To lose weight: diet>exercise
It's much easier to outeat running than to outrun all of the tempting calories that modern marketing encourages us to cram in.
Both diet and exercise are important to health, and exercise is important in weight maintenance. But to lose weight, the preferential focus needs to be on controlling calories in, more than calories out.
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