What is more important...diet or exercise?

And then Ali said something totally profound without meaning to.

After the gym regular finished telling her that he noticed how much she had changed over the last month she said:

“It’s one thing to notice someone in the gym, it’s another thing to notice someone in the gym getting in shape”

I thought about it and realized how ironic that statement was. If you look around your gym you’ll notice that most regulars look the same day after day, month after month, and year after year.

It’s actually very rare to see someone making any sort of real change in the look and shape of their body…and when someone does it’s totally obvious.

The point is that going to the gym can only do so much for changing the look and shape of your body, but to really make a difference you have to make a change in your diet.

The type of exercise Ali has been doing over the past month hasn’t change much from previous months, the big difference is that she has made significant changes in her diet, and that is where the big difference her look came from.

If you really want to change the look of your body you gotta get your diet under control too, exercise alone will never be enough.

It’s a two part equation, exercise + diet.

Sadly most gym goers get the exercise part down and never figure out the diet part (probably because the diet half is much harder than showing up for a few workouts each week).

For a big time change in the look and shape of your body, the real heavy lifting isn’t done in the weight room but with your diet.

John

Answer: FALSE

Weight loss is simply a matter of a caloric deficit. The easiest way to achieve a deficit is through caloric restriction (eating less food)

There is good research to show that even when people add exercise to a low calorie diet they do not lose any more weight. This shows that weight loss is almost entirely dependent upon diet.

John