Losing without excercise?

123456654321

It's is possible to reach your goals on calorie counting alone. Of course though, the more you move the better for you and your health! <<<----Needs to follow her own advice.

Good luck busy mommy!

CARNAT22

I lost about 20lbs in 2006 without any exercise other than a daily walk (aprox 30 minutes).

This time round I am trying to factor in a bit more exercise, but I personally think it is possible to lose weight just by dieting..

myofibril

Consider this study completed by Appalachian State University:

http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search/display.do?f=1999/US/US99080.xml;US1999010190

A group of 91 obese women were put into one of four groups:

Group 1 followed a calorie restricted diet of 1,200 - 1,300 calories a day with no exercise
Group 2 performed aerobic exercise for 45 minutes, five days each week but no diet restriction
Group 3 tried exercise and diet
Group 4 acted as a control

Group 2 lost an average of only three pounds of fat despite aerobic exercise of almost four hours each week. Group 3 who combined diet and exercise lost the most, an average of 16 lbs. However, this was only a SINGLE (ie ONE) pound more than Group 1 who followed a diet only approach. One conclusion was that exercise, or specifically moderate aerobic exercise, has only a "minor, nonsignificant effect" on fat loss although there were cardivascular (ie health benefits)

Now, if you PRIMARY goal is fat loss then creating a calorie deficit through (good) diet is your biggest weapon. There's no getting round this.

This is then followed by resistance / strength training to preserve lean mass.

This is then followed by aerobic exercise.

Rubie81

Consider this study completed by Appalachian State University:

http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search/display.do?f=1999/US/US99080.xml;US1999010190

A group of 91 obese women were put into one of four groups:

Group 1 followed a calorie restricted diet of 1,200 - 1,300 calories a day with no exercise
Group 2 performed aerobic exercise for 45 minutes, five days each week but no diet restriction
Group 3 tried exercise and diet
Group 4 acted as a control

Group 2 lost an average of only three pounds of fat despite aerobic exercise of almost four hours each week. Group 3 who combined diet and exercise lost the most, an average of 16 lbs. However, this was only a SINGLE (ie ONE) pound more than Group 1 who followed a diet only approach. One conclusion was that exercise, or specifically moderate aerobic exercise, has only a "minor, nonsignificant effect" on fat loss although there were cardivascular (ie health benefits)

Now, if you PRIMARY goal is fat loss then creating a calorie deficit through (good) diet is your biggest weapon. There's no getting round this.

This is then followed by resistance / strength training to preserve lean mass.

This is then followed by aerobic exercise.

This is interesting. TFS.
I haven't been really exercising, active, yes.
I do like to do push-ups to tone up my arms crunches would be good too (and lord knows I need them) but I have an injured tailbone and it hurts too much to do.

damonmath

If you do not exercise your metabolism will stay slow... You can lose weight, but it will be overall weight including muscle. You will become a smaller version of yourself, but not lean and mean.

charming_chrissy

thanks guys, I'll definately try to make an extra effort and get a little excercise in...

daddyratty

For me, exercise came before the calorie-counting.

But I think that many people overrate exercise as a calorie reducer. They're both important, but if I run for 30-40 minutes I burn about 550-750 calories. Keep in mind that a pound is roughly 3500 calories. So those rigorous 750 calorie runs, it would take 5 of them just to shed one pound. You can lose a lot more than that by cutting calories.