We should consume protein, vitamins, fats, and carbohydrates everyday to maintain good nutrition, especially several servings of fruits, grains and vegetables. Any diet that advocates eating poorly or too little should be avoided. The best program for weight loss is one which combines a sensible reduction in calories and fats and some form of regular exercise. We should talk about losing excess fat and becoming more physically fit. The health risk is not being overweight, but being overfat.
Exercise helps the body to turn fat into muscle building protein.
Actually, because muscle weighs more than fat, a better gauge of your health as you begin to eat better and exercise is the way you feel and the amount of fat on your body, not the dreaded bathroom scale. The exercise you choose should be based on what you would most enjoy doing about three times a week. You can vary the type of exercises you do so that you do not become bored and give up. The exercises you do to lose fat should be aerobic, that is exercise that gets your heartrate up a bit and promotes overall cardiovascular health. Nonaerobic or anaerobic exercises like weightlifting or situps do not burn fat.