| 8/11/2011 7:14:41 AM |
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rucker0213
Bogalusa, LA
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| 1. Diet |
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| 3. Both |
| 4. None of the Above |
Hi everyone, I wanted to see what the general preference was. Now I've done both recently and had great results such as I'm living a healthier lifestyle, I feel more energized in my day, and I am more comfortable with my body. Please vote on the style of fitness you feel best using.
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| 8/13/2011 11:37:25 PM |
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josecuervosilv
Downey, CA
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It depends on what the present goal is. At the moment, I'm just exercising in the form of weight training. I'm not trying to lose weight, but if I decided to diet, I wouldn't do it alone without weight training. Dieting causes muscle loss as well as fat loss. If you diet, you need to weight train to rebuild lost muscle through dieting.
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| 8/14/2011 12:16:36 AM |
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bkm1973
Phoenix, AZ
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Diet and excersize works the best for me but I need to always eat alot of calories and usually healthy foods but I also throw in junk food too.
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| 8/14/2011 10:15:17 PM |
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merk135r
Fresno, CA
39, joined May. 2008
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Hi everyone, I wanted to see what the general preference was. Now I've done both recently and had great results such as I'm living a healthier lifestyle, I feel more energized in my day, and I am more comfortable with my body. Please vote on the style of fitness you feel best using.
Your question makes no sense.
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| 8/19/2011 1:10:26 AM |
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bber31
Calabasas, CA
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It depends on what the present goal is. At the moment, I'm just exercising in the form of weight training. I'm not trying to lose weight, but if I decided to diet, I wouldn't do it alone without weight training. Dieting causes muscle loss as well as fat loss. If you diet, you need to weight train to rebuild lost muscle through dieting.
Speak for yourself, everyone is different, I can go on 1800 cals and lose no muscle and just bodyfat. I eat more cals and do too much cardio or higher volume and I look flatter than a concentration camp victim and shrivel up. It's all individual!
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| 8/19/2011 2:04:09 AM |
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josecuervosilv
Downey, CA
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Speak for yourself, everyone is different, I can go on 1800 cals and lose no muscle and just bodyfat. I eat more cals and do too much cardio or higher volume and I look flatter than a concentration camp victim and shrivel up. It's all individual!
So you don't lift at all while on the 1800 calorie diet, and still don't lose muscle?
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| 8/19/2011 11:26:17 PM |
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bber31
Calabasas, CA
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Of course I lift, the name of the game is to maintain!
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| 8/20/2011 2:59:26 AM |
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josecuervosilv
Downey, CA
42, joined Jun. 2010
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Of course I lift, the name of the game is to maintain!
Yeah, I meant the same. If you don't lift while dieting, you lose muscle.
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| 8/21/2011 9:52:40 AM |
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olddi
Daytona Beach, FL
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You just got to do them both they go hand and hand . di
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| 8/21/2011 9:59:55 AM |
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olddi
Daytona Beach, FL
59, joined Sep. 2009
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Diet and excersize works the best for me but I need to always eat alot of calories and usually healthy foods but I also throw in junk food too.  Good luck to you . di
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| 8/24/2011 11:37:04 AM |
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sportyangel1973
Menomonee Falls, WI
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I don't believe in "dieting." I think that is more of a mental break than helping. I do believe in eating healthy, low fat, low carbs, higher proteins, smaller meals throughout the day, sensible snacking and working out/exercising more, burning more calories than you consume to achieve weight loss goals. It is all about changing lifestyle, fitness and a healthier you is a lifestyle. Routine, structure, and persistence pays off and becomes a positive habit/passion. It becomes not only physical but also mental. Begin to think and concentrate better and less fatigue. Got to exercise the mind as well as the body!
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| 8/25/2011 12:47:01 PM |
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binderdundat
New Orleans, LA
56, joined Sep. 2008
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I've watched my food, and been unhealthy. I've exercised religiously, and been unhealthy. The only thing that works for me, health wise, is to do both.
I'm the healthiest I've ever been in my life. 
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| 9/15/2011 7:36:25 AM |
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ladyj6942
Saint Paul, MN
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You really cannot change anything with out a healthy clean life style. I dont consider eating healthy to be a diet, its a way of life. To lose weight you have be mentally ready because it generally is not quick and requires diligence and self commitment.
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| 10/19/2011 2:59:40 AM |
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pertyplumx
Chestnut Hill, MA
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Exercising regularly
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| 11/19/2011 12:26:20 AM |
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enticy
Philadelphia, PA
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 exercises! Best way to help people lose weight with no risks ! Also..keep ur body fit and stay in shape! Our body need energies! Diet isn't good for ur health!
Diet isn't good for your health???? Are you honestly telling us that exercise without dieting is the way to properly lose weight? So if someone weighs 200 lbs, and they workout hard, but then sit down and hork back bacon double cheeseburgers and Pepsi all day, they can still lose weight?
With all due respect, I'm not an authority on the subject, but that is the most irresponsible thing I've heard since the Atkins diet. A proper diet isn't just starving yourself. It means eating better foods that complement your exercise routine. You can get plenty of "eneriges" from healthy foods.
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| 11/24/2011 9:30:06 AM |
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mcpixie
Moreno Valley, CA
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Both.
I try to exercise mosr days of the week and try to watch my calorie intake (which is hard to do because I'm a chocoholic and a cookie monster).
I try to do both in order to achieve living a better lifestyle.
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| 1/2/2012 7:17:51 PM |
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respecturself1
Plano, TX
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For me they work hand in hand.
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| 1/3/2012 6:30:53 PM |
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redmonster85
Las Vegas, NV
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For me its a bit of both but i dont eat what most would call "healthy". I eat what i like when i want to. I am going to did no matter what i eat so im going to enjoy the time i have. I have lost 60lbs & 6in last year by just eating less them what i was and walking and taking the bus wherever i go.
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| 1/14/2012 5:45:15 AM |
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insidious64
Gainesville, FL
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How in the hell can anyone hope to get in any kind of real shape with out proper diet and eating ?
BOTH !
Its a no brainer ..Your not going to eat mcdonalds every day and look like me ! 
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| 1/31/2012 6:33:20 PM |
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jaydee251985
Delray Beach, FL
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Diet and exercise..always...nutrition is 90 percent of it though
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| 2/3/2012 6:48:04 AM |
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sharonorahs
Wilmington, NC
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They work together
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| 2/4/2012 12:35:08 PM |
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1_shamrock
Fort Lauderdale, FL
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Both
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| 2/12/2012 2:05:50 PM |
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chaotic919
Macclenny, FL
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Exercise is more important when it comes to my body imparticular. But eating healthy is also important if you are over weight or morbidly obese.
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| 2/15/2012 6:30:34 PM |
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txgirl_05
Temple, TX
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i really hate to admit that it took me getting really sick last sept for me to get serious about losing weight but it did..... i initially lost a great deal of weight strictly by diet cause i was not able to exercise (i was recovering from my hospital stay) ... but now have added walking and resistance bands in my workout...
so both works for me
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| 3/8/2012 10:32:52 PM |
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acads
Saint Paul, MN
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I always exercised so I didn't have to diet. It started to catch up to me. Haven't figured out how to diet yet though. So I do extra weights so the extra weight doesn't show as much
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| 3/9/2012 1:32:41 PM |
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troymia
Key Largo, FL
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Diet is way more important..Not saying don't exercise...But if you go for a 5 mile run then hop in the Mcdonalds drive through and order a Bigmac meal you are defeating your purpose ..I know tons of people that have been trying to get abs for years and they do Cardio out the ying yang and still have flab on their stomach...Both are beneficial but without a proper diet , you're defeating the purpose of exercise...make sense ?
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| 3/11/2012 5:47:24 PM |
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rick0123
Salt Lake City, UT
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Exercise for me.
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| 6/4/2012 7:06:14 PM |
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rysemom
Battle Ground, WA
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Of course I don't follow a specific diet, I just health healthy. I have dropped 28lbs and 3 sizes in 5 months.
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| 6/22/2012 1:19:39 AM |
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supersets
Orange, CA
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Well its an old tread but it could benefit from some fresh info.
To begin with both are important factors to achieve a great body. Clearly dieting is not what is optimal, but rather "changing eating habits" cleeaning out the diet and eliminating processed food. This along with weightlifting and cardio, make a great envirornment to make a person fit, and healthy. .
Now notice I said healthy. There is a diference between healthy and fit.
Healthy is completely eating foods that would kinda mimic what you would eat if all manufaturing processes factories disappeared. This would allow people to eat and prepare food that is as it came from the ground, from scratch. Thats how our ancestors lived, in contrast to them, we can now cook things if necessary, like potatoes for some. This eating habits of no junk food are perfect if one wants to be healthy. Altho now days its got to be organic because all the chemical pesticides and herbacides they are puting into the soil. So combining healthy eating with exercice cardio and weights, keeps the person in shape and his body healthy.
And then there is the "fit only" people, that may deceive as healthy, but they are not. Typical people eating junk and defending themselves that they keep healthy exercicing (lfmao, Im like what? hope that exercice creates a tunel to elimite the chemicals left behind) . Those who consume splenda( chemical based separation of table sugar using chloride) diet soda, diet energy drink, diet yougurt, diet diet diet, low calorie, no calorie, diet water lfmao etc...plain bs. Why, was ever food abailable with all this aditive chemicals in the past? no. And why are they bad. Well the chemicals are reserched for short periods of time and not over a lifetime of someone based study.That and the fact that they create acidity in the body wich weakens it and depletes minerals like calcium, magnesium and maganese out of the body.Therefore leaving the body weak to protect itself against disease.
In the end, yeah, " clean eating" and exercice work great. Not only they keep the body in shape, but because they keep it functioning correctly.
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| 6/24/2012 8:33:36 PM |
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aamazin
New York, NY
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See food eat food + workout. That's my technique
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| 6/29/2012 4:04:46 PM |
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joey_zaza
Milwaukee, WI
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healthy food cardio and weight training..
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| 6/30/2012 2:07:52 PM |
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supersets
Orange, CA
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correct!
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| 7/1/2012 1:32:37 AM |
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mglam91
Hacienda Heights, CA
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I think clean eating is a better way of looking at it.. When ppl diet they leave out important nutrients that they may need. When u start to.eat clean and workout you start to get AMAZING results..they go hand in hand.. Clean eating..cardio..and weights will go a LONG way..
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| 7/6/2012 11:49:26 AM |
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christ4321
Statesville, NC
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| 7/7/2012 7:29:42 PM |
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d_a_
Kansas City, MO
48, joined Mar. 2010
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Regardless of what anyone tries to sell you on it will always be 80% diet, 15% exercise and 5% heredity. You cannot do anything about the heredity but you have 100% control of the rest. You are capable of consuming more calories than you can possibly work off. The average person would walk off 500 to 700 calories an hour or run off 1200 to 1800 calories an hour. This is an estimate, some will burn more or less calories than these figures. You can find your own caloric burn from ACSM or NSCA. If you are just starting out the MyPyramid site would be easiest to navigate.
Using the above information you can see that your body would break down before you could work off the average fast food meal. The average person uses 1500 calories to maintain their metabolism and would require more calories depending on their daily work load. If you are only able to burn 1000 to 2000 calories in a daily workout and use 1500 calories to maintain your metabolic state, you would have a caloric deficit of 2500 to 3500 calories a day. The average fast food meal contains 1000 to 2000 calories multiplied by the average three meals a day and you would consume 3000 to 6000 calories a day. Some hamburgers alone can be 1000 to 1500 calories by themselves. Add on a side and a high caloric beverage and you could easily exceed 2500 calories in one meal.
Back to the math, a doughnut (200-600 cal.) and latte (700-1500 cal.) in the morning, a burger (500-800 cal.) fries (400-750 cal.) and sugared beverage (700-1500 cal.) at lunch and a steak (500-1700 cal.) baked potato with cheese (500-750 cal.) a glass of water because we feel guilty by now (0 cal.). Add it up and compare with your exercise goals to see if you can physically keep the fat off. Your body uses 100% of every calorie you consume and will store any that is not immediately used. Don't misunderstand me you do need some fat for metabolic balance but too much sends your body into disarray.
After looking at the numbers you can see why I say you cannot work off a bad diet. We need to limit processed foods that are high in fats and highly caloric chemicals and eat whole fresh foods. You need mostly carbohydrates (vegetables, fruits, milk, cheese), a moderate amount of protein (lean meats, beans, nuts) and a limited amount of fats (nuts, olive oil, peanut oil). You can find exact amounts of these macro nutrients at ACSM. Do not forget your vitamins and minerals with the all important ingredient water.
Both diet and exercise work together if you apply both logically and plan ahead for any indulgences that you might foresee. Once you get used to a healthier lifestyle you will find it easier to keep fit and enjoy life better than you thought you could have.
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| 7/7/2012 7:45:20 PM |
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d_a_
Kansas City, MO
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I always exercised so I didn't have to diet. It started to catch up to me. Haven't figured out how to diet yet though. So I do extra weights so the extra weight doesn't show as much
It is catching up with you because a healthy person loses 1% of their metabolic capacity per year. An unhealthy person would lose more per year. From age 25 through 50 you slowly lose muscle mass with it accelerating after age 50. Resistance training will help level this effect but as we age we need to work parts that we normally take for granted when we are young. I have seen 70 and 80 year old men that would make some young lifters jealous and I have seen people train the same body parts the same way for years and couldn't stop the muscle atrophy. A change in diet as you age along with special attention to areas of your body that need additional resistance training would level off any atrophy you might encounter.
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| 7/7/2012 11:12:48 PM |
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lookin4ones
Hurst, TX
57, joined Oct. 2010
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A person can diet (eat less calories) don't exercise and lose weight.
I on the other hand eat everything and work out hard and gain the weight. 
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| 7/7/2012 11:25:07 PM |
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cornydog37
Miami, FL
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Diet
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| 7/8/2012 1:27:14 PM |
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d_a_
Kansas City, MO
48, joined Mar. 2010
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A person can diet (eat less calories) don't exercise and lose weight.
I on the other hand eat everything and work out hard and gain the weight.
The original question had to do with the preference of diet vs. exercise or both. Anyone can lose weight by caloric deficiency. The difference is muscle or fat loss. You want to keep your muscle since it burns more calories and will allow you to consume more calories to keep it. Eating healthy will help you lose weight but exercise will help you with independent living. Getting around without difficulty is just as important as being slimmer. Thin doesn't equal functional. Exercise will keep your endocrine system functional and keep you out of the sick bed. There is more to health than just losing weight. Cutting off a limb will make you lose weight but diet and exercise will make you look and feel better.
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| 7/8/2012 10:16:42 PM |
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tica5656
Tigre
Argentina
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Both. Mainly and most importantly is diet for me. I can slack off more on the exercise. But if I disregard my diet not only do I get out of shape but I feel horrible.
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| 7/9/2012 1:19:30 PM |
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studmcroughlove
Philadelphia, PA
36, joined May. 2012
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The PT at my gym said that its like 80% diet and 20% exercise. In other words, if you eat like crap, then you won't see results at the gym.
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| 7/9/2012 3:26:32 PM |
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supersets
Orange, CA
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Both. Mainly and most importantly is diet for me. I can slack off more on the exercise. But if I disregard my diet not only do I get out of shape but I feel horrible.
Yes, thats true.
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| 7/9/2012 4:37:45 PM |
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d_a_
Kansas City, MO
48, joined Mar. 2010
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The PT at my gym said that its like 80% diet and 20% exercise. In other words, if you eat like crap, then you won't see results at the gym.
80% Diet, 15% exercise and 5% heredity. Most people forget about what you cannot change, heredity. Not all trainers are trained the same. Check for NSCA certification or similar. A good cert is one that not only gives a written but a practical test with an internship. Check to see if they keep their cert up to date and what kind of CEU's they usually obtain to maintain their cert. Majority of the "trainers" I encounter are under educated in their specialty and usually attend generic or the same classes for their CEU. A trainer needs to keep themselves up to date since the science behind physiology, anatomy and nutrition gets updated every year. I've noticed changes over the last ten years alone and even seen the FDA update their pyramid over this time. ACSM and NSCA will keep you up to date even if your trainer doesn't have the time for it. Some trainers are busy and need to rely more on outside help with new information. I am constantly having to review new information which is why I always refer people to the above entities.
Choosing a diet that compliments your workout is the best way to not feel like "crap". If you want size and mass and only each carbohydrates you will see little gain. If you only eat protein shakes you will feel weak a lot of the time. Too much fat in your diet will slow you down and make you feel sluggish or like "crap". Everyone's bodies are different just as everyone's exercise goals are equally different. You will need to find the right foods for you with the help of a dietitian or someone who is trained in dietary requirements.
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| 7/19/2012 11:57:00 AM |
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patientbear10
Columbia, SC
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Both
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| 12/8/2012 10:50:55 PM |
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al0987
Brooklyn, NY
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Both
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| 12/10/2012 1:48:35 PM |
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sillylaugher61
Murrysville, PA
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I've watched my food, and been unhealthy. I've exercised religiously, and been unhealthy. The only thing that works for me, health wise, is to do both.
I'm the healthiest I've ever been in my life.
Yes you do look healthy! congrats on your half marathon! keep going!!
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| 12/29/2012 4:27:36 AM |
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slimmerone
Las Vegas, NV
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At 64 no aches and pains!!! It works!!:::
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| 12/31/2012 1:39:13 AM |
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azmetalfan
Mesa, AZ
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If you want either one to work you also need the other. Diets don't work without exercise and exercise don't work without diet.
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| 1/1/2013 12:28:31 PM |
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queen0929
Memphis, TN
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I did both to lose 70 lbs this past year. It wasn't easy, took a lot of structure, discipline and most importantly, a lifestyle change to a healthier approach. Still has some ways to go, but I know I'll get there with continuously perseverance. I know it's a lifelong Journey and not a 1 time thing. I feel so much better. Health and Wellness is very important. Without it your life has no quality.
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| 1/1/2013 5:00:51 PM |
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azmetalfan
Mesa, AZ
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I did both to lose 70 lbs this past year. It wasn't easy, took a lot of structure, discipline and most importantly, a lifestyle change to a healthier approach. Still has some ways to go, but I know I'll get there with continuously perseverance. I know it's a lifelong Journey and not a 1 time thing. I feel so much better. Health and Wellness is very important. Without it your life has no quality.
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| 1/1/2013 9:07:03 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
68, joined May. 2010
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both are equally important
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| 1/5/2013 9:45:18 PM |
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testarosahon
Hialeah, FL
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| 1/16/2013 12:23:49 PM |
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yajusneverkno
Oxford, AL
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Why in the world would anyone spend 2hrs in the gym, then swallow fast food poison on the way home  What good is one without the other  Being healthy requires both, diet & exercise.
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| 1/18/2013 1:33:43 PM |
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blacchina
Pomona, CA
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Both
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| 1/18/2013 6:55:29 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
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| 1/22/2013 12:32:47 AM |
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mrdonewitgames
Colorado Springs, CO
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A mix of both is what I do. No need to eat foods that do absolutely nothing for your body. Lots n lots of water too.
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| 1/25/2013 7:23:30 PM |
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rarnouxp
Dallas, TX
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Dieting will cause muscle mass loss, true. However, exercising could make it worst if you don't bring in enough calories, because at some point your body needs energy and will take it from decomposing muscle tissue if not enough sugar or fat in the bloodstreams.
Working out will increase the body's need for energy so if your diet is not bringing it what it needs it will go for your muscles and you will make it worse.
Dieting and gaining or at least not losing muscle mass is a science that very few master...else we would all be Jay Cutler I guess
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