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30 May 2023 · 1 min

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In this concise monologue, the speaker challenges the popular claim that yoga poses alone can produce significant weight loss. He explains that weight loss fundamentally requires a calorie deficit, not specific exercises. The speaker provides typical calorie‑burn figures for yoga—about 150 kcal per hour for most styles and up to 450 kcal per hour for the vigorous Ashtanga practice—illustrating these numbers with food equivalents (e.g., three Oreos or a serving of French fries). He advises viewers to practice yoga for its happiness‑boosting benefits rather than as a primary weight‑loss tool, and recommends consulting a nutritionist for effective weight management. The talk ends with a call to follow for more yoga content.

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You're wrong if you think yoga poses can give you massive weight loss. Whenever I search for yoga on social media, first, it's always videos of people doing yoga in explicit ways, but second, it's do this one pose and have a skinny waist, or do this one pose, it helped me to lose 10 pounds. No, it did not. Weight loss comes from a calorie deficit. Everything else is gimmicks, friends. Yoga burns about 150 calories an hour. 450 an hour if you do Ashtanga. That's the highest caloric burning style of yoga. So that's 3 Oreos for most yogas, or an order of French fries if you do Ashtanga, for an hour. Do yoga because it brings you happiness, and get a nutritionist if you want to lose weight. Light up the follow button if you want to learn more about yoga.