Can I Lose Weight With No Exercise?

yes but then you may be skinny fat. What's the hatred with exercise?

Yes you can. The only think required to lose weight is a consistent calorie deficit which can be done through diet alone.

However, you will end up looking and feeling far better and being more healthy generally adopting a diet plus exercise approach.

Inactivity is worse than smoking.
And you'll need to maintain lean mass while dieting down.
Lean mass is the stuff that does help burn fat but you don't want to get weak so pick things up 3x a week for about an hour each time and you'll do great.

You can lose weight without exercising.

You can't be healthy without regular exercise though.

Yes, definitely. I don't have (make) time to go to the gym, but I do incorporate exercise into my day and find it very, very helpful in feeling better and staying toned.

I walk all stairs. I live close enough to walk to work and home for lunch. I take a walk after dinner. I do a little tai chi in my office. Many people where I work do a brisk walk during their lunch or during breaks.

I lie on the floor and do stomach crunches at home.

It's not fancy aerobics, but it really helps tremendously.

P.S. What Vicstar says is true. I have had to move into very brisk walking (4+ mph) because once I lost weight I had all this squishy flesh that needed toning to look good. The more you have to lose the more important it is.

Please get out of the diet mentality- run from it- using the word DIETING and saying you will TONE after you lose weight are all ideas out of the 70's.

After 3 years of inactivity and a terrible diet, my weight climbed to 256lb. When I finally decided to change things I lost 60lb in 6 months just by watching what I ate (I hopped from Atkins to Weight Watchers then eventually did my own thing) with no extra activity other than my daily routine. Now that I'm trying to lose the last few lbs I'm incorporating exercise because I want to firm/tone up as well as lose.

Do you drink a lot of soda? I quit sodas cold turkey and didn't change anything else and I lost 8 pounds the first 2 weeks. Yesterday made 3 weeks without sodas for me. I weigh every 2 weeks, so I will update again on Sunday.

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Hi,
From your stats 18 year old female 5'5" 154lbs light activity

Your BMR is 1546 - don't eat below this!!!! your target calories should be 20% less than your TDEE

Your TDEE

Activity Level Daily Calories

Lightly Active (light exercise/sports 1-3 days/wk) 2126
Moderately Active (moderate exercise/sports 3-5 days/wk) 2396
Very Active (hard exercise/sports 6-7 days/wk) 2667
Extremely Active (hard daily exercise/sports & physical job or 2X day training, i.e marathon, contest etc.) 2937

You are very close to a healthy weight already and 120 will take you to the very bottom of that range.. If you are unhappy with the way you look why not try focusing on strength training. it will change your shape and be much healthier for you in the long run. Overly restrictive diets at your age will cause long term problems like hormone imbalances and bone loss.

Building muscle will slim/improve how you look much more than loosing pound and loosing muscle. Using resistance bands or doing kettlebell workouts don't cost much and are easy to find and use.

OP I can relate and I think you can relate to me as well. I started off being 5'4" 165 lbs and LOATHED exercise in any form. If I didn't have to get off of the couch, I didn't! Sad but true. I got winded just going up the stairs in my house. I lost my first 10 lbs just sticking to the calories and not incorporating any exercise at all. Then I started using the teadmill most days (just walking at first, then slowly trying to add in a bit of jogging). Then I got interested in all the routines I saw people talking about here on MFP and decided to pick up Jillian Michaels' 30 Day Shred. I joined a group of women on here that were all starting at the same time and we cheered each other on. I stuck with it for the 30 days - well the first day I pushed myself so hard that I was hurting for 3 days after. But after those 3 days of pain were gone, I got right back on it and stuck with it until the end. It was HARD. I had never done an exercise routine like that before (i.e. anything other than the treadmill). It was not easy but it was gratifying to stick to it and see the results. I got a heartrate monitor so it could give me an estimate of how many calories I was burning ( extra motivation, since I decided to go with the advice to eat my exercise calories) and it REALLY helped for me to see a number *right then and there* giving me an idea of how much work I was doing and what I was accomplishing. I ate my exercise calories and continued to lose weight at the same rate as when I was just sticking to the calorie goal and not exericsing. Not only did I get to eat more while still losing weight, but I also FELT SO MUCH BETTER. I got stronger and gained endurance, I could run up and down my stairs for fun/exercise instead of feeling defeated just going up one time! Now I'm down to 120 lbs (coincidentally, your goal OP) and while I don't have the perfect body and do not always find time to exercise every single day (sometimes it's as little as once a week depending on how hectic life is or how I've been feeling) - I still know that I am far better off now than I would have been if I'd foregone exercise completely for my entire weightloss. I really encourage you to try and find something to challenge yourself - challenge is not easy, it is HARD, but it will feel amazing when you stick to it and find yourself getting better at it the more you try. Honey I started off using 1 and 3 lb weights on 30 day shred. So believe me when I tell you how amazing it is to get better at something b/c now I can do a routine (still at home, still haven't joined a gym) with 15-25 lb weights. It's STILL hard, but it's still gratifying.

look at it this way
1 lb muscle is smaller on your body than 1 lbs fat (a pound is a pound)

I have 2 friends, one is a runner and one isn't
both weigh 150 lbs
The runner wears a size 2 and the non runner wears a size 10


Its not hard to see, exercise makes all the difference.