Well that's your experience, obviously you weren't exercising more than you was consuming.
I easily lost over 20lbs whilst regularly eating McDonald's (by regular I mean I managed two big mac & fries & large soda, sometimes multiple times a week). Plus at the time I was consuming tons of empty calories in the form of beer and alcohol.
I didn't exercise either, I simply did my job. 8 hours of hard menial work, and frequently carrying exceptionally heavy weights up and down stairs. It's estimated that for an athletic person, 9 stairs = 1 calorie. Basically you burn 1 calorie every 5 1/4 feet if you're a ~120lb person. At the time I was ~240lb and I was carrying ~70lb of materials and ~20lb of tools up a 15ft staircase.
Basically I burnt 9 calories every trip upstairs and I likely made over a hundred of them in a day, every day 7 days a week. I lost that 20lbs in two weeks.
So from my experience, you can literally eat the most disgusting greasy food and load up on hundreds of empty calories because if you actually work you will find a way to burn off those calories. Assuming 1 hour of mild exercise means you can eat anything you want is absurd. I 'exercised' over 8 hours a day (frequently it ran to 10 hours) and it made me a shit load of cash . . . suck that gym membership!
I easily lost over 20lbs whilst regularly eating McDonald's (by regular I mean I managed two big mac & fries & large soda, sometimes multiple times a week). Plus at the time I was consuming tons of empty calories in the form of beer and alcohol.
I didn't exercise either, I simply did my job. 8 hours of hard menial work, and frequently carrying exceptionally heavy weights up and down stairs. It's estimated that for an athletic person, 9 stairs = 1 calorie. Basically you burn 1 calorie every 5 1/4 feet if you're a ~120lb person. At the time I was ~240lb and I was carrying ~70lb of materials and ~20lb of tools up a 15ft staircase.
Basically I burnt 9 calories every trip upstairs and I likely made over a hundred of them in a day, every day 7 days a week. I lost that 20lbs in two weeks.
So from my experience, you can literally eat the most disgusting greasy food and load up on hundreds of empty calories because if you actually work you will find a way to burn off those calories. Assuming 1 hour of mild exercise means you can eat anything you want is absurd. I 'exercised' over 8 hours a day (frequently it ran to 10 hours) and it made me a shit load of cash . . . suck that gym membership!