Cardio Won't Help You Lose Weight ❌

16 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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In this YouTube monologue, Eric Roberts argues that excessive or high‑intensity cardio can sabotage weight‑loss efforts by raising cortisol levels, increasing hunger, and prompting overeating, especially of junk food. He explains why many people mistakenly rely on cardio to lose weight, only to feel starving and lose willpower. Roberts recommends a more modest approach: walk at least 6,000 steps daily, limit extra cardio to low‑intensity sessions of 15–30 minutes a few times per week, and maintain a calorie deficit. He directs viewers to a free calorie‑deficit calculator linked in his bio for precise guidance.

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Doing more cardio actually makes you gain more weight, and here's why. When you do cardio, you burn calories, and the more cardio you do and/or the higher intensity cardio that you do, your body burns more calories, which you think is a good thing, but it also increases your stress and your cortisol, and it increases your hunger and your appetite. Especially for cravings, junk food, sweets, sugar. So what ends up happening is most people will try to cardio their way to weight loss, and then you get fucking starving, you end up overeating, and you think you just have no willpower and you can't stick to your diet. But the reason you can't stick to your diet is because you're doing too much cardio. So to fix this for weight loss, Walk at least 6,000 steps per day, and if you're gonna do extra cardio, make it low intensity where you have a low heart rate and keep it to 15 to 30 minutes per session a couple of times a week. Do that combined with eating in a calorie deficit, and I promise you, you will lose weight. If you need to know what your calorie deficit is, just click the link in my bio for a free calculator.