Exercise ain't that great for weight loss?!

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just hit 30 days of this peptide stack plus extra bpc-157 and tb-500 daily (dropping those tomorrow) for rotator cuff surgery, bicep tenodesis and labrum repair. docs said I'm two weeks ahead of where they thought I'd be. mid 50s, male, hoping to start strength work at six weeks instead of eight to twelve.
 
By week 9 that 1 to 1.6 lbs weekly is solid. I'm at 62 injections and down 96 lbs, averaging about 1.5 a week. You're tracking well, keep it going. Starting weight 245, now at 149. No target in mind, just following the body scan numbers.
 
The slowdown from rapid early loss to 1-2 lb per month is the normal progression - the psychological adjustment is often harder than the physical one. Diet review makes sense at the one-month stall mark because the medication effect tends to plateau earlier than people expect.
 
The adaptive thermogenesis point is real and underestimated - as body weight drops, maintenance calorie needs drop too, so the same food intake that produced a deficit at higher weight approaches maintenance at the new lower weight. Recalculating targets periodically rather than setting once and holding is the fix.
 
the lose-more-fat-while-preserving-muscle argument for maintaining adequate food intake is the most practically important point in the GLP-1 context - the medication makes it easy to under-eat significantly, and the body response to large caloric deficits is to break down muscle alongside fat. keeping intake high enough to support protein synthesis while still creating a reasonable deficit is the balance that produces the body composition outcome rather than just a lower scale number
 
Losing weight really does come down to diet almost entirely though. Keep your intake under what your body actually burns and the weight comes off. Exercise is fantastic for your health overall, but no amount of it can fix a genuinely bad diet. I barely exercise at all and I've still dropped 128 lbs. My job's physically demanding so I stay fairly active that way, but I'm not out here hitting a gym. You really don't need to punish yourself with workouts just to lose weight.
 
You cant lose weight by exercising alone. It's 99% diet, so intake has to stay below what your body burns. Burning off more than you eat doesnt work.
 
You are right, but many think exercise is the key. Rather than logging calories and running a deficit, they assume more workouts alone will deliver. Results come from training plus a calorie deficit. The aim is to eat less than you burn, not to burn off more than you eat.
 
Right. A bad diet can't be cancelled by exercise, it comes down to calories eaten. Exercise is excellent for the heart, and extra muscle burns more at rest, so it helps health and loss, but around 99% of weight loss happens through diet. Experts say so. After starting ozempic I got sent to a weight loss doctor, and their advice got me to my goal weight.
 
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