“Most people need both, from my personal experience. “
I agree. It’s a matter of balancing the caloric ‘checkbook’. Eating fills the account. Exercise spends from the account. If you spend faster from the account, while decreasing how much you put in to it, it will deplete faster.
Only if you can resist the increased hunger that excercise inevitably causes. You can wipe out an hour of exercise in just a few seconds of snacking.
MyFitnessPal is one app that takes the work out of it. You can record everything you eat and it finds the calories from a database of more than 3 million fooda.
The app tracks all major health categories like fat, calories, protein, carbs, sugar, fiber and cholesterol.
You can scan in the barcode of most major food items with your phone for easier tracking. There’s also a recipe calculator that can take all of your ingredients into account and come up with a grand total of calories.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.myfitnesspal.android&rdid=com.myfitnesspal.android