Kat & Tshepi

Hi There,

Welcome back to K&T blog, how are you keeping?

January is almost over, the newness of 2025 is fading away and things are going back to what we know as normal. We hope you are doing good and that health and fitness is still high on your agenda as this is the time when motivation is not enough to keep you going but purpose and vision will. On our side, we started to ramp up on our commitment and efforts, our diet has improved from the carnage of the festive season and the scale is starting to show the results of this. We are happy with the improvement 🙂 .

In health and fitness circles, it is common to hear that losing weight and getting fit is accomplished through 80% nutrition and 20% exercise, which means that when you are trying to lose weight your main focus should be on diet and less so on exercising. Exercise is good, has many benefits and should be a staple, but losing weight has a lot to do with what you are eating, how you are eating it and when are you eating it. This is contrary to common belief because when we start to think about losing weight, we turn to focus more on exercising, we over-do-it and kill ourselves in the gym, we immerse ourselves in various physical activities with no weight loss to show for it.

It is also common to hear the phrares “Abs are made in the kitchen” , “You cannot outrun a bad diet”, “You are what you eat, not what you sweat”, “Diet is king, exercise is queen”, “The foundation of health is a good diet” and “A healthy lifestyle starts with what you put on your plate”. All these phrases alludes to the significance of a healthy diet and the success it yields towards weight loss goals. You can certainly lose weight without exercise, focus on diet and progressively add exercise at your pace and capacity.

“Exercise is 1 step forward, but a poor diet is 2 steps back! You can’t compete with what you eat“

Diet can be tricky and most of the time is plainly confusing. We are living in a diet crazed world, we are faced with so many choices and our pre-occupation and belief in products and programs is not helping. If you are struggling with what to eat or choosing a diet suitable for you, just know that all diets out there agree that eliminating processed foods is the first step to eating healthy. The easiest way to eat healthy and to lose weight is to eat real natural food, these are foods that our bodies were meant to eat.

“The best diet is the one you don’t know you’re on.” – Brian Wansink

Eating mostly natural foods and exercising according to your ability is not a bad deal for losing weight. Until next week, Stay Blessed.

Kat & Tshepi