Forget Diet, Exercise is Where It's At...

[ethics]

There is a dose-relationship between exercise and weight loss, according to the results of a randomized trial published in the Jan. 12 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. Even low amounts of moderate exercise, or about 30 minutes of walking per day, may be sufficient to prevent weight gain in sedentary adults.

"From the perspective of prevention, it appears that the 30 minutes per day will keep most people from gaining the additional weight associated with inactivity," lead author Cris Slentz, PhD, from Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, says in a news release. "Given the increase in obesity in the U.S., it would seem likely that many in our society may have fallen below this minimal level of physical activity required to maintain body weight."

Diet is great, don't get me wrong, but seeing, first hand, both diets and exercise (and both) I can say that exercise is where it's at when it comes to weight gain/loss.

Read the rest of this Medscape article here (http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/467023). (globalaffairs/affairs to log in)

[tke711]

I agree. If you just eat sensibly (read, not tons of junk food or high fat foods) and exercise for a minimum of 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week. Most people will loose weight.

[IamZed]

People that can exorcize have it best. It’s painful to watch someone trying to drop pounds by diet control alone. All that celery and carrots looks so unappetizing when you see someone eat it day after day. People that exorcize need to eat more even on a reduction plan. It seems when someone gets on an exorcize plan they have a good chance at maintaining it more stringently than some controlled diet. Fall off the calorie wagon for a few days? As long as your workout continues you are just treading water at worst. Exorcize can be like a safety net for your diet.

[Domh]

A fat person who exercises and eats what they want will not lose considerable weight and will not keep it off.

The two work together and are integral to one another if one is to effectively lose and maintain a healthy weight.

Simply cant do it with one OR the other.

I found that diet was the key, when combined with weight lifting for exercise. I did NO aerobic exercise, radical diet change and light weight training and lost alot of weight which Ive never gained back.

[ethics]

I agree. If you just eat sensibly (read, not tons of junk food or high fat foods) and exercise for a minimum of 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week. Most people will loose weight.
At the very least not GAIN. :)

[Stiofán]

It's really based on your metabolisim, which for those youngsters here, will dramatically decrease as you make it past 40. Now if I do the 30 minutes a day, it does nothing for me. Of course I never gained a pound no matter what I ate when I was in my early 30s. So, what works today may not work tomorrow and will have to be modified.