Having been overweight for decades, I also find my attention caught by subject lines like this. “Lose weight the easy way.” Or so it seems.
But, read on.
It goes ahead to list 10 explanations, which I’m not about to list here. But,l I will give you a couple.
3) Exercise alone is almost useless for weight loss
9) The government and the food industry are doling out unscientific advice
Well, actually there were only 10.
10) So what actually works for weight loss?
If you embark on a weight loss journey that involves both adding exercise and cutting calories, Montclair's Thomas warned not to count those calories burned in physical activity toward extra eating.
"Pretend you didn't exercise at all," she said. "You will most likely compensate anyway, so think of exercising just for health improvement but not for weight loss."
All of this @ Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight, explained with 60+ studies - Vox - Pocket