[throwawayboise]

Weight change happens depending on whether calories consumed - calories burned is positive or negative.

Diet tends to be more effective for weight loss because it's a lot easier to cut excess empty calories than it is to burn them off with exercise.

Jogging a mile might burn 150 calories. Eating a Big Mac adds 600.

[sokoloff]

Summarized memorably as “you can’t outrun the fork” or “the most effective exercise for weight loss is an early tricep extension at the table”