Ummm - yeah. What Kelly said. :smug:

When one has over 100 lbs to lose, we're talking about a whole other ball game. Adding in some additional exercise - nuh -uh, just ain't gonna cut it.

I have never in all my life applied a healthy diet and exercise to my life simultaneously. Not because I didn't want to but because I was never taught that this was important until I became an overweight adult.

First I started out with realizing how much easier it is for me to change my eating rather than exercise and then I went vice versa and tried to workout a lot. I have never gotten crazy great results. However, I remember a few years back when I worked in a very physical occupation and I was dating someone healthy so I began eating healthier too. Completely without effort I lost about 28 pounds in just few months. It was crazy!!! So I am not sure of what the percentages are, but I have never felt as good as when I realized I had lost almost 30 pounds with little to no effort at all!!!

ahh! this whole idea has taken me a really long time to come to grips with...

its not hard for me to live a relatively healthy, relatively active, relatively functional :) life, but ive learned it does not show on the scale

i know our bodies are more complex and surprising than a table of figures, basal metabolic rate, caloric intake and expenditure and all those tools of analysis BUT it seems to me weight loss is a numbers game, bottom line. and i have the most opportunity to control those numbers through my diet.

realizing that really helped me take ownership over the food i eat, rather than justify a binge by good intentions to exercise... tomorrow.

I probably walk a few miles a day when I'm at work and I've always been able to stay at my current weight and not gain any. I don't start losing until I watch my calories, though. When I was in school and used the campus recreation center and later when I joined a gym, I would get in the pattern on working out 5x a week but never lost any weight from just that.
Lately, I've noticed since I've been weight training I can feel the difference in my muscles and I feel smaller, but I haven't lost weight, despite watching what I eat. I wonder if I've stayed the same since muscle weighs more...

Thing is, it takes months and months of weight training to gain muscle. I also know that for *me*, "watching what I ate", never, ever worked. Nothing worked, well, until I really, really WORKED. Which meant tracking/monitoring/counting my calories. It's the only way to know for sure, for sure, for SURE that you're not going over your calorie budget and creating that all important calorie deficit that is needed to provide weight loss.

I remember exercising soo soo soo soo much more then i did now and all thaty happened was that i maintained.. Then i tried with the diet/food and the pounds just fell off without even exercising more then 30-40 minutes 5 times a week :) so i think the diet has a whole lot to do with it

I have started exercising more recently, and I totally know I let up with my diet, bad bad idea! My ratio is a little different, it's 95% diet and 5% exercise. Exercising 30 minutes a day seems to be enough, but if I let my diet slip even a TINY TINY bit, I gain. If I eat bread/pasta/potatoes at dinner I gain, its such a pain when I have a carb lover of a bf! But, this is what I need to do, sad, but I have to accept this!

-Aimee

That is so true. When I stopped watching what I eat like I really used to, I stopped losing weight. But since I was still working out time to time (not as often as I did), I didn't gain that much.

One serving of chocolate cake has 500 calories..that is the equivalent of jogging about five miles. I think in the end, it depends on how much you are eating. If you are eating way over your daily needs, it is going to take a lot of exercise to give you any sort of calorie deficit.

I would agree that diet is more important because if you focus on the workouts you will probably end up eating more unconsciously. Personally I can quit exercising without it having much affect on my weight loss, but if I loosen up on the diet I'll quit losing immediately.

I guess I could only find out if i could MAKE myself work out! for me it's all about the diet because I can't convince myself to work out on a regular basis. But I do think that everybody needs to have both to make it balanced and if i was to start working out more i would see a lot of improvement!

Same with me. Ive only been able to lose weight by working my butt off!!! So for me its probably 60% Exercise and 40% Diet.

For me diet is about 10% and excercise is 80% and getting enough sleep is the other 10%. I could eat perfectly and not lose a lb. I HAVE to be working out. I know its rare, but maybe its because i don't eat terribly because i can't eat a lot of things since i get sick.
I like the freedom that working out gives me. I don't have to feel guilty about the little slip ups. Anyway, i think it varies from person to person, there is no right way that will work for everyone.

junebug41: I also have PCOS and I think for us it's more about diet! I also wouldnt discount the importance of excercise. As you mentioned though, cutting the white pasta, bread, rice (and sugar) is a BIG part of successful weight loss for us. I also can skip working out for a week (as I have because I was sick) and not gain. In fact, while I was sick I ate less and lost weight.

For me it's probably 90/10. Working out makes me toned, but it dont move the scale one bit!

I am actually hoping that excersize bails me out cause I have had a few crackers!


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