re: #150 kirkspencer

re the ‘doesn’t matter how much you exercise’ line, no.

Years ago I was eating 5500 calories a day (plus/minus a few hundred) and did not gain weight. Some of that was junk. It is, by the way, why I’m rather conscious of the intake/outgo formula. Because my first balloon was when I quit doing that job and found it hard to cut back the intake.

But if you’re in near-constant motion for 12-14 hours a day that includes burst of high intensity effort, you’re going to burn a lot of calories.

I maintain that there is a large difference between “sedentary” and “not having an occupation that involves 14-hour days of near-constant physical exertion”. I was speaking in the average case.