douglas99
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Hi Pavlosn.
If it's a rule, it will apply to everyone. Calories either count, or they don't.
All this nonsense we hear about energy in must equal energy expended (aka The First Law of Thermodynamics') is supposed to apply to us. But it doesn't. It only applies in a closed system, and the human body and metabolism don't constitute a closed system. The theory also falls over because we consume energy even as we sleep. It's here that we probably differ most, and some of us will use more stationary energy than others.
When we start exercising to increase energy usage, is when we create the demand for more fuel. If we take in the right kind of fuel, no problems. But if we stuff ourselves with stodgy starchy foods 'for energy', we are immediately in trouble. Then we have to run even more, because we don't burn rubbish so well as we do our proper food.
All running every day did for me was improve my circulation, and stamina, whilst also making me feel hungry. Not knowing any better in those days, I ate lots of bread and pasta as a fill up, in the mistaken belief wheat was a natural product, and thereby healthy. I think we all know better now.
Wheat might be natural, insofar as it's a growing plant, but bread is a processed food, no better than any other form of junk.
Phub (John)
Burn junk, you smoke more, but it still burns,
Try to burn clean fuel, and smoke less.
But, at the end of the day, if you burn too much of anything, the temperature will rise, no matter what you burn.