Quote: (10-15-2014 02:06 PM)TravellingSoldier Wrote:
Diet is the only thing you need to lose weight... Until you plateau.
I was 210 at a "BMI" of about 40% about a year and a half ago. Now I'm 195 and probably at a "BMI" of 18%. In the first 3 months of starting the ketogenic diet I lost the bulk of my weight (from 210 down to 160) without hitting the gym. Following that initial weight loss I then began to hit the gym and since then I've went back up 30 or 35 pounds while losing a little more fat.
Hitting the gym is absolutely not necessary to lose the initial bulk of your fat. BUT weight loss is relative to how you're eating, past a certain point you are going to be losing muscle.
In addition, it becomes easier to exercise once you are in better physical shape. The quality of food you eat comes first when it comes to altering your body, you can strength train all day long but if you eat cheetos and pizza all day you will be weaker. Of course its a balance of the 2.
I think you mean Body Fat Percentage, not BMI.