Losing weight by diet change only.

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  • RelCanonical
    RelCanonical Posts: 3,882 Member
    glassyo wrote: »
    alffmfp wrote: »
    You can't exercise off a bad diet. Exercise will make you look more toned and it has great mental benefits, but its not a weight loss strategy.

    I wonder why people say this. Weight loss is CICO and exercising gives you a way for calories out.

    Eating less without exercise is one way.
    Eating a little less plus exercising is another way.
    Eating at maintenance and not eating exercise calories back is yet another way.
    Cutting off a limb is another way....an EXTREME way that I wouldn't advocate but still! :)

    Darn these non-regenerative limbs! One day we'll be like the Axolotls and grow our fingers back.
  • glassyo
    glassyo Posts: 7,758 Member
    edited March 2019
    RelCanonical wrote: »
    glassyo wrote: »
    alffmfp wrote: »
    You can't exercise off a bad diet. Exercise will make you look more toned and it has great mental benefits, but its not a weight loss strategy.

    I wonder why people say this. Weight loss is CICO and exercising gives you a way for calories out.

    Eating less without exercise is one way.
    Eating a little less plus exercising is another way.
    Eating at maintenance and not eating exercise calories back is yet another way.
    Cutting off a limb is another way....an EXTREME way that I wouldn't advocate but still! :)

    Darn these non-regenerative limbs! One day we'll be like the Axolotls and grow our fingers back.

    I had to look that up. I thought it would be a Doctor Who type thing. Cuz 10 totally regrew his hand back. When she was a he. :)
  • tarun_yadavA
    tarun_yadavA Posts: 1,408 Member
    nisie3 wrote: »
    Has anyone here had any success with losing weight only changing your diet and not exercising?

    Hi. Its totally doable. All about calorie-deficit.
    I did both though over a 15m period - and lost 25kgs! Started off just counting calories, walking (10k steps) & being in deficit. Gradually added gym. First cardio then weights.
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    alffmfp wrote: »
    You can't exercise off a bad diet. Exercise will make you look more toned and it has great mental benefits, but its not a weight loss strategy.

    Why is a big diet a bad diet?
    Surely a bigger diet has more nutrients?

    For some people adding exercise is indeed a successful weight loss and maintenance strategy. Exercise doesn't have to be a temporary addition to people's lives.

    Do wish people wouldn't just parrot stock phrases and assume there is just one successful method for all.
  • wilson10102018
    wilson10102018 Posts: 1,306 Member
    I think that the reason that people are so sensitive when talking about weight loss through exercise is that it is pretty easy to fulfill the diagnostic conditions of the DSM-5 for a diagnosis of bulimia. Eating definitely more than ordinary (binging), exercise in order to lose the weight, at least once a week, continues for more than three months. No requirement for laxatives or vomiting as some people assume.
  • lleeann2001
    lleeann2001 Posts: 410 Member
    nisie3 wrote: »
    Has anyone here had any success with losing weight only changing your diet and not exercising?

    i did. that is to say the last15 pounds were due to no exercise
  • rdthoms
    rdthoms Posts: 61 Member
    edited March 2019
    You can definitely lose weight by diet and not exercising. Much more so than by exercising and not dieting! Although by "diet" I mean good food choices not some fad diet scheme.
    Track your cals here, track your body shape at myshape.fitness (google it) to set some shape goals and see progress.
  • lleeann2001
    lleeann2001 Posts: 410 Member
    janejellyroll wrote: »
    Dilvish wrote: »
    What happens when you start eating more calories? Are you staying at a caloric reduction for the rest of your days?

    I find it laughable that people who say they have lost weight only through dieting are doing great. Studies prove that simply reducing your intake will eventually result in gaining it all back within 2 years once the dieting has ended, usually when a "goal weight" is achieved. People just stop "dieting" at some point. This is one of the biggest reasons why these diet businesses (WW, Nutrisystem, Jenny Craig etc.) make so much money (yo-yo dieters).. WW had $1.25 Billion in assets in 2017.

    Sustained weight loss requires both healthy diet and exercise and should be a form of lifestyle change. It is proven to be the most effective way of maintaining a weight loss.

    So if someone couldn't exercise, you would tell them to give up, that weight loss is impossible for them?

    i am currently not exercising but losing . exercise makes you strong. My doctor says its primari!y what you eat.🐑
  • lleeann2001
    lleeann2001 Posts: 410 Member
    Dilvish wrote: »
    janejellyroll wrote: »

    So if someone couldn't exercise, you would tell them to give up, that weight loss is impossible for them?

    Nope, but then there are very few people in the world who cannot exercise at some level. Even the morbidly obese can exercise (see "my 600lb life" TV show).

    My point was this: if you truly want to lose weight and keep it off you have to adopt a healthy lifestyle which includes eating nutritious foods and getting regular exercise.

    There are some people, who are the vast minority who can successfully lose weight and keep it off through an overhaul in diet but typically the average person simply can't maintain a loss that way.

    im sorry but thats not true FOR ME. But it may be true for you and others. If so...thats wonderful...😀
  • Pickle107
    Pickle107 Posts: 153 Member
    crazyravr wrote: »

    You dont have to change your diet at all. You just have to count the calories you eat and eat below your limit. Simple. Yet so damn challenging.

    Reducing the amount you eat is definitely a change to the diet of many.
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