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  • January 5, 2015
  • By cpr_ben

Diet vs Exercise for Healthy Weight? Tips on Successful Weight Loss

Explore the balance between diet and exercise with our engaging illustration, depicting the harmony of healthy eating and physical activity for a holistic approach to wellness

It is January and most of us have put on a few pounds in the past month or so.

While it is actually January, I actually think of Halloween as the start of the holiday season. And I think the holiday season ends up morphing into “Eating Season”. We started eating and slowing down after halloween and now find ourselves trying to inch into those pants that used to fit so well. Alas, it’s time to get back on track. It’s time to get back to our healthy weight. Yes, everyone of us weighed in at a healthy weight at one time or another. Who’s counting years? Healthy weight is better now than later. As the owner of Georgia CPR, I recognize the importance of great CPR training. I also believe an ounce of health is worth a pound of CPR. Achieving and maintaining a healthy weight is huge component of health and shouldn’t be overlooked. What will give you a bigger bang for the buck, Diet or Exercise? The answer is both, but really, it’s mostly about diet. And for those of you that need the tips without the explanation, skip to the bottom and I will tell you what has worked for me.

Consider –

To attain a healthy weight, diet is about 75% of the fight. Leaving 25% to exercise. Modern American food choices are blessedly endless. I wouldn’t change that for anything. Yet it is so easy to get carried away with them. Think about that craft beer – drink it and *POW* 500 calories. It takes two hours of walking, at least, to burn that off.

How about that laundry basket of chips and salsa you just polished off before your #9 with green sauce even gets to the table *taCHANG* 600 calories, easily. Did I mention that was without the trough of cheese dip? Sure, that is a bit dramatic.. or is it?

While neither is easy, diet or exercise may be exclusively more realistic. That 500 calorie beer may be a more realistic thing to give up than to embrace that 2 hour walk. I won’t even get into how much exercise that basket or 2 of chips will fuel.

Cutting calories is more realistic for most than taking up equal exercise. No amount of exercise will offset a poor diet. Plus, too much exercise can make you more hungry, which is an unspeakable foe to losing weight.

Achieving a healthy weight through diet can give you the following:

  • Quicker drop in weight
  • Increase energy
  • Increased sex drive
  • Better self image

Exercise is an important component too, only it’s 25% of the solution. Exercise will give you a real boost in your efforts to achieving a healthy weight.

Achieving a healthy weight through more exercise can give you the following:

Exercise can help you:

  • Reduce your risk of heart disease
  • Keep your mind sharp
  • Yes – again – increased sex drive
  • Yes – again – better self image

Not a single one of us denies that a healthy weight is healthy. It’s just not easy. It is as simple as that. There are many tough challenges I have overcome in my life. The ongoing maintenance of a healthy weight is the greatest challenge of all.

I am convinced that everyone has a solution to their weight. Most of us have different solutions. My body really responds well to a lower carb “Paleo” diet. Grains are what fuels my bottomless pit of a stomach. If I can stay away from grains, and for the most part, maintain a lower blood sugar, I am satisfied eating a normal person’s portions. My wife’s solution isn’t quite as carb sensitive as mine but it’s similar.

We have tried Atkins, Weight Watchers – and they have worked too, but just weren’t realistic to our lifestyle and bodies.

Everyone needs to find their own solution, realizing none will be easy. We just have to find a way that is realistic.

Here are some tips for losing weight and maintaining a healthy weight:

  • Find the program for you – it is out there
  • That program has to be realistic, and sustainable. Atkins wasn’t sustainable for us.
  • Find a program that the whole family can work with so you aren’t having totally different meals than everyone else. That isn’t sustainable or realistic.
  • Add exercise. Spin classes, Yoga, martial arts, crossfit, whatever, as long as you can keep active, sustainably.
  • DON’T GET DISCOURAGED IF YOU FALL OFF THE WAGON. If you give up – you gave up. Nothing will keep you from your goal as long as you don’t give up.