Honestly, cardio is a bonus if you truly eat at a deficit. It's maddening to see so many fats around me that are fat simply because they have a jacked up relationship with food. It's not even difficult to cut at least some calories, but to a fatty, you're asking far too much. They consider calorie monitoring to be obsessive, yet they continue to hate their own fatness. Lunacy.  I will not try to convince a fat of anything. Fuck em.