{"id":450,"date":"2026-06-07T23:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeanpaulrivas.com\/?p=450"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:57:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T23:57:29","slug":"sweating-means-youre-burning-fat-not-exactly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanpaulrivas.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/sweating-means-youre-burning-fat-not-exactly\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSweating Means You&#8217;re Burning Fat\u201d \u2013 Not Exactly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jeanpaulrivas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jun26.1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-460\" width=\"534\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeanpaulrivas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jun26.1.webp 867w, https:\/\/jeanpaulrivas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jun26.1-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/jeanpaulrivas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jun26.1-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/jeanpaulrivas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jun26.1-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/jeanpaulrivas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jun26.1-700x700.webp 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I love a good sweat\u2014but let\u2019s bust this myth. Sweating doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re burning fat. It just means your body is cooling itself down. You can sweat buckets and not burn much, or sweat very little and burn a ton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve seen people chase sweat with heavy clothes or saunas thinking it speeds fat loss. Truth is, fat loss comes from a calorie deficit\u2014not how soaked your shirt is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So enjoy the sweat, but don\u2019t let it be your only metric of effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jean Paul Rivas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love a good sweat\u2014but let\u2019s bust this myth. Sweating doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re burning fat. It just means your body is cooling itself down. You can sweat buckets and not burn much, or sweat very little and burn a ton. I\u2019ve seen people chase sweat with heavy clothes or saunas thinking it speeds fat loss. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanpaulrivas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanpaulrivas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanpaulrivas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanpaulrivas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanpaulrivas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeanpaulrivas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/jeanpaulrivas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanpaulrivas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanpaulrivas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanpaulrivas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}