Is Running a Marathon for Weight Loss a Good Idea?

Why I say ‘question everything’ so many times is because the fitness and diet culture are full of dogma.

Most people still believe that you must ‘eat less / exercise move more’ to lose weight.

Could you suspend your disbelief for a short while and open to your mind to the possibility, that …

‘𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 / 𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲’ 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗺 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁?

This is obviously a bird’s eye view, and there are a bunch of caveats. But the calories in / calories out paradigm should be buried. It only works in a closed system.

The human body, on the contrary, is a system open to the environment. Environmental inputs, such as light, are at play here.

𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗱𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗻 ‘𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀’ 𝗼𝗿 ‘𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀’. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗻 𝗵𝘆𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗲𝗻.

If you’re training for a marathon with the goal to burn off excess fat of your body, I am sorry - you may lose a bunch of weight, but you will deplete your stem cells in the process.

What does it mean?

You will age faster.

So my advice to you is to be open to the idea, that there is a way to burn fat AND get younger at the same time.

𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘹 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘯.
𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘹 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘹 𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭.
𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘵 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨.

I am sorry. It’s NOT something you achieve by running.