Not in my case. I know very well that I was consuming about 3000 cals a day in the latter part of last year, that figure is now about 2000. My weight loss since January is consistent with a daily deficit of about 750 cal, when you do the arithmetic that 1g of fatty tissue contains about 6 cal. I'm not exercising for long enough for this to make a huge difference. However I do know that if I increase this to several hours a day the weight falls off me and I cannot eat enough to maintain my weight. As I said earlier, nobody sensible imagines that half an hour on a treadmill equals a mars bar. By the same token, someone on a cycling holiday doing 6-7 hours out every day for a week will lose weight regardless of how much beer they put away in the evening s. This last I can prove at first hand.It's interesting to note that the people posting on this thread who have acheived significant weight-loss have increased exercise and changed diet but choose, based on nothing other than their own arbitary decision, to allocate the weight loss at least in part to the exercise, and yet I suspect that none have any idea how many claories less they ate/eat.
.