Anyone just dieting (not working out)

I've been riding my bicycle to work and to the store, etc. My asthma doesn't permit anything too heavy duty, but even doing a little something has helped.

Yeah you can lose weight by not exercising, I used to. Twas a huge mistake. Gained it all back because my metabolism sucked. Looked awful and flabby and clothes fit worse than before I lost weight.

NO ONE is too busy to work out. Literally no one. I have two jobs (well over part time put together) and am full time doing engineering courses, and time makes itself available if I schedule well.

screw diets!! just dont eat white bread, pasta, potatoes, i avoid sugar, sodas etc. have cold showers, eat 5-6 times a day and drink a lot of green and ginger tea before meals. my advice, eat just from a category of foods, low carbs and high protein, switch from cheese to low fat cottage cheese, white bread to whole grain bread, snack before meals, dont take calories from sodas, be active in every way you can, take stairs, walk, etc. turn this to a lifestyle and u will see changes soon..
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just diet for now and you know what once you have lost some weight, you might find that you have more energy and thus time to work out. In fact all these people that throw themselves into the diet/workout thing to the point of 'I am getting up at 4am to exercise, so if I can do it so can you' or 'I am working 4 jobs and what not, and I have time' etc etc it's great that that works for them, but if I have a choice between getting up at 4 to exercise or sleep I will pick sleep every single time. I might do it once, but then I'd be eating lots throughout the day, because I'd be so tired.

So my advice would be just sort out your diet, be as accurate there as you can be with weighing everything, measuring only the liquids and itemised logging and see how you go. Over time add some extra movement perhaps you know, take the stairs, park further away, go for a little walk or maybe a swim, try to do a push up (or several) each morning and see when you can increase that number. Good luck :flowerforyou:

Nope, lost over 50 lbs by just dieting. These last kilos are a ***** though, so I started working out. I also want to improve my endurance, so there's that.

Sad and lame.


This thread is sad and lame.

Maybe y'all can all get exercise by piling up all your excuses and carrying them around with you.

Depends on what your goals are. If you just want to weigh less...then diet alone is enough.

Depends on how healthy that you want to be...losing weight alone will aid in that.

However....

For me...

While losing weight was a priority for me...it wasn't the only goal that I had...I wanted to be able to move...to walk long distances...I wanted to be able to climb a mountain...figuratively...maybe even literally. I'll be honest...even being able to get out of a chair without feeling like I was going to die was a goal of mine.

Dieting alone would not have helped me accomplish my goals.

I'll be honest though...trying to figure out the diet thing sometimes was exhausting...add to that trying to figure out the fitness part at the same time almost pushed me over the edge. I will also admit...I probably made it harder than it should be. I spent so much time researching...trying to learn...that there were days that I got frustrated.

I am not supporting their choices...I don't agree with them...but I do support their right to make those choices...it can be overwhelming to try and change everything at once.

It wasn't until I just lost it one day that I finally took control of my life...the path got a little easier once I figured out just how much I could change at one time.

I still have other things that I want to change...the time is getting closer that I think that I can deal with more changes...but...until I am convinced that I can handle those changes without jeopardizing what I have already accomplished...they will just have to wait.

So...once again...if weighing less is their goal...then yes...diet alone is enough. Hopefully...along the way...they will find that exercising will not only be easier but just as valuable as what they weigh.

I don,t but i try to walk as much as i can each day ,normally 2 half hours.

You do realize that walking is a form of exercising? I walk every day. If I can't do it outside because of weather then I walk to a walk-in-place video. I started just trying to walk a mile in 30 minutes...then went for a 20 min mile...then a 15 min one. Now I am working toward being able to do a 5k in 45 minutes. I start out great but half way through I start slowing down.

I started this week trying to do the C25K...inside...once I know that I won't pass out and die...I will move it outside. The weather has been cold but I wanted to at least try to get started on it. The program only takes 30 minutes 3 times a week...IMO...it starts with being able to WALK!

screw diets!! just dont eat white bread, pasta, potatoes, i avoid sugar, sodas etc. have cold showers, eat 5-6 times a day and drink a lot of green and ginger tea before meals. my advice, eat just from a category of foods, low carbs and high protein, switch from cheese to low fat cottage cheese, white bread to whole grain bread, snack before meals, dont take calories from sodas, be active in every way you can, take stairs, walk, etc. turn this to a lifestyle and u will see changes soon..
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This!

Cottage cheese makes me throw up...and while I have had to take cold showers before...all they accomplished was making me more appreciative of a hot water heater.

If someone told me I needed to take cold showers to get fit I think I'd rather be fat.

OUT.

screw diets!! just dont eat white bread, pasta, potatoes, i avoid sugar, sodas etc. have cold showers, eat 5-6 times a day and drink a lot of green and ginger tea before meals. my advice, eat just from a category of foods, low carbs and high protein, switch from cheese to low fat cottage cheese, white bread to whole grain bread, snack before meals, dont take calories from sodas, be active in every way you can, take stairs, walk, etc. turn this to a lifestyle and u will see changes soon..
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How is that not a diet?

I don't "work out" as such - too busy! I walk around 3 miles a day getting to work, and I also have a horse which I ride every day and care for, so I am active, but no I don't work out!

That's me for now. Gonna start lifting eventually, but for now I'm just dieting. One the one hand if I lift while cutting I won't lose as much muscle, on the other hand it'll mean spending a LONG time watching my lifts stay the same or go down, so I'm going to cut until I've lost a fair bit of my fat and then start lifting .

Worst reasoning ever, but I'm only on page one. :noway:

screw diets!! just dont eat white bread, pasta, potatoes, i avoid sugar, sodas etc. have cold showers, eat 5-6 times a day and drink a lot of green and ginger tea before meals. my advice, eat just from a category of foods, low carbs and high protein, switch from cheese to low fat cottage cheese, white bread to whole grain bread, snack before meals, dont take calories from sodas, be active in every way you can, take stairs, walk, etc. turn this to a lifestyle and u will see changes soon..
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This!

Cottage cheese makes me throw up...and while I have had to take cold showers before...all they accomplished was making me more appreciative of a hot water heater.

If someone told me I needed to take cold showers to get fit I think I'd rather be fat.

OUT.

I like cold soaks as part of my recovery sometimes...

...but that's to aid recovery *from* working out, not as a replacement *for* working out.

And that lifestyle plan up there sounds like more of a restrictive diet than my current approach to eating.where I measure calories and hit macro targets. At least with my approach, I can eat whatever food I want...(but what do I know, right?)

Hi,
You are walking 3-4 miles a day. That is way more than a lot of other people. That is exercising. Even fidgeting helps burning calories.
Joining a gym and making a monetary commitment is not always enough to motivate one. But you made a decision to restrict your intake and follow through with it for a while. I have to ask if it was an easy -breeze thing to do. Probably not. Most likely you thought about it for a while, weight in pros and cons and than decided to go ahead and do it.
Well, I think one needs to be in the right mind set, at the right time in order to make a long term commitment to start and maintain a working out ( cardio, strength, endurance , etc ) schedule.
Take your time and when you are ready to go for it, you will.

I just read this post and I say, yeah, this is good advice.

I am! I'm a grad student and adding extra exercise often just isn't feasible. I live near campus so I walk there & home, but I don't do much more than that.

I've had experiences in the past where I tried to totally change my life and start working out & eating completely different, and found that when I do that I'm way more likely to fall off the wagon because the changes are just too much. This time around I decided I would start slow, which meant first working on changing my eating habits. So far it's worked wonderfully, I've lost like 10-15 lbs since January and would say I've definitely made a lifestyle change on the diet front, and that was the initial goal! My reward for that success was to buy myself a Fitbit Flex so I could start tracking my walking and so I could be more motivated to do more if possible.

I think it's perfectly fine to only diet. Slow and steady wins the race, and most of weight loss is about the diet anyways. If you can get used to eating at a calorie deficit, you will be successful. & you can always add in exercise later!