Weight loss can be different for different people due to a number of reasons.

Metabolic Efficiency.

This might sound like a fancy, over-the-top word, but trust me, it’s actually not. People that have low metabolic efficiency, don’t know that they have it.

“What the heck is this?”

It’s simply how much your metabolism burns for energy every day. Your TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure) varies from person to person due to a several amount of factors. If your days are low-activity, and your calorie deficit is too much or too little, than that might just be the cause for your slow/high fat loss.

Someone with a height of 165cm, and the body weight of 60kg, will not lose the same amount of fat at the same time if their TDEE levels are different. This is assuming their calorie deficit levels are the same; say 1600 calories for an example. Person A has a TDEE level of 2000 calories and Person B has a TDEE level of 2200. It’s no surprise that through a consistent period of time, Person B will be losing more fat (contributing to weight) in the long run.

What you want is to include moderately high-intensity levels of activity (not too much, as it will slow down recovery levels at a deficit) and a correct amount of calorie deficit, with regard to your body measurements. Usually it’s no more than 500-600 calories under your maintenance calories, or your TDEE.

You probably should be doing more LISS cardio, and increasing the intensity of your workouts (not the volume, the intensity). And tracking well is also very important.

Another dead giveaway is tracking your calories poorly. This will need experience.

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Look back at the times when cavemen roamed the grounds of Mother Earth. They lived happy, and seemed like obesity was non-existent at that time.

Did they use “Weight Loss Supplements”?

Please. Do yourself a favor and stay the hell away from all those. Usually supplements that claim to be good for weight-loss, are mainly diuretic-they contain a high dose of caffeine, and they make us pee a lot, resulting in general water-weight loss. No “magic pill” is going to get your shredded in one month.

EVEN IF, there are supplements, FDA-tested, and backed by sufficient research on their claims to boost metabolism and ensure “targeted fat loss”, would you want your lives to depend on them?

Chances are, if you take them, and somehow, they work for you, trust me; it’s a bad investment.

Your body is a system. A very intelligent system. It knows when to transport energy to its working cells, it knows how to auto-regulate, and detoxify it’s own system. It is designed, and programmed to do that already from the moment you were born. If you consume those “supplements” directed for “weight-loss”, your body might adapt to it, and reduce it’s independence to optimize it’s own metabolism. Your body will depend heavily on those supplements, and you will lose your natural ability to burn fat well.

So shut up, and screw those supplements. They’re just very good at marketing, using professional athletes to endorse their products and shit like that.

Get your lazy ass up and start improving your own body’s ability to optimize metabolism. Your body is an amazing tool, so use it to it’s maximum potential. Eat well and right, train well and right.

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Don’t worry too much.

There’s nothing wrong with cardio before your training or after. Pick one that suits you and your method of training better.

If you’re still confused, let me help your think a little.

If your actual training is heavy, and hard-hitting-you probably need all the energy you can get during your session. So in cases like that, it’s probably better for you to employ your cardio session after your actual workout.

If your training is light-weight, easy to do, but very tiring (endurance-wise), then maybe doing cardio in the beginning can be beneficial for you, as it warms up your entire body, blood-circulation gets better overall.

Personally for me, I usually like to cardio on alternate days (rest days), as it boosts recovery and optimizes fat loss without messing up your gains. I like to do LISS (Low Intensity Steady State) cardio to supplement my workouts. On my training days, I train hard and heavy, so I get the most benefit for my muscle growth.