Lowering calories -- eat less, exercise more, or both?

spiregrain
spiregrain Posts: 254 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
My understanding is that the usual recommendation for weight loss is to reduce your calories a bit through diet, and increase your burn a bit through exercise. Part of the rationale seems to be that just eating less is terrible and not fun, and just exercising is time-consuming and exhausting, so you meet halfway.

Does anyone do just one or the other? I know you do! What are your results? And what was your methodology? Did you switch it up sometimes?

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  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    I lost >50 lbs through eating less and eating low carb. I had figured out hat the sort of exercise I did (dog walking) was irrelevant to the rate of weight loss.

    Now I am much closer to where I want to be I am doing C25K running and medium intensity cycling to try to improve my (non existent) aerobic fitness.

    I think you have to focus on eating less as a couple of hundred calories a day of exercise is a realistic average for many people and you can do way more than that with eating less.

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