Losing weight without excercise?

loveyourself11
loveyourself11 Posts: 12 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hi Everyone,

Just curious to know if anyone of you lost weight without excercising?? I am asking because on most days i cant make time for working out as i m juggling between work home n my year old baby. Also wanted to know if anyone benefitted from 10-15 mins of HIIT as that is something i am trying to accomodate at work!

Thanks!
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  • alehundrah
    alehundrah Posts: 156 Member
    I'm also interested in finding out if people are losing weight without exercising.
  • samanthawardle31
    samanthawardle31 Posts: 58 Member
    Hello, I think you can, but speaking from experience, I have only managed a decent weight loss and a better shape with exercise. Exercise is making more of a difference to my life than dieting and that is coming from a couch potato.
  • samanthawardle31
    samanthawardle31 Posts: 58 Member
    Jillian Micheals 20 minute workouts are good if youre short of time! And brisk walking with the pram.
  • tsh0ck
    tsh0ck Posts: 1,970 Member
    You can, of course. But working out makes it easier. It also makes you healthier. It really is something you should just make time for. Have time to watch TV in the evening? You have time for 30 minutes of cardio and/or moving heavy things.

    When it gets right down to it, we make time for what's important to us.
  • loveyourself11
    loveyourself11 Posts: 12 Member
    I skip the rope for 15 mins on most days...Its mostly moderate speed. The calorie burn is between 170-185 but i am not sure if its enough in terms of excercise :((
  • misssmarita
    misssmarita Posts: 130
    It is possible, but you'd have to go extremely low calories if you didn't exercise whatsoever. And that might backfire on you by shutting down your metabolism. Exercise is the way to go. Is there absolutely no way you could fit exercise into your life?


    - Going for a walk/jog with your baby in the stroller
    - Exercise DVDs: can be ordered online and done at home. Jillian Michaels' 30 Day Shred is supposed to be awesome if you're pressed for time
    - Walking either the entire way or part of the way to work


    The best gift you can give your child is a healthy mommy =)
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    Many people lose weight without exercise, including in hospital beds. By the sound of it you're active anyway, so do a bit of HIIT and don't worry about it.

    The amount of exercise most people do is equivalent to a fairly modest amount of food.
  • Railr0aderTony
    Railr0aderTony Posts: 6,803 Member
    It is possible, but you'd have to go extremely low calories if you didn't exercise whatsoever. And that might backfire on you by shutting down your metabolism. Exercise is the way to go. Is there absolutely no way you could fit exercise into your life?


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    This is so wrong i will not even address it.
    Bottom line is this. Weight loss happens in the kitchen, exercise is for fitness. You do not need to exercise but i would bet once you start losing weight you will want to.

    Eat what MFP tells you and you will lose weight even if all you do is take care of your house and kids.
  • moondawg14
    moondawg14 Posts: 249 Member
    It is possible, but you'd have to go extremely low calories if you didn't exercise whatsoever. And that might backfire on you by shutting down your metabolism. Exercise is the way to go. Is there absolutely no way you could fit exercise into your life?


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    This is so wrong i will not even address it.
    Bottom line is this. Weight loss happens in the kitchen, exercise is for fitness. You do not need to exercise but i would bet once you start losing weight you will want to.

    Eat what MFP tells you and you will lose weight even if all you do is take care of your house and kids.

    Ta-da! I always tell people to get control of their fork before they even THINK about adding exercise. Even if it's just for 3 weeks.... Change one thing at a time! It's WAY too easy to blow right through your exercise calories with that "extra" chocolate-chip cookie or whatever. You need to be in control of one "new thing" before you try to manage two "new things"

    ETA: When I lost my first 40 pounds, I did it without exercise. I was having some discomfort during exercise and I decided that since my change in diet was producing results, I would stick with it. Once I got down to a more reasonable weight, I started to exercise, and this time without the discomfort. Once I started exercising, I was losing weight more slowly because I was concentrating on exercise and stopped focusing as much on food.

    CONTROL YOUR FORK FIRST!
  • Joehenny
    Joehenny Posts: 1,222 Member
    Why would you not want to exercise!?!?!?!?!?!??!
  • jessicae1aine
    jessicae1aine Posts: 885
    Short answer? Yes.

    Longer answer:

    I normally greatly enjoy exercising, but I effed up my foot and haven't been able to do much of anything, and I'm still losing. It's basic math, honestly: Calories in vs. calories out, regardless of what other kinds of crazy things people throw at you. I keep my calories around my TDEE (calculated by using my BF% to find my BMR) -20%, and as long as I'm behaving myself calorie-wise, I'm fine.
  • jessicae1aine
    jessicae1aine Posts: 885
    It is possible, but you'd have to go extremely low calories if you didn't exercise whatsoever. And that might backfire on you by shutting down your metabolism. Exercise is the way to go. Is there absolutely no way you could fit exercise into your life?

    Um, no. This is pretty much super wrong. I'm not eating "extremely low calories" - I eat between 1600 and 1700, could eat up to 1850 and still lose easily, without exercise.
  • AmberleyAngel
    AmberleyAngel Posts: 160 Member
    Absolutely you can lose weight without exercising as long as you eat less than you expend.

    I started my journey to weight loss barely able to walk from my bedroom to the lounge with a walking frame because of an infection I had at the time. I lost weight, heaps of it, through eating less.
  • symonspatrick
    symonspatrick Posts: 213 Member
    Yes. Weight loss is about cutting calories to less than your body uses. Exercise is for physical fitness.
  • MyJourney1960
    MyJourney1960 Posts: 1,133 Member
    of course you CAN. losing weight is (for most of us) a numbers game: you need to take in less calories than you expend. so if you exercise AND watch what you eat, you will lose weight. if you just diet without exercise, you will lose weight. If you just exercise - you probably won't lose that much (I'm saying this from experience, of course each person is different).

    Having said that - exercise is a good thing. it helps with weight loss, it helps make your heart healthier, makes you feel good and so on. find something that works for you - be it a gym, or dance class, or at home with videos, or power wlaking around the block... heck my sister lost weight by dieting and power walking around her HOUSE when she couldn't get to a gym / treadmill broke.
  • juliegrey1
    juliegrey1 Posts: 202 Member
    From personal experience exercise will NOT loose weight for you,it will tone you improve your cardio vascular fitness majke you feel good but it will not make you loose weight,your weight depends on your calorie intake you eat too much you gain weight! It has to be a balancing act and you dont have to spend hours in the gym,a half hour good walk every day is fine,put your baby in the buggy and stride out with him/her it will do both of you good!!!
  • VeganCoco
    VeganCoco Posts: 104 Member
    I went from 12.9 to 10 stone without exercising (granted my methods were not exceptionally healthy - a lot of low calorie junk food) but I will tell you that at 10 stone I was flabbier and wobblier than I am now at 12.7 (put all the weight back on at uni - typical!) with 3x per week exercise.

    I think that 10 mins HIIT per day is a great start as I do crossfit and a lot of the WODs are 8-12 minutes surrounded by another 40 mins of technique/warm up etc and I think if I was only doing the WOD it would still be beneficial.

    Just make sure you warm up and stretch it out after!
  • _Zardoz_
    _Zardoz_ Posts: 3,987 Member
    My wife is too ill and disabled to exercise. She is losing weight by diet alone. Her calories do not have to be stupidly low. It takes a lot longer though. She though would kill to be well enough to exercise if you have the choice diet in conjunction with exercise is the way to go. Everyone can make time for exercise. Just get up 30 minutes earlier. Don't expect time to appear from nowhere you have to make it.
  • Lumen1505
    Lumen1505 Posts: 77 Member
    I lost around 60lbs a few years ago without exercise and was 'skinny fat' meaning I had rubbish muscle tone & wobbly bits ago go! I also didn't keep the weight off as it was mostly a starvation diet (1200 cals).

    this time around I am exercising and have noticed a massive difference in that I can eat a decent amount and still loose weight. I also have kids (3 under 6) so I understand it is tough fitting everything in but this time around I have wedged some time in for myself to get healthy & set a good example.

    I'm also going back to work soon after a years maternity leave so plan to do some some HIIT stuff in the evenings if it comes to it.

    feel free to add me if you would like some additional support :-) x
  • Dragonflag07
    Dragonflag07 Posts: 64 Member
    Sure you can. It's 80% food choices and 20% exercise in my opinion. Far better to exercise if you can for the health and feel good benefits. In the past, when I was carrying an injury, I have really dialled in on my diet and lost weight at the same rate.
  • casy84
    casy84 Posts: 290 Member
    I've lost my weight without exercise and I regret it. Instead of being proud of my body and posting a success story I am now exercising/toning/complaining I'm skinny fat.
  • Lysander666
    Lysander666 Posts: 275 Member
    It's possible but it will be even harder.

    At the gym you can exercise off 600-1000 cals if you put in decent effort which is a nice amount of food to eat back of a day. Otherwise that's a nice big meal you will go without.

    When I was losing weight a few years ago I lost 4 stone over 6 months. A lot of that success was due to exercising off 1000 cals a day three times a week. If a hadn't been exercising it would have taken a lot longer and it would have been very hard to stay motivated indeed. What keeps you motivated is SEEING RESULTS. If the increments between those visual results is too long you're likely to give up. Also you're unlikely to stay toned if you don't exercise, and though you will still lose weight, you might have excess flab.

    TLDR; yes you can lose weight without exercising but it will be a lot tougher and you're less likely to end up as toned as you want.
  • Sul3i
    Sul3i Posts: 553 Member

    Bottom line is this. Weight loss happens in the kitchen, exercise is for fitness. You do not need to exercise but i would bet once you start losing weight you will want to.

    Eat what MFP tells you and you will lose weight even if all you do is take care of your house and kids.

    Ditto!!
  • babybl00310
    babybl00310 Posts: 75 Member
    Losing pounds is around 80-90% diet. Exercise will make you feel good and helps shape your body and will improve your fitness but it's not a necessary requirement. I find when I exercise I am a smaller size at a higher weight than if i rely on diet alone but even a little exercise every day will give you a little boost so the HIIT sounds like a good start to me.
  • missybct
    missybct Posts: 321 Member
    Yes, you can lose weight without exercise. MFP includes the deficit based on your base level calories, meaning that if you ate the number of calories given, you should in theory lose weight. Weight loss DOES start by the foods you put in your mouth.

    HOWEVER - in my experience, losing weight without exercise does two things.

    First of all, exercising gives you the flexibility to be a bit more open with your calories - you burn 300 calories and depending on how it works for you (it's not the same for all) you can, if you want to, eat all/some/none of those calories back. It's having a little safety net, for me anyhow. I usually eat back some of my exercise calories but not all, simply because I don't feel the need to - but I know they are there if I want to dip into them (especially good if you have an event coming up). Not exercising means you don't have that safety net and whilst you should lose weight, it also means you are tied to a rigid number which can become discouraging.

    Secondly, weight loss is brilliant. If you've got a lot to lose, there is that age old question about excess skin and flabby bits. Exercise, and specific ones can cater to ensuring you have less flab and less excess skin - it's not a definite, but it certainly helps. The thing is, if you've got a young child, chances are you are running around and burning a crap load of calories looking after them. But even if you take 20 minutes out of your day to do some core exercises (it DOESN'T have to be cardio, weights, stretches, whatever works for you) it's 20 minutes more than normal. Routine building is hard but it is so worth it when you establish it. It also helps with fitness levels, should you wish to participate in activities as you lose weight/get to goal weight. And, it's a brilliant feeling - but it's important you find what works for you, don't do something you despise because you'll end up resenting it.

    TL;DR - Yes, you can lose weight without exercise - but exercise is encouraged.
  • alisonlynn1976
    alisonlynn1976 Posts: 929 Member
    I have in the past, but I've found that it's way easier to include exercise because then I can eat more.
  • Hughesers
    Hughesers Posts: 22 Member
    What you are eating is the main thing that helps loose weight. The exercise will help and best of all exercise is very invigorating and makes you feel great and every little helps even a brisk 1/2 hour walk every day with your baby. I am 44 this year and through exercise I am in the best shape I have ever been and feel pretty good. Good luck x
  • demarii06
    demarii06 Posts: 340 Member
    I've lost 60lbs and only the last 20 was I exercising. I was just too busy with two full time jobs.
  • ShubhaBansal
    ShubhaBansal Posts: 81 Member
    Hi...I lost upto 6 kg by controlling on diet...but from last 3 months not losing weight...i am also starting exercise now...Go slow as to manage Kid, Job and home together is not easy...may small n simple changes and make it part of your lifestyle...

    It will make things easier :)
  • sammirust
    sammirust Posts: 83
    i eat 1500 calories a day, and ive lost over 20lbs doing that. no work outs. i dont sit on a treadmill for hours a day, nor do i lift. i do bowl for about 3 hours a week, but thats about it- and thats not really a work out< <
    personally i dont think you need to exorcizer. it will take longer, and you will be a bit fluffy still, but you will lose the weight. working out helps your heart and tones you, and is generally just fun. you really should try to squeeze in at least 30 minutes of light cardio a day, even if its just walking down the street, or swimming. :) good luck.

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