I have this friend..i love her dearly. She believes with all her heart that if she exercises enough, does T-25 enough and does her elliptical enough..that she will get to her goal weight. In other words...screw diets.

She also believes that if you diet and lose weight, you will look like crap if you dont exercise at all while dieting.

I love her dearly and clearly my high fat/low carb diet/IF/exercise in the pool 3x/week is too much for her to overcome.

I believe personally that diet is great.. in fact..you can diet and lose weight. Tadaa! I also believe that exercise helps keep your muscles toned and strong which helps support your skeletel system and strengthen your heart. I believe IF is benefical as well.

But she does not.

Now, unfortunately i dont know how to convince her that you cant out-exercise poor eating habits.

So now im curious...where do you stand? If you had to teach an obese person how to lose weight effectively...would you say-

Diet alone?
Diet plus exercise?
Exercise only?
IF only?
IF plus exercise?
IF plus diet plus exercise?