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Whilst what you're saying is true, it's important to recognise that you can't out run a terrible diet.
You could eat well all week, run ten miles a day and then completely ruin it by eating and drinking 20,000 calories at the weekend.
To put it simply, it doesn't matter if you burn an amazing 5000 calories a day if you're consuming 5500 calories.
95% of losing weight is simply eating less, there's absolutely no need to complicate it by telling people they must radically change their diet or that they need to dedicate themselves to regimented exercise.
In this case you're not eating the same as you were before so it doesn't apply to what I'm saying.
If you are eating the same as before and your weight was stable then and you add exercise to the mix then you're going to lose weight, there's no magic to it, it's mathematics. If you were going to "cheat" like in your example then without exercise you would have gained weight so you still effectively lost weight by exercising.
That's true and I wasn't trying to refute that point.