Do you prefer to diet to lose or maintain weight or exercise to lose or maintain

Mommyboo Is this pic your little mommyboo, she is adorable. I usually do a combo of diet & exercise, portion control (sweets & bread my weakness)and I suck on those hoodia pops they are quite tasty.

I prefer exercise rather then diet because i cant tolerate hunger, i can exercise for any longer to reduce weight but cant get sick without food. i even get headache easily if i feel hungry. so i always prefer exercising rather then diet.

what do you want to say a diet is? is it eating less and counting calories, or something else. there's that much out there now it's hard to say what will work and what won't. for me, i love my food, but have cut out sugar in my coffee, plus chocolate expect when i get that chocolate thing. i've also cut out a few other things and eating more healthy. so is that classed as a diet? in my case i say not, i've just changed the what i eat. plus i'm using my work mate as help, on my excerising. he goes running most days, so that gave me more motivation to get up and do something. which i have done. i fixed my bike and go riding, or i go for a long walk each day then do some other excercies with a ab king pro and leg magic. last i knew i'd lost about 4/5 cm from my waist. no weight has come off which is annoying to me. but i do get the feeling of being more toned up, which is better cause i can put up being big muscle wise but not flab. did any of that make sense? we all got to eat.

Great Discussion! I have been really thinking about which one would I choose to do. For my health, I would just exercise to lose extra body fat, and to maintain the weight that I would lose. I don't want any extra pounds to come creeping on me. I want to be safe than sorry. But, I have been considering taking the powder diet teas and other formulas. I am so afraid to take a diet pill. I am concerned about what side effects that I will get afterwards.

I too would prefer to do a little of both - Exercise and diet. But since you have asked us to choose one i too would go with Exercise. I feel that is a better and far more healthier way of loosing weight. I go for brisk walks every day and have managed to loose some weight in the past few months , so exercise works for me without conciously cutting down on my diet

I definately prefer to exercise. I did Medifast once and I lost 40 lbs. BUT I love FOOD - and could not make myself eat the Medifast food anymore. Now I try to run/walk on the treadmill 30 minutes a day and exercise to my lovely collection of workout dvds!

Personally I prefer to eat appropriately and healthy and to exercise to maintain my health and well being.If I do both as a rule, I might not need to worry about maintaining or loosing weight :) OF course we don't always do what we feel is better and I'm not an exception LOL As for a preference, I am not really sure. I don't believe in diets as in "extreme" diets, or the ones that cut one or more food groups from what you can eat. They are not healthy. But I don't believe in spending money in the gym either LOL I guess I would be ok, if I was to plan my meals better or cut a number of calories within reason. But I would be ok as well if I was to increase my activity level some more in order to burn more calories.

If I could only choose one, I'd probably sit there in a dither and end up choosing neither.

i prefer the normal diet like eating less and watch the food to eat specialy faty food.i used the diet tea and it works fast but i look old and dry skin.so now i am back to normal losing weight by eating less

i would like to try both. the diet should not be too strict, i just cut down the amount of rich food, eat more fruit and vegetables. that's enough for me. as to exercise, it's a bit harder than diet for me, but i love walking. so, these two combine together, the effect would be obvious.

well i prefer to go on both a diet as well as a regular excersice though i am not regular at both but i still try my best to do both plus i even take medicines to loose but they are a bit cautious medicines to be taken with low caloried diet only. i try a lot to loose those extra pounds on me since ages but i am unable to do anything.

I would think loosing weight is not a bad thing, what you must do is balance it with the emals that you take and the excersise that you do .

Def exercise. I love food and don't want to worry about if what I'm eating is going to make me gain weight. Exercise provides you with more energy and gives you a self esteem boost, so I think it's clearly the better choice. Luckily for me I have always been happy at the weight I am, but I still like to keep active. Right now I'm pregnant (only 6 weeks). Its doing things to my body that I did not think about, I have no energy and the nausea is so bad I can barely eat, so it is very hard to exercise right now. Can't wait for the first trimester to be over!

Can i choose none of them?Haha.. I dont like diet,and have no plan to do that. I cant stand avoiding yummy food. And exercise? Hmm i dont have problem with overweight. But i will choose excercise just to make my body stay healthy.

Both are best to do. I'd rather diet than do exercise, but both are good to do to keep weight down, right? Weight Watchers is a good plan to follow. I'm sure there are people who would rather exercise than diet.

[i]Hi mommyboo, I prefer doing both, watching my food intake and at the same time exercising though I am lazy doing this alone! [/i]

I don't think diets work, because within hours of starting a diet, the body metabolism tends to slow down believing there is a famine. It then tends to stay that way "just in case". I always aim to have a way of eating, not watching the scales or counting the calories but just eating what I know to be healthy. I never snack in between meals or eat junk food. It is just a committed way of eating for me. At first it was a bit of an effort, but nowadays I don't even think about it. I am a therapist and often get people who have been on every diet under the sun. What I do with them is ask them to write down what they eat over the period of a week. Then when they return, we review it, and I invite them to cut out all unnecessary eating, but committing to a new way of eating. On the review, they can often see exactly how they need to be eating and it is at times, quite remarkable how they could not see it before. . Derek[i][/i]

I like to exercise everyday just to keep my body up in shape and so I can be tough and fit. I like to keep a healthy diet, but there is nothing wrong with sneaking in some treats now and then!