Weight loss without exercise?

Losing weight without exercise is possible, it will be very slow but can be done. If you are able to do anything to move at all be it from a sitting position just move your arms or legs that will help burn some calories. If you're able to do squats over your chair that will help as well. Good Luck.

I also have a chronic pain condition, fibromyalgia, You can lose weight without exercising but it takes longer. I started out just swimming a little bit everyday then when it started getting cold I started walking at first just 1/2 way around the block and I very gradually kept doing a little bit more and now after 2 yrs i can walk for 5 miles or more and have lost 105 lbs . You can do it it just takes time

Yep. Obviously it's you can get some exercise in that will help your efforts, but you can definitely lose weight if you just change your diet.

The 20 pounds I've lost since June have been with VERY minimal exercise, just changes in diet. For me, a low-carb diet has worked very well, but I know it's not for everyone. But yes, it can definitely be done.

And the more I lose, the easier it is to exercise when I want to--and the hip/back pain I lived with for YEARS is much less severe. I'm still not ready for strenuous exercise, but I've been slowly adding swimming, biking and low-impact aerobics to my routine.

Hi!

While I fortunately am not in chronic pain (hugs to you hun!) I am a chronic slacker =(

I have been keeping within what this site says I need to (for the most part, curse you too much protein) I have lost 7 pounds since I started this Wednesday. I imagine that's not typical and I make sure to at least get the recommended minimum calories in. So it most definitely can be done!

You should make sure and feel very positive for every pound you drop and feel proud you are doing your best given that you aren't able to do much in the way of exercise. Being positive and having a good attitude about weight loss is almost as important as watching what you eat.

Good luck!

Hi "ReadynowIam" - Great screen name, and I'm guessing you are a Star Wars fan .....:happy: Feel free to add me as a friend. I'm Dorothy and my screen name is "Walk4Fit" to remind me to walk daily.

you can definitely lose weight without exercise. but if you want something low impact to do try yoga

remember weight loss is 70% diet and 30% exercise

If you can move it's exercise. I too was diagnosed with chronic myofascial pain, arthritis and fibromyalgia. I hurt at 252 pounds without moving, i hurt now but now nearly as much. Move, no matter what you do keep moving. It's what we are meant to do. A walk, a yoga ball with light weights, stretching, leg lifts on the floor. You can do it. Mind over matter. Do you hurt all the time? do it, it won't hurt you. I pray for you and hope you feel better! God bless.....Diet and exercise in some form all go hand in hand. Have a little, you don't need it all to succeed.

Hi, thought I had RH (arthritis) but turned out wasn't taking my thyroid meds correctly for 5 yrs, so pain free now, but.........I would sit on couch and lift small hand weights while watching tv. It didn't seem like much, but due to so many reps for each arm (I started slow and built up), it must have burned cals, cause I lost 3 to 6 lbs a month for several months.......of course I was dieting too. But I am so large, was afraid to do much at first and eventually traded up to 5 lb weights and it always helps me in many ways in including back tone and arm size. Instead of getting bigger, my arms shrank. and sleeves fit now. Seemed to give me stamina, also, don't know why....I have gotton lazy about my weights this year, but last year it was such a habit, I would pick them up several times a night and used them in sets of first ten, then, fifteen then twenty......eventually working up to fifty per direction after 2 or 3 months, swinging them behind couch top, forward to knee, right to arms of couch, then left to center of chest, etc..........any direction that was different so I could do more reps and use different muscles. I didn't know what I was doing but it helped me a lot the first year.....now I am down over 70 lbs and I neglect them, regrettably.......but they helped me feel I was trying.......doing something.

I also have fibromyalgia and arthritis in my neck that cause week long headaches. Drs told me to make sure I dont do any workouts that jar me around too much, I modify now with Zumba, etc when I do them, I explain to the teacher why I have to take it easy. I still have fun though, and walking/swimming/moving help my stiffness.

I have posted this on other threads, but it helped me understand weight loss.

Cardio is to help your heart and lungs, Weight/resistance training is for your muscles, bones and metabolism.

Eating less calories than what you have been eating is for losing weight.

A pound of fat is 3500 calories. If you burn 10 calories a minute/600 calories an hour, it will take 5.83 hours to lose one pound, IF you do not increase calories. That’s 1.17 hours of exercise a day, five days a week, maintaining 10 calories burned a minute, no slowing down. The average person burns between 5 and 7 calories a minute.

If you have been eating 3000 calories a day and reduce it to 1800 (I’m a guy), you are eating at a 1200 calorie a day deficit or 8400 calories a week for, potentially, 2.4 pounds of fat removed from your body, all other things being equal.

Thanks!

Thank you for your support I really need it.