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Im glad that's working so well for you! I was always skeptical about exercise for weight loss because one summer I trained for and ran a half marathon, and my weight stayed exactly the same. But I moved to a new place this year, and I can walk to work every day now, and I've had the same experience. I feel pretty good even when I don't do any structured exercise, I've lost a couple of pounds, abd honestly the walk to work is the best part of my day sometimes.
i know what you mean. there's something to be said just for the mental benefits of a simple activity like walking for cumulatively about 30-45 minutes a day, becoming accustomed to the sights, sounds, smells, and seasonality of a place in the intimate way of walking it. when i was WFH, i used to do a few miles several times a week but now that i have to "back to normal" i've been parking about a mile from my office in a quiet neighborhood and walking the rest. apart from a busy intersection or two, it's one of the most pleasant parts of my day.
that's a really clever move with the commute. I think it's hard for most people to justify lengthening their commute but walking/biking isn't on the same level as a driving commute, it's much more enjoyable. I'm perpetually running late tho so it'd be hard for me to do something like that I bet
can't outrun a bad diet and we're pretty efficient at distance running. eating an extra 300 calories every day costs a couple hours of light exercise or requires you to increase the intensity of whatever you were already doing. building muscle to increase your resting metabolism can help but it's marginal.
my experience matches yours, the easiest management i've ever had was when i could bike year-round and was biking to work or somewhere most days but the bigger deal was tracking calories accurately in conjunction with the increased activity level.
hunger is the real enemy, it's one of the only sufferings i can actually alleviate at will so it's pretty impossible to deliberately sit around feeling like shit instead of eating something and both not feeling hungry and getting all the happy brain chemicals.
there's actually research that shows just exercising alone does nothing for weight loss. our bodies are really good at maintaining equilibrium and simply increasing our appetites to compensate for the calories burned. you/OP are probably consciously just eating less.