Did you know – diet has a bigger impact on your health then exercise?

Yep. It’s true.

Some people (including yours truly, at one time) get lulled into the false belief that exercising negates all the calories of 1 or 2 meals.

Not so. This recent article from Time Magazine discusses this fact in more depth.

Consider this, you need to move approximately 1 mile to burn about 100 calories (give or take depending on your current fitness level).

100 calories isn’t much.That’s not even a whole Luna Bar. It’s a banana. And it’s about 2 apples. But it’s no where close to a whole meal.

It can take 10 to 20 minutes to move a mile depending on whether you’re running or walking. So that’s not a lot of calorie burn for the amount of exercise you appear to be doing.

Apply this to real life:

1. First, figure out how many calories you need in a day. Here is a really cool tool you can use to quickly get that number.

2. Pay attention to what you’re eating in a day. You can get a handy, easy-to-use calorie tracking sheet in my free report located here. Tracking your calories isn’t as time consuming as you might think. It just takes commitment for a few days.

3. Once you know what you need, and you have an idea of what you’re actually taking in, healthy eating becomes simpler – less of a guessing game and more of a factual knowing.

Before you can change your diet for the better, you need to know what’s currently going on. Be aware of it, track it, know it, change it.

**I’m very excited that this post will be part of the Prevention not Prescriptions movement. Check it out and get tips, ideas, and insights on how to stay healthy.