No exercise and weightloss

mghanie
mghanie Posts: 105 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Anyone here losing weight without exercising, just eating in a calorie deficit? Have you reached your goals?

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  • yuckidah
    yuckidah Posts: 290 Member
    Yes me - 1yr/50lbs no exercise.

    HOWEVER now, for the first time in my LIFE, I am actually starting to WANT to exercise. Yep, shocked the hell out of me it did. I no longer shun it or make excuses to avoid it when my friends go walking up the Mount ......
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    Uh huh, I - as in me, lazy don't-do-exercise me - is now going up (& down) this a couple of times a week AND I've started to play tennis. I KNOW!

    So, to answer your query, weightloss is indeed very possible without exercising (it's all simple calorie in/calorie out after all) BUT you might surprise yourself & discover, somewhere down the track, that you actually begin to want to :smile:
  • jzammetti
    jzammetti Posts: 1,956 Member
    I lost my firs 45 without exercise...but noticed that I needed to tone and get in better shape so I began working out (which I HATED more than just about anything) but stuck with it and now love it.
  • calihoya
    calihoya Posts: 80 Member
    Lost my first 30 with little to no exercise, but now that I'm back in the gym 3-5 days a week, I feel amazing. My loss has stalled for a bit because I've upped my cals and increased my exercise, but I feel amazing and I can already see my body getting toned!
  • eandrsmom
    eandrsmom Posts: 119
    Absolutely possible with dietary changes alone, but I have been lifting the whole time. I was afraid of what I would look like underneath all the extra padding that I was discarding. :smile:
  • mghanie
    mghanie Posts: 105 Member
    Woow thats amazing congrats on all your weight loss guys!! I asked because i lost 28 pounds without exercise and now I'm 6 pounds away from my goal and i haven't lost any weight for the past 4 months! I don't like doing exercise because it just seems like a chore after about a couple of weeks. I started lifting dumbbells and doing a few other dumbbell exercises a couple of days ago, i dont now if this is going to help but I'm going to try it :)
  • IveLanded
    IveLanded Posts: 797 Member
    I think you'll find that most folks here would say that after making exercise a "habit" it became enjoyable.

    It also seems like the folks who lost with no exercise started out with a lot to lose. I think it becomes harder to lose with ONLY diet once you get close to whatever is a healthy low weight for your body. It seems to be harder, in general, once you are no longer obese. I'm in my last 5-10lbs and I'm considered thin and it's much harder to lose that weight now as opposed to when I started and was obese.
  • yuckidah
    yuckidah Posts: 290 Member
    I think you're right ^ - I am really struggling to lose now (though I still have a bit to go - my ticker says 9lb but ideally I'd like it to be 20+) even though my diet has remained strictly the same (1200), so I'm hoping a little exercise might kick things in the right direction. I mean I never lost quickly anyway (50lb in a year isn't exactly great) but I've done it in a way that I can continue forEVER - that was my goal.

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