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Excercising or eating healthy?

Asked by ToxicLove (179points) January 10th, 2012

Alright, so I’m trying out for this ARTS talent showcase thing, and I think it’s best to get in shape. Looking at my face now, I see a bit of roundness. What kind of things could I do, excercise, or certain foods, that would help shape my face and make it skinnier?

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JLeslie's avatar

Food is probably the most important to lose wait, but exercise is the most important to be strong and tone. You should do both. Cutting out dairy can be a big help in my opinion with your face and weight. How tall are you and how much do you weigh? How much would you want to lose? It is impossible really to lose weight in one specific spot.

ToxicLove's avatar

I’m a bit of a youngster,but it’s still important for me to loose weight.Height is about 5’1.And weight as of now is 104.

JLeslie's avatar

Ugh, I just noticed I wrote wait instead of weight. LOL. And you wrote loose instead of lose by the way.

You certainly are a healthy weight. I don’t think you should cut calories, maybe just eat healthier, more veggies, no crap like sweets and I still say limit dairy like cheese, and exercise an hour at least four times a week. Your body will change in two weeks I bet.

King_Pariah's avatar

Both, however for me right now, eating healthy is more important due to how immobile I’ve become thanks to my stupid rib. Anyway, if you don’t have the option to exercise much or at all, then eat healthy.

Judi's avatar

Diet is 90% of weight loss. Exercise is 90% of weight maintenance. (well, you still have to control your diet to maintain, but you can relax a tiny bit if you get plenty of exercise.)

smilingheart1's avatar

Agree with @Blackberry…. finally!

Charles's avatar

Diet is 90% of weight loss.

I think this is true too. Think about how much work it is to burn 300 calories – about how many calories there are in one less brownie or big cookie.

If maintaining goal weight was a matter of money, then there wouldn’t be any overweight rich people (Shatner, Orson Wells, Bill Gates, Ryan O’Neal, Elvis, etc).

Exercise has very little to do with weight control. For every five calories you burn exercising, you become six calories hungrier.

Fat people aren’t fat because they don’t exercise, thin people aren’t thin because they do.

People aren’t thin because they run. They run because they are thin.

There are three types of people: thin people, overweight people, and temporarily thin people. If you are overweight, then you are overweight. If you are thin, then 1) you are thin or 2) you were overweight, you lost weight but you are almost certain to put it back on.

Overweight people are in one sense destined to be miserable the rest of their lives: They’ll either be overweight and miserable or hungry and miserable.

It’s easier to lose 40 pounds in six months than it is to keep five pounds off for six months.

The easiest way to lose weight and keep it off for good is to change your genes.

The only diet that has ever worked is the HNM diet: Hungry ‘N Miserable

Judi's avatar

@Charles , that’s not completely fair. If I work at it, I can maintain my 80 lb weght loss by making high volume low calorie food choices (mostly vegetables and fruits) and not be hungry. I got lazy for a bit and put 20 back on, but once I concentrated on my choices I lost it again. It IS possible for a fat person to get thin and stay thin. 9 years later I’m proof. (But the OP only weighs 104 lbs now.)

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