[ShinyRice]

While it is true that exercise itself does not make you spend much energy, doesn't strength training build additional muscle which in turn makes you need more energy to maintain that muscle, so you increase your basal metabolic rate? Sounds like it'd be more effective for losing weight than cardio on principle.

[Decabytes]

You are correct. It's just that gaining an appreciable amount of muscle takes a long time. So for it to have any impact would take a couple years of growth