Never tried to lose. So that I can't speak to with personal experience.
/johnny
Is diet – rather than exercise – the key to losing weight?
What an inane question. OF COURSE Diet, rather than exercise, is the key to losing weight.
My gawd what an inane question.
Most people need both, from my personal experience. I’ve known people on perpetual diets who can’t seem to lose a pound because they never burn any off.
I tried that once but then I ended up filling the curved side of it with peanut butter because I got hungry. That sort of defeated the purpose. Then I went ahead and drank some beer to wash it all down.
Because exercising makes you want to eat more. To lose weight you must either love to eat a lot of rabbit food, or learn to like a certain amount of hunger. Exercising alone won't do it.
A key to weight gain is consuming more calories then your body spends at the same period of time and the opposite is for weight loss.
It is a no brainer that you might either spend more calories via excercise or consume less via eating less to lose weight.
In practice it is not all that simple because the quality of weight loss matter too.
Poor diet and lack of excercise would primarily ruin your muscle and your fat deposit to lesser extent.
The lesser your muscular mass the lesser overall metabolism which leans your fat would burn even more slower.
You also need to take into account that some key organs like heart are muscles too, and others which are not muscles are built like muscles with protein as a major agent.
All these organs would be partially cannibalized to extract energy along with the muscles under such approach, leaving your fats largely intact.
Technically, you would loose weight, but at the expense of vital bodily functions and it won’t bring health benefits.
'Jeb Bush Is Definitely, Grumpily Running ... Away From Calories' I got to cook up the bacon this morning.
Diet rather than exercise?
Rush has championed that for years, many more than a decade.
Of course he’s not bound by a college education, and free to seek the truth on all matters.
I believe there’s a reason there’s a saying called “working up an appetite”.
I think if you work hard(exercise) you’ll eat more.
For me its all about calories in/calories out. I was able to lose quite a bit a few years ago on a medically supervised low calorie diet. I started repeating it last August and lost 19 pounds but I have to stay under 900 calories a day to do that. I can do it and stay healthy. Having a replaced knee that is still a bit of a problem does cut back on certain exercise. Now I can stay just under 1000 and still lose some. Easier in the spring to get more exercise. Having my garden on a hillside terrace helps.
Eating healthy is necessary as you need quality fuel and exercise is important because your body is made to move.
But having a positive happy outlook and being at peace in your soul is the most important of all.
All I know is I just have to look at a slice of bread and I gain 10lbs.
Been doing the DASH diet now for a month. Lost 12lbs already, but as most people do...plateau hits. Considering my ‘goal’ weight is only 8-10lbs away...now the struggle begins.
I nearly died though when the dietician told to do more cardio. I looked at her like she was insane. Then I showed how many miles I log walking on a daily basis. You see, I walk dogs for midday walks. 5-8 sets of dogs M-F. So that’s like 5-8 miles or more.
I told I’ll take up an extra day of weight lifting, but if she thinks I am doing a gym orchestrated cardio workout...she barking up the wrong tree!
Everybody yips and yaps about exercise, but really...plug in those exercises and you just might realize how little it matters for most people calorie wise. Where it counts is in your heart and arteries.
Right up your alley.