Is weight loss more based on working out or eating less?

[Anonymous]

Would I lose more weight if I ate less and worked out less OR if I ate more and worked out more?

The reason I ask is because I find I eat more than I normally would when I workout that day. Beforehand so I have more energy, and after because after working hard I get hungry.

Maybe I should just eat less and spend a lot of time walking as exercise.

[Anonymous]

Weight loss is mostly activity.

Let's say you compare two versions of yourself, one that eats 200 less calories a day and one that has 10 lbs. extra muscle mass. So for every pound of muscle mass let's say you burn 3 extra calories an hour, so that's 72 extra calories a day per pound of muscle. So ten pounds of muscle is worth 720 calories a day while eating 200 calories less is only worth 200, so it is a loss of 520 calories burned by just changing your diet alone.

Basically your diet and calorie intake has diminishing returns because your body requires a baseline number of calories and you have to get rid of 3,500 calories to get rid of one pound of fat and eating too little actually makes you create fats to prevent starvation alongside holding more water in many cases so on top of the 17 1/2 days you have to wait eating 200 less calories to lose one pound you also have to contend with your body getting used to it.

When you work out however your body goes through a conditioning period (which is a significantly quicker adaptation than a general reduction in calories) in which it prepares to grow so now those 720 calories are truly capitalized and you lose that pound in a little under 5 days plus your calorie threshold rises so eating the same amount has the same net effect (due to the extra burning of muscle) as eating less to begin with.

TL;DGAF: Exercise is far, far more important than diet.

[hiddendisclaimer]

Diet is the more effective than working out in terms of losing/controlling weight.

Exercise is good for your general health, well being and changing your metabolism but it does not translate to run a few more miles to earn an ice cream cone.

Your body has a base energy requirements, and if you do more activity it finds ways of being efficient to accommodate the extra expenditures with approximately the same base.

So don't get discouraged by working out, it is very beneficial but diet and prevent excess intake is key to weight loss.

[Errhh]

Working out will hardly do anything if your diet is full of shit. (Not actuall shit🙋💩😁, but you know bad stuffs)

So to change the way your body looks all depends on the quality and quantity of food you intake. And working out will help the process to achieve a goal faster.. But exercise alone will not accomplish something..

And the key thing while working out, is your heart rate... Making it go fast really fast and then slowing it down, then making it really fast again and then slow.. So on and so forth.,, etc. etc.. It's not about sweating. Sweating is only water weight... While heart rate is burning fat. So if you're doing cardio, make sure to go really fast and then slow it down.. Don't keep going at same pase or for a long time... But doing weights are better... So put the maximum weight you can do on a machine or free weights, and do fast reps to get heart rate up.. But make sure you're doing them correctly.. As in "posture".

Anyway.. In reference to how your body looks overall.. Diet is more important... And not just the amount but the type of food is even more significant. ..

Don't eat processed foods, fake sugars.
Eat less sugar. Less flour and less salt.

Eat more fiber and more protein to help you keep full in your small meals.
Drink a gallon of water a day. Not in one sitting.

[Azara]

whichever cause you to burn more than you take in exercising all day will cause more weight lo than subtracting 500 calorie from your daily diet, but subtracting 500 calories will cause more weight loss than working out for an hour,

best to do both so you dont just lose but tay toned. id nugget subtracting 500 calorie a day and excising 3 hours a day., doesn't have to be at a gym,. just physical activity that keeps things moving.

anyhow no matter how much you work out or how little you eat, without a deficit --no weight loss.

[hellokitty_baby]

Eating less, 100%. Think of diet as Batman and exercise as Robin. When you combine the two the results are faster and more efficient, but if you had to rely on just one Batman would still get the job done. There's a reason 'you can't outrun your fork' is a popular saying.

[raio81597]

Eat less and workout more, usually works then you'll have to change things with working out more and eating more as in highly nutritious food, not processed stuff. The reason you change it up is to keep your brain guessing, it tends to get stuck in routine, eating too little can cause a person to store fat as the brain will think the body is starving.

[Xoxoxooo123]

If you eat less and you exercise more, you will eventually lose weight.
If you eat more and work out, there is a likelihood you will gain weight if you are not rationing out your portions.

It's really all about moderation. Moderate portion sizes and an active lifestyle will ensure that you will lose weight and build muscle.
However, you will lose weight if you work your ass off exercising and you eat less

[electromagnetic]

Weight loss is mostly diet. The exercise just gets the results faster.
It has nothing to do with how much of whatever you eat or workout. Rather the type of diet you have including macros and the different kinds of workouts involved.

[dominiquois]

Eating is the biggest part of it. Because if you eat fruits and veggies all day chances are you won't get fat. I lost the most amount of weight restricting meals and eating more of those types of food.

Exercise helps weight loss along.

[Anonymous]

80% of weight loss is from diet alone. Yes walking is one of the best ways to excercise and sidewalks are free to walk on!

The biggest mistake people do after they workout hard is reward themselves. Saying I worked hard today. I'll have this huge ice cream blizzard or I'll have 2 doughnuts. This will not help you loose weight.

[steveguitar]

You can change your diet to be healthier, but working out or even better doing major cardio workout is the best thing. Cardio workouts or playing sports with a lot of movement really help plus you get exercise while having fun

[badger25]

Weight loss is about eating less.

Fat loss is about working out and eating lots of the right food

[MakeShiftThug]

Consume calories at a lower rate than your body burns them... Exercise builds muscle and makes you stronger. Muscle weighs more than than fat.

[Anonymous]

For me eating less, portion control and it will fall off of me , Exercising just makes me more toned.

[jakeofalltrades]

first it is not about eating less, it is about eating right. combine that with exercise and you will be fine

[Jessicocoa]

Definitely diet. It's much easier to just not eat that slice of cake than it is to burn that slice of cake off.

[Germanus]

Very good question; depends, What are your fitness goals?

Seriously, ever see a thin person without muscle tone?

Muscle is good.

[orphan]

eating less calories than you burn.

workout accelerates it.

[Anonymous]

eating less cause work our will add muscle to your body this mean gain weight

[Offthelist]

working out and portion/quality of food

[slimstiffy]

Nope. Food is 80% and workout is 20%

[apple24]

Is based on eating healthy!

[HGStebbins]

Diet before everything else

[admles]

Nutrition is a much greater factor.