diet v exercise

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It's not just about calorie deficit, exercise leads to metabolic changes which predispose you to having more lean tissue and lower body fat levels.

God yes, it is so easy to eat more because you have exercised. Then you work out that you have eaten 700 cals worth "because you deserve it after a workout" and only burned off half of that on the treadmill or whatever. I use MFP and it is pretty eye opening once you log everything you eat and all of your exercise. I never eat my exercise calories, they are just a bonus. But some people do. 000000

You need to create a calorie deficit to lose weight. That is a lot easier to do though diet or diet and exercise, than exercise alone.

The Shred will probably burn about 200 calories - that's 2 bananas, or half a sandwich. It's really, really tough to create a meaningful calorie deficit through exercise alone.

However, you need to exercise for health and to tone your muscles, so you really need to be doing both.

Perhaps it's more helpful to look at these things as dials which can be adjusted until you get the results you want.

A little more resistance training, a reduction in processed foods.

Slightly higher intensity cardio.

Experiment and you'll find what works for you!

For me, I know full well that exercise might help tone me up and improve my fitness and mood but to lose weight I need to watch my diet as well. I cannot just exercise without making changes in my diet and expect the weight to fall off.
My friend is one of those people who can do 3 spin classes a week, eat pies, sandwiches stuffed with fattening stuff, drink wine every night and lose weight and inches.
You know what works for you!

It's impossible to quantify, activity level can almost be measured with a linear scale but diet is more wide ranging.

Also different people will respond to different things.

Body composition in terms of how much fat and how much lean tissue you have is probably slightly more dependent on how active you are.

Really the two things interact.

You need to remember that majority of your body shape is defined by your diet.

Eat clean, and these days there is a shit load of inspiration out there free. If anyone is on instagram #cleaneating or #clean and you'll have thousands of posts that will gee you up, inspire you and recipes to help you cook nice meals.

I've got a blog and ig page if you'd like links PM. Me.

I've read somewhere that exercise is only about 15% of weight loss.

I have been low carbing (on the bootcamp threads) and am finding that a more sustainable way of eating than others I have tried but I do believe that it is just finding something that suits you whether low cal, low carb, low fat or whatever.

I missed the diet tips bit. Have you tried using myfitnesspal.com or similar to track what you eat? There was a study a while back that found keeping a food diary lead to people eating less as they were thinking more about what they were eating.
I found tracking (accurately with food scales) really interesting, some of my portion sizes were way off!

I've seen 80% diet 20% exercise stated a lot for weight loss. But I think it's probably different for each person. You can lose weight just by dieting, but exercise will make you look so much better.