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Nobody is saying exercise is a bad thing, we are just saying it isn't the best thing for making you lose weight.

I lost about 15 pounds earlier this year and it was entirely by changing my diet (and by changing my diet I mainly just cut out beer and pizza on the weekends which were a staple of my friday & saturday nights, and switched in sushi for the nights when i didn't want to cook and ate microwave food, that's it)

Now I'm going to the gym for 4 weeks, and I feel great. I have put on a little bit of muscle but I just plain feel better. But I'm working my ass off in the gym and my weight hasn't gone down 0.1 lbf, while I burned off 15 by just changing my diet and never stepping foot in a gym.



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