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> You can exercise without changing your diet, but you won't loose (much) weight.

Exercising without changing your diet is seriously nontrivial for most people, due to compensatory eating - if you burn an extra 400 kCal, you will likely experience commensurate increase in appetite & eat an extra 400 kCal. It takes a lot of vigilance & discipline to avoid that.

IMO that's the 'real' reason diet is a more effective lever for weight loss than exercise. In theory, burning those extra 400 kCal thru exercise is just as effective for creating a caloric deficit as reducing daily consumption by 400 kCal, but in practice it still requires you to eat less than what feels normal/adequate.

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So if you’d watch the movie you’d learn that you won’t burn much more calories when you start exercising, perhaps at first but the body rebalances until it’s back on budget. Your body keeps that, they say for some evolutionary reason, very constant.

It sounds paradoxical but I know people struggling with their weight and to them it must sounds like a very good explanation.

So perhaps first change your diet and don’t exercise? It’s less healthy but it’s more effective for weightloss.

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Three times you’ve alluded to not watching the video.

It’s Kurzgesagt. It’s as much of a reliable source in general as the NY Post intern is a reliable source on astronomy. To me anyway.

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More like a research paper if you go by the references [0].

[0] https://sites.google.com/view/sources-workoutparadox