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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In terms of diet vs exercise, I don’t think it’s true that diet is always the main thing.

DH is down 15 lbs since Christmas by not snacking and doing 65 min on the Peloton 5 times a week. He’s burning 700-800 calories per workout. Otherwise he hasn’t changed his diet, but he’s still losing weight.

It’s all about a calorie deficit, whether you get it from diet or exercise.[/quote]

Of course, you can lose weight just by excercise. But diet is a lot more effective. Look at the table:

https://www.womenshealthmag.com/weight-loss/a19982520/weight-loss-80-percent-diet-20-percent-exercise/[/quote]

I think the thing with exercise is unless you are running 1-3+ hours per day, cycling 4+ hours per day, swimming 4+ hours per day, doing a rigorous two week through hiking backpacking trip, or something to that effect, it's just really challenging to create meaningful caloric deficits that are not easy to out eat with exercise.  Think about a 3 mile run.  Most people burn on average 0.69*bodyweight calories per mile.  If you are a 130 lb woman, then you are taking about 270ish calories in that 3 miles.  270 calories can be easily consumed in a snack.  If you do a 10 mile run, then you end up burning ~900 calories.  That becomes a lot more challenging to out eat.  If you average ~10+ miles a day, then you are really adding up to have a serious caloric dent, along with whatever additional calories are required for tissue repair and recovery, which becomes a lot more of a thing if you are running that much.

You generally have to have the time, motivation, and fitness to really put in that volume of exercise (especially without injury) which is generally not congruent with people's lifestyles.  So exercise really has to be done at a pretty high volume/high level of fitness to really burn meaningful amounts of calories.  I've noticed people often do not lean down from running without adjustments to diet until they start putting in serious miles, usually somewhere in the 50-80+ miles per week range, often chasing a big personal goal like a sub-3 hour marathon.[/quote]

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