The Big Boss & His Dainty Wife
Chapter 1078: Finally Successful in Losing Weight!

Chapter 1078: Chapter 1078: Finally Successful in Losing Weight!

Dongfang Yu gave her a sidelong glance, "Even if you exercise for two hours every day, you won’t be able to gain much muscle. I ask you to stretch just to relax the muscles."

"Why can’t I gain muscle?"

"Muscle isn’t that easy to build, diet and hormones are very important. Unless you are a man, men can easily gain muscle; without professional training, it’s difficult for women."

"Really?" Hai Xiaotang didn’t believe it and even went to specially brush up on this knowledge.

Indeed, just as Dongfang Yu said, it’s hard for women to gain muscle, but gaining fat is quite easy...

No wonder men can eat a lot and not easily gain weight, because they easily gain muscle, which consumes calories.

So what they eat is consumed by the muscles...

This is also why Dongfang Yu doesn’t allow Hai Xiaotang to run for too long, as it would consume the muscle that women already have so little of!

Hai Xiaotang suddenly envied men, who almost never gain weight with a normal diet.

Unlike her, who shows immediate effects after overeating for a while!

However, she was the type that doesn’t easily gain weight, provided she didn’t overindulge. So if she could lose weight this time, she could pretty much be set for life.

Actually, Hai Xiaotang had thought about dieting to lose weight, which would save her the trouble of exercising.

But Dongfang Yu wouldn’t allow it.

"Dieting is easy to rebound; no one can keep their mouth shut forever. Once you can’t resist eating more, you’ll bounce back, and it will be even harder to diet to lose weight in the future. Plus, dieting is bad for the body, and it can also affect your brain and mental health, making it easy to develop depression. Only exercise is the healthiest way, and it can also shape your body. Of course, the premise is you can’t overeat, being seventy or eighty percent full is just right."

"You seem quite professional, let’s start a gym..." Xiaotang suddenly said.

Dongfang Yu: "..."

Asking him to start a gym, wasn’t that a bit of an underuse of his talents?

Yet Xiaotang was seriously considering the matter; perhaps she could start one.

After all, she had a simple mind, so she might as well work hard to be physically strong.

If it was just taking some time to exercise each week, she would be quite willing to do that, and she could even make some money and stay in shape in the process.

Yes, she would start a gym in the future.

With this goal in mind, Hai Xiaotang became even more devoted and professional each time she exercised.

Dongfang Yu no longer required her to run every day; she could do other shaping exercises or strength training, such as dumbbell exercises, weightlifting, and the like.

Replacing warm-up exercises with resistance exercises would be more effective in shedding fat.

And she didn’t have to run every time; just doing resistance training was fine, avoiding the tedium.

And so, Hai Xiaotang was no longer fixed on doing the same few exercises, trying other types whenever possible.

Of course, running was still the focus.

After all, under the variety of exercises, she actually fell in love with working out and didn’t find it hard or tedious at all.

In the blink of an eye, another month had passed...

This time, just as Dongfang Yu had said, Hai Xiaotang saw significant results, she had lost four pounds.

Dongfang Yu said that losing three to five pounds a month was healthy, unless you had a larger base weight and could lose a bit more.

But wanting to lose over ten pounds in a month was definitely harmful.

For someone not very overweight, three to four pounds was ideal.

Then, as long as one kept it up, occasionally changing the types of exercises, and after a while increasing the intensity of the workouts, one would continue to see results...

In the third month, Hai Xiaotang lost a few more pounds, continued in the fourth month, and after the fifth month...

Hai Xiaotang finally succeeded in losing weight!