Thread by @MANSAFAB

If you walk for 30 minutes you will burn more of fats and less of carbs.

But if you pick up pace and start jogging you burn equal fat and carbs.

But if you sprint you will burn mostly carbs and very little fat.

Does this mean if you do lower intensity cardio that will burn more fat and lose more fat?

Not exactly when your body burns more fat in a activity like walking, it burns lesser fat and more carbs in the later part of day.

But this does not matter again, because burning fat is not same as losing fat.

Imagine your body is like a piggy bank.

Inside that piggy bank, you keep two kinds of money for energy:

“fat money” and “carb money.”

When you go for a slow walk, like when you’re just strolling through the park, your body mostly likes to spend its “fat money.”

Spending "fat money" is burning fat.

But here’s the trick: “burning fat” (spending fat money) isn’t the same as “losing fat” (making your piggy bank smaller overall).

If you spend a lot of fat money on your walk, your body might just be like:

“Okay, I spent some fat money, so now I’ll hold onto my carb money more for a bit, or maybe grab some new fat money from your next snack to put back in the piggy bank.”

It balances itself out.

To “lose fat” and make your whole piggy bank smaller, you have to spend more total money (all kinds of money – fat and carbs) than you put in.

If you eat too many yummy snacks, you’re putting more money into the piggy bank than you’re spending, even if you spent some fat money on your walk.

So the piggy bank gets bigger, not smaller.

So, it’s not just about what kind of money you spend right now (burning fat). It’s about spending more total money (calories) than you get from food, day after day.

That’s how you really make the whole piggy bank (your body’s fat stores) get smaller in the long run!

All that matter is Calorie Deficit.

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