I Feel As If All Hope Is Lost...?

You're in luck because you do not need to exercise to lose weight

Read these, and since you've been at this a while maybe let us know where you think you might have been going wrong:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1080242-a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1296011-calorie-counting-101

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1234699-logging-accurately-step-by-step-guide

I'd think you could be very successful on a .5 lb per week loss if you log your food accurately

Weight loss is ~80 % diet. If that's not where it needs to be, you can exercise forever and not get results.

As for exercise, try walking. It's easy, no equipment is needed and it burns tons of calories. It's low impact, and you can do it with friends or family as a social activity.

Well the thing is that I will eat good that day but feel as if it's useless if I don't exercise, which makes me emotionally stressed, and then I eat whatever I want because I think to myself that it wasn't going to work anyways since I didn't exercise.

That's not how it works, though. You can accept that and have success or you can keep sabotaging yourself.

You sound just like me six months ago. I was full of excuses for why I couldn't lose weight. I hated exercise (I don't mind it now and even enjoy it), I was too self-conscious to run (or even walk) outside in public, couldn't afford a gym membership, blah, blah, blah... So I started out by concentrating ONLY on maintaining a caloric deficit (weighing and tracking everything I ate) each week and increasing my water intake with ZERO exercise (other than my normal daily activity). Guess what? I started losing weight!!! I lost 1lb - 1.5lb a week consistently without any exercise.

I started feeling so much better after I got some of the weight off that I actually WANTED to exercise. I started by just walking on my treadmill in the privacy of my own home, then eventually worked my way up to jogging. I no longer feel self-conscious to go walking outdoors. I exercise to feel better and for the health benefits, not to lose weight (that's a bonus). Some weeks I don't exercise at all, but I still maintain a calorie deficit and am still losing weight (32lbs in 6 months and only a few pounds away from my goal).

Trust me, you CAN lose weight without exercise if you want to! Feel free to add me if you need some support and encouragement.

-Comparing yourself to others is pointless and will only result in more frustration and sadness.
-As long as you have air in your lungs, there is always hope.
-Strictly speaking, you don't HAVE to exercise to lose weight. What you NEED is a calorie deficit.
-That said, walking is a perfectly legitimate form of exercise, and there are so many activities out there to try you should be able to find something eventually that you really like. Exercise has more benefits than weight loss. Endorphins!

Well Stated

You should consider sharing your food diary and let us see what you are eating. There is always great information there and others can share their experiences with you and see things that you may not be aware of.

I have gone through this with the exercise bit. I had joined a gym and was so self conscious to go. But I went.. and you know what? Most of the time I did, I ended up working out next to someone BIGGER than me! And if I ended up working out next to someone smaller than me, I tried to find a way to motivate myself by it. Ya know.. being the fat girl who stayed on the elliptical longer than the skinny one, or going faster than she did.. haha. I realized there was no reason to be self conscious. I mean seriously.. you're at the gym. You're doing something good for YOU. If anyone has anything critical to say or feel about that, they have issues, not you. Don't let your insecurities hold you back.

I no longer go to the gym due to money issues (more specifically, my lack of money) and I found a lot of ways to work out at home. Here are some things I've done:

A: Fitness videos (Richard Simmons, Jillian Michaels, Billy Blanks, Pilates, etc)
B: Fitness games (Fit in Six, the Just Dance series)
C: Purchased a cheap elliptical (Paid around $120, including tax, from Wal-Mart)
Walk around my house, inside my house. I used the FitBit tracker to log how far I went. I walked nonstop over several miles just from going around in circles basically and throughout all the rooms of my house. Walking is walking.


I know a lot of people wouldn't consider Just Dance or things like that to be exercise.. but it's a lot of fun and keeps you moving. I've had many Just Dance get togethers with friends and we've all had a blast and have spent hours doing it. Try different things and find something YOU love and have fun doing

Good luck!!!

You have to get over the idea that the whole world is thinking about you. They aren't. Most won't consider you at all. If any do think about you, most of them will not be thinking anything bad. If a very few did, who cares. A very few might think that anywhere you go and you still go other places.

If you want to run or go to a gym, do it. Do not use, "Someone, somewhere might think a bad thought about me," as a reason not to do it.

I hate gyms. Fresh air! That's where I want to be. I swim. I walk. I do go to the gym and lift weights, but it hate it and wouldn't do it for fitness reasons.

You can get exercise DVDs really cheap on eBay. Get a few and see what you think!

If you just do not wish to exert yourself, eat less. You can lose weight that way, too. People do it all the time.

I lost my first 15 pounds just by walking before I started counting calories here. Now with MFP I'm almost to my goal & my friends all want to join me. I switched to running last summer, but I still walk with my friends to encourage them in their journey.
Get out with some good friends, the miles will fly by & the pounds will melt away. Honestly though controlling the calories mattered more than the exercise.

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You're young, you're beautiful, you can do this!

Exercising will help you feel better mentally and emotionally. Even going for a daily walk can really boost the good chemicals in your brain. And walking is excellent exercise. You can lose weight by walking and eating enough calories to nourish yourself but still create a calorie deficit.

I also really like FitnessBlender. They have a youtube channel and a website, and there are hundreds of free workout videos. I started using them at the beginning of July and I'm really enjoying them. Especially the strength training workouts. Strength training is good for you!