Hamming distance and hamming weight

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I am stuck on a proof:

Let $x$ and $y$ be any two vectors in $F_q.$ Show that $wt(x+y)>= |wt(y) - wt(x)|$, where wt(.) denotes the hamming weight.

Now I know that $wt(x+y)$ is the cardinality of all non-zero indices of x+y,

I need help in showing mathematically how $wt(x+y) >= |wt(y) - wt(x)|$

If anyone could suggest that would be great! thank you