> Contrary to what the exercise industry tells you in ads, you actually can't lose weight with exercise. Diet is almost always required to lose weight.
You can certainly lose weight by doing exercise and keeping your caloric intake constant. It might as well be that out of all people who want to lose weight, only a small % of people have the discipline/volition to follow such a plan. But that's a far cry from "you can't lose weight with exercise".
Perhaps a better way to state it is that most people find it quite significantly easier to lose weight by reducing caloric intake by a given amount as opposed to increasing physical activity by the proportionate amount.
I stand by my original statement. Unless you are on The Biggest Loser and exercising 8 hours per day, burning 5,000 calories per day with exercise, you have to control what you eat to lose weight. It can't be done with "1 hour of exercise, 3 times per week" as the TV commercials claim.
You called it "caloric intake constant", but that's counting calories, and sounds like a diet to me. And most people unconsciously eat more after a workout. They don't think they do, but they do.
You can certainly lose weight by doing exercise and keeping your caloric intake constant. It might as well be that out of all people who want to lose weight, only a small % of people have the discipline/volition to follow such a plan. But that's a far cry from "you can't lose weight with exercise".