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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Mass has an incredible amount of energy. For example: Just 1 gallon of gasoline will move a car 20 – 30 miles. Your body is better at turning food into energy than a car is at turning gasoline into energy.
But calories don’t really matter as much as what your body does with them. Active people who eat good food tend to simply burn off extra calories while sedentary people who eat shit food tend to store extra calories.
5 miles is a great start. I can tell you from experience that if you ride like 100 miles a week you can shovel massive amounts of garbage food down your throat and lose weight.
Don’t consider exercise a strict calories in/out thing. Exercise because it’s good for you and will be one of the factors that helps you live a long, healthy, mobile life.
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