Fun fact: cardio doesn’t actually help you lose weight in the long term. Our bodies adapt to how much energy we burn and tries to preserve calories when we burn more doing physical activities. So if you run 2 miles every day, your body will try to maintain its normal baseline weight by reducing calorie expenditure in other parts of your day (e.g. thinking). This is why people tend to gravitate back to a specific number on the scale regardless of whether they gained or lost weight. Your body wants to stay there. The only way I’m aware of to change that baseline number is through diet changes or muscle growth.