Introduction: The Calorie Burn You're Ignoring Most people think about fat loss in terms of the gym. How many sessions per week. What intensity. Cardio or weights. HIIT or steady state. These are reasonable things to optimise. But here's a fact that reframes the entire discussion: for most people who aren't elite athletes, intentional exercise accounts for only 5-15% of total daily energy expenditure. The rest comes from your resting metabolism (60-70%), the thermic effect of digesting food (10%), and something that rarely gets discussed in gym-based fat loss advice: non-exercise activ…