Everyone yells this advice like it’s a revolutionary secret. “Just eat less!” they scream, as you weep into a family-sized bag of crisps. The truth? Calories matter, but your willpower is a tiny, exhausted hamster on a wheel. You can’t outrun a bad diet—literally.
Vigorous running burns about 100 calories per mile. That’s one mediocre biscuit. So unless you want to run a half-marathon every time you crave a scone, stop thinking exercise is the main event. It’s the undercard. The main event is what goes in your cake-hole.
One surprising fact: your brain uses about 20% of your calories just to exist. That means thinking about losing a stone burns roughly three calories. Congratulations, you just burned a single peanut. This is going to be a long road.
