Tips on losing weight without serious exercise?
fitjerseygirl
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Anyone have any advice or a plan they follow or recommend?
Thanks!
Thanks!
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eat at a reasonable deficit. I eat food (all food) I just make sure I am about 200 calories lower than maintenance.
Exercise is not a requirement for weight loss.0 -
I'm not sure how you define serious exercise but it comes down to eating fewer calories than you burn, exercise or no exercise.
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Lost 30 pounds so far, no exercise beyond doing what I have to do everyday. Just means I have to stick to my calories tightly because there's no leeway for a few extra bites when there's no exercise.0
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Figure out your calorie deficit on here (either you want to lose 1-2 lbs per week) and then just eat at the calories they give you. I lost 30 lbs just following my daily calories and didn't exercise at all.0
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Yet exercise helps weight loss. When you are expending more energy you will lose more quickly than if you were just restricting calories. The two go hand in hand. Walking is exercise, and it does not need to be "serious." You can walk for 20 minutes on flat pavement and it would have benefits. Plus, exercise releases "feel good" hormones, as well as helps tone muscles. All good.0
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You can lose weight without exercise, but to be healthy, you really need to exercise,0
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I didn't do any exercise while in active weight loss. Calorie calculators offer a 'no/little exercise' option when running your numbers, just chose that option when figuring out your calorie goals.0
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MFP is set up for you to lose weight without exercise so this is the plan.
The calorie deficit you need to lose weight is included in MFP's daily calorie goal for you. Any exercise you do adds calories to that goal so you'll lose weight at the rate of loss you indicated in your goals (.5 to 2 pounds per week). If you don't do exercise you'll stay at the same calorie goal every day, which is fine.0 -
You don't need to exercise seriously to lose weight. You just need to eat less than you burn.
As you lose weight, though, you'll probably find yourself wanting to add exercise, both because it gets easier and more fun as you lose the weight, and because it means you can eat more and still lose! I'm a big fan of eating more.0 -
Like the others have said, you don't need to exercise to lose weight. Exercising does help, but the main thing you just be doing to lose weight is creating a calorie deficit each day.0
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I lost my first thirty pounds without doing very much exercise-wise. [Edited to add] all you have to do is be careful how many calories you eat.0
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Yet exercise helps weight loss. When you are expending more energy you will lose more quickly than if you were just restricting calories. The two go hand in hand. Walking is exercise, and it does not need to be "serious." You can walk for 20 minutes on flat pavement and it would have benefits. Plus, exercise releases "feel good" hormones, as well as helps tone muscles. All good.
That wasn't the question tho.
And no you won't lose more quickly with exercise necessarily.
muscles don't tone.
Again OP exercise is not a requirement for weight loss.
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Jump down my throat for putting in my two cents, why don't you.0
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Jump down my throat for putting in my two cents, why don't you.
@whmscll I didn't jump down your throat. I wasn't mean. Just stated facts...perhaps you read too much into what I typed. Try not to take it personal when people correct your misinformation or you will be in a fit a lot...based on what I've seen.0 -
fitjerseygirl wrote: »Anyone have any advice or a plan they follow or recommend?
Thanks!
Just eat less. With activity you will burn more calories and can eat more while losing, but you can lose weight and be sedentary.
Exercise does help though. You'll retain more muscle while losing, it can improve overall health, and improve posture. It doesn't have to be serious or even structured "exercise". Any movement is good.0 -
Misinformation. Your opinion, not fact.0
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fitjerseygirl wrote: »Anyone have any advice or a plan they follow or recommend?
Thanks!
weight loss and weight control in general has far more to do with your energy consumption than exercise. diet for weight control; exercise for fitness.
exercise has the added bonus of increasing your energy expenditure which basically means you can accomplish the same goals while being able to consume more. for example, with regular exercise I can maintain on around 2800-3000 calories and lose steadily on 2300ish calories. without exercise I maintain around 2300 - 2500 and to lose the same amount of weight as in scenario 1 I could only eat 1800 - 2000 calories.0 -
Are you talking no exercise at all or just something like not going hardcore?
You don't need to exercise at all to lose weight. That's the good news.
If you have health concerns, I'd like to offer you the encouragement that it's not necessary to go all hardcore and be a triathlete competitor to exercise. I do what I can. I walk, I do some mild strength training. I have made gains in both of these since I started.
I started out walking with a cane and with doing Arnold presses with 2 pound dumb bells. You don't have to be a beast to get your body moving and reap benefits from it. Just do what you can.0 -
cwolfman13 wrote: »fitjerseygirl wrote: »Anyone have any advice or a plan they follow or recommend?
Thanks!
weight loss and weight control in general has far more to do with your energy consumption than exercise. diet for weight control; exercise for fitness.
exercise has the added bonus of increasing your energy expenditure which basically means you can accomplish the same goals while being able to consume more. for example, with regular exercise I can maintain on around 2800-3000 calories and lose steadily on 2300ish calories. without exercise I maintain around 2300 - 2500 and to lose the same amount of weight as in scenario 1 I could only eat 1800 - 2000 calories.
I totally agree with this.
If I don't exercise I can eat about 1800-2000 calories a day.
With exercise...2500.
Exercise is for health and fitness....but you can't outrun a bad diet....in other words if you are not in a calorie deficit you can exercise all you want and you won't lose weight.
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Exercise is not a requirement for weight loss.
It totally depends on your body. If I don't exercise, I can't lose or maintain. I gained 10 pounds last fall just having to take weight lifting out of my routine due to a broken hand. I was still walking, swimming (without arms
), doing social dance and doing dance fitness. As soon as I was able to do the full lifting routine again, those pounds came right off.
If you are older, have health issues, have a slower metabolism, etc., adding in exercise may be the only way to earn enough calories for a comfortable diet.
Everybody is different--try lots of things and see what works for you. Since you haven't been able to keep weight off in the past, you may need to consider trying things that you haven't tried before.
Think about what is sustainable for you over the long term. Are you going to be comfortable on 1250 calories a day for the rest of your life? Would you be able to get in an intense workout three times a week for the rest of your life?0 -
Misinformation. Your opinion, not fact.
No pretty much fact.
Because exercise doesn't always help with weight loss...if you are not in a calorie deficit you can exercise all you want and not lose weight. Fact.
Weight loss and exercise do not go hand in hand. Calorie deficit for weight loss...exercise for health and fitness. Fact
and last but not least...Muscles don't get toned. Fact.
not my fault you don't like being told you are wrong, but enough with this debate you are derailing this thread with your snit fit and I will no longer participate. You were wrong accept it and move on....0 -
I don't do much exercise and I'm losing weight. I go on a couple walks each day, some days I go on longer walks than others depending on what I plan to eat each day.
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I recommend walking. I go for hour+ walks several times a week. I get to relax, explore, and listen to music while burning calories. It's also easily adjusted for difficulty (hills and speed) and I can feel my muscles sore the next day when I push myself.0
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eat less than you are burning ...CICO0
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azulvioleta6 wrote: »
Exercise is not a requirement for weight loss.
It totally depends on your body. If I don't exercise, I can't lose or maintain. I gained 10 pounds last fall just having to take weight lifting out of my routine due to a broken hand. I was still walking, swimming (without arms ), doing social dance and doing dance fitness. As soon as I was able to do the full lifting routine again, those pounds came right off.
If you are older, have health issues, have a slower metabolism, etc., adding in exercise may be the only way to earn enough calories for a comfortable diet.
Everybody is different--try lots of things and see what works for you. Since you haven't been able to keep weight off in the past, you may need to consider trying things that you haven't tried before.
Think about what is sustainable for you over the long term. Are you going to be comfortable on 1250 calories a day for the rest of your life? Would you be able to get in an intense workout three times a week for the rest of your life?
Then you weren't in a calorie deficit...that easy...eating more than you thought.
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azulvioleta6 wrote: »
Exercise is not a requirement for weight loss.
It totally depends on your body. If I don't exercise, I can't lose or maintain. I gained 10 pounds last fall just having to take weight lifting out of my routine due to a broken hand. I was still walking, swimming (without arms ), doing social dance and doing dance fitness. As soon as I was able to do the full lifting routine again, those pounds came right off.
If you are older, have health issues, have a slower metabolism, etc., adding in exercise may be the only way to earn enough calories for a comfortable diet.
Everybody is different--try lots of things and see what works for you. Since you haven't been able to keep weight off in the past, you may need to consider trying things that you haven't tried before.
Think about what is sustainable for you over the long term. Are you going to be comfortable on 1250 calories a day for the rest of your life? Would you be able to get in an intense workout three times a week for the rest of your life?
Then you weren't in a calorie deficit...that easy...eating more than you thought.
Nah, she has medical reasons.
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As others have said, what is your definition of "serious exercise"?
I may be reaching, but OP are you looking for some quick fix plan, food restriction, etc where you believe you can lose weight without putting in the time and energy to learn sustainable habits to not only lose weight but ultimately improve your overall health/fitness levels? Or do you have some injury or other exercise restriction that makes it difficult for you to achieve some level of exertion and that's why you are asking about "serious" exercise?
As others have said, for weight loss, all that matters is that you are in a calorie deficit. CI < CO. How you create that calorie deficit is up to you, it can be done with diet alone, or it can be done by increasing your calories out part of the equation through physical exercise. Also as others have said, there are added benefits to exercise above and beyond helping you achieve the calorie deficit.
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No, it is not. Weight loss is created by simply eating less calories than your body burns each day.
That said exercise can help you either create a larger calorie deficit (so you'll lose weight more quickly) or give you more calories to eat each day.
So, quite simply, follow MFP's calorie goal without exercise. After a week or two decide if you can live with eating so little. If not, add cardio exercises to get more calories to eat each day.
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