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Weight Loss Diet Vs Exercise – Which Tool is More Useful?

Diet Vs Exercise for Weight Loss – From the health concerns, you should work out more, drink more water and eat less or no junk food.

How to Lose Weight Fast and Easy?

The term “Overweight” is used for the people who eat more than their body wants.

The whole idea for weight loss is to execute a regular workout, no matter what and how much you ate!

But most people neglect to do it as their body increases the fat deposition at various locations.

Gaining muscle mass isn’t the problem, it’s the fat tissues that are hardly removed from your system and once they are formed you are going to get quite ugly.

Consuming more calories tends to give you weight, this is why for the efficient weight loss you need to burn more calories than you are eating every day.

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Changing eating habits is one of the essential tools that can help you bring a big change.

There are no shortcuts to those things which requires your pure form of dedications and hard works.

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Buddy, you got to consider having a fat loss instead of weight loss.

Some people misinterpret these two common terms in which one is about losing fat while the other is about losing fat and muscle mass.

You don’t want to lose muscle mass because that’s what will make you skinnier than usual.

How Much Fats Do Different Foods Contain?

This is a statistical report from reputable sources:

  • 2 slices of pepperoni pizza contain 560 calories that take about 65 minutes of continuous cycling to burn off
  • 1 Can of Coke contain 140 calories that require 23 minutes of walking
  • 4 Double stuffed Oreos contain 280 calories that require 1.8 hours of weight lifting
  • 26 pieces of tortillas contain 560 calories which 57 minutes of Zumba can obliterate

Weight Loss Diet

Dieting in simple words is limiting the eating habits by consuming less sugar or carb containing items.

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Have you noticed that a single can of carbonated drink contains about 150 calories, which approximately takes you about half an hour to burn?

The snacks consumption while watching TV is something that gets stored in the fat chamber that keeps your belly fat and protruding from the sides.

Dieting is an easy process that helps your body burn a number of calories just by not eating anything.

Combining this with a regular exercise plan, you can certainly achieve greater results.

Except there is one problem which is craving for junk and sugary foods.

This can be controlled too!

Dieting is a very good process for the human body, but this method is a gradual way to lose weight, I mean way too gradual!

For this drink plenty amount of water, just to cover the hard cravings that you cannot control.

Consume less and more meal portions and incorporate regular exercise with dieting for more pronounced results.

Why Foods Is More Important Than Exercise?

The foods which human being takes defines their physical and mental power.

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In a matter of exercise Vs food, the basic role is played by the foods, but then comes the metabolism part where exercise is of much importance.

In a study of 4 weeks where 72 individuals were taken, they took a healthy diet for continuous 4 weeks, as a result, they lost 10lbs.

Exercise & Dieting to Get In Shape?

For weight loss, exercise has more benefits to offer than dieting.

cardio exercises for weight loss

The reasons are simple, dieting allows your body to starve so the remained calories will be used which is a slow process.

Exercise builds muscle mass for you which is completely lean, furthermore, it helps the fat underlying the muscles that are hard to remove just with dieting.

Also, the emotional eating problem with many men and women is associates which can be suppressed with daily exercise.

The science behind this tells us that it lowers the level of Cortisol hormone and fight against depression and stress.

Both exercise and dieting are interlinked with each other, dieting makes the exercise useful while exercise makes it easier for you to perform dieting.

Consuming less amount of calories is already burning up calories and when you mix it up with the regular physical workout, it shrinks down the fat cells faster than before.

Some people do not find exercise much appealing because they cannot perform it regularly, for them a brisk walk or biking is a useful alternative that burns so many calories.

If you want to lose weight, you have to increase the muscle mass percentage.

Exercise with a bad diet is not useful in weight loss as if both of them cannot adjust with one another, it will create further health problems.

To get in a good shape, you need to maintain both of these processes synergistic and suitable to each other.

One of them would never work for weight loss, according to the diet experts.

Should You Exercise More or Eat Less?

From the health concerns, you should work out more, drink more water and eat less or no junk food.

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dieting vs. Exercise

Furthermore, you need to replace the junk with the healthy foods that we are going to mention below right after this heading.

If you perform exercises in the morning and drink plenty of water, there is a chance you will burn 9 pounds in the very first week.

Do not forget to attempt to eat healthy foods and totally avoid the items containing trans fats.

There is an idea about getting slim, you will enjoy it!

Granted the intake of junk food quenches the taste buds for the time being but once you imagine the stomach upset affects you get from those foods, you will be inclined towards getting more fit and slim.

Those men and women who find exercise and dieting distasteful should think about not getting bored because that’s the starting point of overeating.

Weight Loss Diet and Exercise

If you want to lose weight in 30 days with much ease, here are some tips you should keep in mind regarding your diet and exercise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqOK2hsCKRM

When it comes to diet, you should drink more water, stay hydrated, take it slow while you are eating, eat portion controlled meal and eat only when you are hungry.

Your exercise workout should include cardio, weight lifting, physical challenges, starting new habits like cleaning a home or the yard, basically everything that keeps you away from sitting.

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Always keep the exercise tool in the open and try to watch television as you work out. Start doing mental meditations that include stretches and never buy junk food by yourself.

Benefits of Maintaining Diet and Exercise

Calling exercise of dieting useless for weight loss wouldn’t be fair justice.

Both have a different effect on your health, but once you manage to attain a balance between them, here are the health benefits you are going to have.

  • Reduction in blood pressure
  • Reduction in total body weight
  • Reduction in blood sugar level
  • Reduction of belly mass
  • Reduced chances of fat deposits in the arteries (atherosclerosis)
  • Reduce bone fracture
  • Improve the overall body appearance
  • Reduce stress
  • Reduce depression
  • Increase longevity

How to Lose Belly Fat?

Here are the 10 best ways to lose belly weight, backed up by scientific studies.

  • Eat soluble fibers as much as you can
  • Avoid foods which contain trans fats
  • Eat a high protein diet
  • Avoid alcohol intake
  • Do cardio regularly
  • Avoid sugary intakes
  • Reduce the stress level by doing meditation
  • Add veggies in your diet
  • Eat fish twice a week
  • Drink green tea with intermittent fasting

Final Verdict

Dieting and Exercise cannot be separated with one another as they both works synergistically to induce weight loss.

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It is also important to understand the basic science of fat loss, some people are moving to the keto diet where they completely limit the consumption of carbohydrates and focuses on consuming more protein and fats.

No matter what your approaches are for weight loss, there is always a need for full dedication and restriction that helps you achieve the ideal fitness goals.

Some people think diet plays an important role while others say it is the exercise that causes the actual weight loss.

In our opinion, both factors contribute equally.


References:

  1. https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-weight/12-tips-to-help-you-lose-weight/
  2. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/how-to-lose-weight-as-fast-as-possible
  3. https://www.webmd.com/diet/features/diet-vs-exercise-the-truth-about-weight-loss#1
  4. https://www.womenshealthmag.com/weight-loss/a19982520/weight-loss-80-percent-diet-20-percent-exercise/
  5. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/exercise-vs-diet-for-weight-loss_n_5207271

By Marlo Mittler MS, RD

Marlo is a certified dietician who graduated in June 2008, currently, she is working with highly professional who belongs to the fitness field along with certain types of psychologists and physicians. Being an observing and keen dietician, Marlo has got her publications which were introduced in Women magazine, Home Journals, Newsday and Fitness Magazines.