>>>>>Actually it's 80% diet, 20% exercise.
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>>>>depends how much exercise you get. I'd rather be able to eat relatively freely and exercise than eat lettuce all day.
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>>>To lose weight you either need to reduce your calorie intake and/or burn up more calories then you consume. The average male consumes/needs 2500 calories per day.
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>>Depends whom you ask. When my wife was studying, we found 1600, 1800 as guideline numbers, and 2500 was for miners. Now it seems to be for minors...
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>>IOW, I think these standards aren't scientific per se. They're industrial.
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>Have you noticed how everyone is skinny in the older movies? Men, women, and children. They all look like food-deprived stars and models. Was that the norm or the camera lens?
Because they were not paid millions in those days.
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