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Originally Posted by Mr Tonka
You can NOT out exercise a bad diet.
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Truth.
1 lb of fat is 3500 calories.
Cut 500 cal per day and you can lose 1lb per week (roughly).
On the exercise front, I did a rough 75 mile ride earlier this year with around 4000 ft of vertical. (cross bike, some road, some trails, paths, some singletrack underbiking, pretty rough) This was an all day affair. In the end I burned around 3000 calories, not even a pound worth and it was a metric shit ton of work and I was fucking spent.
Quite simply, you can't out exercise a bad diet.
See also: Abs are made in the kitchen.
Much easier to control what goes in.
All that said, I eat well, have good bloodwork metrics, ride 2-3k miles a year, swim, etc. Still very hard to get under 18-20% body fat.
So yeah, you can be active and fat (or chubby?) for sure.