I think it's all be said in this thread but I'll add my two bits from experience.
1) You can't loose weight with exercise. Exercise is a must for good health. It will reinforce weight loss and establish a long term baseline. But you won't loose weight without changing diet. You can run for three hours and a single Snicker bars will replace the calories you burned.
2) Cutting calories and going on a starvation diet will take off weight. It's also very unhealthy, miserable and unsustainable. It never lasts.
3) Cutting out Carbohydrates (to 30 grams or less a day) from your diet will result in healthy weight loss. No need to count calories or ever be hungry. Eat as much chicken, cheese, greens, meat, as you like. Snack on beef jerky or a good cheese. Your blood pressure, cholesterol, and tri-glycerides (blood sugar levels) will all improve. After you hit a goal weight you can add back good carbs like brown rice in moderation.
4) Just say no to Sugar or Potatoes forever with the exception of a little Birthday Cake a couple times a year.
Around a dozen years ago I lost about 40 pounds this way (3) and kept most of it off since then. I picked up about 10 pounds this last year with Covid disrupting things and am doing some fine tuning again now. Funny thing is that I used to walk 2 miles every morning 7 days a week for the last dozen years. Starting in March last year, staying at home and not working I had more time and upped it to 4-5 miles a day. I still put on weight as I slipped up on the Sugar and Potato rule...
1) You can't loose weight with exercise. Exercise is a must for good health. It will reinforce weight loss and establish a long term baseline. But you won't loose weight without changing diet. You can run for three hours and a single Snicker bars will replace the calories you burned.
2) Cutting calories and going on a starvation diet will take off weight. It's also very unhealthy, miserable and unsustainable. It never lasts.
3) Cutting out Carbohydrates (to 30 grams or less a day) from your diet will result in healthy weight loss. No need to count calories or ever be hungry. Eat as much chicken, cheese, greens, meat, as you like. Snack on beef jerky or a good cheese. Your blood pressure, cholesterol, and tri-glycerides (blood sugar levels) will all improve. After you hit a goal weight you can add back good carbs like brown rice in moderation.
4) Just say no to Sugar or Potatoes forever with the exception of a little Birthday Cake a couple times a year.
Around a dozen years ago I lost about 40 pounds this way (3) and kept most of it off since then. I picked up about 10 pounds this last year with Covid disrupting things and am doing some fine tuning again now. Funny thing is that I used to walk 2 miles every morning 7 days a week for the last dozen years. Starting in March last year, staying at home and not working I had more time and upped it to 4-5 miles a day. I still put on weight as I slipped up on the Sugar and Potato rule...