier ways to control weight, but for people who enjoy running, those calories give a lot of flexibility in how to eat.
We compensate with gym time, you can't outrun a cheeseburger
Not being able to outrun your diet is a really strange concept to me, and I've exclusively heard it in this thread, and multiple times in this thread. Dafuq?
It's a metaphor, exercise won't fix a bad diet
Fast Food!
Ironically fast food applies a speed debuff