If it were useless we would see at least some populations in the world to have lost it altogether.

I imagine it to be like 2 bottles of water and 3 bottles of oil or something (with bottles of 1 liter), or a 1 gallon jug.

I remember reading about a German TV host who lost weight and every week would fill up the total weight lost as water in two buckets and walk around the house with them just to get a feeling for the weight.

I consider sport and working out to be really helpful for weight loss, primarily for its positive impact on my mental health, which in turn, also helps me to keep up a healthy and restricted diet.

I realize already that the same distance in swimming/running burns fewer calories than when I did them in a less-trained state, which is why my aims are now time-based (45 minute swim, 1h walk, etc.).

A typical mistake people who start to count calories make is to select in the TDEE calculator an active lifestyle and then adding the workout calories on top, which kind of means they are added twice when in reality they need to be accounted for only once. So I decided to pick “sedentary”, even though I work out. Then all workout burnt calories may help in losing weight a little faster, but I don’t risk to plateau due to overeating / wrong estimated calories for a workout.

Also, I do think a lot of advice in dieting should probably distinguish between

• obese people trying to lose weight
• normal weight people trying to lose the christmas-kilos

What works to shed a few pounds may not work to lose 40kgs.

Peeing while standing I do only at urinals. At home I sit. Of course I would also pee while standing, but the additional cleaning need is just not worth it.