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I've found I lost more weight walking (long walks) than doing intense exercise. Cole (Snake Diet guy), had an interesting comment/hypothesis, when your exercise
by hourislate 6y ago
I've found I lost more weight walking (long walks) than doing intense exercise. Cole (Snake Diet guy), had an interesting comment/hypothesis, when your exercise is intense you burn sugar (easily accessible). Your body senses that it needs a lot of energy (fight or flight scenario)and this leaves you craving to replace that energy that you burned (sugar).
When you do a low impact cardio exercise (walking below 4 MPH), your body doesn't want to burn that sugar you have, saving it for an emergency (flight/fight). It sees you have all this fat and determines that your energy burn rate can be sufficiently supplied by burning it. So it ends up using fat instead of sugar. Maybe burning through this fat (walking long walks) and not burning through your sugar reserve, remodels appetite hormones (Leptin).
Leptin is secreted mainly by white adipose tissue, and levels are positively correlated with the amount of body fat
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2829242/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2829242/
The trick is keep it low impact, slow walking, for 2 or more hours a day. Combined with short 48 hour fasts and a 2500 Kcal re-feed day, it's a game changer.
- ogre_codes 6y agoEveryone is a little different. So I'm not going to tell you what works for you. For me... cycling works wonders. I burn calories twice as fast as walking and so long as I focus on good post-workout foods I avoid the trap of undoing all the good that I just did. Eating proteins and fats after a workout fills me up and lets my body repair torn muscle tissue.