500 calories in one session? Or over a whole week? In one session it is definitely not "easy." In a whole week it is.
If you walked at 2.5 MpH and weighed 160 pounds, it would take you two and a half hours to burn your 500 calories. To me 2.5 hrs is not an "easy" workout. Somewhere between medium to hard (depending on fitness level).
A single Big Mac is almost 500 calories, two snickerdoodles are more than 500 calories on average.
> Of course it's not a substitute for a proper diet, but it can be a huge factor in weight loss.
That's just not true.
A single combo from McDonalds could set you back an entire weeks worth of exercise, literally. If you exercised for an hour a day every day, it only takes a single meal to undo most of that weight loss.
PS - Exercise is, of course, very important for overall health and a long life. Nobody is arguing otherwise. But for weight loss? Heck no. The maths simply doesn't work at all.
If you walked at 2.5 MpH and weighed 160 pounds, it would take you two and a half hours to burn your 500 calories. To me 2.5 hrs is not an "easy" workout. Somewhere between medium to hard (depending on fitness level).
A single Big Mac is almost 500 calories, two snickerdoodles are more than 500 calories on average.
> Of course it's not a substitute for a proper diet, but it can be a huge factor in weight loss.
That's just not true.
A single combo from McDonalds could set you back an entire weeks worth of exercise, literally. If you exercised for an hour a day every day, it only takes a single meal to undo most of that weight loss.
PS - Exercise is, of course, very important for overall health and a long life. Nobody is arguing otherwise. But for weight loss? Heck no. The maths simply doesn't work at all.