When we say "diet", we do not mean diet as in cut a ton of calories so you can barely function, exercise till you faint, lose a bunch of weight, mess up your metabolism and then gain it all back!!
We mean change your eating habits to healthy clean foods that make you have energy, burn fat, give you the endorphins and confidence to work out hard, lose the weight, increase your metabolism so you can enjoy a few extra calories, so you can exercise to make you strong, healthy, body and mind confident and keep off your weight for good lifestyle change!!!
It is definitely a way of life.
It doesn't have to start drastic. Start by being more conscious of your sugar intake, or your flour intake. Or start by having a treat after one meal twice a week instead of every night after dinner. Start with one glass of wine with dinner instead of one while making dinner, one during dinner and one after dinner. By cutting out only 300 calories a day from your diet you can lose up to 3/4 lb a week without barely trying. 300 calories is 1 glass of wine, or 1 1/2 slices of bread. Plus exercise for one hour a day and burn another 300 calories and you can lose 1 pound a week by barely changing your lifestyle.
3500 calories is a pound of fat. So if you can burn 3500 calories a week, that is burn plus take out calories from your weekly intake, you can lose 1 pound a week.
It may not be as simple as that to everyone, but it can save your life. You may not even need to lose "weight", but you may need to change your body composition. Meaning your body fat percentage may need to go down. Or you may be happy with your body, but eating healthier will not only give you physical changes, but give you mental and energy changes.
Everyone should treat their bodies like its the only one they have!
Make the lifestyle change.