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Originally Posted by mrkajz44
Even this amount of exercise is still quite a bit. I try my best, but I'm probably only getting in 2 workouts a week - I'm lucky if I'm burning an extra 800 calories in one week, let alone a day.
I've always believed weight maintenance is 90% diet and 10% exercise. This doesn't mean exercise is not important, as it has a host of other benefits, but in terms of people working on their weight only, good diet is pretty much the only way to be successful.
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Weight maintenance is 100% about caloric balance and weight loss is 100% caloric deficit.
Exercise merely burns more calories to aid in reaching that balance or deficiency.
"Can't out run a bad diet" simply means it's nearly impossible to burn more calories than you take in if you're not (carefully) watching what you're eating.