eli5 How does walking lose overall body fat?

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I know you can’t spot reduce, but if you walk a 3mph speed isn’t that just working on legs somehow?

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Muscle =/= fat. If you are walking, you are working your leg muscles you are not working your leg fat.

This can have the effect of making the muscles more pronounced, and the fat less pronounced, but it will not decrease the amount of fat in the legs more than it would anywhere else, because when you burn fat, it doesn’t care which parts are working.

(Plus, there’s other parts that are working hard too, your heart, lungs, and brain now have to use energy that they otherwise wouldn’t have had to use, so other fat stores would decrease anyway)

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