I get on the treadmill for 1 hour and consume 700 calories in that hour.
Heavy exercise also causes improved appetite and sleep regulation as it fixes your blood sugar levels. This leads to your demand for food and especially the worst kinds to paradoxically go down for most fat people (they were already eating too many calories)
Calories in and calories out shows that I will durably lose weight over a several month period with 1 hr on the treadmill every other day - a totally doable number for motivated people.
I swear to gosh that all the people who say “you can’t outrun your fork” are fatties.
The issue is that the willpower to exercise for most people is trash. Most people who claimed they did high impact exercise and didn’t see weight loss simply didn’t actually do high impact exercise.
Also, it’s very easy to eat an extra 700 calories especially if you are in the “I worked out so I deserve a treat” camp.
Your lack of understanding comes across in your stance as well as the attitude.
Yes exercise is fantastic for your quality of life years and all cause mortality, but it’s not the whole story.
This is sort of like trying to fly a plane using Newtonian physics. Like, you can do it. But it’s more an exercise in pedantry than practicality.
My body, for example, loves to frivol away weight. I can eat like a pig and lounge around and my basal metabolism will spike and I won’t gain weight (nor lose much strength, though I do lose definition). Similar for people with metabolic syndrome: their bodies will literally start starving themselves by cutting basal metabolism in reaction to less food or more exertion before they’ll give up some fat cells. Not everyone who is obese has metabolic syndrome. But you’re going against the science if you insist all we need is diet and exercise education.