Is diet or exercise more important?

Is diet or exercise more important?

You want what millions of other people do—to be lean and fit. Whether you want to trim off extra pounds so you’ll feel better, look better, or be better prepared to tackle whatever demands come your way, you probably want to find the most efficient way to do it.

Well, with this email, you can figure out if you should put your emphasis on diet or exercise to get the results you want. I present the contenders for your weight-loss attention…

In the Left Corner: Diet

While fad diets have tried their darndest to malign the fine name of dieting, proper diet continues to be a vital way to lose weight. In fact, research has shown that if you’re only going to do one thing in your journey to weight loss, it should be dieting.

What does dieting mean exactly? Traditionally i means starvation or low calorie diets; but that model doesn’t work for long.

I don’t really like the word Diet, but to me it means taking very careful inventory of every bite you put in your mouth, noting how you feel before you eat, immediately after and 1-2 hours later.

If you feel worse after the meal than before or still hungry soon after something is wrong. This is where our coaching and your awareness needs to begin to be succesful.

But you can’t stop there. 

If you want to lose even more faster and get healthy, you’ll want to make sure the quality of your food is good! 

In other words, you can’t get away with eating Twinkies and Big Macs very often. You’ll want to focus on fresh fruits and vegetables, healthy protein & fat sources, and lots and lots of water.

In the Right Corner: Exercise

Like diet, there have been all sorts of fad exercise programs that have spanned from dangerous to ridiculously funny. But exercise hasn’t lost its place in the race for weight loss. 

Why? Because savvy people realize you’ve got to hit the gym if you’re going to maximize your weight loss. The best technique for weight loss is to perform strength training exercises that target big muscle groups. 

These movements burn a lot of calories both during and after the workout and will help you move more efficiently in an out of the gym.

For coaching on optimal form, breathing and posture of our most common exercises go here: Most Important Exercises To Review​​ 

Exercise is the best way to ensure that the weight you drop is FAT and not muscle. 

Also, when you exercise, your muscles tone up and grow stronger. 

With more muscle, your body’s ability to shave off calories increases, making it easier to burn calories even when you’re doing nothing at all. Diet can’t do that!

Who Wins the Battle?

More than likely, you read this hoping that exercise alone would help you lose weight because you hate the idea of watching what you eat. Or maybe you’re just the opposite, and you prefer to watch your diet but absolutely loathe exercise. Well, there’s bad news for you either way. This battle that has been waging on for decades (okay, make that centuries) is ultimately a draw.

If you’re not willing to eat right and exercise, the success you see today will be gone tomorrow. Try as you might, one of these ingredients alone is not enough to help you lose weight, keep it off, and have an overall healthy lifestyle.

In fact, you will find that once you become serious about losing weight, you will be careful about what you eat because you don’t want to put all that exercise to waste. 

At the same time, you’ll push yourself harder in the gym because you realize you could burn even more calories and get closer to your weight goal today.

So stop pitting diet against exercise and do both. Your good health and leaner self await!

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The Importance of Small Decisions

You become fit and lean by a culmination of small decisions.

What you eat for breakfast, whether or not you will exercise today, what you eat for lunch, whether you take the elevator or the stairs, what you eat for dinner, and whether or not you’ll eat that dessert.

Each and every small decision that you make throughout your day adds up to the shape and fitness level that you have. If 80+ percent of these small decisions are made with fitness in mind, then your body will show it in the most attractive way.