The Importance of Diet and Exercise

By The Hoosier Diet Team

When people look at diet and exercise, they either choose one or the other feeling as if they get one right; the other will fall into place. It is a balancing equation, and it is only true if you have both a healthy diet and a regular exercise plan.  You just cannot work out three times a week and expect to lose weight or eat healthy meals and avoid exercise all together.
 
There are a few reasons for this, but the primary reason, is that no equation can ever truly be balanced if one side is uneven.  Sure you can reach the same result division wise, but if one side is heavier the scale still tilts, and every time you allow that to happen you are not at your full potential of optimum health and weight loss.
 
Take for example a plan that includes exercise regularly all week, but an unhealthy diet.  Surely, exercising seven days a week is going to help you lose weight, but you are going to be burning only the fat you have to account for because you are eating all kinds of extras and loads of extra calories.  Here is the thing, if you are constantly overeating, your metabolism is never going to rise, which means even while exercising, you are not burning fat the way you should be.  If exercise is the only thing that helps boost your metabolism, you will be struggling just to keep from gaining more weight.
 
On the other side of the battle, is the person who has a very restrictive diet and thinks that exercise is thus unneeded.  Here is the problem with that, restrictive diets equate to starvation diets, which are never going to last unless your restrictive diet becomes an eating disorder which is very unhealthy.  Most people will break and indulge, which is why they are also known as crash-burn diets. 

The other problem is that without exercise your body is not turning the fat into muscle, so you may be losing some of your fat, but you will still look just as flabby since there is nothing there (muscle from exercise) to take the place of your fat.  Additionally, your metabolism is going to slow down drastically as you will actually pause it since your body is panicking from loss of nutrients.  Thus, you are actually going to start storing more of your fat instead of burning it.  This is why diet and exercise is the only way to actually lose weight.

You may not want to hear the conclusion, but you are going to need to maintain a healthy balance of diet and exercise if you want to become more overall healthy and lose weight.  Although it may not be the most fun to cut certain foods and your intake down as well as throw in a weekly exercise routine, you will be grateful once the pounds start melting off and you see a more toned you in the mirror.

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