Losing weight without excercise?

I'm also interested in finding out if people are losing weight without exercising.

Jillian Micheals 20 minute workouts are good if youre short of time! And brisk walking with the pram.

Many people lose weight without exercise, including in hospital beds. By the sound of it you're active anyway, so do a bit of HIIT and don't worry about it.

The amount of exercise most people do is equivalent to a fairly modest amount of food.

It is possible, but you'd have to go extremely low calories if you didn't exercise whatsoever. And that might backfire on you by shutting down your metabolism. Exercise is the way to go. Is there absolutely no way you could fit exercise into your life?


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This is so wrong i will not even address it.
Bottom line is this. Weight loss happens in the kitchen, exercise is for fitness. You do not need to exercise but i would bet once you start losing weight you will want to.

Eat what MFP tells you and you will lose weight even if all you do is take care of your house and kids.

Ta-da! I always tell people to get control of their fork before they even THINK about adding exercise. Even if it's just for 3 weeks.... Change one thing at a time! It's WAY too easy to blow right through your exercise calories with that "extra" chocolate-chip cookie or whatever. You need to be in control of one "new thing" before you try to manage two "new things"

ETA: When I lost my first 40 pounds, I did it without exercise. I was having some discomfort during exercise and I decided that since my change in diet was producing results, I would stick with it. Once I got down to a more reasonable weight, I started to exercise, and this time without the discomfort. Once I started exercising, I was losing weight more slowly because I was concentrating on exercise and stopped focusing as much on food.

CONTROL YOUR FORK FIRST!

Short answer? Yes.

Longer answer:

I normally greatly enjoy exercising, but I effed up my foot and haven't been able to do much of anything, and I'm still losing. It's basic math, honestly: Calories in vs. calories out, regardless of what other kinds of crazy things people throw at you. I keep my calories around my TDEE (calculated by using my BF% to find my BMR) -20%, and as long as I'm behaving myself calorie-wise, I'm fine.

Absolutely you can lose weight without exercising as long as you eat less than you expend.

I started my journey to weight loss barely able to walk from my bedroom to the lounge with a walking frame because of an infection I had at the time. I lost weight, heaps of it, through eating less.

of course you CAN. losing weight is (for most of us) a numbers game: you need to take in less calories than you expend. so if you exercise AND watch what you eat, you will lose weight. if you just diet without exercise, you will lose weight. If you just exercise - you probably won't lose that much (I'm saying this from experience, of course each person is different).

Having said that - exercise is a good thing. it helps with weight loss, it helps make your heart healthier, makes you feel good and so on. find something that works for you - be it a gym, or dance class, or at home with videos, or power wlaking around the block... heck my sister lost weight by dieting and power walking around her HOUSE when she couldn't get to a gym / treadmill broke.

I went from 12.9 to 10 stone without exercising (granted my methods were not exceptionally healthy - a lot of low calorie junk food) but I will tell you that at 10 stone I was flabbier and wobblier than I am now at 12.7 (put all the weight back on at uni - typical!) with 3x per week exercise.

I think that 10 mins HIIT per day is a great start as I do crossfit and a lot of the WODs are 8-12 minutes surrounded by another 40 mins of technique/warm up etc and I think if I was only doing the WOD it would still be beneficial.

Just make sure you warm up and stretch it out after!

I lost around 60lbs a few years ago without exercise and was 'skinny fat' meaning I had rubbish muscle tone & wobbly bits ago go! I also didn't keep the weight off as it was mostly a starvation diet (1200 cals).

this time around I am exercising and have noticed a massive difference in that I can eat a decent amount and still loose weight. I also have kids (3 under 6) so I understand it is tough fitting everything in but this time around I have wedged some time in for myself to get healthy & set a good example.

I'm also going back to work soon after a years maternity leave so plan to do some some HIIT stuff in the evenings if it comes to it.

feel free to add me if you would like some additional support :-) x