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Every day I usually go for an hour walk or bike ride.
I also skip for half an hour, do sit-ups, and lift weights (nothing extreme). I also work outdoors, so I'm always moving. None of it really seems to have any affect, and I wonder if this is because of my poor diet.
I eat a lot of apples and bananas (I try and throw in a brocoli), but unfortunately, like most people, I eat sugary foods like cereal, granola bars, etc. I also have pizza once a week.
I weigh 140 pounds (give or take) and am 5'8 and I kinda wanna be a little more trim.
If your goal is to lose weight than diet is the most important part. If you just want to maintain then all you have to do is keep up your exercise routine.
Stick with whole fresh foods, cut the sugar and packaged foods out. Drink lots of water.
It depends on the individual. In college I ate the worst diet possible. I had 12 egg omelets with 10 strips of bacon, drank a gallon of chocolate milk a day, had a case of beer every weekend and a large pepperoni pizza before bed every night. However, I ran 85 miles a week on the track team and was in fantastic shape.
I was 6'4 190 when I was in top shape and I am about 10 lbs over that now. I don't exercise as much but my diet is a whole lot better. If I started training again I could easily lose that 10 lbs in a week or two.
In short, you can compensate for a bad diet with exercise, but it takes a huge effort and diet is generally the easier way to do it.
Every day I usually go for an hour walk or bike ride.
I also skip for half an hour, do sit-ups, and lift weights (nothing extreme). I also work outdoors, so I'm always moving. None of it really seems to have any affect, and I wonder if this is because of my poor diet.
I eat a lot of apples and bananas (I try and throw in a brocoli), but unfortunately, like most people, I eat sugary foods like cereal, granola bars, etc. I also have pizza once a week.
I weigh 140 pounds (give or take) and am 5'8 and I kinda wanna be a little more trim.
Is my diet the problem?
For me personally, I feel like I perform better at the gym if I eat clean. If I eat crappy I feel sluggish during my training.
There's a lot of food Nazi sentiment here. I eat junk food constantly because it tastes good to me and it's nerver adversely affected my training. I run 70 miles a week in addition to all sorts of other exercise. My resting pulse is 45, and I weigh what I weighed when I was in HS. I am very fit and laugh at all the people here who drone on, "you can't be fit without a clean diet." Obviously these people don't run marathons or attend them. We marathoners are notorious junk food lovers (and beer lovers).
Bottom line: if you exercise 2-3 hours a day like I do, you can eat sugar, pizza, chocolate and enjoy life. Give me ice cream over cauliflower. I don't tell anyone else how to eat or look down my nose on other people's dietary choices, but others here do this on a consistent basis.
It's still bad for you even if you aren't getting fat. Anyways no one is telling you what to do, relax, Francis.
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