Exercise didn&#x27;t work for me until I stuck with it consistently, and progressively.<p>The problem is that what doesn&#x27;t work is &quot;strawman exercise&quot;: for instance, the kind of exercise that a sedentary volunteer test subject is able to handle in some study.<p>Before exercise works for fat loss, you have to train up to the intensity and volume that is required. That takes months.  Consistent months during which you not only don&#x27;t give up, but pile on the challenges. If you quit, you lose your progress and slide back to the start.<p>You can&#x27;t measure exercise just by the time put in and the theoretical calories, by the way. There is a quality component to it.<p>Another thing is that once you have a decently low body fat, the remaining areas where fat accumulates on your body will show to be &quot;exercise resistant&quot;. It&#x27;s very hard to get rid of that centimeter of fat from the back of your thigh, calves, upper back and arms, or central abs. Or that pesky &quot;love handle&quot; area. That, I can attest, either can&#x27;t be done with exercise, or requires exercise to be a full time job. But that&#x27;s not what this article is about; the claim is that exercise isn&#x27;t effective against <i>obesity</i>.