Diet vs. Exercise: Which Is More Important For Weight Loss?
You have two things that you want to prioritise.
- Achieving your weight loss goals.
- Living every other aspect of your life.
In a perfect world, these wouldn’t rub up against one another. Sure, there are women who manage to combine their health and fitness concerns alongside living a functional adult life – and those women are Heroes, who deserve every medal the world can throw at them. For the rest of us, life doesn’t quite tend to balance in the same way.
Losing Weight Takes Time
That’s not in the sense of “slow and steady weight loss over a course of several months” – though of course that’s something you should be aiming for too. No, the ‘time’ referred to here is the time that goes into losing weight.
For a start, there’s no such thing as ‘fast food’ any more. The term ‘fast food’ is interchangeable with ‘convenience food’ – and there’s good reason for that. It’s far easier to grab a burger on your way home from work than it is to come home after a long day at the office and begin scrutinizing ingredients, measuring portions, reading up and utilizing http://hcgdiet.com ideas along with other beneficial products, and everything else that comes with a calorie-controlled way of living.
Then you add the exercise factor into it. Not only does it take you three times as long as it used to to shop, prepare, and eat meals, you also have to find time in a busy schedule to go and push yourself to the limits in the gym. Or at home, if that’s more your thing – running up and down stairs and doing yoga in front of the TV are just as beneficial.
It all sounds possible, but in reality… it’s not. Most of us reach a point where something has got to give, and that tends to mean a seriously spectacular fall off the wagon. Our weight loss halts, we become disinterested and disheartened, and it’s a monumental effort of willpower to get going again. And when we do, it’s only a matter of time until we fall off again.
So Which Is More Important: Diet or Exercise?
If we were going to be blasé about it, this could easily descend into a: “everything is important! Balance your life! Find the time for everything!” answer that so many gurus like to offer.
We’re not going to do that today.
Because it’s stupid.
Pretending that everyone can find oodles of time to fit all of the above into their schedule is just plain unrealistic. So which is it?
Exercise.
The reasons for this are many, but the main points are:
- Exercise improves more than just your weight. It lowers your heart rate, increases your metabolism and generally makes you healthier as http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20150622/benefits-exercise-insulin-fat#1 makes clear.
- Diets don’t need to be totally controlling. If you use the right supplements and avoid the wrong foods, then everything else should take care of itself. You don’t need to be trying out the latest ‘fad’ products or messing around with portion control plates or whatever gimmick is currently hitting the headlines. Eat simple, unprocessed food with plenty of veg, pep things up with the right supplements, and you’re good to go.
- Exercise boosts your endorphins and will generally make you happier, so you’ll find it easier to resist food cravings.
Who knows, you might even learn to find this kind of food nothing but delicious.
