Can i lose weight & not exercise?

As far as health goes, some exercise is better than none. To answer your original question, yes you can lose weight without exercise. The main thing you need to lose weight is a calorie deficit, and that you can achieve through diet alone. People can, and do, lose significant amounts of weight without exercise.

Exercise has tons of benefits, both for your general health and for weightloss, and I would never advise not exercising, if you can possibly fit it in. Apart from anything, it will help you to retain lean mass and lose mostly fat rather than muscle. Perhaps look at exercise dvds or online workouts that you could fit into a short space of time. For example, Jillian Michaels' DVDs (well the 30 Day Shred anyway) fit into 20 minutes, so you might be able to fit that in say 3 times a week. There are also lots of short, free workouts you can do at home online, on youtube, or sites like bodyrock.tv. Other than those, maybe try to fit more walking into your day, say if you could walk to school or work, or part of the way there, that would help.

When you're really busy, if you want exercise to be part of your life, you just have to make it a priority. At the moment, going to work, doing homework, taking a shower etc are (obviously!) priorities to you, so you get them done. If exercise is important to you, you'll find a way. Do what you can though. I definitely wouldn't give up the "once in a while" stuff in defeat. It's a start, and better than none at all.

People lose weight without exercising every single day. Losing weight is a lot more about food consumption and creating a calorie deficit.

If you're asking if a little exercise is better than none at all, my answer is yes. Do what you can, eat within your daily allowance, and make healthy food choices.

Can you work out before school? Maybe even get up 30min early and do calisthenics in your living room? Anything is better than nothing.

I have to be at work at 6:30am, so I get up at 4:40am and run around 5 miles before my shift. Sometimes you just have to make some sacrifices.

You can lose a lot of weight by just changing your diet. Obviously the best combination is a healthy diet along with regular exercise, but change the way you eat and it can go a long way.

But you have to think of this change as a lifestyle change, not something you can just turn on and off. And you really should just fit in the time to exercise. We all have busy lives and we all can make excuses, but it's those of us that push through those excuses and exercise and eat right that see the most progress and stay healthy long term.

Yes you can, and just work out whenever you think you have enough time
A random workout is better than none.

Good luck

Yes you can is the simple answer.

But in my experience I find a little exercise helps, not only does it help you burn a few more calories but will help tone up you body too. (Plus if you exercise you get to eat a bit more too!)

It's much easier to lose weight and keep it off if you can exercise. Can you make some small changes to your daily life .... walking more will help for example. Or ride a bike to school?

Yes you can lose weight without exercise. With that said I would like to give you an idea of what happens when you do that though. My brother was morbidly obese 400+ lbs and several years ago he decided to lose weight. He went on a "starvation" type diet with little to no exercise. Did he lose weight you might ask.....Yep, he got down to 180 lbs in less than a year but he looked like a wadded up newspaper, gaunt and skinny with wrinkled saggy skin and no muscle (his body had eaten most of it during his weight lose) Now, a few years later he is back up to 240lbs again, unhappy, and still out of shape. Weight lose takes time, and effort. In order to feel the full effects of changing your lifestyle and enjoying your new body you have to work out.... Now, that does not mean you have to pound the gym 6 days a week to get results, in fact an intense 15-30 min cardio workout and using some dumbells a couple days a week will make a huge difference in how you look and feel. You can squeeze in 15-30 min somewhere during the day right? I found that it just take the effort to do it, and honestly I know its cliche' but I do feel better after I do it. Good luck and I hope you get where you want to go!

you can, but if you look hard enough, you shouldn't have to. Between classes, can you walk around the building or take the steps to the top floor and back down? Find a place to do a handful of pushups? If you drive, can you park a block or two away and walk (or jog) the difference? Use the bathroom on the far side of campus? 10 minutes a day can make a difference, even 5 minutes is better than none.

Pair sneaking in little bits of activity here and there with watching your food like a hawk (veggies are your friends), and you can totally do it.

YES YOU CAN

As everyone else said, yes you can lose weight without exercising.

That being said, 5 lb weights are not strength training.. pretty sure your school bag weighs that.

Put down the dinky weights, and lift.. like really lift. If you do that, in combination with a good diet, then you will see good results.

I have to agree, I wouldn't even bother with the 5 pound weights. They're not going to provide much results.