Losing weight can be a difficult process and many women wish that there was a more simple process. But the only way to lose weight is through a combination of diet and exercise – it is the only successful way to lose weight. The question is, what is more important diet or exercise?
To lead a healthy lifestyle, you must eat healthily and adopt an exercise regime. Weight loss is boosted when you combine a healthy diet with an exercise regime and simple and effective goals – but what is probably most important is the food that you eat. Food is most responsible for your weight loss or gain, because food is what contributes the most as to how many calories you take in.
For example, eating 100g of chocolate means that you take in 520 calories. If you walk for 1 hour on that same day, you burn off around 300 of those calories, which still leaves you with a calorie intake of 200. However, if you didn’t eat the chocolate in the first place, you’d have a calorie deficit of 300, which would lead to weight loss if you followed a healthy living plan for the rest of the week.
A healthy diet has a bigger impact on your weight loss than exercising does. However, regular exercise will help to prevent weight gain and will help to maintain regular weight loss. Exercising can also boost your metabolism, which is another way to boost weight loss.
Your metabolism can be increased by increasing the amount of lean body mass you have – and you can easily increase the amount of lean body mass you have by doing muscle strengthening and building exercises, such as squats, lunges and weight training. Increasing your lean body mass will also boost your BMR – take a look on our website to calculate your BMR.
Weight loss is very simple – it depends on how much you put in, and how much you put out through burning the calories off. If you put too much in without burning enough of it off, you’ll gain weight. If you put less in and burn more of it off, you’ll lose weight.
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May 24, 2013 at 2:48 pm,
I will concentrate on diet first and then increase exercise.
May 24, 2013 at 2:47 pm,
Thanks for the great article.
May 23, 2013 at 9:54 am,
I think diet is more important, but exercise does allow you to eat more and speed your metabolism
May 17, 2013 at 2:28 pm,
Diet and exercise are both important for healthy living. If you are talking weight loss though, diet is more important to ensure the weight comes off.
May 16, 2013 at 8:33 am,
I think you need both, if you eat well but don’t exercise you would be slimmer but not toned at all.
May 14, 2013 at 2:57 pm,
Both are very important, you need balance
May 14, 2013 at 8:57 am,
I think we need both, they are equally important to our health
May 13, 2013 at 9:14 pm,
I haven’t been much of a big eater and I fid do little exercise, but lately I have got into running. Now I find I have to find the balance as I do need to eat more to have the energy to be able to exercise! So balance is important!
May 12, 2013 at 6:36 pm,
i think they both ned to balance out but even a little exercise helps alot
May 11, 2013 at 10:21 pm,
Im sure it needs to be a good balance for it to work
May 11, 2013 at 5:01 pm,
I really believe you have to balance both. Well that’s what’s best for me. There’s only so much one can do without the other.
May 09, 2013 at 4:24 pm,
you have to have a balance of both to succeed
May 08, 2013 at 6:50 am,
To me if I eat the wrong foods or too much I need to move to burn it off. Both diet and exercise are important, basically they go hand in hand.
May 07, 2013 at 11:58 pm,
It’s all about balance I think.
May 05, 2013 at 10:29 am,
Great article. I love exercising daily. Ive found that once i made a routine of it it just became natural to do the 30 min each day.