I’ve always found exercise to be a motivator for getting diet under control. Periods of low exercise correlates with bad eating. Building back the routine makes shifting diet much easier.
When I'm getting regular exercise everything else just kind of falls in to place. My appetite works properly, and I move towards my healthy body weight eating whatever I feel like eating.
Same! Periods of low exercise correlate with lower moods for me and lower moods mean less will power which makes keeping my diet in check tougher. The opposite is also true.