Which is the winner in the battle against weight gain? Is it better to diet and eat right or workout all the time?

Kerri Zane is a Health and Fitness Lifestyle Expert for 40+ women.  She is an Emmy winning TV producer and writer. She is a UCLA graduate and extension instructor, a member of NATAS, the DGA and a CPT.My friend and business colleague Jackie Keller, Founding Director of Nutrifit, www.nutrifitonline.com says weight loss is 70% diet and 30% fitness.  I know for a fact that she is right. I am a fitness freak, seven days a week for an hour a day. But I can still pack on the pounds. Last year I decided enough is enough. I went to Jackie and asked for a plan. Within 8 weeks on the Nutrifit plan I lost 20 pounds!

Diet is indeed the fastest route to a svelte shape. It is so much easier to cut out the extra calories than to spend the extra time in the gym burning those 500 calories, says Timothy Church, M.D., Ph.D., director of Preventative medicine research at the Pennington Biomedical Research center at Louisiana State University Nice. But that sounded too easy didn’t it?!

Don’t give up your gym time just yet. Working out not only helps you burn more calories it also helps you consume fewer of them. A study published in the American Journal of Physiology found that 60 minutes of high-intensity cardio would trim your appetite for up to two hours afterward. “Aerobic exercise lowers gherlin levels and increases the amount of an appetite-suppressing hormone in your body,” says David Stensel, Ph.D. Maximize your workout with intervals. Four minutes of moderate exercise followed by one minute of all out intensity for 30 minutes works wonders.

The beauty of the Nutrifit program is Keller and her team will devise a personal meal program based on the kinds of foods you prefer and your exercise regimen. Nutrifit provides fresh food delivered daily to your door. It’s an amazing program. I loved receiving my green food bags on at doorstep each morning. It was like opening a daily Christmas package. The food was portion controlled and divided up into six small meals throughout the day and outlined on a daily meal program sheet. Eating regulated portions in two to three hour intervals will keep your metabolism stoked all day long making your utilize calories at optimal levels.

If you need an extra something to keep your diet on track, smelling food has been proven to fool your brain into thinking you’ve eaten. A recent study found that people who took a whiff of peppermint every two hours ate 2,700 calories per week than they normally did. That is a one-pound loss. Banana, green apple and vanilla also had the same affect. The more often you sniff these scents the more weight you’ll lose, says Alan Hirsch, M.D., neurological director of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago.

If you tend to eat when you are stressed out hold your left nostril closed and sniff through the right one to activate the side of your brain where emotions are processed. It could help reduce your anxiety and your appetite.

At the end of the day the best way to lose weight is a healthy combination of exercise, eating right and a bouquet of peppermint leaves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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About the Author:
Kerri Zane is a Fitness Lifestyle Expert for 45+ women.  She is an Emmy winning TV producer and writer. She is a UCLA graduate and extension instructor, a member of NATAS, the DGA and a CPT.
 
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