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How did you lose weight? (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by lemmylem@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 14 points 10 months ago

I agree with you overall. One benefit of exercise, is it increases your muscle mass. Which generally increases your overall metabolic rate. Which means throughout the day to maintain that muscle mass you are burning more calories at rest then if you hadn't developed that muscle mass. So there is benefit to generating muscles for the sake of generating muscles