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If you’re overweight and looking to change your lifestyle, you may be wondering which type of exercise is most effective for you. Some people favor fast, intense workouts, while others prefer low-intensity, longer-duration sessions. But why is it beneficial to use your body’s fat to fuel cardio exercise, especially if you’re overweight? In this article, I will provide answers to that question! During cardio exercise, your body primarily uses two energy sources: carbohydrates and fats.

I recently researched how much exercise is needed to lose weight, and it turns out there is none. You should move to be healthier. The natural way to lose weight and keep your weight permanently is to change your diet for the long term. Exercise will help for a while, but then your body will get used to it and won’t burn extra calories by moving around as it initially did.

You already know that I love running to music - just look at my running pictures, all with headphones on. And I’ve established that you should listen to techno instead of podcasts on the way up a hill to make it easier to get over that hill. I’ve also dedicated a page here on the website to my beat-based Spotify playlists. They’re a mixed bag of music: you’ll find everything from Latin to pop to gabby techno (and more techno).

I assume you are a beginner and need help deciding how to start losing weight. You also want to have nice, firm muscles. How do you get started? Unfortunately, from my own experience, you can’t do both at the same time. Think about it logically: to build muscle, you’d need to put on extra weight and to lose weight, you’d need to lose fat. This is very difficult to do at the same time because you have to drastically change your diet and also incorporate a lot of (weight) training into your lifestyle.

I’m sure some of you have smart scales that can track not only your weight but also changes in muscle mass, water balance, body fat percentage, and even possibly visceral fat. These numbers other than body weight are probably not correct. Or, more correctly, they are for your legs (except for those scales that you not only stand on but have to hold a lever with your hand). Right. Don’t get hung up on your body fat percentage or visceral fat score.

Living in the prison of my own body - maybe that’s how I could describe what it was like to be fat. The bars of my prison were my excess weight. It kept me from doing what I wanted to do. Move the way I wanted to move. And in that prison, it was a pretty good life. Emotionally happy in a loving family but physically second-class. My prison guard was my appetite.

The current state of the science is that the key to weight loss is a calorie deficit. Period. There are no magical loopholes, no miracle cures. Eat less than the energy your body needs. However, there are some important things to consider. Supposedly, the primary reason for failure in weight loss diets is that the subjects don’t notice the small results, so they stop the diet prematurely. The solution to this is to systematically weigh yourself every morning after using the toilet and record your weight on a daily basis.

You Pay for Your Obesity with Your Happy Years Being fat has impacted my life. I’ve lost weight, but it’s also had an impact on my future – I hope only in the sense that I’ll be flabby for the rest of my life in my stretched skin. It bothers me, of course, but I try to think of it as a positive, hard-earned award. When I was fat, I was always the last one up the hill – if I didn’t turn back halfway up.