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It is almost as if tools themselves don't do the work on their own.

I started to make a point, then went to go read the article, and found that the article is not making this point at all. It's adding evidence to the position that exercise doesn't cause people to lose weight. They did the work, they didn't lose the weight.

A case of a bad headline, it seems.

I lost weight. I included my blog where I illustrated that. The problem with exercise is that you may burn 300-500 calories then eat that much extra food because you are now hungrier. Diet is still more important.

You also need to consider that when you lose 5 lbs of fat, for example, and gain 5 lbs of muscle, you weigh the same but you're definitely more fit.

You can't outrun your mouth.

It's much easier to control for your diet than exercise it away, because unless you're working out for 8-10 hours a day, you won't burn more than a few hundred calories. That's one shake at McDonald's or Starbucks dessert.

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