Fat loss without excersize?

skylark94

Not counting calories or exercising is how I got fat. I got down to 123 pounds using MFP. I then stopped counting calories. Guess what happened? Over the course of a year I put 25 pounds back on. Sometimes you have to be willing to work for what you want and continue to count calories, even when you get into maintenance.

A calorie deficit alone will cause you to lose weight, but your body will be healthier if you exercise.

sherbear702

My mom lost 40 pounds with out calorie counting. Just smaller portions and smarter choices. She did walk almost every day though, which I'm sure helped. She's managed to keep the weight off going on 20 years now...

Christine_72

I prelog everything I'm going to eat for the day while I'm having my morning cuppa, it takes me like 2 minutes. This way it's easier to tweak things if I'm over or under

MKEgal

xxteeleexx wrote:

I am 5'2 weighing in at 162lbs with an initial goal of 150lbs and ultimate goal of 140lbs.

At 5'2", going by BMI a healthy weight range is 105 - 130.

Using this calculator you can learn how many calories, and how many servings of which food groups, you should be eating. Put in a healthy goal weight (105-130) and plan your meals around the number of servings it says. That would be one possible way to more or less ignore calories. But make sure you're having the right number of servings: measure everything.

I want to loose (sic) the extra pounds purely with diet change - I also am not keen on calorie counting because I personally think I may become obsessed and when it comes to maintaining I might have given myself a problem.

"Most weight loss occurs because of decreased caloric intake.
However, evidence shows the only way to maintain weight loss is to be engaged in regular physical activity."
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/physical_activity/index.html

How are you going to know that you're eating fewer calories if you're not paying attention to how many calories you're eating (currently, or in the future)?

Until paying attention to calories becomes more automatic, you're going to have to measure them. Log everything. Eventually you'll learn what 1T of peanut butter looks like, or 6 oz of chicken. Then maybe you can stop logging, until you gain weight & need to pay attention again.

Iwishyouwell

bw_conway wrote: »

So you don't want to exercise or track your diet - maybe throw a penny in the wishing well at the mall and hope the weight magically disappears?

I've lost massive amounts of weight before without relying on regular exercise or tracking.

No pennies were used in said quest.

Aviva92

Iwishyouwell wrote: »

bw_conway wrote: »

So you don't want to exercise or track your diet - maybe throw a penny in the wishing well at the mall and hope the weight magically disappears?

I've lost massive amounts of weight before without relying on regular exercise or tracking.

No pennies were used in said quest.

did you keep it off? losing it just to regain it later isn't really an accomplishment.

not only is tracking good for calorie counting, but it's also good to see if you're meeting your nutritional needs.

JeffseekingV

Aviva92 wrote: »

Iwishyouwell wrote: »

bw_conway wrote: »

So you don't want to exercise or track your diet - maybe throw a penny in the wishing well at the mall and hope the weight magically disappears?

I've lost massive amounts of weight before without relying on regular exercise or tracking.

No pennies were used in said quest.

did you keep it off? losing it just to regain it later isn't really an accomplishment.

not only is tracking good for calorie counting, but it's also good to see if you're meeting your nutritional needs.

This. You have to really dive under you calorie goals to make sure you lose weight. Tracking is good as said. I track my protein intake

dsproffitt

xxteeleexx wrote: »

I want to loose the extra pounds purely with diet change - I also am not keen on calorie counting

So, if you dont want to exercise and you dont like calorie counting, why are you here?
This site promotes both?
A recent article on the BBC website stated that it isnt the fact that you are overweight that will kill you, it is inactivity.

Weight loss needs a calorie deficit!
Simple as ...

Dont exercise and dont count calories?
Prepare for saggy unattractive skin under your arms, chin and around your middle

Spocky

Seeing new muscles on you can be a great motivation for you to keep on exercising and losing weight. You can gain muscles if you don't starve yourself and eat more protein, less carbs.

TimothyFish

Several years ago, I lost around 70lbs without exercise and without counting calories. I told myself that I could have no more than 500 calories each meal and educated myself on how much food that was. My usual diet was a bowl of cereal for breakfast, a salad for dinner, and something light for supper, like soup.I learned to welcome feeling hungry between meals. I'm pretty sure that there were days when I was well under 1500, but since I wasn't counting calories, I don't know by how much.

lemonsurprise

60lbs down with no exercise. Well, in the beginning when I had loads of motivation I did go to the gym, quickly got bored as I'm naturally a lazy person, and quit!
I walk about 6000-8000 steps a day just through my job and getting from A to B, but for me, calorie counting is vital. It's going to be a bit hit and miss without it but losing large amounts of weight without exercise is definitely possible.

SteampunkSongbird

I have a lot of health issues and I rarely exercise properly as a result. I have a go on my exercise bike in the house when I feel up to it, and sometimes get in a short walk, but more or less all of my weight loss has been with hardly any exercise, and I've been losing 1lb a week pretty constantly from the beginning thanks to logging accurately and mostly staying within my calories (I have a wee indulgence day now and then.)

Iwishyouwell

Aviva92 wrote: »

Iwishyouwell wrote: »

bw_conway wrote: »

So you don't want to exercise or track your diet - maybe throw a penny in the wishing well at the mall and hope the weight magically disappears?

I've lost massive amounts of weight before without relying on regular exercise or tracking.

No pennies were used in said quest.

did you keep it off? losing it just to regain it later isn't really an accomplishment.

The first time, no. I maintained for about five years. And regained, knowingly, and it had nothing to do with not calorie counting.

This time? So far, so good. Over 100 pounds lost, which started 3.5 years ago. I haven't used calorie counting to shift this weight.

Your question however is irrelevant. The overwhelming majority of calorie counters do, and will, regain their weight too. All weight loss methods have extremely high long term failure rates.

not only is tracking good for calorie counting, but it's also good to see if you're meeting your nutritional needs.

I'm well aware of nutrition and my nutritional needs. I am extremely healthy; haven't had so much as a cold in over 10 years. So no I don't need to count calories for my "nutritional needs".

Aviva92

Iwishyouwell wrote: »

Aviva92 wrote: »

Iwishyouwell wrote: »

bw_conway wrote: »

So you don't want to exercise or track your diet - maybe throw a penny in the wishing well at the mall and hope the weight magically disappears?

I've lost massive amounts of weight before without relying on regular exercise or tracking.

No pennies were used in said quest.

did you keep it off? losing it just to regain it later isn't really an accomplishment.

The first time, no. I maintained for about five years. And regained, knowingly, and it had nothing to do with not calorie counting.

This time? So far, so good. Over 100 pounds lost, which started 3.5 years ago. I haven't used calorie counting to shift this weight.

Your question however is irrelevant. The overwhelming majority of calorie counters do, and will, regain their weight too. All weight loss methods have extremely high long term failure rates.

not only is tracking good for calorie counting, but it's also good to see if you're meeting your nutritional needs.

I'm well aware of nutrition and my nutritional needs. I am extremely healthy; haven't had so much as a cold in over 10 years. So no I don't need to count calories for my "nutritional needs".

well, good for you then. i would consider 5 years as a success.

i mostly maintained without calorie counting, so it's not a huge stretch to see someone losing without it. it just wasn't successful for me. i might be able to do it now after learning what i did with counting calories. i prefer that method though for losing.

Iwishyouwell

Aviva92 wrote: »

Iwishyouwell wrote: »

Aviva92 wrote: »

Iwishyouwell wrote: »

bw_conway wrote: »

So you don't want to exercise or track your diet - maybe throw a penny in the wishing well at the mall and hope the weight magically disappears?

I've lost massive amounts of weight before without relying on regular exercise or tracking.

No pennies were used in said quest.

did you keep it off? losing it just to regain it later isn't really an accomplishment.

The first time, no. I maintained for about five years. And regained, knowingly, and it had nothing to do with not calorie counting.

This time? So far, so good. Over 100 pounds lost, which started 3.5 years ago. I haven't used calorie counting to shift this weight.

Your question however is irrelevant. The overwhelming majority of calorie counters do, and will, regain their weight too. All weight loss methods have extremely high long term failure rates.

not only is tracking good for calorie counting, but it's also good to see if you're meeting your nutritional needs.

I'm well aware of nutrition and my nutritional needs. I am extremely healthy; haven't had so much as a cold in over 10 years. So no I don't need to count calories for my "nutritional needs".

well, good for you then. i would consider 5 years as a success.

i mostly maintained without calorie counting, so it's not a huge stretch to see someone losing without it. it just wasn't successful for me. i might be able to do it now after learning what i did with counting calories. i prefer that method though for losing.

I loathe calorie counting. That's why I prefer other methods. However I'm glad I became calorie aware back as a teenager. It helps immensely to have a general working knowledge of the energy value of food.

But I'd recommend it in a heartbeat to a lot of people, hell even most. I wish my wife would come on MFP and truly undertake serious, strict adherence to calorie counting. She's struggled for so long, across several different programs, but she's very resistant to tracking, weighing and logging. I get it, I am too, but I don't think she'll be able to lose without the structure and accountability.