Why does my mom want to lose weight but refuse to exercise?

[Anonymous]

She eats super healthy, doesn't even eat much but isn't losing. I tell her exercise will help burn off fat, boost metabolism bt she's stubborn. Like why not just workout.

[Sonorous]

Based on my experience, I don't really burn many calories through training. Not in terms of energy output at least. My main form of calories burning through working out is by inadvertently burning through a lot of stored glycogen. I eat a lot of carbs on average to be able to train hard. When train hard, I burn through that glycogen so that it doesn't turn into fat. But even with as hard that I train, that would only equate to around a 1-2lbs worth of calories burned from glycogen in a month span of time. Meaning that if I ate at maintenance & trained hard, I'd lose 2lbs per month on average. So if I really wanna lose weight, I'll just drop into a caloric deficit. Of course, there is a middle zone that still allows me to eat a good amount of calories & carbs so that I can fill glycogen for hard training & subsequently greater fat loss. For me it's not more than 400cal deficit per day. Maybe even greater if I do protein sparing modified fasts on rest days & up the calories & carbs on training days.

[petitedollbabee]

She likely doesn’t have time to workout. She’s a mom, thats a full time job in itself. And if it’s time that she has, it’s likely not energy that she has.

[jahaims]

There is always time to work out. That is just an excuse.