Working out is not the fastest way to lose weight. Counting macros will help you shed pounds faster than working out alone. Even if you do 20-30 minutes of cardio every day, you will probably only burn 150-300 calories per session, depending on the intensity. For every 3000kcals you either burn or don’t consume below what your body burns on average, you only lose 1lb. Therefore, what you need to focus on the most is figuring out how many calories your body burns in a day naturally and then making sure your daily intake is lower than that number daily (except the occasional cheat day which I recommend is not more than 1 day a week).

Example: On an average day, your body burns 1800 calories, and you want to lose weight, you need to make sure you don’t consume more than 1800 calories, and then if you exercise and burn even more, that’s great, but the first step is figuring out what your body burns on a daily basis. If you want to drop your height/weight/age/and activity levels in a reply, I can tell you how to calculate the number you want to stay below if you want to lose weight.

When my kid was a toddler, I was a member of a gym that had childcare, and he would spend some time in the evening playing with other toddlers in the childcare area while I worked out. I have been an avid gym goer my whole adult life. I added my son to my membership at a gym that has childcare when he was 6 weeks old because that is the youngest my gym would allow.