weight loss

[apw171]

Is exercise more sucessful than diet in weight loss or is it just a combination of the two.

[Scarlett]

It is just a scientific equation really! Your body needs food for energy like a car needs petrol to move. If you eat more than your body needs, it is stored as fat. If you burn up all the food by exercising, you stay the same. If you use more energy than you have given yourself as food, then your body will use the energy from your fat stores.

So your choice is, use the same amount of energy as normal and eat less, OR eat the same and use more energy by exercising!

As to which is most successful I would say exercise. It is not a good feeling to be hungry all the time, which is what happens if you eat less! It makes you miserable and ultimately you end up pigging out. This interferes with your metabolism. If you can find a method of burning fat that you enjoy, be it swimming, walking or sex, then keep doing it! That way you will be getting fit, having fun, and possibly losing weight at the same time.

[hannahjo]

Scarlett�* *** the nail on the head�

Only exercise will tone up your wobbly bits, and if you are thinking of dieting, make sure its not one of these fad diets but is something you can apply to the rest of your life (if you want to keep the weight off that is!)

[hannahjo]

Why�s it censored hit? Strange!!!

[Loosehead]

I agree with scarlett. Eat sensibly and do exersize. Just dieting put's the body in starvation mode and slows down the metabolism, ie rate at which you burn energy. Soon enough you will feel hungry and weak and miserable and you just have to eat and usually too much. It's like a car running on one cylinder to conserve fuel, you go along, just! That's why dieting only works short term what you need is to eat sensibly:

1. Stop adding salt ever anywhere, most food has it in buckets.

2. Stop eating dead calories like white bread and sugar

3. Start eating a good variety of fruit and veg and low fat high protien food.

4. Stop eating biscuits, pies crisps etc

5. reduce alcohol

6. Do regular exersise, I don't mean once a week I mean 4 times a week, do at least 30mins aerobic and get the gym to work out a weights routine.

 Just a few things!

[Octavius]

hannahjo, I think the auto bleep thingymajiggybob thought you were typing sh1t.

A combo, to lose weight you need to burn the energy you have consumed but in order to have energy you need to consume energy giving foods.

[derekblue]

hannah it censored hit because the s from the previous word combined to spell...well if i say it they will censor it,but you get my point

[athleticsnut]

Although exercise is the dominant factor  in weight loss, you have to get your eating habits right for weight maintenance e.g.

a) if you are unable to exercise, you don't want to immediately pile on the weight you've lost.

b) if you don't retrain your system with a new eating regime at some point, you can suffer other health problems.