How often do you exercise?

I treat exercise just like any other lifestyle change. My diet is the most important factor for weight loss. Exercise is for fitness and will give me a little wiggle room during maintenance. You won't gain weight during rest days, unless you are eating too much.

I hate taking rest days too. You're not going to gain weight back in a single day unless you pig out on 5000 calories or something. I recommend active rest days. Walking, swimming, or just simple biking but not to your maximum effort. It will feel like a workout but you will be giving your body the rest it needs. I workout every day too but I do it because I love it. I don't plan to take rest days because I'm always afraid I'll take a rest day on Wednesday and then something will come up on Thursday to where I can't work out and then I'll feel terrible because that's two days in a row. I have a slight addiction though.

5-6 days a week...for fitness, not for weight loss.

Exercise is to build your lean body mass, it takes conditioning. I exercise every day because I enjoy it and it feels good and it empowers my life.

Fat loss and body fat control is all about food intake. Fat loss happens very slowly and the body weight scale is very limiting and won't tell you the whole story. If you are in a big fat loss phase then you will have bigger changes, then it will slow down. It's mostly only good to look at the scale every month or so and look at the trend over time. Once you get down to the last 1-15 pounds the scale is mostly useless.

ScoobaChick wrote: »

I Zumba almost every day but my body is so used to it that I don't feel sore afterwards. I lift three times per week but need 1-2 days rest between each session. It all depends on what you are doing and how long you have been doing it.

You need to start slow though and take rest days at the beginning and build up your exercise schedule. A lot of people on here have been working out for years and so are probably not the best comparison. Don't do anything that hurts.

What type of exercise are you doing?

I'm not saying this is bad advice but I just want to edit this slightly:

Don't do anything that hurts excessively.

If I don't hurt, I probably didn't work out - whether I went to the gym or not, haha!

12x per week. Row and run 60km/week, 2 lifting sessions, 2 climbing gym sessions, and one all-day outing on the weekend rock or ice climbing.

Run 6 days a week, cross train (boot-camp style class) 2 days a week. One rest day a week. But as everyone above says, exercise has not been why I've lost weight. Diet is. 100%

I lift 5 days a week (shooting for 7 every other week) and do cardio 4 days a week, sometimes 5 if I decide to throw in a treadmill walk on the weekend.

I exercise anywhere between 3-5 days a week. I find that it makes me feel calm and accomplished and that I've been sleeping better. I do cardio every day that I work out, and lift at least 3 days a week. I almost always take an entire weekend day off, and the other day I'll adjust based on how I feel - yoga or more cardio.