Just a small Rant

Xellercin

dontlikepeople wrote: »

I'm probably late to this thread, but

> cardio 4 days a week

My humble opinion is that this is probably not enough depending on the intensity. If all you're doing is walking, you need to do pretty much every day. If you're not covered in sweat and/or out of breath, you need to up the intensity. ANY sort of strength training (push ups, sit ups even) will go a long way towards helping ramp up your over all metabolism and energy levels as well.

Something I suggest to people a lot of the times is to join some sort of fitness class (martial arts, crossfit, zumba, whatever), because these classes will push you physically to a place where you are burning significant calories while developing better musculature. Developing musculature to some sort of baseline minimum is absolutely critical. Your weight will always be a general reflection of your over all health in our culture of plenty.

This isn't my personal experience at all.

I've never had a hard time losing weight even though I'm disabled and can't do intense exercise. In fact, I lost from obese to healthy weight without doing any exercise aside from the occasional walk.

I've maintained a healthy weight for years. I did gain a bit due to meds, still healthy weight range, but lost it again with diet.

I do daily exercise now, but it's always very gentle and never intense, mostly light PT movements and stretches, certainly not intense enough to contribute meaningfully to a calorie deficit. And still, I stay lean and have good muscle mass.

Exercise is very important, but for me, it is not necessary for weight loss. I personally don't connect the two at all.