| “Do you eat to live or live to eat?” – Al Berg Eating is one of life’s pleasures. But it’s where our weight comes from. If you eat too little you’ll lose weight if you eat too much you’ll gain and if you eat what your body uses you’ll stay the same. Eating is one component to weight loss. The other is exercise. Add exercise to a diet will definitely help you with your weight goals. Eating controls on one part of the weight loss formula, the calories you take in. But it’s the part that’s easier to control. To get the calories you burn from exercising to equal the calories from food is much harder to achieve. For example running a mile if you weigh 150 pounds will use 100 calories, so drinking a 12 oz. can of Coke which is 150 calories require you to run 1.5 miles. Cutting back on food will usually save you more calories than exercising. There are some authors that say that exercising will actually cause you to eat more than you use. You also have to eat, otherwise, you’ll die. You don’t have to exercise. If you watch TV you’ll have to deal with the bombardment of ads on all the latest food products from Taco Bell or McDonald’s. It’s easier to reduce eating calories than increase exercise calories. |