This is only going to get more problematic as jobs by and large shift away from manual labor in industrialized countries while junk food availability continues to increase. Not sure there's an easy way around it, seeing as how there appears to be a shortage of willpower these days.
Let's say that your eating habits mean you're likely to put on 5 kg (about 11 lbs) of weight a year. That's about 100kcals a day overage on average. Drinking one less can of soda or 40 minutes of walking a day would combat that, but it's hard for people to be aware of it. Tracking consumption certainly helps, but my experience is that most people don't want to put up with doing that. I think that's part of the "30 minutes of Cardio three times a week" comes in, because that's a little more intensive but easier to track with about the same net impact.
This is only going to get more problematic as jobs by and large shift away from manual labor in industrialized countries while junk food availability continues to increase. Not sure there's an easy way around it, seeing as how there appears to be a shortage of willpower these days.
Let's say that your eating habits mean you're likely to put on 5 kg (about 11 lbs) of weight a year. That's about 100kcals a day overage on average. Drinking one less can of soda or 40 minutes of walking a day would combat that, but it's hard for people to be aware of it. Tracking consumption certainly helps, but my experience is that most people don't want to put up with doing that. I think that's part of the "30 minutes of Cardio three times a week" comes in, because that's a little more intensive but easier to track with about the same net impact.