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coolpal23 posted...

While i generally agree with what you said, I eat at maintenance, and have been for the past 10 months (2600 calories a day, average), and I've lost 100 pounds in these ten months, it really is all about exercise for some people, like myself since i used to weigh 316 pounds

Not necessarily related to what you're saying, but i will say that exercise helps tons from my experience

You're dieting regardless by "eating at maintenance" and you exercised significantly to contribute to your weight loss. Like bigblue says, if you weighed 300+ pounds eating "maintenance" of 2500 calories isn't actually maintenance it's like most people's lose weight calorie limit of 1500. But combine that with exercise and you lose tons of weight at the same time. You're still doing CICO in your case. But nice that you've lost 100 pounds at least. Exercise and diet go hand in hand. You can still eat like shit and lose weight, you just have to compensate your shit eating with LOADS of exercising (more than just walking a couple of hours and more like running a couple of hours) to lose weight meaningfully (as in 2 or so pounds a week). Otherwise you're losing weight "slowly" and will see results in months.

Regardless whether you're doing diet or exercise or both it comes down to CICO. You can not exercise and not eat as much and you lose weight, or you can eat as much as you want but run literal marathons every day and ALSO lose weight. But one usually has to give in order to lose weight. Don't want to exercise? Put down those afternoon big macs. Want to eat more? Start running more then.