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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Exercise only helps you lose weight if you are also cutting calories at the same time.  If you are not cutting calories, exercise helps you maintain or not gain weight.  Simple truth.

I have trained for many marathons and usually have to prepare myself that I will gain 5 pounds during training.  The only time I lost weight while training for a marathon was when I meticulously watched what I ate and how much.

If you don't cut calories or keep track of them while exercising, you will simply increase the amount of food you eat (whether you realize it or not). [/quote]
It doesn't have to involve cutting calories at all. If I am 140 lbs and not gaining weight, and then I start working out an hour every single day, I can slowly lose weight if I eat the same amount as before. It is that simple.
About your weight gain during training, you clearly "conditioned" yourself for gaining, hence you gain, as you clearly add calories to your daily intake, and not just add to compensate for extra calories burned, you add a bit more so you are not in weight homeostasis, rather in a plus.

And who ever thinks "you will simply increase the amount of food you eat" while working out to be any kind of an excuse for exercise doesn't matter when trying to lose weight? It is clear that you have a problem with overeating when working out, so you now made a blank statement for "all" that you will simply increase how much you eat...
Eh, no, Plenty of people are not that dumb.[/quote]

This would all be true if the body could perfectly associate  how many calories burned with its hunger signals and if it was reasonable to expect people respond to hunger with the exact amount of calories burned. Neither of those things are true.

Many people who are saying that exercise doesn’t make them lose weight are not using this as an excuse to not exercise. I think most of use who have gotten into fitness enough to realize this and read about it still work out. We just work out for other reasons. Point in case: one of the PPs who thinks exercise doesn’t make her lose weight runs marathons. [/quote]
Well, yes, we are all different and burn different levels, sure.
Pp that runs marathons and doesn't lose weight, I mean come on, she knows she eats a lot. Also, who is to say she trains 10 miles a day? Maybe she trains super slow, I have seen people "running" who are running slower than I am walking. I have seen people at the gym walking at 2 or less miles per hour while holding on for dear life onto the hand rails. I have seen people in fitness classes that instead of doing zumba and really working out barely move around.
That is not exercising, that is telling your family you are going to he gym, just to ditch them for a while, which is a totally legit and a great reason to leave the house for a bit. No argument from me there.
But, it does drive me a bit batty to see a young, overweight person, in the gym, barely moving and then next to them a grandpa running like a fiend. Of course that person will come back and say "I don't know why I am not losing weight, I am working out every day."
Instead that person thin or overweight or just trying to increase muscle mass should say "I am at the gym every day." And add in her/his/their mind, well, I am not actually doing any exercise there.
That is why exercise is not effective for weight loss, bcs some people don't know what it means.[/quote]

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