Nutrition - more important than exercise ?

For the past 4 months, I have been to the gym, have a personal trainer train me 3 times a week, yet i am still way off target & even increasing in body fat. At times, i was even a 'gym rat' scurring around doing lots of exercises & machines including rowing, cross trainer, free weights, group classes, kickboxing. It all went well for a time, then ...

Things got crazy. I got involved in a personal project for a fren (his wedding preparations) which required lots of work & emotional and physical stress. My eating patterns just went off in all directions and was back to emotional eating & bingeing. Started skipping workout cos there was alot of legwork & running around for appointments and buying & carrying trips (all this without a car). You could say i was still physically active but the eating part, in my analysis, was the most disruptive part of the equation!

Talk about POOR NUTRITION! Stuffing myself in between meals & appointments, opting for sugar, fat & additive-laden zero calories food over fresh fruits becos i needed the KICK that these processed foods gave.

And the most frustrating was to try and decide WHAT IS ACTUALLY a healthier food to order ?.. the lesser of 2 evils - eg. fried chicken or chicken masala with that shiny layer of oil? Fish cooked in sweet-sour tomato sauce or dark soya (caramalised sugar) sauce? Stir-fried green veggie drenched in oil or blanched veggie with ginger-garlic infused oil and deep fried onion bits. That's the Malaysian-style food choices if you eat out. Even the soup has a layer of oil as it's stock is made from chicken/meat carcass with skin attached and rock sugar. And i suspect there's MSG added to give more flavor to the soup.

This morning i received an email from a Mike Geary (online fitness guru which i linked to and have been receiving emails everyday!) highlighting some of the wrong NUTRITION ADVICE given out during the Biggest Loser show. May help to correct some wrong views on WHAT'S HEALTHY TO EAT & WHAT'S NOT.
http://truthaboutabs.blogspot.com/2011/02/bad-nutrition-advice-from-biggest-loser.html

But as usual, that all 'advice' or 'opinions' read in any of my blogs or other websites with a pinch of salt and further research/reading is required to satisfy yourself that it is credible. Often we dont take the trouble & time to check and believe things lock, stock & barrel. And there's no clear line between truth & exaggeration. Some are more skewed to one -side (especially when they want to sell u something or one feels strongly about it) and greater emphasis is given, intentionally or sub-consciously. We r all guilty of this, sometime or rather.