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In this thread: A bunch of Dunning-Kruger effect
You don't need to have a level 200 IQ or 20 years experience to work out that eating less is going to help with weight loss.
Yet there's a whole bunch of people who can't understand that increasing the number of calories you burn without increasing how much you eat achieves the same result.
Not quite the same result, exercise has a whole host of health benefits aside from just the weight loss.
On the other hand, for most people, given a calorie deficit target, it is often much, much easier to eat less than burn more.
From a weight and calories perspective only the result is the same.
Also, dieticians would disagree with you and that's the reason why they put much more emphasis on starting with healthy life habits first and foremost instead of reducing calories, long term one sticks the other doesn't because it's the difference between making your life better vs making yourself miserable.