There's recent evidence that the opposite is true, and its been accepted that exercise doesn't significantly contribute to weight compared to adjusting diet.

Well weight loss just comes down to energy balance. If you maintain a calorie deficit with diet alone you won't need to exercise to lose weight. If you are not in a deficit through diet then exercise will burn calories to put you in a deficit which will cause you to lose weight. So I do agree diet is more important. But the benefit of exercising to lose weight is that you can eat a lot more than you otherwise could if you didn't exercise which leads to better results in my experience.

This post was edited by dark-soul on Sep 4 2016 04:54pm

hasn't the evidence always stated you can't outrun a bad diet

"A lot" being one soda, or one slice of pizza. Even so they've found very active societies don't burn more than a sedentary American on average. It's theorized the reason is because your body compensates for exercise by lowering basal metabolism in the long term. Basal metabolism us 70% of your energy expenditure anyway so it takes a smaller drop to compensate than you would expect.

How much you burn depends on the intensity of your workout. If you burn 500 calories doing HIIT cardio than you can eat quite a bit of food than you otherwise could have eaten. And yes an additional 500 calories is a lot of wiggle room when on a meal plan.

Im still waiting to be shamed.

this is what your body looks like at the moment, do you feel no shame for what you're doing to it?

it appears society has degraded below accepting fat people to attacking fit people

can feel the jealousy and hatred oozing out of these people on publicly accessible social media