Who has lost weight with little or no exercise?

Although Im sure some of this was water weight

I lifted...which is exercise. But I definitely did very little cardio.

My momma has lost over 50lbs with zero exercise.

As for myself, I walk at 4mph for a minimum of 30 minutes each day.

After water weight, I've lost 6lbs this month alone. That is with counting calories and 10-15mins total of recumbent bike and elliptical. (both of which I bought new for under 200 bucks combined) I'm stoked!

jess_blonde wrote: »

I lost 20lbs just restricting and tracking on MFP with maaaaybe an occasional half-arsed jog thrown in about two years ago.

Gained it all back and then some, so now I'm working towards a lifestyle change, with runs three to four times a week and StrongLifts every other day along with a healthier, cleaner diet. Thus far I've discovered the joy of eating exercise calories which is awesome 'cause I love food!

props to you, it sounds like your doing things the right way....i use to drink beer all the time and fast food was my drug....now its the gym, i still miss Mexican food and chicken wings but i love the gym so much more.

I've regained some weight, but when I first actively trying to lose, I exercised every day for about 3-4 months and lost 10lbs during that time. When I started consistently tracking my food and eating about 1500-1700 cal a day (plus some "off" days) I lost about 17lbs in a month.

I lost 15 pounds in 3 months from cutting back on calories. I'm minimally active.

I play badminton twice a week, 2 hours each time. Other then that, nothing so far. Have lost 40 lbs.

I will lose 67lbs by just watching what I eat!

I've lost 60lbs in 6 months. I don't do anything really. I have a desk job, I'd be lucky to do 1000 steps most days. I ride my horse on the weekend for a couple of hours. I do 2 flights of stairs morning and night at work. My fitness is not bad, my muscle tone is fine.

It really is all about what you stick in your mouth, no question.

Exercise will a) make you fitter and stronger and tone you up, and b) allow you to eat more, but it's not neccessary to actual weight loss.

Gotta laugh at the people who work out at the Gym 6 days a week, eat rubbish, and wonder why it's not working.

I just joined the gym a few weeks ago, but have lost 25lbs over the course of almost 4 months without it. Up until I joined the gym, I was just walking and doing very minimal. I still have not started anything serious at the gym (strength training) just yet.

I started on MFP in August 2013 and lost 27 pounds in the first three and a half months (so 14 or 15 weeks, for just under 2 lbs a week) before I joined a gym. During those first months, my exercise consisted mainly of walking (my daily work commute already included about 40 minutes of walking, so I started walking to a further subway station when I had the energy and time, and occasionally adding a short evening walk, and trying to walk for at least one errand on the weekend, like going to the library, which was about a 50 minute roundtrip), taking the stairs at work once or twice a day (nine flights), and turning on music and dancing in my living room now and then. After about 10 weeks I did pick up a Pilates DVD on one of my walks to the library, and tried to do 10 or 15 minutes of that several times a week. So, I didn't do it completely without exercise, but it wasn't much more than I had been doing before counting calories. And I really didn't feel like I was denying myself food along the way; I mostly focused on getting enough protein and fiber, and making sure I was below maintenance for the week (I didn't expect to be at or below the MFP net calorie goal every day).

Since joining the gym--where I take dance classes once or twice a week, do a variety of cardio activities (treadmill, swimming, the occasional Zumba or other class), and initially used the weight machines, before switching to free weights a few weeks ago--I've lost another 17 pounds in 11 months (so about one and a half pounds a month--much slower). I think that's partly a factor of the early weight being easier to lose, and being more comfortable with having a smaller deficit and sometimes going over, rather than evidence that going to the gym impedes weight loss I've been mostly happy with my progress -- even when it felt like months were going by without losing anything more, I could tell that I was getting fitter and clothes were getting looser, and various health markers (BP, blood glucose, cholesterol panel) improved substantially. Plus, even without much loss, I was happy that I wasn't gaining the weight back, which is such a common thing to happen.

Lots of people lose without exercise. Hell, tons of anorexics don't exercise and if there is one thing they're good at, it's losing weight.

I have a very tough time losing and exercise is my godsend. I'd lose very little without it, even on 1200 calories.

I've lost 56 pounds since April. I do yoga a few times a week, and I walk a lot - but I do zero cardio or high intensity stuff.

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DaivaSimone wrote: »

Diet is for weightloss. Exercise is for fitness. I think that I don't understand why I would want to be skinny without being fit, so I'm doing both, but it's clearly possible to do just one or the other.

It's also possible to be big, and fit (enough). I am. I can go all day. I would say I'm a fair bit fitter than some of my "thin" friends. It's perfectly feasable to lose weight and remain the same fitness you were when you were bigger.