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Around my small little office the main topic of conversation seems to be diet and
nutrition. My two co-workers saw me start running at 220lbs and watched me progress to the point where I could run ultramarathons. Consequently (sort of) they also saw me drop a ton of weight quite quickly. They attributed this to the running and exercising and I assured them that if I have learned anything; its that weight drops because of a clean diet not because of my daily workout. The ratio of importance between diet vs exercise in terms of weight loss is 70%:30% in my opinion. I know this because when I started my weight loss and running lifestyle I ate a combination off fast food and pre-packaged garbage otherwise known as the Standard American Diet (SAD). I cut back on the fast food and cleaned up my eating a little bit and saw very minimal drops in my weight even though I was burning about a 1000 k/cal per day working out. When my frustration with this boiled over I got super serious about my diet and dropped as many unnatural sources of energy as possible. I cut out almost all pre-packaged food. Fast food was absolutely out of the question. Immediately I saw massive drops in my weight. That to me proved the often heard saying "Abs are created in the kitchen!" is an absolute fact.
