What importance is diet if....

[elusivedream78]

Hello to everyone!

I've just started to get back on the 'exercise-bandwagon', and had a question for the more-experienced members of the group, or anyone who'd offer to give me some feedback.

I'm 24 years old, 6'1 and about 163lbs, with an average to thin build/bone structure.

Overall, my body looks "good" (that being legs, arms, etc), except for my midsection/stomach. More specifically, when I was 17, I worked at McDonald's for 6 months, ballooned to a size 38 waist and 215lbs(I was at 32 before, 30 if I really tried) and since then parts of me haven't looked right, despite losing the weight through dieting.

My abs aren't visible and I have a degree (well, a good degree!) of lovehandles. It appears my body has stored all of the fat I accrued during my McDonald's day in one spot.

So my question is this -- now that I'm working out (running about 2 miles a day and doing an average of 1 hour of lifting per day), what is the importance of nutrition? This may be a newbie question, but since I'm at the "correct' weight now, and my intent is to tone the "bad" areas, do I have to worry about eating the correct foods as much, or should I not worry about weight as much as I should measuring my body fat percentage and remaining motivated by watchin it drop?

I'm not eating two large pizzas a day (anymore), but I do eat some junk food/fast food, and would prefer to keep that in my diet if cutting it out is not a needed step to toning the areas I need to.

Sorry for the long winded message and thanks for your advice!

- John C. Young

 

[Fat_Sumo]

Its all in the diet bro. Of course proper combination of resistance training and aerobic activity is important also, but diet IMO is by far and away the most important factor. If all we had too do was just exercise longer everybody would be ripped. You need to educate yourself on nutrition.

Cheers

 

[~SC~]

1) Nutrition
2) Training/Rest/Recovery
3) Supplementation

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[Babyfaced Assassin]

if there were a race between nutrition and training, training wyuldwin, BUT depending on the persons genetics (myself included) training would win just by a nose.
What im trying to say is that for some people to achieve thei body composition goals, their diets have to be strict and hard as their training. some people can get away with more. You have to see if you're making progress you want, if not tweak your diet in the right direction and do some homework

 

[sawastea]

1) Nutrition
2) Training/Rest/Recovery
3) Supplementation

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