I was wondering what exactly should I do there to help with that.

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    1 year ago

    My favorite weight loss exercise is existing but being very cold. Not even joking. That’s the whole thing.

    If you want to balance calories with low effort, expose yourself to whatever temperature you shiver at (cold water is great for this because you lose heat 25x faster when wet). You burn an absolute ton of calories for heat, and recruit beige fat cells to function as brown fat cells which exist only to burn through fat to maintain homeostasis. The more you shiver, the more effective you are at ambient calorie burn when you don’t shiver.

    https://www.medicaldaily.com/shivering-more-effective-exercise-15-minutes-shivering-may-burn-more-fat-1-hour-working-out-268555

    Cardio is wonderful for upping your overall metabolism, as is building any muscle. They also both work to strengthen your overall system. Do those things. They are good for you.

    But for pure calorie balancing and deficits, cold wins hands down as far as effort involved. Because it’s just sitting there being uncomfortable, and that’s easy, some of us are that way always :)

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      81 year ago

      while i’m sure this does work well, i’d maybe tone down the miraculousity of your message a bit. Don’t want to overhype people and have them hurt themselves or simply not see such a big effect and conclude it’s a sham.

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        31 year ago

        I don’t think I oversold it at all, it’s just a calorie balancer, it’s not going to do anything else, and it won’t fix a bad diet…

        But it does work; it’s just a standard biological mechanism. If you shiver, you burn a ton of energy to do so, it comes from fat. This is true in any species with the shiver capacity, that’s what it’s for.

        Bigger people need more shiver time and lower temps, which makes it harder to see the result, but it still works.