W: Do I ever need to lose weight? I could not believe the scales when I got on this morning. I weight ten kilos more than I did last year. I am not sure it is because I eat fast food in the university cafeteria all the time or if it is because that I no longer belong to the swim club. All my clothes are too tight.

M: I have gained a lot of weight myself since starting university. But I think we are too young to diet. Exercise is the key. I am going to the gym three times a week. I started two weeks ago and I have already lost a kilo.

W: I think you have to eat the right food and exercise. The diet really controls what you eat. But my parents lost tons of weight on it. I am thinking about going on it.

M: No, I disagree. You can eat whatever you want if you burn it off. Exercise burns calories, if you exercise more, you lost weight. It is that simple.

W: Yes, you lost weight, but eating junk food and fast food like I have been doing, it is also not good for the heart. Diet impacts the body in lots of ways. Sugar is also very bad. I have noticed that it impacts my moods. The trouble is, it seems to take a lot of willpower to diet. I just love chocolate, I could eat chocolate bars all day long, but the energy they give me seems to be short lived. I wish I get diet. I started watching what I ate after I gain the first five kilos. But instead of losing that five kilos, I gained another five. My self discipline is awful. I got my mother to stop sending me care packages of cookies from home. But my friends of the university residents I live in still get them and they share, so I’m still eating with many sweets.

M: Just exercise more. Almost all the people at the gym are slim and look fit.

W: Yes, but just because they are slim, that doesn’t mean they are fit. It is important what you put into you body. I read you should have at least ten servings of food and vegetables a day to stay healthy. Also, it is important to eat a lot of fish. We need to start thinking about when we get older. My grandmother has all still process, a really harm fat and her doctor said it was because she didn’t enough calsil when she was young.

Man: You worry too much. We are young. Maybe I will start to worry more after I am in my thirties. Right now I am going to eat what I enjoy and exercise. Exercise is the most important thing for the heart.

W: Maybe. But the right food is also important for the heart and many other healthy issues.

M: I like sports drinks for energy. Also I get energy bars that taste like chocolate and I take a multi wide of middling supplement everyday. Having enough air in your body is especially important for women like you. Supplements are not expensive and they give you what you need. It is a lot quicker and easier to take a supplement and stand over the stove cooking a full meal.

W: I am not so sure about supplement being useful. Often they just pass through your body. It is much better to get your nutrition from eating the right foods. I understand if you are an athlete, you need a little more fat, but just going to workout in the gym three times a week doesn’t make you an athlete, Paul. I don’t think you really look that much overweight, but I think you should read up on healthy eating.

M: Yeah, yeah, you sound like my mother.

W: As I said, diets are very hard to stick to, but sometimes you just have to buy the bullet and set up a proper diet. I have an appointment next week with the college dietitian. He would drop me a daily diet and tell me what to have for breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week. I don’t think I will have trouble following for breakfast and lunch. But mid afternoon I just can’t stop snacking. Also, I like to eat before I go to bed which I know is un-good for you. Nonetheless, I am determined to lose these extra ten kilos in six months.