Cardio

The running option sounds like a better course of action. I think I'll stick with that. I'm just starting, so I am only doing a mile/day, but hopefully I can work up to 3 or 4. I skip dinners while trying to take in my 2k calories. Just started picking up weights as well. Hopeful to see some improvements over the next few months.

>1200 calories a day for a month, and I'll see the same results.
>implying you burn 1200 calories in a run
>implying would lose only 10lbs in a 1200calorie per day deficit over a month
cringepilled

I don't know anything. I'm just looking at the treadmill display and it says 120 to 140 calories for a one mile run. If I do (10) 1 mile runs, shouldn't it be around 1200 calories?

If it takes 35

3500 calories to burn 1lb of fat. 10lbs needs 35,000. 1200 calories, either starved or run, for 1 month (30 days) comes to 36,000 Cal. What's the issue?

Based and redpilled.

Cardio really is mostly useful for weight maintenance, not weight loss. If you're really fat it's because you eat hundreds to thousands more calories than you need every day. Trying to correct this by cardio alone is dumb.

Instead lift and cut calories

If you're fat and out if shape you won't be able to burn that many calories from cardio without wanting to kill yourself. Then you'll be even more hungry from the cardio.

Obviously cardio is good for cardiovascular and general health though

micronutrients

good digits, good post.
I honnestly can't take people that only do non-competitive cardio only. Its not even for the heart and lungs, it's a coping mechanism for all the shit they stuff in their mouths

Nobody does cardio strictly to burn calories aside from maybe blonde bimbo cardiobunnies. They do it for cardiovascular improvement.

>cardio, from the greek word kardia, meaning heart
>the heart is a muscular organ
>muscles strengthen after exercising

Put the pieces together user.

Cardio causes a noticeable improvement in your metabolism, as it literally causes your body to produce more mitochondria.
Cardio is also good for your overall health.

Cardio actually makes me less hungry

protein, vitamins, and minerals brah. Your body comes out with a net gain of nutrients.

that's why eating "empty" nutritionless calories is fucking retarded unless you're specifically trying to bulk.

Well you're abnormal

You're an exception then
Because cardio serves a function beyond just burning calories. Strengthening your cardiovascular system, that is. Hence the name. It's better to eat 500 more calories and burn them off with cardio than it is to just eat at maintenance

This is the only appropriate response. Well done user

I'm assuming that if you're associating cardio with calories then you're probably interested in LOSING BODY FAT. Eating, however, is stimulated by hormones such as insulin and cortisol and can easily be classified as a mental addiction if you get accustomed to a certain amount of calories to feel "full" by these hormones. So to conclude, if you are not in control of your hunger and let food control your life (constantly thinking about food/eating before you're hungry because you think you need food for energy/planning food all the time/eating to socialize/etc) then doing cardio will merely frustrate you in attempts to lose weight.
Additionally, the only 2 diets or lifestyle changes I have seen that have the most success for carnivores is IF and Keto. The idea in these 2 share a commonality of reducing insulin levels. Notice here I did not mention calories. It's always good to count calories so you know you're not overeating but once you start fasting, your appetite should go down and your perception of food should not be as obsessive since you're limiting your eating to a specific time of your choosing... (from my experience).