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Originally Posted by Espi
Lost Dog, you're not the only one.
And yet, only creating a deficit with more activity doesn't work either.. and produces either overtraining OR overeating. My maintenance would be really high when I was training with high volume workouts as well as quite a bit of cardio. But I'd just overeat in order to combat the overtraining.
Didn't Poliquin (?) say: there's no overtraining, only undereating?
There seems to be a very delicate balance. And i've found that not traing too much nor having a too large deficit overall and also not go too long on a low calorie intake is the best approach.
Yes, it's slow.. but I've kept it off. This is in stark contrast with all the radical diets I'd tried before or trying to get a big deficit from training alone.
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There is probably no problem if someone isn't particularly concerned (or overly concerned, in at least some cases) with achieving a certain look/body composition/leanness.
Leigh and others who seem skilled at helping people make changes (and getting the compliance) might be able to turn any sow's ear into a silk purse. However, I wonder if, for the majority of the people, to hope to live their usual lives, exercising and eating decently, if they're just not going to achieve a certain look.
If we're willing to exercise, eat well, and takes whatever results we get, then there isn't a problem. I wonder to what degree it's artificial to achieve some of the aesthetic goals some people have. There seems to be a lot of fixating on "the look" which is, in good measure, a media perpetrated image that does not naturally happen, and doesn't happen without greatly contrived measures.