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If you 12 you eat unhealthy but exercise will you lose weight and gain muscle?
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∙ 11y ago
Yes, you can eat pretty much anything you want and lose weight and gain muscle. From what I have read, Michael Phelps (Olympic Gold Medalist Swimmer) consumes something near 12,000 calories a day while training.
However, he is also BURNING that many, so he doesn't get fat.
I personally consume around 4,000 calories a day, with a good portion of that being fast food/junk food (I love to eat and spend hours a day driving in my car for work). To counter this, I spend at least 2 HOURS a day on the elliptical machine at my gym, 7 days a week, and I am definitely thin and lean. I could drop the exercise to 30 minutes a day and maintain the same if I also dropped my eating by at least 1500 calories, but I don't like that.
Bottom line, as long as you burn more calories than you consume, you will lose weight, and I recommend NOT "dieting" while trying to lose weight, ESPECIALLY if you are a male. Exercise builds muscle, and muscle burns fat, and men can put a lot of muscle on in a relatively short time if you work at it. If you diet too much, you will burn muscle instead of build it, and that will lower your base metabolism, which will mean you will have to continue to diet to maintain it.
Just keep eating what you are, and exercise to make up for it. Had 2 Whoppers in one day? An extra 40 minutes on the elliptical will counter that. Don't want to spend an extra 40 minutes there, eat less, the choice is yours.
PS: Lots of food and lots of exercise makes for MUCH better sleep at night compared to going to be hungry with restless legs!
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What are unhealthy ways to gain weight?
To eat like a pig, or not exercise is an unhealthy way to gain weight.
Is muscle considered to be unhealthy in weight gain?
No
How do you get muscle if your skinny?
Exercise in a way where you don't lose weight but gain muscle weight.
Why do you gain weight when you exercise?
It could be the increase of muscle.
Will you gain muscle weight if you grow taller playing basketball?
Answer: Your frame size will become larger so you will gain weight, but not from muscle mass. You can gain muscle mass from exercise.
What can you do to gain wieght?
A good balanced diet and plenty of exercise. weight gain in muscle is far more attractive and healthy then weight gain in fat.
Why do you gain weight when you eat very little?
you don't gain weight when you eat very little. you need to exercise and eat little portions of your meal and you will not gain weight, you will gain muscle by working out but not the weight.
Is it true that weight training exercise can make a lean person to gain weight so that he or she becomes fit and able to have an athletic physique?
Yes. Muscle is more dense than fat. As you gain muscle mass, you do gain weight.
Why weight rise even if exercise and regulat my diet?
perhapse the weight gain is due to an increasing in muscle mass.
Can Exercise cause substantial weight gain due to large increases in muscle mass?
Yes! Muscle weighs more than fatty tissue therefore you will gain weight but you will lose inches.
Can you gain muscle mass and weight without working out?
Yes you most definitely will gain weight if you eat protein and not exercise. If you're working out to gain muscle, this tears your muscle fibers and the protein is used to repair the fibers. If you don't work out, the protein is going nowhere except your hips.
What exercise should I do if I don't want to gain muscle but just lose weight?
Run many miles.
