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Hi docs, would i lose weight if i exercised cycling daily for 15 minutes?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

If all other factors: Remained the same and calories burned exceeded calories consumed you would lose weight. But without dietary changes you would lose at a very slow pace.

Dr Kass and another doctor agreed

Answered 9/28/2016

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