There are lot of people making New Year’s resolutions that include to “stay fit and healthy.”
In fact, according to 2015 Nielsen Consumer Insights (http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/news/2015/2015s-top-new-years-resolution-fitness.html), to “stay fit and healthy” was the top New Year’s Resolution.
6 jars of 780g peanut butter (https://images.grocerycop.com.au/woolworths/38921.jpg) are about 28,000 calories.
I could eat that over the course of a day.
It would be a struggle, but it could be done.
Physically it’s possible.
But, in order to burn off 28,000 calories, at my body weight, I’d need to sprint for approximately 24 hours straight.
Not sprint intervals, but nonstop sprinting.
That is physically impossible, and I’d die within 30 minutes, for sure – and not metaphorically speaking.
Like die.
The maximum one could probably sprint for (at intervals) is 2-3 hours max.
That would burn, at my body weight about 1,800 calories.
My resting metabolic rate is about 1,800 calories too.
So I’d burn 3,600 calories total for the day.
That is less than 1 780g peanut butter jar.
Eat any more than that, and I start putting aside those extra calories as fat.
And that is frigging easy to do with the calorie dense food options available to us.
And most people think they can overeat and go to the gym and keep it the excess calories.
It’s pretty hard to do when you only slightly overeat.
And it’s impossible to consistently out train overeating.
You have to undereat to lose fat effectively.
Your body’s metabolic function, simply by being alive burns a lot of calories relatively.
Save your money on gym memberships and work out ways to not overeat (there are options where you still get the chocolate, cheeps and chips.)
Training is just icing on the cake (pun intended.)