When lose weight, is it better to just eat normal and exercise? Or is it better to go on a low calorie diet and exercise?

I've recently heard that diet isn't neccessarily guarenteed to give you weight loss, but exercise will.

If you choose the right foods without excessive fat content you can eat most anything you want. Portion size is the key along with an exercise program.
I'm a natural competitive bodybuilder and I can tell you 70% of how we end up looking for a show is diet related, 20% of what's done at the gym (although the hardest part physically) and maybe 5% of supplements that work for you. Loosing weight is all about how much goes in Vs. how much goes out. 3500 calories is a pound….proper eating and exercise will work.

Ok well in the last two days I've eaten less than 200 calories total & my scale [which is accurate .. I think ??] says I went from 110 lbs. to like 106-107!!! I am going on this same diet [under 200 cals. everyday] for 1 week in order to reach my goal weight of 97 lbs. Is this possible ?? I also go running everyday. Everyone says you lose weight very quickly right in the beginning of a diet .. so will this rapid-weight loss thing last long enough to get me to 97 lbs. ??

I'm 5'4"-5'5" & 14 years old .. in case you were wondering ..

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Uh… 1st of all, stop what you're doing. You're going to kill yourself, PLUS you're shutting your metabolism down. PLUS you're 14, and you're going to royally screw up your growth.

2nd of all, when you come off of this suicide diet of yours, you're going to rebound and be heavier than you were to start with.

And to answer your question, after about 1 week, your water weight will be gone and weight loss will stall (add to that the fact that you're metabolism is going to crash and you've got a big ball of dissappointment on the way)

You don't need to diet, BUT if you're going to lose no more than 1-2 lbs a week or you're losing muscle and you're going to gain all the weight back and then some