If you ask any person who has successfully lost a considerable amount of weight about what has actually worked for them, almost all of them would point their fingers towards a healthy diet. One can slog and grind for hours together in the gym, but if there’s no proper diet in place, all those efforts would go in waste, and no weight loss would happen. A major reason why people who hit the gym in the hopes of losing extra flab and weight give up mid-way – they are not eating right, and when no result is visible in the body, they throw their hands in despair and dump the idea of weight loss altogether. In this post, we would try to find out if diet or exercise is more important for weight loss, so let’s find out:

Weight loss is based on this one important rule – 80% diet and 20% exercise. Weight loss would only materialize by maintaining a calorie deficit – taking in fewer calories than one can burn per day. Needless to say, if there’s no deficit, no fat burning would happen. Ideally, a calorie deficit of 500 is suggested by health experts, fitness experts, and dieticians to set the process of weight loss in motion. Of course, you can burn calories through exercise (up to 500 calories with high intensity strenuous workouts), but wouldn’t it be easier to cut out certain high-calorie foods that are responsible for quickly piling up extra pounds in the body. Also, doing workouts of high intensity to burn 500 or more calories would not ...