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Originally Posted by pwnsall
Eating less is the most important step to losing weight. Get that fat logic out of here
This needs to be restated.
There's no amount of exercise you can't eat your way through.
It's very difficult and time consuming to burn off 1000 calories via exercise and trivially easy to eat it.
A fat, hungry person can wolf down a double whopper, fries, and big soda in like 10 minutes. It would take 3 hours of jogging to burn that many calories off.
Exercise is extremely important for health and is an absolutely must, however the additional weight loss from it should be viewed as a nice bonus, rather than the main goal. You exercise primarily so that your muscles, bones, heart, and lungs are strong and work well, important stuff.
However if you're grossly overweight your DIET is by far the dominant factor in how fat you are, not your lack of exercise.
There's tons of really out of shape skinny people that don't exercise but aren't particularly over-fat because they don't regularly over consume calories.