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Not surprising...people get really hung up on the idea that they can't lose weight without exercise, and if they're too overweight to exercise, there's no hope for them, but that's not true. I lost 100lbs without exercise. I think in some ways it's easier because you're not as hungry when you're not exercising.
Exercising compliments a healthy diet, and helps reduce fat more efficiently than just diet alone. Its really just common sense that seems to be so lost on most people. It is calories in vs calories out. If you are consuming more calories than you are expending you will not lose weight. People tend to underestimate how many calories they are eating and overestimate how many calories they are burning.
Exercise is the cornerstone to a healthy life and should not be discounted in any way.
Exercising compliments a healthy diet, and helps reduce fat more efficiently than just diet alone. Its really just common sense that seems to be so lost on most people. It is calories in vs calories out. If you are consuming more calories than you are expending you will not lose weight. People tend to underestimate how many calories they are eating and overestimate how many calories they are burning.
Exercise is the cornerstone to a healthy life and should not be discounted in any way.
I think that exercise is healthy and I like to work out. However, the key to weight loss is diet. People should exercise because it is good for them, but it is not the key to weight loss.
I think that exercise is healthy and I like to work out. However, the key to weight loss is diet. People should exercise because it is good for them, but it is not the key to weight loss.
You cannot discount exercise's effects ALONG with proper eating. Weight loss happens faster. Muscle burns more efficiently than fat so weight lifting is an excellent thing to do while trying to lose weight. HIIT training and other strenuous cardio will continue to burn calories after the session is over.
Calorie deficit is the ONLY way to lose weight, but exercise expedites the process.
Last edited by Luckyd609; 05-18-2015 at 07:04 PM..
You cannot discount exercise's effects ALONG with proper eating. Weight loss happens faster. Muscle burns more efficiently than fat so weight lifting is an excellent thing to do while trying to lose weight. HIIT training and other strenuous cardio will continue to burn calories after the session is over.
Calorie deficit is the ONLY way to lose weight, but exercise expedites the process.
As I see it - the end result of any weight loss methodology is a calorie deficit. It isn't the method, it's the end result.
And to me, the most sustainable, efficient, workable, liveable, and affordable "key" has two prongs to it: healthy diet, and exercise.
You can diet as much as you like, however you want, but if you sit on a couch all day you'll just end up being an unhealthy thin person instead of an unhealthy fat person.
You can exercise as much as you like, however you want, but if you don't eat healthy you'll be a muscular, toned person ripe for a stroke, instead of a fat, blubbery person ripe for a stroke.
If you eat healthy and exercise, you reduce risks to your health, AND you reduce weight.
Personally I'd rather be the one standing in the funeral home lamenting the guy who only did one and not the other because he insisted the other wasn't necessary - than the one in the coffin.
You cannot discount exercise's effects ALONG with proper eating. Weight loss happens faster. Muscle burns more efficiently than fat so weight lifting is an excellent thing to do while trying to lose weight. HIIT training and other strenuous cardio will continue to burn calories after the session is over.
Calorie deficit is the ONLY way to lose weight, but exercise expedites the process.
Agree that exercise aids weight loss but diet is the key and exercise is a bonus. Sometimes people can only make one change at a time and in that case diet is more important than weight loss.
As I see it - the end result of any weight loss methodology is a calorie deficit. It isn't the method, it's the end result.
And to me, the most sustainable, efficient, workable, liveable, and affordable "key" has two prongs to it: healthy diet, and exercise.
You can diet as much as you like, however you want, but if you sit on a couch all day you'll just end up being an unhealthy thin person instead of an unhealthy fat person.
You can exercise as much as you like, however you want, but if you don't eat healthy you'll be a muscular, toned person ripe for a stroke, instead of a fat, blubbery person ripe for a stroke.
If you eat healthy and exercise, you reduce risks to your health, AND you reduce weight.
Personally I'd rather be the one standing in the funeral home lamenting the guy who only did one and not the other because he insisted the other wasn't necessary - than the one in the coffin.
I don't think that it's an either/or situation. Healthy diet and exercise are both necessary for good health.
However, if it is too daunting for someone to change both diet and exercise at the same time changing diet will result in more weight loss than changing exercise.
Diet is really the key to weight loss. Exercise may help it along but it isn't the key. Exercise is healthy on its own and people should exercise because it is good for them. But if their goal is weight loss, diet is much more important.
You can certainly lose weight without exercise. However, it is the exercise that will make you look good (fit and toned rather than simply not fat) as well as give you more energy and a sense of well-being. In the long run, the exercise will build muscle which is thought to help the body be more efficient at burning fat/calories.
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