How to Lose Weight: Eating Less Better Than Working Out More? Why Doctors Matter

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Finding the best way to lose weight with all the diet and exercise trends circulating right now and being promoted may be very difficult. However, dieting and exercise should not be as complicated.

With celebrities like Khloe Kardashian and her sister Kim West promoting weight loss tricks, like wearing a waist trainer, people seem to have forgotten the basic rule of losing weight.

According to the New York Times, eating less is essentially the most important rule when someone wants to lose weight, contrary to what other people may think.

Most people think that exercising more will lead to weight loss, but studies have proven otherwise.

A 2011 meta-analysis observed the relationship between physical activity and fat mass in children. The researchers of the study discovered that physical activity, or the lack thereof, was not a major determining factor to fat mass in children.

Meanwhile, several interventional studies could not fully correlate weight gain with a person who lives a sedentary lifestyle. In addition, the same interventional studies were unable to prove that a person with an active lifestyle was less likely to gain excess weight.

According to a 1999 review, exercise does play a role in weight loss, albeit a small one, reports Live Mint. Moreover, two studies conducted just last year proved that exercise made no difference to weight loss in the long run.

The NY Times argues that if people spent more time concentrating on food in-take rather than on exercising, they would see better weight loss results.

Portion control is not a major secret when it comes to weight loss. Celebrities, like Miranda Lambert, have credited their weight loss to eating less. Ask Men states that portion control is the key to losing weight and keeping it off.

Fit Day explains that the input and output levels of the body should be balanced, meaning the amount of food a person consumes should be directly proportional with the amount of calories a person burns off during their normal daily activities.

According to the NY Times, exercise can only make a person hungrier. Keeping Fit Day's explanation in mind, the body of a person, who has lost his/her excess weight but continues exercising, will start to crave food, since the person is burning more fat than he/she is consuming.

Web MD lays out some simple ways to measure the correct serving size for foods, which can be found here.