Which is more effective, a low calorie diet or a low fat diet?
It is never a good idea to completely cut off any one single source of calories/nutrition – any dietary table will tell you that humans need EACH food group there is, and that includes fat. Based on that knowledge, it would not be advisable to cut off fat, but to try to approximate the guidelines set by the dietary board, and to adjust accordingly. Lessening your caloric intake, coupled with an increase of your activities (physical) will help quicken that pace of “losing”. You might want to consider circuit training – alternating exercises of cardiovascular and strength natures, about 1-3 minutes each only per exercise. (Example: 2 minutes of bench presses – with light weights of course, if you’ll be doing it for 2 minutes, that’s the only way to sustain it; then followed by 2 minutes on the treadmill, then 2 minutes of squats or lunges, then two minutes on the stairmaster, etc.) Many gym clients swear by this method of losing weight, a combination of cardiovascular and weight training
