Weight loss without exercise

Its totally possible! Weightloss is calorie deficit. Exercising is for fitness. I lost 20 pounds in 4 months just eating at a deficit.

Hey all, I am really hoping to get some feedback from people on the forum who have successfully lost weight without exercising.. I am very large at about 240 pounds, 20 year old female. All the posts that I have read have at least some sort of 30-60 minute exercises incorporated, or miles of running on a daily basis. I am very sedentary, stay at home mom who doesn't go out much... I am currently eating between 1200-1400 calories a day, which I am finding surprisingly satisfying. I do 100 jumping jacks and 100 crunches daily, but I don't really count that because I've read that 1 minute of each only burns about 15 calories, and I'm estimating it only takes me about 2 minutes to complete them. I am fully aware that exercising is healthy and definitely helps weight loss, but for the time being I am sticking to eating less calories and assuming the weight will come off with just that for now... So anyone who has had a somewhat significant weight loss with caloric deficit alone please share your story! I'm investing in a scale tomorrow so I can see just how much I've lost so far, today is my one week milestone of "dieting", which I prefer to call more of a new lifestyle.. This is not long obviously, but I've never dieted for more than 6 hours so it's a new start for me

I'm losing weight and still eating chocolate and cookies and I barely exercise, unless work counts. I started this while I had a broken foot and was stuck on my butt all day and I was losing 2-2.5Lbs weekly at 1200. . .but I got real hungry and started eating more and losing at a slower rate. It really is as easy as calories in/calories out. If you eat less than your body is using, you WILL lose weight. See what your BMR is (click on "APPS" then "BMR") and use that as a guide for what you should be eating. Eat too much beneath that and you up your risk of over-eating after a while. A lot of people will tell you that eating too far below it will cause you to lose muscle along with your fat. Other people will say that if you have the fat to lose, your body won't lose the muscle. At 240Lbs you can definitely eat more than 1200-1400 and lose weight. If you want to lose the weight and keep it off, find something sustainable for your lifestyle. I chose to keep eating the foods that I love, I just try my best to get close to my macros, even if that means sugar in chocolate counts toward my carbs sometimes (or most days, but whatever, I'm starting to feel sexy and chocolate is delicious!!!). I start school shortly and will be booked from 7am-12am daily. I will not have time for exercise so I would rather do this without depending on it for now. It can absolutely be done. I am doing it. I've lost almost 25Lbs so far without exercise. The biggest help on my journey so far has been using a gram scale/kitchen scale/food scale/whatever-you-wanna-call-it to make sure I'm really eating what I think I am. It has shown me that I need to eat more of some things and less of others (peanut butter. . .). You can do this.

I easily lost weight without exercising. I do make an effort to walk, but that's the extent of it.

You can do it! And as you become more fit, it will be a lot easier to incorporate exercise in your daily life. You won't believe how much more energy you'll have.

Good luck!

I am actually in the same process. I love exercising, but right now I am not fitting it in. It has to do with time and stress management and the fact that I have not always had a healthy relationship with exercise. I never thought I could lose weight unless I exercised 3 hours per day or did some other extreme thing. However, I am losing weight and not exercising.

A couple observations: I find myself not as acutely or desperately hungry when I am not exercising and I don't think about my food as much or have as many cravings.

On the occasions when I have done something like a lot of walking, I tend to drop a pound right away and it stays off. If I exercise too much, it stops taking weight off. For me it's better to just focus on getting the food right and randomly do some light activity to shock the pounds off.

That's just me. Wish u the best!

I started out weighing 238 lbs. I lost 70 lbs all with absolutely NO exercise. Weight loss is all about a calorie deficit, exercise just would allow you to eat more. I found that when I was heavier, I lost weight better when I didnt exercise. I hit a plateau starting in June/July last year and now I do work out, but its not budging the scale much and more just busting out inches.

I've lost 10 lbs in 9 weeks without exercise. I do have a job where I'm on my feet though so that helps some. I do plan on exercising eventually. Just not sure when. So to answer your question, yes, it can be done!

Hey! I started off my weight loss journey at nearly 21 and 315 pounds (!) and I went down to about 260 through deficit alone--55 pounds lost that way. I've started to exercise now, but honestly I've had such good results without it. My priority right now is weight loss, not overall fitness, so keep that in mind. I was eating at a smaller deficit than you (eating about 1600 calories a day) but have dropped it down to 1200-1400 recently. The only advice I have is to buy a food scale and weigh your food. If you're doing this on deficit alone, you don't have a lot of wiggle room.

Summary: It's definitely possible!

If you are looking for just some super easy workouts at home that do not take alot of time or effort. Check out Adrian Bryant @ Nowloss.com... I got a free cd sent to me and an example of one of the workouts are jumping jacks, but you do as many as you can for 10 secs rest for 10 secs and keep doing this for 10 minutes...simple...but I have recently joined a gym right next to my job and I go after work for 15-20 minutes...so it is up to you what you want to commit to.

I have been using MFP again for the past 3 months or so and have lost 20 pounds focusing on calorie deficit. Most of the time I have been targeting more like 1600 net but still losing at that level. I have tried to incorporate more activity in the day by using a Fitbit, which I love, but generally just increase my time walking around in the office (sedentary job alas) or trying to move a little more at home. In the past I have always relied on exercise first and really loved exercising but definitely tended to be more hungry or feel more deprived when I couldn't eat what I wanted after a hard workout. I find I am less obsessed by my eating and activity by focusing on one at a time so that this effort is not all encompassing like it has been in the past. As a working mother I just don't have the extra mental energy to obsess but just logging and trying to make healthier choices and eat smaller portions has been manageable. I hope to start incorporating exercise again soon but not at an extreme level, just targeting 3 times a week of 30 minutes of deliberate exercise beyond daily activities to start anyway.

I lost my last 15lbs with no exercise. I did go to the gym several days a week for the first few months of my diet, but really, really hated it, and it eventually got to a point where I just couldn't do it any more and gave up. I tried various other things - Zumba, body pump, Pilates - and hated them even more. So now I don't do any exercise, and am so much happier for it. I don't even walk much each day, you're meant to get 10,000 steps, most days I don't even reach 1000.

It does have its down sides, of course. Whenever one of those 'post your weight and measurements' threads comes up, everyone my height always seems to have the same measurements at 20-30 pounds heavier, and I can only assume that's because they're weight lifting. But I don't really care, I'd much rather lose weight a way I'm happy with than force myself to do something I hate.

Yes, I have hardly exercised in the last 5 months. At least what I would classify as exercise. However I have been working 12 hours a day 7 days a week since August with Thanksgiving and 2 days at Christmas off. I am on my feet and constantly moving at work. I'm sure you are moving chasing your kids around more than you think, so while you may not be running on a treadmill, moving your body even in every day tasks helps a lot.

it can be done...u need time and patience

I have just been to my GP, and she suggested I look at the 5:2 Fast diet (lifestyle) from Dr Michael Mosley - where you eat normal for 5 days, then around 500-600 calories on two non-consecutive days.

I was able to lose wait using MFP last year (before I was injured), and am a little wary of the 5:2 thing - but she assures me that the body's internal health benefit side of the diet are really worthwhile. I'm waiting to read the book before I decide to go with it or not.

And the creator of the 5:2 diet has just put out a book on Fast Exercise.