I'm just saying.......

Well, that's not true at all for me. I have a great, very healthy diet and I don't lose unless I'm at the gym 5 days a week. For me, exercise is 90% and diet is 10%.

I eat pretty healthy in general, have for quite a while, but the weight didn't come off until I started doing serious cardio workouts 6 days a week. Bicycling and vigorous hiking and an occasional trip to the gym for weights and elliptical when the weather doesn't cooperate. A minimum of 1 hour, usually more like 1.5. Dropping the weight at a steady 2.5 lbs a week without changing my diet at all.


Just saying everyone is different. You have to try different things until you figure out what works for you. Working out 3X a week did nothing for me. Working out less than an hour does nothing. Doing more strength training than cardio does nothing. Eating less makes me really crappy and causes me to eat unhealthy foods. What works for me is eating healthy food in healthy amounts and getting out and sweating every day for over an hour!



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for me I have to watch calories, all the excersize isn't enough for me to lose weight, inches maybe, but not weight...

i'm on the fence with this one, i am struggling with the diet side of things i am pretty much staying withing my calorie goals most days but i still eat a lot of junk, not that i don't want to change that but rome wasn't built in a day and i'm not a great cook so if i am on a back shift at work my diet isn't as good as it is on an early shift (feel free to check my diary, but don't judge i know it needs work), so whilst i'm developing my cooking skills and learning what can/can't be frozen/microwaved i am trying to include exercise in my life as i have become sedentary over the years, and i'm starting to see results now that i've done this, as i get fitter i am sure my body will start telling me what to eat and what i don't want.

for me it has been easier to add something to my lifestyle than change 30 years of bad habits picked up on the way

horses for courses i reckon

I don't know exactly what the OP meant...But I think that stats say that wt loss and healthy living is around 90% Nutrition and 10% Activity. Of course it will shift a bit based on individual differences. But anyone who does not believe that Nutrition is the basis of Living a Healthy Life, I challenge them to eat really badly and workout EVERYDAY for 2 hours or Whatever is a Great workout routine for 6 months. Then weigh in and get a Physical Check-up. Ask ANY Athlete on any level, what is the KEY to being able to perform...They will tell you it begins and ends with Nutrition...Just Saying. LOL

Abs are made in the kitchen not the gym...but if you don't bust your <insert appropriate part of your body> no amount of slicing and dicing will help.

And I say this because as far as I saw through my skim of the thread, everyone keeps saying diet.

The problem I have with that word is, you go on a diet, and you have to go off a diet.

It is more about making healthy lifestyle changes not dieting.

And if you don't exercise, you may drop weight, but your body composition will be a higher percentage of fat instead of the healthier muscle option.

Abs are made in the kitchen not the gym...but if you don't bust your <insert appropriate part of your body> no amount of slicing and dicing will help.

And I say this because as far as I saw through my skim of the thread, everyone keeps saying diet.

The problem I have with that word is, you go on a diet, and you have to go off a diet.

It is more about making healthy lifestyle changes not dieting.

And if you don't exercise, you may drop weight, but your body composition will be a higher percentage of fat instead of the healthier muscle option.

People are saying diet in the context of it being what you eat on a daily basis............That is the TRUE meaning of a diet.

diet (dī′ət)


noun
1.a. what a person or animal usually eats and drinks; daily fare

85% of it is diet and 15% is exercise

It depends how much you already exercise and how much you can eat!

When I am at the midrange of healthy weight for my height, my BMR comes to less than 1200 calories a day, which with a sedentary lifestyle would give me only 1400 calories a day - on MAINTENANCE. Aaargh! There is absolutely no way that I can average 1400 calories a day for the rest of my life on maintenance, which is why I have ended up very slowly putting on weight after losing weight successfully in the past, even though I have not gone nuts and have had relatively healthy eating habits.

The bottom line is that at such a low intake day in day out, it's pretty much impossible for me to live a "normal" lifestyle, i.e. going out for meals, having slices of birthday cake, having the occasional bottle of wine, without the weight slowly creeping back on. It's simply not possible to just "cut back a bit" the next day when you're already eating so little.

UNLESS you exercise to burn some of it off.

Which is why for me it's not 85% food, and why this time is going to be different. :bigsmile: