There's strong evidence that exercise is actually counterproductive when trying to lose weight.
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2010...
Others state that unless you're carefully balancing your calories vs. your workout level, you can push your metabolism into "starvation mode" - for example: lets say you require 2300 calories to maintain your weight, but you want to slim down so you decide to consume 2000 instead. If you throw exercise into the mix you're burning off an extra 300-500 calories (a net of 1500-1700 calories) which may put your body's metabolism into starvation mode. Because different people's bodies response to exercise differently, actually tracking your net caloric intake is challenging and not fully understood.
And of course there's the studies that show exercising alone with no diet plans seems to have a negligible impact on weight loss.
I hope I didn't misrepresent their arguments, but that's the gist of them.
It's helping you in a number of other different ways perhaps, I was certainly not saying someone should not exercise. It's just not an effective weight loss technique.
Also when you add up the calories burned, even vigorous exercise just isn't that much. It's FAR easier to cut calories out of your diet than to exercise them away even if you assumed exercise did not make you hungrier or affect you in any other way adverse to weight loss.
To build that muscle, you have to feed it, so consuming more to burn more isn't necessarily out in left field as far as nutritional science goes.
There should be studies about this in the literature.
I know it happens to me - after I work really hard, I'm very very hungry after, and I end up eating too much.
It's pretty simple - burn more fat, eat less crap.
I think it's just about determination, and wether you actually care enough about achieving the goal.
It's pretty simple - playing the piano causes limb regrowth.
If you're thin is it impossible to eat?
I'm talking about fat - able to exercise if you try. Not talking about morbidly obese.
If fat people took up jogging and became thin, you would see fat joggers.
Which was my point.
Then he'd learn about the difference.
Perhaps I should have been clearer. But I'm lazy.
People who cut out calories and exercise lose the same as people who cut out calories and don't. People who exercise without changing eating habits don't lose weight, just like those who do nothing at all.