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I can tell you as a formerly large man that exercise will make fat go away.

Buy some inline skates, start skating 8 miles a day, start lifting weights four times a week, doing push ups, ab wheel extensions and planks daily, and see what happens.

It’s shocking.

And I still like to eat pizza, ice cream, popcorn and diet soda.

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences.”
-- C. S. Lewis

In some cases, yes, it will. But not for most. The first time I ran across this idea was from a very good trainer about 20 years ago. He trained professional athletes, bodybuilders, and also people trying to lose weight. He had been doing this for 30+ years, and he said that what he found was that people who were obese could lose weight through exercise, but most wouldn't, because the cumulative effects of the obesity would be so detrimental to energy, recovery, and also chronic injuries. What he did was to first get them to lose significant weight through dietary changes (mostly, very little starches and sugars, although heavy on the complex carbs, moderate protein, and very low fat -- transitioning to high, quality, fat over time). As a person lost weight, he would gradually increase the duration and intensity of their exercise routines (and also their relative intake of quality fats).

He said that if you tried to get people to exercise their way to leanness, they would be spinning their wheels, in most cases (there are exceptions, and obviously you are one). But if you approached it the other way around, and tackled the true causes of obesity first (excessive starches, sugars, and poor quality fats), and the effects of obesity later (those effects being poor exercise tolerance, among other things), then almost anyone could be cured of obesity.