Comment by resca79 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by resca79 | Hacker News Reader

When I was at school and University I was agnostic waterpolo player. It's a very intensive sport with 3 hours of workout per day, and some days double session. A intensive sport like this can totally change your relation with the food because you can eat everything you want. The problems arrived when I got my degree and I ended to play as agonistic. My body started to inflate like a ball, in few years I have gained 20-25 kilos. That was a big deal because I'm little and I have good muscle mass with broad shoulders, in other words I had look like a cubic. Loss weight is pretty simple, just go to a dietician and many kilos go away , but the hardest thing is after you finish the diet. During all my diets I was hungry and at the end I always got the my initial weight. I read a book about proteic diet and I tried it . Well I have lose 18 kg and it looks like I done an Fdisk on my body. Now I do not like pizza , pasta , because they do not give me the satisfaction as before. Also I discovered oat bran , that is great because it catchs the eaten fat and it deletes the your hungry. Just my experience

One possible takeaway here is that vigorous exercise for 2 to 3 hours, 5 or 6 days per week is a decent strategy.

There's a lot of petty optimization going on in the world of fitness and weight loss ... in reality you don't need a diet or a fitbit or a fashionable caveman lifestyle if you're just outside moving a lot.

Most people don't have the time to move.

If you want to change your body composition, you can do it entirely with the time you already use - eating - without having to do anything else.

I find fixing people's diet habits -- then pushing them into fitness once they have clean eating down pat as a habit, is much better than "just run it off"

Another takeaway is that if your activity level changes (for any reason) you need to be really proactive about changing your diet to match, which can be surprisingly difficult.

Appetite is like a thermostat that wants to maintain the status quo but one which isn't good at dealing with rapidly changing inputs.

> in reality you don't need a diet or a fitbit or a fashionable caveman lifestyle if you're just outside moving a lot.

A fitbit is a tool to remind you to be moving a lot, by measuring, tracking, and exposing an objective quantification of your success in doing that. So, sure, if you succeed in doing it without such a tool, you don't need the tool. That doesn't make the tool a "petty optimization".

2-3 hours? why not HIIT? get the same results with 3-5 min. a day

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