If you're interested in losing weight, forget the exercise.
  But if you're interested in losing weight and keeping it off then be prepared to bite the bullet, put on your running shoes and get moving.
Many people turn to diets as the cure all for their ever expanding waistline.
  Truth be told, diets can and do lead to a more svelte physique, but only to a point, and only for a limited time.
  Eventually the laws of diminishing returns and body mechanics set in, and before you know it that hip new fad diet isn't so hip anymore.
  Neither are those pounds returning to your formerly jealousy-inducing abs.
People love to hate the diet, but the diet is what it is, a short term fix to a long term problem.
  Sure, you can plug a leak with some bubble gum, but eventually, something has got to give, and usually sooner rather than later.
  The only way to keep that new, slimmer you is with a little thing called maintenance.
  Diets can and do result in significant weight loss if done properly, but exercise is whats going to keep those losses, well, lost.
So which should you do first, the diet or the exercise? The answer, both.
  If you are truly serious about changing your lifestyle, and make no mistake, weight-loss is a lifestyle change, then you can not commit part way.
  Either you're all in, or your waistline is all out, and out, and out.
  So the moment you take up that new fad diet, commit to maintaining your results with exercise and you'll be able to enjoy that sexy new you in the mirror for years to come.