Can I lose weight without Exercise?

shadow2soul

Mark, if your budget can handle it, get yourself a Heart Rate Monitor (HRM). Get the kind that has a chest strap, they're about $90. It's a great investment in your fitness plan. I like the Polar FT4 as a good all around model.

Sarge, What will the HRM do for me?

It will give you a more accurate calorie burn when you workout. (I saw your post about the kinect game) I use kinect games to workout and have noticed some under estimate calorie burn while others over estimate the burn.

As for price of a hrm, I got a pyle for $26 off amazon.com (free shipping) and it has a chest strap. I love it. Not as fancy as the Polar brand, but it does it's job.

PikaKnight

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PikaKnight

Mark, if your budget can handle it, get yourself a Heart Rate Monitor (HRM). Get the kind that has a chest strap, they're about $90. It's a great investment in your fitness plan. I like the Polar FT4 as a good all around model.

Sarge, What will the HRM do for me?

It can be a bit more accurate with giving you your calorie burn #s. But just realize that it can still be up to 30% inaccurate. I've found that the numbers from my HRM and MFP aren't too far apart. I usually just go with whichever has the lower #.

Nicolee_2014

Yes.
1st time I lost weight I lost 26kgs - was a size 14 almost a size 12 - no exercise
2nd time I lost weight I was 12kgs heavier than the 1st time I lost weight and people thought I was thinner. 2nd time I was seeing a p/t twice a week. I could fit into the same clothes as when I was actually 12kgs lighter & my body shape completely changed. So I think I much prefer (personally) to exercise with eating well.

AnexRavensong

All my weight that I've lost has been without going out of my way to exercise. I walk and stuff for errands and taking my daughter to school, band practice etc, but that is it. Mind you I put on a few pounds too, but it was good muscle and that was simply by eating more (of course within reason).

I tend not to give a flying crap about weight anymore. The real numbers are in body fat percentage and while I've only lost 11lbs and my weight jumps up and down my inches have gone down and my body fat from about 35% to 31.6% (that puts me in the healthy range now).

My clothes fit better on me now at 162.7lbs than they did at 155 lbs.

So to answer your question, yes you can but remember that weight isn't really the best way to judge things either

I'm currently trying to follow IPOARM, and you get read more about that if you like here:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/974888-in-place-of-a-road-map-2k13

It's heavy reading but it has helped me a lot

HisangelG

Yes, to gain the weight you ate more than you used, so the opposite is true. Here is some simple math. If you eat about 2700 calories a day and eat every 3 hours you will lose weight and your body won't think it is starving.

Roughly (very roughly) when you weighed 325 lbs you were eating between 5250 to 5720 calories per day. Average calories burned by an inactive man is about 2000-2500 per day. If you were eating 5250 calories a day but are now eating about 2700 calories a day this means you are eating about 2550 less per day.

About 3200 calories equals 1 pound.

You've been dieting about 24 days.

The Math

5250 (calories you used to eat) -2700 (about the number of calories you are probably eating) = 2550
2550 calories x 24 days (April 2 to April 26) = 61,200 total calorie deficit
61,200 calories / 3200 calories per pound = a total wight loss of about 19.125

Any exercise will add to the fat loss. As for the exercise I've learned something very important. You need muscle mass. Your heart is a muscle. If you loss weight withouth increasing your muscle mass you risk some heart problmes. That said, losing the weight from 300s to 200's will do your heart some good. There are some real simple do at home for 20 minute exercises that will help with speeding wieght loss, won't exhaust you, and will be great for your heart. Light light light, ease into it

This.

Those of us with so much to lose, can and do lose some weight without exercise. At first, maybe the first 20-30 pounds, it might be okay, to get down to a weight where you can walk without stopping every 30 seconds to catch your breath for 5 minutes. When you can walk at least a minute or two without stopping, I say start adding exercise. It can be simple things, such as 5 wall pushups as you walk to the kitchen each time. 5 wall squats as you come back from the bathroom. Chair exercises...(Check sparkspeople, for some good ones.) Just little things can make a difference. Then, when the 5 are easy, make it 10, then 15, then 20, then 25. When you can do 25 of these easily, start trying to do modified pushups/squats...and then when that becomes easy at 25, do the regular.

I want to lift. Right now, I cannot. It would cause more harm than good. I can do resistance bands and under 10 pound weights while sitting. As I lose weight, I hope to be able to bump it up slowly and if possible, one day do some heavy lifting. Every little bit is going to help. Any movement you make right now will do some good. Do leg lifts while sitting, do squats as you go to sit down. Do "sofa squats" during commercials. (Sitting to stand squat, then stand to sit. Check out Joan Pagano's Strength training for women because it has some good exercises to get started that truly ANYONE can work with. You figure out what level you are at, and precede from there. She gives the very basic, to very advanced type of each exercise.)

Learn to eat healthy. Move more. Exercise is something we need as we lose weight, and we'll need it to keep the weight off. As the fat/weight leaves, you'll begin to feel more able to exercise. However, start now, with the smallest thing and work your way up to what is comfortable for you to do.

Chriztii

Yes, i lost 15kg by just changing my diet however i travel a lot and work nightfill so you still have to do physical activities, wether thats shopping etc if you sit down all day long and eat healthy you'll probably lose a couple kgs but then remain at the same weight. The simple concept of what you put in is what you get out. Exercise sucks but if it doesn't challenge you then it doesn't change you!

Wolverine10

Of course you can lose weight without exercising, but you will only be a smaller version of yourself ( a.k.a skinny fat ). doing weight training is not just to build muscles, but to keep the muscles that you have while losing fat. Doing weight training while in a calorie deficit will make you look much better when all the weight is of, than without exercise. Unfortunately with no exercise you are losing fat and muscle. Hope this helps.