Trying to lose weight and putting it in numbers is demoralizing. I’ve started riding a stationary bike for 5 miles and then doing minor weight lifting after and I maaaaybe lose 200 or so calories. Is that not a good exercise? I’ve been doing this almost everyday starting 2 weeks ago. But it’s starting to feel useless if it’s such a minor amount of calories burnt. Is this a good trend to continue? What am I missing?
Edit: everyone here has been incredibly helpful, and surprisingly consistent with one another. I feel much more confident about what I’m doing and what I need to do. Seriously, thank you all.
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If you workout all the muscles in your body, you’ll get a higher weight loss effect than cardio+light workout. This is because when your muscles are tired and “broken”, your body uses up a lot of energy to “repair and grow” your muscles, so it keeps your metabolism elevated and you’ll lose most of your weight throughout the day and even when you’re sleeping. So as long as your diet is an average healthy diet, if you create a 30-45 minute timeslot in your day dedicated to working out, you’ll technically be losing a bit of weight every day every hour forever.
Note: you might not see results so clearly on a scale since you might gain strength and weight in the form of bigger muscles, so my advice is to ignore scales and if you REALLY want to know how your progress is going, just take before and after pics of yourself in the same clothes every month or two.
Source: I’m not a personal trainer but this method helped me go down from 95 kg of almost pure fat to 80 kg of muscle and a toned body +abs. This took me one year of dedication (eating better quality food + working out at home for 20-30 minutes a day)
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