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by friedman23 1493 days ago
Walking is the most under rated weight loss activity. People don't understand how many calories walking on an incline on a treadmill will shred if you are obese. When I was 220 pounds, walking at 10% incline at 2.6mph was 770 calories an hour. It is actually hard to eat at a calorie surplus when you are burning that many calories a day.

If you want to lose weight you need to do one of the following

Be hungry, Be in pain from exercise (running), or sacrifice all your free time to low intensity exercise

I chose option 3 along with weight lifting and I don't regret it.

Walking also has this really cool effect of not increasing ghrelin unlike high intensity cardio