I want to hear success stories from non-gym goers!

Just cancelled my gym membership, too. It held me accountable because I was paying for it, each month. Started 30 day shred and C25K training...hoping it does the trick. I am going to start incorporating walking, too, when I can. Will be stalking. Best of luck to you.

i don't touch the gym.. I walk, bike, swim when i can, do a yoga class and keep generally active. watching food intake defintely works. although i have only just started mfp, i have lost a little weight already. I am 34, 5'3 and weigh 54 kilos so it's totally doable, even without dvds.

whats a gym?

This!

I've lost 5 pounds in this first month and now I finally feel like I deserve to be on MFP.
My overall plan is about diet right now. Just re-learning portion sizes and focus on drinking water.
At about 3 months in, then I plan on incorporating cardio. I am hoping to do the C25K because my ultimate goal is to use jogging (eventually trail running) as my primary exercise. I think I will also do some light weights for arm strength, too.
Hopefully by this time I will be half way to my goal weight.
After that, I will add strength training, though I am not sure how (gym membership or doing it at home), yet.

Last time I tried to lose weight, I did both strength and diet, and was really discouraged that my weight loss was slow. Mentally I knew that it was slow because I was gaining muscle, but emotionally, I couldn't accept it.

No gym, no exercise regime at all. Just calorie counting thanks to MFP.

It's working.

I am doing my weight loss/get in shape without the Gym membership. I am walking, doing yoga and excersies in my home. I feel like the gym supressed me instead of helping me. Good luck!

I lost 38 pounds with a treadmill in my garage (Craig's List is awesome for getting one cheap), Wii Just Dance, walking, biking, and of course, tracking my calories! I also learned to tone with hand weights from a few sessions with a personal trainer, but I'm sure that there are videos or friends who can help you do that for free. I am not comfortable in gyms.

Nope...no gym here. When I was in the BEST shape of my life I did karate and never lifted a weight. Jillian Micheal's DVD's are amazing BTW! Good luck...you can do it!

See the tracker? All lost without setting foot into the gym. I am a lazy couch potato (for better or for worse), so this has all been down to what and more importantly, how much I eat. I started in August last year and have been between 1200 and 1600 cals (I am sedentary, working from home). The only exercise I have added is my daily dog walks (about half an hour at lunch, longer at the weekends) and the odd bit of Zumba on the Wii (and I do mean odd bit, like every other week or so).

Now that I am almost at goal weight I find myself considering exercise to tone up, and because I am lighter, my knees don't seem to object too much to the idea :-)

Disclaimer: I am not saying this is the ideal way, but it is my way and it works for me.

I did exactly what you did. EXACTLY minus the dog walking and Zumba. I once heard a doctor say; regarding weight loss, "Don't exercise any more now that you intend to the rest of your life." So I didn't.

If you need to firm up, try isometrics. You can do them anywhere; ANYWHERE. I have been at it a few times daily for about 1.5-2 months and my husband has noticed a firming, change of shape and reduction of my thighs. I have been doing my legs only. I started with upper body yesterday. Go on youtube and watch some videos. With my legs, I just tighten the crap out of them for about 10 seconds a few times a day.

100% of my 101 lbs weight loss has been done at home! Never stepped into a gym! Just workout DVD's, some running, and watching calories. It is doable!