So in theory you could do no exercise at all and still lose weight with a deficit
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i don't personally do this because I want to exercise to be healthy and because being toned looks and feels nice but in theory could you technically lose weight with no exercise at all? As long as you maintain a deficit?
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Yes.0
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This is a fact, not a theory. Losing weight is all about the food.0
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Mistraal1981 wrote: »This is a fact, not a theory. Losing weight is all about the food.Mistraal1981 wrote: »This is a fact, not a theory. Losing weight is all about the food.
That's so interesting to know0 -
A calorie deficit is the only way to lose weight. Exercise is one way to help create one.0
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I lose more on the weeks I don't exercise
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I'm not exercising. I'm logging my walks and trying to do more walks (walk to local shop instead of car to big shop) and walk faster but not really going to a gym type exercise.
I've lost 14lbs in 3 months and was only 146 to start with. I'm hoping to start exercising next month.
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Many people lose without exercise, particularly when they're starting out. Some meal replacement diets (this is another reason I don't advocate for them) actually recommend that you don't exercise and/or tout that they are designed so you don't have to.0
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Yes, you can lose weight without exercise - but I do believe that exercise will always help in the long run to maintain a healthy heart and lifestyle
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PinkPixiexox wrote: »Yes, you can lose weight without exercise - but I do believe that exercise will always help in the long run to maintain a healthy heart and lifestyle
Awesome post. So very much this.
(Disclaimer: my heart goes out to anyone in a wheelchair who has no chance of exercising. I wish I knew more to help you except CI<CO works.)0 -
Mistraal1981 wrote: »This is a fact, not a theory. Losing weight is all about the food.
Is it possible to lose weight with no exercise? Ofc it is.
Does exercise have an effect though? Yes because it burns calories, so it affects the cico equation.
Weight loss is 100% deficit no matter how that is created.0 -
Lost 30lbs with no exercise.0
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PinkPixiexox wrote: »Yes, you can lose weight without exercise - but I do believe that exercise will always help in the long run to maintain a healthy heart and lifestyle
Awesome post. So very much this.
(Disclaimer: my heart goes out to anyone in a wheelchair who has no chance of exercising. I wish I knew more to help you except CI<CO works.)
People in wheelchairs can exercise as well, there are plenty of youtube videos and information for wheelchair workouts. Think how fit the wheelchair athletes are or how fit generally your upper body has to be if you wheel yourself around.0 -
jennifer_417 wrote: »A calorie deficit is the only way to lose weight. Exercise is one way to help create one.
^This.
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Yes all that's needed for weight loss is a calorie deficit0
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I've gone from 340 lbs to 185 since December without any exercise. It was all diet. I know exercise is important for health, but it's not a necessity for weight loss.0
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Yes - this is how physicians manage weight for comatose and patients with severe mobility limitations.0
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I've gone from 340 lbs to 185 since December without any exercise. It was all diet. I know exercise is important for health, but it's not a necessity for weight loss.
Nobody every says exercise is necessary, but plenty of people say its all diet and discount any exercise that may be being done. Well done on the weight loss btw.0 -
The only thing absolutely required for fat loss is a calorie deficit. It's not a theory. You could sit on your butt all day every day and eat at a deficit and still lose weight. No exercise required.0
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jeffpettis wrote: »The only thing absolutely required for fat loss is a calorie deficit. It's not a theory. You could sit on your butt all day every day and eat at a deficit and still lose weight. No exercise required.
You can.
However, that doesn't mean to say it's the 'done thing'. You probably won't get any definition or shape out of it whatsoever. But I suppose if you are losing weight for health reasons alone, that doesn't matter too much. Sometimes it's important for people just to lose those extra pounds.0 -
i don't personally do this because I want to exercise to be healthy and because being toned looks and feels nice but in theory could you technically lose weight with no exercise at all? As long as you maintain a deficit?
"Trying to lose weight and not go to the gym is like trying to have sex with your cloths on"
Always liked that line, you can do it but it's better for your health to workout also.
Also if you have allot of weight to lose, you'll have a lose skin issue if you just diet and don't workout at all. (that's my opinion not a fact)
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of course! but exercise is so worth doing for loads of reasons as well as burning calories...0
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Unless you're filling the space left by the fat with muscle -- exceedingly unlikely -- working out isn't meaningfully going to affect your loose skin. That's a fact.0
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My sis and started started dieting and she lost weight but I haven't. It's soo frustrating
How do people lose weight without exercise and diet? I think my body just needs both diet and exercise together. 0 -
PinkPixiexox wrote: »Yes, you can lose weight without exercise - but I do believe that exercise will always help in the long run to maintain a healthy heart and lifestyle
Cosigned. I sleep and feel better when I exercise. I aspire to be like my mom, who is incredibly active at age 78, rather than my fiance's mom, who has lost most of the muscle tone in her legs and is essentially chair-walker-bed-bound.
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Edited: This is very much a short term/long term issue. For the short term and only considering weight loss, yes only deficit matters.
For long term sustainable success exercise is critical. Over 90% of people who have lost over 30lbs and kept this off over one year exercise ~30 mins to 1 hour 5x/week.
Theoretically yes, you can do this without exercise, but you decrease your chances of success in doing so.0 -
This is very much a short term/long term issue. For the short term and only considering weight loss, yes only diet matters.
For long term sustainable success exercise is critical. Over 90% of people who have lost over 30lbs and kept this off over one year exercise ~30 mins to 1 hour 5x/week.
Theoretically yes, you can do this without exercise, but you decrease your chances of success in doing so.
err no only the deficit matters, it doesnt matter where it comes from.0 -
This is very much a short term/long term issue. For the short term and only considering weight loss, yes only diet matters.
For long term sustainable success exercise is critical. Over 90% of people who have lost over 30lbs and kept this off over one year exercise ~30 mins to 1 hour 5x/week.
Theoretically yes, you can do this without exercise, but you decrease your chances of success in doing so.
err no only the deficit matters, it doesn't matter where it comes from.
No dispute here, but in terms of results the vast majority will achieve this by monitoring diet and exercise.0 -
This is very much a short term/long term issue. For the short term and only considering weight loss, yes only diet matters.
For long term sustainable success exercise is critical. Over 90% of people who have lost over 30lbs and kept this off over one year exercise ~30 mins to 1 hour 5x/week.
Theoretically yes, you can do this without exercise, but you decrease your chances of success in doing so.
I don't see how that is possible. The only way for them to gain weight would to be to eat over maintenance consistently to re-gain the weight. Exercise has nothing to do with that.
If someone wants to sit on their butt the rest of their life and eat at deficit/maintenance they won't gain weight.
I'm not commenting on if it's 'healthy'.
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This is very much a short term/long term issue. For the short term and only considering weight loss, yes only diet matters.
For long term sustainable success exercise is critical. Over 90% of people who have lost over 30lbs and kept this off over one year exercise ~30 mins to 1 hour 5x/week.
Theoretically yes, you can do this without exercise, but you decrease your chances of success in doing so.
err no only the deficit matters, it doesn't matter where it comes from.
No dispute here, but in terms of results the vast majority will achieve this by monitoring diet and exercise.
Thats saying something different from your previous pointFor the short term and only considering weight loss, yes only diet matters.
If I burn calories, then the ones I choose not to eat back affect the deficit. Exercise also affects weight loss in other complementary ways. Avtually I wonder what the split is for people losing weight from people who use diet alone, exercise alone (probably the smallest) and both. Because its much harder to burn 500 calories than not eat 500, then i also wonder what % of peoples defiits are made up of exercise calories rather than eating less.
Even if you eat back 100% the flexibility that can give people in making a diet more sustainable is significant.0
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