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Diet vs. Exercise: The Truth About Weight Loss

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I read this post on WebMd. I had to reblog this because it says things that women want to know. I know it might sound crazy but most of my readers are young women or maybe I should say, most of the emails I receive from my readers come from young women.
By Alia Hoyt @WebMd
I admit it: I was once one of “those women” for whom post-pregnancy weight loss was relatively quick and painless. I’ve never been model-skinny, but after the birth of my first two children my previous waistline was recovered with little to no effort. Yeah, I know what you want to call me, and I don’t blame you. So kick back and laugh when I tell you that the pounds decided they wanted to take up permanent residence after my third son was born. No amount of calorie counting or exercise did the trick, which threw me for a tailspin worse than those teacups at Disney World.
Most exercise programs promise extreme results just by going through the motions. But great results can only be achieved by also overhauling your eating habits. Since exercising like a maniac had scarcely made a dent in my dimples, I decided to say "Sayonara" to fried and processed food. I was in for a nutritional overhaul.
Rumor: Nutrition and exercise are equally important when trying to lose weight
Diet and exercise. Depending who you talk to, these words are either dirty or sacred. There’s no doubt that they’re both vitally important to good health, but do they carry equal weight when it comes to losing weight?
The Verdict: All the exercise in the world won’t help you lose weight if your nutrition is out of whack.
You know when you’re out spending money and a few dollars here or there seems like no big deal? Then you get your credit card statement and the sum total of your big-spender ways is painfully apparent? That’s how it is with calories, fat, sodium and other nutritional information, but this stuff is far more difficult to itemize and track than dollars and cents. The end result is that we eat way more than we need to... even when dieting.
This author has it right. Truer words were never spoken. Eating too many calories is the reason for all our health problems. We eat the wrong foods, most of those foods are empty calories, no nutrition and because we starve our bodies for nutrition, we lose our health a little at a time. We add fat because our food has little nutrition and we end up getting sick more often because our diet lacks the nutrition we need.
It's not "Rocket Science". Stop eating the foods you like and start eating the food your body needs. Have you ever noticed those people who never seem to get sick. Did you ever wonder why. It's all about the foods we eat. You don't need vitamin pills if you eat the right foods. I only see my doctor once a year for a check up because the food I eat and the exercise I get keeps me healthy. You can lose your body fat just by eating a good diet and walking more.
I finished a new ebook and it's available on "Smashwords.com". The title is "getting to a healthy weight". You can read a sample. The ebook will be available in all the online bookstores next year. It might be up on Amazon this week. For anyone that wants to use Smashwords.com, I'll give you a coupon code you can use at checkout. It reduces the price from $3.99 to $1.99. (PJ42H) non case sensitive.
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