Why Exercising DOES NOT Help Weight Loss... : Doctor Tim Spector

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  • Опубликовано: 6 ноя 2024

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  • @rp7773
    @rp7773 Год назад +117

    He'd be right if he said diet primarily drives weight loss. However, exercise WILL create a greater calorie deficit. Saying that it doesn't help weight loss *at all* is simply incorrect.

    • @lukeh3020
      @lukeh3020 Год назад +5

      He’s just saying there’s no evidence that’s true on the whole to emphasise that diet is by fair more important.

    • @aislingsibeallyons3416
      @aislingsibeallyons3416 Год назад +13

      I'm still fat I exercise 7 times a week yet I still eat pizzas , chocolate, sugar, non stop. He's actually right!!!!!! I need to change my diet!!!!!

    • @kJ922-h3j
      @kJ922-h3j Год назад +7

      You can burn fat, and lose all the weight you need to, doing no exercise at all. You can’t do that doing loads of exercise and eating anything you want

    • @canineng29
      @canineng29 Год назад +8

      Exercise creates a deficit, but his point is that human evolution is such that our bodies want to make up that difference through food after exercising.

    • @B__B22
      @B__B22 Год назад +7

      Exercise create caloric expenditure but whether or not those expended calories resulted in a deficit depends upon your overall caloric intake for the day. You can exercise and expend 500 calories but you eat a total of 5,000 calories for the day you’d most likely still be in a caloric surplus and not deficit.

  • @Jackoroberts
    @Jackoroberts Год назад +25

    Let’s all remember a calorie deficit will make you lose weight. If you get there by diet, exercise or both then you will lose weight. The click bait that exercise doesn’t make you lose weight is disingenuous

    • @findlay234
      @findlay234 Год назад +2

      100%

    • @psylentsneaks3856
      @psylentsneaks3856 Год назад +2

      This man is a grifter. If you watch the whole thing he also tries to debunk the calorie concept by talking in circles (much like he did here) and putting the emphasis on gut health. (Which is obviously important but he acts like it’s the only thing that matters)

    • @Shvabicu
      @Shvabicu Год назад

      @@psylentsneaks3856 same kinda charlatan like Liver King and that other doctor idiot on yt peddling his bullshit

    • @1unsung971
      @1unsung971 Год назад +1

      Read Burn by Herman Ponzer

    • @OsAbliNgin911
      @OsAbliNgin911 6 месяцев назад

      Exercise will only keep the weight off if you keep exercising, but diet is the long term, and more sustainable way to maintain weight loss. Hence why most of the folks on that reality show called Biggest Loser never kept the weight off. They gained their weight back. The only Biggest Loser contestants who kept their weight off are the contestants who kept exercising after the show. Exercising too much and just focusing on that messes up the average persons metabolism. Unless your a professional athlete there is no point having this exercise until you drop mentality or not moving enough mentality.

  • @mariak.3766
    @mariak.3766 Год назад +11

    That's correct. I know quite a few people who have lost their weight just by changing their diet. I also. In general, it is difficult to gain weight through healthy food

  • @iR3vil4te
    @iR3vil4te Год назад +8

    I used to weigh 73kg, now I weight 63. How did that happen? I ate less, drank less beer, ran a lot, and cycled to work for 4 miles there and back every day. But sure. Exercise and eating less had nothing to do with it…

    • @psylentsneaks3856
      @psylentsneaks3856 Год назад +3

      It was your gut microbiome. 😉

    • @inspirationalguy81
      @inspirationalguy81 10 месяцев назад

      Exercise helps in water loss from the body and can initially burn fat but the body will slow its metabolism and as soon as you fall it will gain it all back and more. Hence why the ONLY way to lose weight is to eat smaller portions.

    • @iR3vil4te
      @iR3vil4te 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@inspirationalguy81 Or just - stay active? Because I’m not a lazy fat fuck?

    • @OsAbliNgin911
      @OsAbliNgin911 6 месяцев назад

      @@inspirationalguy81 That is the Biggest Loser phenomenon.

    • @OsAbliNgin911
      @OsAbliNgin911 6 месяцев назад

      @@iR3vil4te If you lose weight the Biggest Loser way, then you have to stay active for life to maintain the weight. Hence why a majority of the people after the Biggest Loser show ended up gaining weight back and had a slow metabolism. That is why focusing on diet and lifestyle in general is more important than focusing too much exercise. Even the fitness industry starting to get it now. Some gyms are putting signs saying weight loss is 80% diet and 20% exercise. Before people thought diet was not really important as long as you just move more, and fat people are lazy. That was what big food and big fitness were pushing.

  • @timpelletier7134
    @timpelletier7134 Год назад +10

    I bought a treadmill desk to walk during my workday. Since then I lost 20 pounds in a few months without trying and I tried to eat more to compensate. A car driving will burn more gas than a parked car.

    • @alitaberrybrand
      @alitaberrybrand Год назад

      Absolutely

    • @OsAbliNgin911
      @OsAbliNgin911 6 месяцев назад

      Don't forget humans are complex. We burn calories at rest without even doing much. There is a test you can do to figure out how many calories you burn doing absolutely nothing. Knowing that baseline number to begin with can help a lot of folks with their weight loss journey. It could change your diet and exercise routine.

  • @KurtisElgood
    @KurtisElgood Год назад +4

    My take is from personal experience, aiming to lose weight without tracking your calories is too vague, especially if it’s weight lifting as it’s difficult to track calories burned and not a huge calorie burner overall, cardio could be easier if you were to track and hit the same targets each time and follow your scales to see if you need to increase calories burned. But largely i found it best to be around my maintenance calories and any extra expenditure through the day would create a decent deficit without leaving me feeling hungry and fatigued.

    • @1unsung971
      @1unsung971 Год назад

      Read Burn by Herman Ponzer

    • @1unsung971
      @1unsung971 Год назад

      You are an experiment of one. Anecdotal evidence is rarely useful

  • @bc9137
    @bc9137 Год назад +6

    There is a difference between weight loss and muscle gain, if you are putting on muscle the scale wont change much.

    • @1unsung971
      @1unsung971 Год назад

      Muscle gain is over reported anecdotally. Read Lieberman and Ponzer

    • @fatislimi5145
      @fatislimi5145 Год назад

      How's that ? tell more

  • @jdothman8575
    @jdothman8575 Год назад +26

    My man says reductionism but then a sentence before says ‘exercise doesn’t help weight loss’
    I’ll take my exercise advice from someone who looks fit.
    Cheers doc.

    • @squidito2534
      @squidito2534 Год назад

      So true, he looks soft and sedentary

    • @1unsung971
      @1unsung971 Год назад

      You lose. Spector is right. Read Burn by Herman Ponzer and Lieberman's work.

  • @alitaberrybrand
    @alitaberrybrand Год назад +3

    I don’t agree with this man, from my experience, exercise absolutely helps lose weight, I lost 6kg by running and not changing my diet. Also, I eat cleaner during the periods I excercise, they complement each other

    • @scotthunt3860
      @scotthunt3860 Год назад +1

      Totally agree Alita . Running has always kept me in shape and my diets never been perfect

  • @lechenaultia5863
    @lechenaultia5863 Год назад +10

    Exercise helps me sleep better, reducing ghrelin levels so I eat less. Exercise burns off stress-induced cortisol so I eat less. When I exercise regularly I don't crave sugar and other junk food. Exercise increases your metabolic rate for some time afterwards, burning calories. Exercise increases muscle mass so there are more muscle fibres twitching and burning calories. When I stop exercising I don't deal with stress, sleep poorly, crave the crap and eat more for all of the above reasons. This is the only thing you are saying that makes no sense at all.

    • @iragbag
      @iragbag Год назад

      I think he is talking about causality. Exercise has all the other benefits that leads to weight loss. There is correlation.
      If you do other things that have the same benefits then you will lose weight.
      Causation vs correlation.

    • @fuckooo
      @fuckooo Год назад

      There are randomised controlled trials that demonstrate exercise 'causes' weight loss, what on earth are you talking about?

    • @iragbag
      @iragbag Год назад

      @@fuckooo I am not saying anything. I am trying to understand his POV. Because according to him those studies “demonstrating causes” are not conclusive.

  • @garymanders1273
    @garymanders1273 Год назад +2

    Exercise doesn't have a direct effect but it certainly has a indirect effect...exercise helps your physical and mental well being and as you get fitter most make better food choices..also if you exercise there is a reasonable chance you will build muscle which takes up physically less room than fat per kilo so even if you don't lose much weight you will be in better physical shape...Obviously a well balanced diet is the driver of weight loss but say exercise has no effect is nonsense.

    • @1unsung971
      @1unsung971 Год назад

      Muscle gains are over reported. Read Burn by Herman Ponzer

  • @emmalouise7884
    @emmalouise7884 Год назад +1

    I swapped full sugar coke for diet coke and lost 42 lbs in 12 months, that worked for me

  • @yogeshshidhaye7332
    @yogeshshidhaye7332 8 месяцев назад

    It would be right to say that diet plays the major role and exercise aids further in weight loss as well as general health

  • @andymax1697
    @andymax1697 Год назад +9

    Why are long distance runners skinny as hell

    • @lechenaultia5863
      @lechenaultia5863 Год назад

      Exactly. Eminem lost a huge amount of weight just running

    • @kJ922-h3j
      @kJ922-h3j Год назад +2

      He means directly and solely, you can burn fat doing no exercise and completely changing your diet. You can’t do the reverse

    • @darrell5403
      @darrell5403 Год назад +1

      @@kJ922-h3j a guy did it on a domino’s diet. It’s can be done.

    • @1unsung971
      @1unsung971 Год назад

      They are ectomorphs by inheritance.

  • @rsmiller83
    @rsmiller83 Год назад +2

    Just saying exercise is oversimplified. There are many types of exercise that have far different effects on metabolism. If you have a workout program focused on weight/strength training you may not lose a lot of weight, but you will certainly lose fat, which is the goal. He should distinguish between the two. I do agree that diet is just as important but I don’t know why he downplays the role of exercise.

  • @1unsung971
    @1unsung971 Год назад

    Daniel Lieberman and Herman Ponzer are articulate on this issue.

  • @neilwarden
    @neilwarden Год назад +2

    20lbs lost in 7 weeks! Cut out the buns, bread and cheese and tinnies and 40 minutes walk a day. Managed my calories, didn't use his app either.

  • @alitaberrybrand
    @alitaberrybrand Год назад +1

    Excercise and diet complement each other

  • @benbutterworth7584
    @benbutterworth7584 Год назад +2

    You can't out-exercise the fork.

  • @MJ31579
    @MJ31579 Год назад

    The dude said it was grossly exaggerated how much exercise can help
    Clickbait conclusion: exercise doesnt help with weightloss
    Truth is, you can't eat a burger meal (900 cals), just because you did 1 gym session (200 cals).
    But exercise/activity is necessary as part of an holistic health plan

  • @robjames7213
    @robjames7213 Год назад +5

    Love how the video was sponsored by Huel..... But never once did he ask him about it 🤣🤣🤣

    • @emmabushby1152
      @emmabushby1152 Год назад +2

      I thought that was funny. The whole conversation was around eating real food then out comes the add for Huel!!

  • @TravelGuy7
    @TravelGuy7 Год назад +2

    I have a degree in biology and was a personal trainer and nutritionist for 7 years. This guy is talking absolute nonsense. Calories and exercise absolutely matter for weight loss.

    • @Manos-de-Piedra
      @Manos-de-Piedra Год назад +1

      Exactly 😂

    • @1unsung971
      @1unsung971 Год назад

      You are woefully out of date. Read Lieberman and Ponzer.

    • @TravelGuy7
      @TravelGuy7 Год назад

      @@1unsung971 you can not lose weight unless you are in a caloric deficit. That is not theory.

    • @1unsung971
      @1unsung971 Год назад

      @@TravelGuy7 Quote the research to support your assertion. You are embarrassingly out of date.

    • @1unsung971
      @1unsung971 Год назад

      @@Manos-de-Piedra NOT

  • @kevinv5193
    @kevinv5193 2 месяца назад

    RUclips: Exercise doesn't work.
    Also RUclips: Eating less doesn't work.
    Me: Losing tons of weight exercising and eating less.
    Don't listen to these clickbait videos, folks. Hit the gym! ❤

  • @Raherin
    @Raherin 4 месяца назад

    Adding exercise to my dieting has actually helped me lose weight big time. Not sure what planet Tim is talking about right now, but to say exercise doesn't help with weight lose seems bonkers.

  • @HENRYGCOLLINS
    @HENRYGCOLLINS Год назад

    If you got an office worker who was overweight then got them to work on a building site. Let's say just helping moving bricks, roof tiles, bags of cement etc. They did that five days a week for two months. They'd lose weight.

    • @1unsung971
      @1unsung971 Год назад

      That's hypothetical sophistry . Read Burn by Herman ponzer.

    • @HENRYGCOLLINS
      @HENRYGCOLLINS Год назад

      @@1unsung971 I'll look into it , thanks. I've seen it happen a few times though. But also there's less opportunity to pick at food on site. Eat well, don't eat loads and move more.

  • @mrpjbiddy
    @mrpjbiddy Год назад

    with respect i lost over 2 stone in 1 year i eat the same just cycled to and from work 45 mins each way 5 day a week so exercise does work

    • @1unsung971
      @1unsung971 Год назад

      You didn't eat the same. Read Burn by Herman Ponzer

    • @mrpjbiddy
      @mrpjbiddy Год назад

      @@1unsung971 so wrong

  • @patrickgeorgegalvin7763
    @patrickgeorgegalvin7763 Год назад +2

    The personal trainer community is going to be pissed

    • @befit4akhirah
      @befit4akhirah 7 месяцев назад

      LOL!!!!!!!! WE ARE! I am here for the comments haha😂😂😂

  • @jdothman8575
    @jdothman8575 Год назад +8

    Get this guy interviewed by Andrew huberman, Peter Attia, Rhonda Patrick etc. and see what happens

    • @elevate-thecotton
      @elevate-thecotton Год назад

      Tim wouldn't have the balls too, he is surrounded by yes men. l cant stand people like him, they abuse their titles and twist the facts, play devils advocate so they can publish books.

    • @psylentsneaks3856
      @psylentsneaks3856 Год назад +2

      I’d love to see that! This guy is just trying to sell the next thing in fitness.

    • @fuckooo
      @fuckooo Год назад

      Lane Norton would decapitate him

    • @1unsung971
      @1unsung971 Год назад

      Tim Spector would still be right!!!!!!!

  • @felgper01
    @felgper01 11 месяцев назад

    After listening to Peter Attia's talks it became clear that fat accumulation (obesity) is a HORMONE issue.
    Exercising is definitely something that can improve our hormonal makeup, but it isn't a panacea. Far from it actually.
    If the intention is to lose weight, I think that we should pay MUCH more attention to hormone disruptors:
    - Blue light at night, which affects sleep (A GIGANTIC HORMONAL DISRUPTOR);
    - Fructose consumption (read Nature Wants Us to be Fat, by Dr Ric Johnson);
    - Manage stress to control cortisol and glucose metabolism to control insulin response (major drives to fat accumulation);
    - Check testosterone levels (a major drive to fat oxidation);
    In my experience, we can definitely get MUCH more results just by unf.ing ourselves.

  • @glamgodess9643
    @glamgodess9643 Год назад

    80/20 rule? Nothing?? I think our bodies are different some people really do loose weight with exercise as I’ve seen it with some friends. I stick to a healthy diet and that works fine for me.

  • @TheFloozi
    @TheFloozi 8 месяцев назад

    All those bodybuilders from all over the world, getting shredded by increasing activity and reducing calorie intake before the competition.
    Same for fitness models and actors

  • @guysmith4035
    @guysmith4035 Год назад +1

    Shame that he wasn’t asked what he thought of Huel. Lost a bit of credibility there

  • @ShD518
    @ShD518 Год назад

    Meanwhile someone asked friend of mine who was running 10 miles per day once why he was feeling bad and he said it was probably either the 2 double whoppers or 4 large fries from burger King he just ate. He was skinny as a rail and had to force himself to eat a lot even though he preferred not to.

    • @1unsung971
      @1unsung971 Год назад

      Garbage in = garbage out

  • @paulbowerbank1900
    @paulbowerbank1900 Год назад

    Sounds like nonsense to me. Every Christmas I put on 4lbs. This Christmas I couldn't get out on the bike, I put on 6lbs. Not exactly scientific, but I think Dr Tim may be still wearing the new convert blinkers

  • @silkegross2507
    @silkegross2507 Год назад +1

    Artificial sweetners still trigger the pancreas to pump insulin into the body, which makes people more hungry. The next snack will follow!

  • @leanderian
    @leanderian Год назад

    Why did he dodge the question about whether sugar causes weight loss?

  • @SD-nq6kg
    @SD-nq6kg Год назад +2

    I can't stop eating after working out, but I couldn't give two hoots about a 6 pack etc

  • @brijnich
    @brijnich Год назад +1

    Clickbait headline at its worse. Expect better.

  • @tagoresai5789
    @tagoresai5789 Год назад +7

    Your creating a myth

  • @TheDutchCody
    @TheDutchCody Год назад +6

    Bollocks.

    • @shiraz2475
      @shiraz2475 Год назад +1

      😆 🤣

    • @foreverjoy9334
      @foreverjoy9334 Год назад

      Some of his stuff is true enough but I don't think he knows what Keto is :/

    • @1unsung971
      @1unsung971 Год назад

      WRONG AND RUDE!!!!!!!!

  • @sparte300sparte2
    @sparte300sparte2 Год назад

    I lost can any human tell me how i lose fat

  • @realel
    @realel Год назад +2

    Its balance, there's a variety of things that must be done together to achieve weight loss and achieve better health, sleep, good food for your body type, exercise, supplements, mindful practices, a whole lot of healing and self-love, simply saying it's not this or this and try this it just sounds like clickbait.
    The best quote I heard about weight loss or getting into shape is that it is not given, there are no shortcuts to it, it has to be earned by your own hard work of discipline, action and consistency.
    Weirdest podcast, to listen to.

  • @nikostsigos4998
    @nikostsigos4998 Год назад

    Never trust fitness advice from people who are not fit

    • @1unsung971
      @1unsung971 Год назад

      That's a really dumb statement. Read Lieberman and Ponzer

  • @ES-Official
    @ES-Official Год назад

    Too much bass... Please adjust your EQ next time

  • @Solistastyle
    @Solistastyle Год назад

    I do love this Dr but he uses a lot of words to say very little and makes some very simple points seem complex. 🤔

  • @holaamigo1111
    @holaamigo1111 Год назад +1

    I'm convinced it's an absolute nonsense

  • @MrFatherJack
    @MrFatherJack Год назад

    I dunno man I think exercise is easiest way to loose weight along as your not eating absolute shit

  • @robertwyatt4695
    @robertwyatt4695 Год назад +2

    Exercise doesn’t work ok 😂😂😂

  • @colourful.foodie
    @colourful.foodie Год назад

    Hmm, interesting 💸

  • @scotthunt3860
    @scotthunt3860 Год назад

    Absolute crap. Try telling me long distance running doesn’t burn any calories or fat and I won’t believe it. I know runners that have terrible diets and stay in shape all year around due to the amount of mileage they put it weekly due to running

    • @1unsung971
      @1unsung971 Год назад

      Read Burn by Herman Ponzer

  • @denisepaulsenful
    @denisepaulsenful Год назад

    But he’s completely correct. I a quadriplegic and I’ve been in a wheelchair for 11-years. I eat moreorless same as I ever did and yet my weight hasn’t changed - I vary between 130 to 135/137 lbs … my blood pressure is primarily low -but I basically do zero exercise yet my weight hasn’t gone up considerably as you think it would. So he’s right.

  • @Manos-de-Piedra
    @Manos-de-Piedra Год назад +1

    Total misinformation here 😂😂

  • @findlay234
    @findlay234 Год назад

    Haha. What rubbish... Sure exercise without managing diet won't do much but its absolute BS that it doesn't. Come on Tim, I like you but you're wrong on this. When training for some event I eat loads of crap and keep the weight off.

  • @adambutler3266
    @adambutler3266 Год назад

    Absolute nonsense

  • @angelme5692
    @angelme5692 Год назад

    So... There's ten of you and you all workout regularly but basically none of you has lost any weight for a year? You haven't lost any weight for 2,5 years? Well, good job.
    You either eat all the crap in the world or maybe drink incomprehensible amounts of alcohol.
    Also, what do you mean "you workout"? Is it a light 15 minutes walk? Or is it a 1 hour intense short breaks weight lifting session? Is it running? Is it biking? What is the intensity level?
    I honestly don't care that much about the doctor spewing this nonsense (he just wants to emphasize how important is our gut health, but he's doing that by disregarding the benefits exercise provides... although he does mention them, but doesn't want to admit the correlation between those benefits and weight loss), I care more about you saying that none of you 10 people lost weight.
    You title is way too stupid friend... You wanna know what? I hate fasting, I hate keto, I hate any kind of extreme diet and fully support a healthy approach to weight loss (exercise is actually the only way to be functional overall, healthier and stronger. If you stay on bed not moving all day long, no matter how healthy you eat, it won't matter. You muscles will eventually become atrophic and you won't be "healthy" or functional or good looking). But each and every one of these approaches have some results. Each of them lead to weight loss. The extreme ones for some amount of time and the balanced one for life.
    If metabolic rate + calories consumed - caloriee expended < 0 then weight loss is achieved...
    Metabolic rate will drop if your nutrition is crap. But the above formula still holds true adjusted to the changed metabolic rate. The only real issue with a coloric deficit is to finetune it so that you won't lose any more weight when you get close to your ideal goal. You then need to increase your metabolic rate to something normal.
    You could argue that this alone doesn't make you healthy and I would totally agree with you. If you don't eat healthy you won't be healthy, but you WILL lose weight if you are on a deficit.
    So. You and your friends didn't lose weight by exercising. You will need to track you caloric intake and metabolic rate. Then adjust you diet and stay true to it. Weight will be lost and I can put my name on it. Also, you must realize that losing weight doesn't mean seeing the scale go down. Losing weight when talking about the human body is lowering your body fat percentage.
    All in all a misleading title and some extreme ideas and even bad advice for weight loss on this video. Good advice for good health (if at least some basic exercise is included), but bad advice for losing weight.

  • @Woodman-Spare-that-tree
    @Woodman-Spare-that-tree Год назад +1

    Muscle weighs more than fat. So it stands to reason that exercising puts on weight.

  • @Noneofyourbusiness-rq9jq
    @Noneofyourbusiness-rq9jq Год назад

    do 200 mile a week on your bike and youll lose weight